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Title text: Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to.

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Template:Official website https://wiki.soyjak.party/index.php?title=Fingerboys

Explanation

This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by 2 squared - Please change this comment when editing this page. The titletext needs to be worked in there, but I think I got everything else in some sort of order, pending general improvements. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.

The Nostalgia Critic is an American review comedy web series created, directed by and starring web comedian Douglas "Doug" Walker. The series initially launched on YouTube on July 3, 2007, before moving to Walker's own site, That Guy with the Glasses, then to Channel Awesome. The show follows Walker as the title character, a bitter and sarcastic critic who mostly reviews films and television shows from his childhood and recent past, usually with comically exaggerated rage. The show often alternates the Critic's angry rants and humor with analysis of the episode's subject. Some of the films he reviewed (such as Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, and Batman & Robin) are generally considered as the worst films ever made.

Walker briefly retired the series on August 14, 2012, to work on other projects, even writing the character out of existence in the Channel Awesome film To Boldly Flee. On January 22, 2013, Walker announced the show's return in a narrative video called "The Review Must Go On". The show subsequently returned with a more narrative and sketch-driven sixth season, beginning on February 5, 2013, with a review of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Most episodes still retain the original clip using format.

Fingerboys are a species of monstrous soyjak that draw inspiration from modern horror games such as slenderman and other games popular with streamers. They have been sighted in Capitol Reef National Park.

They are very dangerous to the average Soyjak, but sometimes juvenile fingerboys are taken out of the nests for food. The hunting of their babies has led to an increase in fingerboy attacks. The only Soyjak that has been capable of defeating an adult fingerboy in unarmed combat is Swolesome Soyjak.

There is evidence that Fingerboys may have a weakness to Sproke. It is also possible that prolonged exposure to Sproke can cause harmful mutations in Fingerboys.

