Talk:3151: Window Screen

The 'standard' and '2x' sized images had unexpected sizes, so an imagesize parameter has been added to render the image consistently with other comics on this website. See the web archive for more details. --TheusafBOT (talk) 03:15, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh cool the bot can comment too TheTrainsKid (talk) 04:06, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Is the comic not fitting into the section right on the original xkcd website? Is this some kind of meta joke? 138.67.132.61 04:10, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

This is Randall's mistake. Since comic 1084 from 2012, comics usually have two versions: normal and double resolution (2x). If you read on a high-DPI screen (like a phone) or zoom in, you'll see a high-resolution version of the comic, but if you read on a desktop or laptop without zooming in, you'll see the normal resolution. In this case, Randall accidentally uploaded the 2x version into both comics, making the normal one twice as big as it should be. If you zoom in just a tiny bit, it'll look normal again. I'll add this in a Trivia section Someone already did. --NeatNit (talk) 07:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I suspect Randall was inspired by the U.S. President's outsized ego insisting he deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace when he hasn't actually solved any international problems at all, and in the view of many has made things much worse.68.116.0.20 05:33, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

...and in objective reality has made things much worse. --45.143.82.106 06:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

It's such a shame that this is true. Well, obviously, but in frivolous terms too: it would be nice to have this just as a representation of how it feels to get a tricky task right, without referencing the tangerine toddler's nonsense. I think most people know that feeling that they've maxed out their efforts and achieved something brilliant (measured in terms of the how well or how badly the project should have been expected to go). Human effort is human effort, and so it feels like any successful overcoming of a problem is legitimately comparable with any other, if measured from the perspective of the one who performs the task. I love the way this handles that feeling. It was very difficult; I did it successfully; that was an impressive achievement. "It" could be stopping a war or making a window screen. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 10:38, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I suspect all the math could have been avoided if the screen were just carefully laid out on top of the window and cut to a matching shape. Why trig when you can trace? --45.143.82.106 06:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

It's easy when building a flat screen to accidentally get the tension wrong on one side and *generate* non-coplanarity--174.127.176.33 08:24, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Is the "overly large image mistake" really a mistake, considering it’s about the "size" of an image displaying on a "screen"? 89.91.92.1 (talk) 08:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

There is the opinion that Randall made a mistake, but because Cueballs sentence just stops at "how well the screen fits... (the window)" and the panel DOES NOT fit it's window, I believe that this is intentional and the punchline of the comic 195.49.224.20 09:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Interesting that Cueball has hair in the last two panels --Darth Vader (talk) 08:40, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Obviously with all the screen building he hasn't had time to shave his head. 82.13.184.33 09:28, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

In the last two panels he also wears some kind of bracelet. 82.54.66.129 10:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)