1245: 10-Day Forecast - Revision history

Megan: lightning category

2026-04-15T03:41:57Z

lightning category

81.179.199.253: /* Explanation */ Whoops, clipped that little closing quip that I'd planned.

2026-02-21T12:57:20Z

‎Explanation: Whoops, clipped that little closing quip that I'd planned.

81.179.199.253: /* Explanation */ Further expansion, as Amazon Prime is now more of a thing than it ever was at time of the comic. Worried it's looking 'ad-like', but it's all history. (Yet I never even signed up to 'expedited delivery', myself, or used its VOD/etc!)

2026-02-21T12:55:39Z

‎Explanation: Further expansion, as Amazon Prime is now more of a thing than it ever was at time of the comic. Worried it's looking 'ad-like', but it's all history. (Yet I never even signed up to 'expedited delivery', myself, or used its VOD/etc!)

81.179.199.253: /* Explanation */ Started off just removing a repetition in "upon the arrival of the creature (...) appearing", then gradually made more edits (e.g. "woden" probably needed to be disambiguated towards "odin") and clarifications.

2026-02-21T12:16:46Z

‎Explanation: Started off just removing a repetition in "upon the arrival of the creature (...) appearing", then gradually made more edits (e.g. "woden" probably needed to be disambiguated towards "odin") and clarifications.

Lettherebedarklight: /* Explanation */ fix

2026-02-21T09:56:56Z

‎Explanation: fix

172.68.205.123: Undo revision 360642 by GmRionWdTSEHT (talk) Strange edit. Not sure if bad grammar in editing in the change, or intentional vandalism. (Both?)

2025-01-01T01:29:57Z

Undo revision 360642 by GmRionWdTSEHT (talk) Strange edit. Not sure if bad grammar in editing in the change, or intentional vandalism. (Both?)

GmRionWdTSEHT at 20:45, 31 December 2024

2024-12-31T20:45:40Z

42.book.addict: added Category:Demons using HotCat

2024-11-04T17:55:04Z

added Category:Demons using HotCat

172.69.79.182: Undo revision 355287 by 172.71.102.53 (talk) No such category

2024-11-01T21:42:24Z

Undo revision 355287 by 172.71.102.53 (talk) No such category

172.71.102.53: Category: Infernal comics

2024-11-01T18:45:14Z

Category: Infernal comics

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 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
-[[Category:Weather]]
+[[Category:Comics with color]]
 [[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 [[Category:Demons]]

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 In the comic, the joke is that somehow, "minus zipcodes" do exist, and do correspond to physical locations &mdash; but, by analogy with Minus Worlds in video games, are bizarre and incomprehensible places compared to the regular zip codes.
-In the title text, Megan agrees with Cueball's desire not to move to that ZIP code area. The punchline being that her reason isn't to avoid the impending apocalypse, but to retain access to {{w|Amazon Prime}}, which shows that her priorities are amusingly bizarre. The service Amazon Prime is provided by {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}}, where the user pays a flat annual fee and in exchange they got access a number of "enhanced" Amazon services that, at the time of publication, included free two-day shipping, free access to a selected library of streaming videos and the ability to 'borrow' e-books on a monthly basis, all of which may have been restricted to only certain geographic regions (for various legal and/or physical shipping reasons, such as for various particularly remote/overseas markets that weren't easily served). Since then, there have been many more {{w|Fulfillment house|fulfillment centres}} established, across the US and worldwide, and it has at various points expanded into other services such as food delivery and boxless access to computer games. {{w|Amazon Prime Video}} is now perhaps most prominent worldwide as a semi-independent {{w|Amazon MGM Studios|film and television studio}} and video-on-demand streaming service, which is generally available to the ''entire'' world except for a single-digit<!-- currently 9, but futureproofing this... so long as it doesn't actually rise due to adverse politics! --> number of countries (whether or not this would also have started to 'allow' negative ZIPs to
+In the title text, Megan agrees with Cueball's desire not to move to that ZIP code area. The punchline being that her reason isn't to avoid the impending apocalypse, but to retain access to {{w|Amazon Prime}}, which shows that her priorities are amusingly bizarre. The service Amazon Prime is provided by {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}}, where the user pays a flat annual fee and in exchange they got access a number of "enhanced" Amazon services that, at the time of publication, included free two-day shipping, free access to a selected library of streaming videos and the ability to 'borrow' e-books on a monthly basis, all of which may have been restricted to only certain geographic regions (for various legal and/or physical shipping reasons, such as for various particularly remote/overseas markets that weren't easily served). Since then, there have been many more {{w|Fulfillment house|fulfillment centres}} established, across the US and worldwide, and it has at various points expanded into other services such as food delivery and boxless access to computer games. {{w|Amazon Prime Video}} is now perhaps most prominent worldwide as a semi-independent {{w|Amazon MGM Studios|film and television studio}} and video-on-demand streaming service, which is generally available to the ''entire'' world except for a single-digit<!-- currently 9, but futureproofing this... so long as it doesn't actually rise due to adverse politics! --> number of countries. Whether or not this would also have started to now 'allow' negative ZIPs to take advantage of it, those that lasted past Tuesday.
 Later, a [[1606: Five-Day Forecast|Five-Day Forecast]] was also made into a comic.

