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Youforgotthisthing: implied in the comic with the "S" and "M" being larger

2026-01-02T02:44:56Z

implied in the comic with the "S" and "M" being larger

Revolutionary girl euclid: added category "Software updates"

2025-08-14T18:32:06Z

added category "Software updates"

1234231587678 at 20:24, 12 April 2024

2024-04-12T20:24:37Z

172.70.179.30: /* Explanation */

2022-10-01T18:50:04Z

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Jacky720: Reverted edits by Xray Kilo Charlie Delta (talk) to last revision by 172.70.214.185

2022-05-23T18:46:56Z

Reverted edits by Xray Kilo Charlie Delta (talk) to last revision by 172.70.214.185

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Xray Kilo Charlie Delta: haha your js cant stop my js

2022-05-23T18:13:05Z

haha your js cant stop my js

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2022-05-11T23:35:12Z

‎Explanation: done

172.70.90.211: Undo revision 265403 by 172.70.110.241 (talk) This may be true, but it isn't evidenced in this particar comic. We never get to the bells/whistles/engagement stage...

2022-05-10T18:56:56Z

Undo revision 265403 by 172.70.110.241 (talk) This may be true, but it isn't evidenced in this particar comic. We never get to the bells/whistles/engagement stage...

172.70.110.241: /* Explanation */

2022-05-10T16:42:03Z

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172.70.254.93: added an "s" to "news"

2022-05-07T23:13:31Z

added an "s" to "news"

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 :''Okay''
-:Note to users of sentinel mode: We've heard your feedback, and the controls are now-
+:Note to users of Sentinel Mode: We've heard your feedback, and the controls are now-
 :''Got it''

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	[[Category:Spiders]]		[[Category:Spiders]]
	[[Category:COVID-19]]		[[Category:COVID-19]]
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 [[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w|Tornado|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes|recurring theme]] on xkcd.
-In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.
+In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that [[937|the app didn't play any alert]], but Cueball saw the tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.
 However, before he can interact with the app and learn more about the tornado, he has to click through various old messages from the app, since he hasn't opened the app in a while. This is feasible because May, which is the month in which this comic was published and typically the most active month for tornadoes, had seen fewer-than-average tornadoes in the previous two years but not during this year – see this [https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2022-05-02-may-tornadoes-2020-2021-recent-luck Tornado Central story]. So Cueball would have been more likely to have to worry about tornadoes this year than in the previous two years.

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 [[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w|Tornado|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes|recurring theme]] on xkcd.
-In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the Tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.
+In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.
 However, before he can interact with the app and learn more about the tornado, he has to click through various old messages from the app, since he hasn't opened the app in a while. This is feasible because May, which is the month in which this comic was published and typically the most active month for tornadoes, had seen fewer-than-average tornadoes in the previous two years but not during this year – see this [https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/2022-05-02-may-tornadoes-2020-2021-recent-luck Tornado Central story]. So Cueball would have been more likely to have to worry about tornadoes this year than in the previous two years.

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	[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.		[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.

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	[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.		[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.
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−	The theme of the TornadoGuard app is that is is mostly bells and whistles that can increase engagement and/or revenue, with little to no novel content and functionality, a reference to the modern state of many mobile apps and games.

	In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the Tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.		In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the Tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.

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	[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.		[[Cueball]] is opening an app called TornadoGuard, a reference to comic [[937: TornadoGuard]]. In that comic the app is described to have a function so it "plays a loud alert sound when there is a tornado warning for your area". {{w\|Tornado\|Tornadoes}} are a [[:Category:Tornadoes\|recurring theme]] on xkcd.
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		+	The theme of the TornadoGuard app is that is is mostly bells and whistles that can increase engagement and/or revenue, with little to no novel content and functionality, a reference to the modern state of many mobile apps and games.

	In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the Tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.		In the background, a tornado is approaching, so presumably a loud alert sound has just played and Cueball has opened the app. It is also possible that the app didn't play any alert (see reviews of the app in [[937]]), but Cueball saw the Tornado and thus opened the app to check whether it had any news.

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 This continues in the title text where there are two more messages that refer to specific world events and can therefore be dated: The fire that {{w|Notre-Dame_de_Paris_fire|damaged the church of Notre Dame}} in Paris April 15th 2019; and the early attempts to limit the spread of Covid-19 disease, which was {{w|COVID-19_pandemic|declared a pandemic}} on March 11th 2020. It has been a while since the last [[:Category:COVID-19|reference to the pandemic]], actually the previous comic about this, [[2563: Throat and Nasal Passages]], was released almost exactly 4 months prior to this one.
-The two mentioned new stories were relevant about three and two years before this comic was published, respectively. Neither of these are important to know right now, whereas an announcement about an [[2224: Software Updates|update]] that [[1172: Workflow|changes its functionality]] could be [[1328: Update|important to know about]].
+The two mentioned news stories were relevant about three and two years before this comic was published, respectively. Neither of these are important to know right now, whereas an announcement about an [[2224: Software Updates|update]] that [[1172: Workflow|changes its functionality]] could be [[1328: Update|important to know about]].
 Although it is possible that there are no more messages to click through if nothing of significance has happened [[2459: March 2020|subsequent to the title text ones]], the reader can easily imagine that the development team has posted further 'real time' messages that Cueball will still have to scroll through and/or dismiss, with very little immediate importance compared with the imminent proximity of an actual funnel-cloud.