...the [[Talk:Randall_Munroe|talk page]] for the "Randall Munroe" entry, one user speculated that Munroe pranked Wikipedia editors into putting the fact that
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...ery similar to Randall's mod in that it displays [//sniperelite.fandom.com/wiki/Sniper_Elite_4_Allied_Intelligence short character bios] in the "Allied Int
...star, a unique aftermarket talking Hyperion sniper rifle which berates the user in a nagging, whiny voice any time they reload, kill an enemy, swap weapons
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...x|right|thumb|Logo by [[User:Alek2407]], made transparent and resized by [[User:Omega]].]]
...xkcd.com/2012/04/13/thanks-for-your-support/ Mike] and mostly written by [[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([https://twitter.com/jeff_underscore @jeff_underscore]), who p
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...de to see such a spectacular sight she will not tell her about it. And yet another could be that she did not think it was interesting.
...lights in her area from another source, and so desperately wanted to have another chance to see them.
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According to an [[User:FaviFake|email exchange between Randall Munroe]] and an editor from [[expla
...a email to clarify the exact date that this comic was swapped in. Munroe [[User:FaviFake|responded the same day]], resolving a long-standing ambiguity surr
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...his link] (now defunct, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190810230906/http://wiki.xkcd.com:80/irc/Leopard archive]).
...And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer. However, due to the substitution, it i
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...erent frequencies of sounds used.) So, for any line graph, you can produce another graph of the frequencies and their amplitudes. This can be done by evaluati
*A user of this wiki, [[User:T7685|T7685]], created the graph of the reverse Fourier transform of the ca
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...instead of the {{w|Wikipedia:Citation needed}} page. Because of this, this wiki instead uses the {{tl|Actual citation needed}} template for statements that
* Randall {{w|User talk:Xkcd#http://xkcd.com/c285.html|re-licensed this comic}} under [https:/
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...nstitution,5026/ a 2005 article] about putting the {{w|Constitution}} on a Wiki to allow public editing. This may be a reference to "[[285: Wikipedian Prot
...hing like "First post!" or some variation thereof). In this variation, the user has misspelt "post" in the rush to have the first post. This was later ment
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: Refers to one of Facebook's options as to what a user's relationship status currently is. A Jungle-Bay Mountain is a complicated
: A service in which the user can meet classmates that came from the same high school. The website is pro
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...ral rule, section numbers work top to bottom, then right to left. A Reddit user has also [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/1l3na7/questions/cbvigrd a
...most guns; a revolver can't shoot lightning, summon items, or teleport its user. Finally, while Harry himself may or may not consider using firearms due to
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...you get". In regards to computers, it refers to text editors in which the user can see exactly what will be published as they are typing it. The comic com
...''not'' what you get. They are also known as source editors, such as a {{w|wiki markup}} editor or {{w|TeX}}. In the comic an HTML source editor is shown,
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**[[#User names|User names]]
**[[#User pictures|User pictures]] (a description of possible images next to users)
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...(hence the title of the comic) by using the arrow keys, assuming that the user is on a desktop computer or a laptop. If they are on a mobile device such
...hen follows the translation of this to normal language in brackets, with a wiki link to the most relevant page, based on the books material rather than the
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...ted on LiveJournal on December 5, 2005, but the following day Randall made another post, titled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawi
...lly published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. According to an [[User:FaviFake|email exchange between Randall Munroe]] and an editor from [[expla
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...became part of the comics. This time the user input is like a game, as the user actively adds, moves and deletes items, and new items appear based on these
...ith a unique URL address. By [[#Saving your garden|saving this link]], the user is able to return to their garden repeatedly. This is important because the
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The first column gives the number from the [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/c/c7/1000_Comics_-_The_entire_comic_with_numbers.png numbered image]
! rowspan="132" | '''[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/56/1000_Comics_-_The_one_in_thousand_with_numbers.png One]'''
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IMDb is the {{w|Internet Movie Database}}, a website that contains detailed, user-contributed information about movies and TV shows. One of the sections in m
...in-universe self-reference}} is plausible for a movie production is likely another example of the goof's writer failing to understand the basic "premise of fi
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...such that these buttons are mostly unnecessary - for example, in Gmail, a user will see a new message instantly.
...freshing may not work. In this case, unless a purge link is available, the user has to wait until the cache entry is expired and a new request to the web s
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...users read, write, and keep track of email efficiently. For instance, the user may receive a notification if the email body contains wording that suggests
This comic suggests a similar feature, one which would inform not the user, but the recipient of the message, how long the email has been revised befo
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