Talk:3215: Solar Warning

No comments yet, add the first comment! 45.178.1.151 15:32, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like, the sunglasses in the title text are a reference to the game Minesweeper, in which the iconic sun puts on sunglasses after the minefield has been completely cleared. To start a new game, you click on the sun, the minefield gets reset, the sun takes its sunglasses off and you are facing refreshed "danger". 2A02:3100:B0BF:FE00:383B:CEDD:D49C:6689 16:21, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I was thinking only in the context of emoji, but that's actually a really good possibility, too! 16:23, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I forgot to sign my comment. :sadge: 130.76.187.47 16:24, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like the Minesweeper face isn't a sun, instead being a generic face. This is probably a reference to stereotypical depictions of a smiling sun.SlimothyJ (talk) 16:29, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I think Minesweeper is just a "sunglasses smiley", really, but I left that in when (fighting edit-conflicts, which I won't complain about) I added something on past "Sun wearing sunglasses" lore from Randall, plus acouple of the "glasses-pull" memes, various bits of which I've partially linked. And, though Randall does not adhere to this, it's better as the Sun, unless you're just talking about it (or any other) being a sun or the sun of a different solar system. 82.132.239.55 18:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm sure this is referencing the "Jack-O-Lantern"[1] and "smiley face"[2] images of the sun that observatories sometimes put out for good press. 64.201.132.210 16:53, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like, on recent evidence, this is as good as the explanation's going to get - we should just leave it as is. 82.13.184.33 17:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I've done a stub explanation. My personal interpretation is that Randall is riffing on children's media, in which the sun is stereotypically depicted smiling and/or wearing sunglasses. --DollarStoreBa'al^Converse 17:51, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I personally think this because other people's proposals have been incredibly niche things (why would Randall reference jack-o-lanterns in March?). --DollarStoreBa'al^Converse 17:52, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I think all three of these (sun with sunglasses, smiling sun, frowning sun) are unicode emojis. And the progression from sun with sunglasses -> smiling sun, and smiling sun -> frowning sun, mirrors the progression from a "watch" to a "warning". I.e. a "thunderstorm watch" is less severe than a "thunderstorm warning". 47.248.235.170 18:43, 4 March 2026 (UTC)Pat

Not saying this was inspiration, but is anyone reminded of the angry sun that tries to kill you from Super Mario Bros 3? 2600:1702:79CA:3A0F:EA9C:25FF:FEC5:6E95 14:04, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Why is this incomplete? 216.125.50.226 (talk) 18:55, 10 March 2026 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Because nobody has yet decided to remove the Incomplete template?

It's 'only' six days old. Some people might not visit daily, and people don't rush in to declare incomplete anything under a week, that's only three so-called-incomplete comics that maybe someone would agree that this notification still applies to.

But, truth be told, the Incomplete tag is purely ornemental. Those who might want to edit a comic (or personally think it's 'completely explained') don't tend to rely upon this marker anyway. In the early days of the site, it was a means of marking the mass of basic articles that still needed looking at, but these days it's more a standard marker placed by the 'bot' that finds and records new comics, and has become a place to add a bit of site-humour in replacing the "created by a BOT" bit by some form of humour.

If you want, you can remove the whole {{incomplete}} from any article that has one, but there's no rush and you might want to wait for someone else to do it.

And, anyway, just because an article is no longer marked Incomplete it doesn't mean that it won't get edited, in part or in whole. In fact, unmarking it can bring a flurry of additional changes, as people notice it and decide they do think they can add something to it that was clearly missing...

Of course, everyone has a completely different idea about what's Complete and Incomplete, anyway, and have different ideas about how to manage it. 81.179.199.253 20:48, 10 March 2026 (UTC)