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 When this kind of anomaly occurs in video games, particular older ones such as those on the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}}, it can result in levels being created from arbitrary data, producing a corrupted, physically-impossible (yet sometimes playable) level; this is popularly known as a "{{tvtropes|MinusWorld|Minus World}}". Because the level can be reproduced by using a particular invalid value, it is in some sense true to say that the level "exists" within the game, even though it was not intended.
-In the comic, the joke is that somehow, "minus zipcodes" do exist, and do correspond to physical locations - but, by analogy with Minus Worlds in video games, are bizarre and incomprehensible places compared to the regular zip codes.
+In the comic, the joke is that somehow, "minus zipcodes" do exist, and do correspond to physical locations &mdash; but, by analogy with Minus Worlds in video games, are bizarre and incomprehensible places compared to the regular zip codes.
-In the title text, Megan agrees with Cueball's desire not to move to that ZIP code area, the punchline being that her reason isn't to avoid the apocalypse, but to retain access to {{w|Amazon Prime}}, which shows that her priorities are amusingly bizarre. The service Amazon Prime is provided by {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}},{{cn}} where the user pays a flat annual fee and in exchange they get access a number of "enhanced" Amazon services, including free two-day shipping, free access to a library of streaming videos, and the ability to borrow books.
+In the title text, Megan agrees with Cueball's desire not to move to that ZIP code area. The punchline being that her reason isn't to avoid the impending apocalypse, but to retain access to {{w|Amazon Prime}}, which shows that her priorities are amusingly bizarre. The service Amazon Prime is provided by {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}}, where the user pays a flat annual fee and in exchange they got access a number of "enhanced" Amazon services that, at the time of publication, included free two-day shipping, free access to a selected library of streaming videos and the ability to 'borrow' e-books on a monthly basis, all of which may have been restricted to only certain geographic regions (for various legal and/or physical shipping reasons, such as for various particularly remote/overseas markets that weren't easily served). Since then, there have been many more {{w|Fulfillment house|fulfillment centres}} established, across the US and worldwide, and it has at various points expanded into other services such as food delivery and boxless access to computer games. {{w|Amazon Prime Video}} is now perhaps most prominent worldwide as a semi-independent {{w|Amazon MGM Studios|film and television studio}} and video-on-demand streaming service, which is generally available to the ''entire'' world except for a single-digit<!-- currently 9, but futureproofing this... so long as it doesn't actually rise due to adverse politics! --> number of countries (whether or not this would also have started to 'allow' negative ZIPs to
 Later, a [[1606: Five-Day Forecast|Five-Day Forecast]] was also made into a comic.

