...and [[493: Actuarial]], Black Hat is referred to as "the hat guy" and "Hat guy" respectively. In [[1139: Rubber and Glue]] a young [[Hairy]] also gave him
...lieve in anything" suggesting some traumatic experience made him this way. Some black hat hackers are simply so detached from the real world they don't und
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...ll later asks him to watch closely, holding his phone up to show the other guy what he is doing.
...run websites. Of course a ".com", ".org" or other generic TLD can be used just the same for unreliable content. Cueball cannot take these kinds of sources
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...terviewer wait around for 5 years without moving to find out. And as Beret Guy expected they stayed exactly where they were. (This could be suggesting tha
The title text is a continuation of their conversation in which Beret Guy turns down the job because he wants to find out what happened in the last 5
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...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy|Comics featuring Beret Guy]].''</noinclude>
'''Beret Guy''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his
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...lace around the time Hitler would have taken his own life anyway, possibly just a few moments before. Indeed, it is possible that Black Hat is, and always
...ifference at all. This is typical Black Hat behavior, going out of his way just to troll people like Cueball and cause horrible things to happen, in this c
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...we could ask for—including an incredible medical team—and we’ve had some really good moments during these months, but it’s still a terrifying and
...ancer}}. He doesn't care about many things like politics anymore, there is just his fiancée's cancer and his romance with her. This is one of many [[:Cate
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In this image [[Beret Guy]] shouts out '''The apocalypse!''' And then he continues to explain what th
After Beret Guy has announced this, he runs into [[Cueball]] who has heard part of this, bu
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...I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do
...renewed in 2006 as they [https://blog.xkcd.com/2006/10/06/many-news-things-some-overdue ran out of money to rehire him], he has supported himself primarily
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...] hands another Cueball-like guy an apple calling it a "Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface becaus
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...com/?skip=40#:~:text=Support%20Surreal%20Humor Original caption</span>]:'' Just sayin'. It's been 30 years now.
...LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[15: Just Alerting You]], and the next one was [[17: What If]].
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...ually'' the characters. The same goes for the other white hat guy, [[Beret Guy]]. See more on how little these three interact in xkcd in the explanation f
...y appeared in his normal hat three times before that comic, and Safari Hat guy has never been shown again, except in [[1000: 1000 Comics]].
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...ted. This way, the code can be referenced to tech support so that there is some feedback from the program as to what is wrong (akin to a car dashboard with
...rror "-41", but cannot tell even what program it comes from. So, the other guy decides to look up the code in a book apparently called ''Error Codes''. Th
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...s no influence on the maximum achievable loudness. The highest mark could just as easily be labelled 'Maximum', which would then accurately describe the m
* The normal guy understands that using eleven is silly, and wants to know what is wrong wit
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...t the Holocaust was an acceptable alternative. It's no secret that the hat
guy is closely based on Aram, from Men in Hats.<br><br>''<div class="plainlinks
...preferred the Holocaust to have occurred rather than allow Hitler to make
some bad paintings. Such a comment that God could be so callous would surely be
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...remember being entertained by both the sequels while in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison.
...airbun]]; and a security guard in the third scene, as another Cueball-like guy.
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...} and thus makes it self-referential, the sentence is now funny! The other guy Cueball, producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actuall
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| titletext = I'm just worried that we'll all leave and you won't get to come along!
...indication is that these planets are habitable enough for humans, even if just for a visit.
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...[[Cueball]], in true nerd fashion, thinks in base-2, saying that there are just 24 to go until a "big round-number milestone". The joke is that during prog
:Cueball: Wow—Just 24 to go until a big round-number milestone!
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...ysadmin): "[This] comic isn't available everywhere and it can come up i[n] some situation[s] only for recognized browsers."{{Actual citation needed}}
In the tweet feed, there are three tweets about some podcast on the top, followed by the tweet containing link they clicked on t
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...'s travel ends only with us seeing "pretty dots" - stars in the sky. Beret Guy then tries to return light to its birthplace by using a mirror, which refle
...decides to exhibit another one of his [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]], it is possible that he can find a way to actually find a
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