Transcript

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Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! I’m cool! Hello! Hi, I am Melvin, the brother of the Joker! I'm sure a lot of you haven't heard of me...but, I am the brother of, yes the infamous Joker, y'know, 'why so serious' y’know, all that stuff...uh, actually I too have been working on my own catchphrase, um...Sploopity Sploosh! May not be as catchy, but uh I-I think it works. So, yeah! Alright uhh first of all I'd like to welcome all the newcomers to my blog, hello! Uh, hopefully we're going to talk a lot about evil! Lots of nasty evil evil! ...did I repeat myself- I guess it doesn't matter, umm, y'know cause evil does repeat itself, it's all about getting that massive....I dont know where I'm going with that. Anyway, okay, so uhh today's secret subject- or not secret it’s not- I mean this is all secret don’t tell anybody but, y’know today’s uh - big I should say, big subject is...Rayguns! Now, the th…. The thing about rayguns is that they are very very expensive as I found out! So- Mmmeeeelllvviiiiinnnn! ...So what you’re gonna wanna do, if you wanna get a raygun- Mmmmeellllvviiiiiinnnn!!!!! There-there’s uh, all sorts of rayguns that you can get! There’s um- Mmmmellllvvvviiiinnn what are you doing?! There’s uh- laser! Uh, there’s uh solar, There’s uh- Mmmeellllviiiiinnnn I want some hot chocolate. There’s uh, ones that fire bullets I guess that would just be a gun! There’s uh- Mmmelllllviiinnnnnn! Meeeellllllvviiiinnn!!! Little busy right now! Uh, there’s the ones that um, shoot raisins I haven’t seen that as much, uh, but they do exist I saw it on eBay! (Meeellvvviiiinnnnn!! Meeeelllllvvvviiiiin! Mmmeeeellllllvvviiiiiin! MelvIIIiiiiIIIIiiiIIIIiiiiIIIIiiiIIIIiiiiiIIIiiiinnn!) WHAT?! I’m thirsty, make me some hot chocolate! No, I’m busy! Busy doing what! I’m busy- that’s my um, uhh secretary, she is uh...very, very evil indeed! Mmmeellvviiin why haven’t you taken out the garbage yet! MOOOMM, PLEEEEASSEE DON’T ANNOY ME!!! Well then keep it down, Melvin! NO, I HAVE TO DO THIS MOM I- Keep it down, I’m trying to watch Glumbomerry Smetlock! I will try to keep it down, mother. Okay? Whaaat? I didn’t hear you. I SAID I WILL TRY TO KEEP IT DOWN- OWWWW YOU’RE HURTING MY EAARS MELVIN, YOU’RE HURTING MY EEAARS! So anyway! Such a failure! MOM!!! Why can’t you stop, I want my hot chocolate! I WILL NOT STOP, I NEED TO DO THIS MOM, I HAVE PEOPLE WATCHING! Oh wait, I had some hot chocolate the whole time! Where was I…? Isn’t that funny, Melvin? Oh, uh, r-r-r-rayguns! Yes, rayguns! Um, now, I have someone who is actually working on a raygun as we speak! ...And no it is not my mother…. I should probably address that! Uh, I do in fact live with my mother, I’m not ashamed to say that, uhh I just take a little longer to get going...uh, as opposed to other people. Uh, I see no shame in it...even though she constantly does. So, uh, basically what I would li- MEELLVIIN IT’S TOO HOT! [cut] Okay! I just slipped her about 50 vicodin so I think we’re good! Ahem, now one of the thi- MMEELLVIIN WHY IS THE ROOM SPINNING! My god, she’s like an ox! [cut] Okay, I just uh slipped a whole packet of nyquil into her milk, she’s gonna take a little nap now. Uh, so yeah, rayguns! Uh, I see a lot of villains using them, but um...let’s be honest, people. You don’t need them! Uh, what is it that a laser gun can do that a normal gun...can’t do! ...Destroy cities, sure, but if you get a gun that’s big enough...it could do that! I-I don’t know where you’d buy the bullets but I’m sure they’re out there! I’m sure they are out there - massive, massive bullets.... Okay maybe a raygun would be a very very good thing to get, I don’t know, uh...but, uh, I do not have the money for some, uh I’ve been debating whether or not how to uh, I’ve been uh, uh, thinking-thinking how to get uh, some-some-some bullets, uh, not bullets- god my mind I just can’t…. [Sighs] I’m sorry I just uh...I’ve just been under a lot of stress, you know, I uh...I still...haven’t gotten a job...y’know, uh…. What am I talking about, evil is my job! Yes, cause I am Melvin! The brother of the Joker! I-I- MEELLVIIIINNNN, MMELLVIIIIINNNNNN, MMMMMELLLLLVIIIIINNNNN!!!!! (She woke up, my god, how did she wake up? ) I’ll be in a minute, mom! So um, yeah, uh rayguns I don’t see the necessity of them! Such a failure! MOM!!! …So, uh, I do not see the necessity, uh, but I will somehow get one, I actually, I have a friend who was um, actually building me one, he uh- he works at circuit city I think I will just give him a call, right now! It’s ringing. Hey, B how you doin’! Melvin. The-th...Melvin Pothorn...the brother of the Joker? Yeah, yeah, that’s right haha I didn’t think you’d forget me! So, um, yeah how’s our uh, how’s our um, raygun doin’ there? Uh-huh. Oh what’d uh...I see. Well, does it still shoot lasers like we thought? Oh...Well, how large is it? 2 in- so that’s like, th-that could fit in my pocket. That’s not really a gun, that’s more of a toy. We-well what does it fire? It fires cashews. Well tha-that’s not gonna be very threatening to the...hero, is it? No it is not. I don’t care if the hero is allergic to nuts, it’s not gonna work! Okay, okay, calm down, calm down...I’m not talking to you I’m talking to me! N-no no I didn’t, I didn’t mean to yell at you, no-no I- no.... Do you really want me to sing it now, I...alright…. There’s a place, All over the world, Tonight. We will see each other, All throughout the night, Out of sight. Okay, so I can’t remember the words, alright? I-I-I don’t care! I-I y’know what? Y’know what? I don’t care, I don’t care, uh, I am evil and I’m going to destroy you, with or without your cashew gun. Goodbye! No- goodb-...yeah I’ll see you Tuesday. [Sigh] Kids! [cut] So yeah, um, I’m realizing this wasn’t a very good beginning, uh- uh blog, if you would, um, but uh my guess is that the next ones are gonna be better cause, uh, gonna do a lot more robbing, a lot more uh, uh stealing of things, and maybe, just maybe, I might pants somebody. Huh? Maybe a uh, certain somebody with pointed ears and wears, uh, all black? That’s right! The Human Ant, I’m gonna get him! Yeah…. Okay, Human Ant he’s not as big as someone like Batman or Superman but he is still a very impressive superhero! I mean, I-I don’t think it matters that he lives right next door to me, I think that’s still very very impressive- I know a superhero that can obliterate - no not obliterate that’s what I do - that can save people from me, uh, obliterating the world! Yes, yes, that is very impressive, I’m sure that’s a lot better than half the people you know! So, uh, just to reiterate: uh rayguns waste of time, uh, the human ant is my narch- arch, nemesis- god I can’t talk today, uhh, I think that’s it! Uh, this will be the first of many evilness that will be coming, so uh, again, this is Melvin, uh, brother of the Joker, signing off, and I- MMEELLLVIIIINNNNNN!!! MOM!!!!!! [cut] Come kiss me goodnight! Yeah, I’m comin’ mom! I’m comin’! Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! Melvin, Melvin, brother of the Joker! I’m cool!