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 A 10-day forecast is a prediction of the weather extending 10 days into the future. Due to the chaotic nature of weather systems, the accuracy of forecasts decreases drastically the further ahead you try to predict.
-When [[Cueball]] checks the forecast for his local area, it starts off predicting normal sunny weather, but quickly devolves into progressively extreme lightning storms, then a plague of insects which appear to be locusts, what appears to be {{w|Rapture|The Rapture}}, and the appearance of a demon-like creature. Upon the arrival of the creature (perhaps the {{w|Antichrist}} or {{w|Woden}}) appearing, the forecast falls into static and nothingness with the day stuck on Tuesday, implying that the world has ended.
+When [[Cueball]] checks the next few days of forecast for his local area, it starts off with the typical {{w|Category:Weather icons|symbol}} indicating normal sunny weather for 'today' (which would be a Wednesday, the comic's original day of publication), but subsequent days' predictions show:
-When asked about this, [[Megan]] casually explains that Cueball put a minus (-) sign in front of his ZIP code. A {{w|Zone Improvement Plan|ZIP code}} is a numeric postal code used in the United States. As ZIP codes are tied to a geographic location, it is also often used as an easy way for people to specify their local region for the purposes of weather reports.
+When asked about this, [[Megan]] casually explains that Cueball put a minus (-) sign in front of his ZIP code. A {{w|Zone Improvement Plan|ZIP code}} is a numeric postal code used in the United States. As ZIP codes are tied to a geographic location, it is also often used as an easy way for people to specify their location for the purposes of accessing locally-specific information such as weather reports.
-Many computer systems that allow the user to enter a number have a range of applicability, such as positive numbers only. If the user enters a number that doesn't make sense, then the system must somehow deal with this number. Common ways to do this are to simply disallow the user from entering invalid numbers, or to return an error condition if the entered number is invalid. However, if the system has not been given any way to deal with an unexpected number, it will simply use it, which can result in unpredictable or erroneous behavior, such as accessing or overwriting unintended locations in memory.
+Many computer systems that allow the user to enter a number have a range of applicability, such as only positive numbers of a certain length. If the user enters a number that doesn't make sense, then the system must somehow deal with this number. Common ways to do this are to simply disallow the user from entering invalid data (such as any character that is not an actual numeric digit), or to return an error condition if the entered 'number' is not in its master database. However, if the system is somehow set up to accept an unanticipated numberic value, it may still attempt to use it unexpected way. This can result in unpredictable or erroneous behavior, such as accessing or overwriting unintended locations in memory or producing unplanned {{w|Minecraft#Generation|data artefacts}}.
 When this kind of anomaly occurs in video games, particular older ones such as those on the {{w|Nintendo Entertainment System}}, it can result in levels being created from arbitrary data, producing a corrupted, physically-impossible (yet sometimes playable) level; this is popularly known as a "{{tvtropes|MinusWorld|Minus World}}". Because the level can be reproduced by using a particular invalid value, it is in some sense true to say that the level "exists" within the game, even though it was not intended.

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 A 10-day forecast is a prediction of the weather extending 10 days into the future. Due to the chaotic nature of weather systems, the accuracy of forecasts decreases drastically the further ahead you try to predict.
-When [[Cueball]] checks the forecast for his local area, it starts off predicting normal sunny weather, but quickly devolves into progressively extreme lightning storms, then a plague of insects which appear to be locusts, what appears to be {{w|Rapture|The Rapture}}, and the appearance of a demon-like creature. Upon the arrival of the creature (perhaps {{w|The Antichrist}} or {{w|Woden}}) appearing, the forecast falls into static and nothingness with the day stuck on Tuesday, implying that the world has ended.
+When [[Cueball]] checks the forecast for his local area, it starts off predicting normal sunny weather, but quickly devolves into progressively extreme lightning storms, then a plague of insects which appear to be locusts, what appears to be {{w|Rapture|The Rapture}}, and the appearance of a demon-like creature. Upon the arrival of the creature (perhaps the {{w|Antichrist}} or {{w|Woden}}) appearing, the forecast falls into static and nothingness with the day stuck on Tuesday, implying that the world has ended.
 When asked about this, [[Megan]] casually explains that Cueball put a minus (-) sign in front of his ZIP code. A {{w|Zone Improvement Plan|ZIP code}} is a numeric postal code used in the United States. As ZIP codes are tied to a geographic location, it is also often used as an easy way for people to specify their local region for the purposes of weather reports.

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