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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by an HVAC ROCK BAND - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | In | + | This is a similar comic to [[2036: Edgelord]]. In both of these comics, a modern slang term is used to describe a job, and while the slang is ''technically'' accurate, it isn't the normally used term for the job. Previously a graph theory PHD was labeled an edgelord, a reference to how mathematical graphs have edges, but this time a turbine maintenance engineer is called out for doing a lot of fanservice, as in, literally serving/maintaining a huge fan, many of which often use turbines. |
− | + | Randall has previously touched on wind turbines ''not'' being fans, most notably in [[1378: Turbine.]] | |
− | + | Fanservice is the practice of authors to change their characters and/or show characters in movies in ways the audience desires, although this would often go against what the character stands for. It can also refer to other parts of the work, such as excessive use of a nostalgic theme song in a reboot when it otherwise does not make sense. | |
− | In the title text, | + | In the title text, Cueball refers to HVAC (a term for the unified heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems of a given building) as "the fandom." Normally, "fandom" means the group of fans of something, but here refers to a system that relies on lots of fans. |
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+ | {{wiktionary|Fanservice}} is a term often used to describe certain decisions made in TV or film productions that more make some form of knowing nod to the viewers than is strictly necessary to the plot or visualisation of the work. It can just mean inserting obscure details of the work's back-history, to spark gleeful recognition amongst the more devoted fans, or it could be increasing the ridiculousness of character's behaviour (often due to one or other overly contrived reason) to live up to their stereotype. A frequent form of this is the {{tvtropes|MsFanservice|Ms. Fanservics}} trope, where the more glamorous female characters find themselves in more figurehugging clothing, clothing that actually covers {{tvtropes|ChainmailBikini|much less of their figure}} than should be practical or even find themselves shoehorned into a situation where they {{tvtropes|CensorSuds|aren't wearing}} even their 'normal' skimpy outfit. | ||
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+ | [[White Hat]] is, in actuality, a person who repairs and maintains air-conditioners, or similar, and thus {{w|Maintenance|services}} {{w|Fan (machine)|fans}}. He seems quite annoyed by the term that [[Cueball]] uses to describe his job. Clearly he has heard this assertion many times before, whether from many different people (who may have thought this was a witty comment) or just many times from Cueball himself. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | + | [Cueball stands next to White Hat (apparently a turbine maintenance engineer)] | |
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− | :[Caption below the panel:] | + | Cueball: So, I hear you do a lot of fanservice. |
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+ | White Hat: NO! | ||
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+ | [Caption below the panel:] How to annoy a turbine maintenance engineer | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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