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Discussion

Hello people. Anyone got an explanation for this? 172.70.114.229 22:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

dog walker in the coments section omg (shodul we replace this with a smaller version because i think whiel it is legitimite discussion and not vandaelism this time it shoudl not be so fuck god damn large) --172.70.114.229 07:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

friends romans countrymen lend me your ears previously this comment had a picture of doug walker attached to it and i was not aware it was vandalism and not a part of the comment which explains my preivous comment; thank you for reaidng --172.70.114.247 07:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

In the Java programming language, the this keyword refers to either instance fields in the object itself (as opposed to local or parameter variables), or alternatively can be used to call the parent's constructor. 8^) Mr. I (talk) 12:19, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

if by "parent" you mean "superclass" then that's actually `super` not `this` - `this(...)` is used to call another constructor *in the current class*. 172.68.66.3 09:25, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

To the person who has requested a citation that two is a number... here you go: https://youtu.be/dBVoIUASFS0?t=82. Can someone who knows how to add citations add it? :D --172.70.110.209 23:09, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

The [citation needed] thing is a running joke here thanks to 285: Wikipedian Protester. It's used for obvious statements of fact on this wiki as a joke (basically the opposite of its Wikipedia use). KirbyDude25 (talk) 00:43, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry to inform you that you probably became another victim of Poe's law (or "r/whooosh", as kids say these days). I was just playing the SMBC citation game. --172.70.110.209 02:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

And we try to limit the use to only very very funny situations or when there is actually need for a citation, so as to not ruin it by having it on every single explanation!!! ;-) --Kynde (talk) 06:08, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hey all, the group theory thing reminds me a lot of cyclic groups or ideals generated by the value 2. Also equivalence classes (which come up in group theory) can be written with [brackets] but may be confused with <cyclic groups> or (ideals).

The 2;2 notation looks like the notation \mu; \nu that is used for covariant derivatives of tensors in physics. Also 2,2 looks like \mu, \nu that is used for partial derivatives of tensors. And as mentioned above, (2) could be a cyclic subgroup or ideal generated by two or a special case of cycle notation for elements of symmetry groups used to mean an element that keeps 2 fixed. 162.158.62.120 23:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I second the point about tensors. Maybe you could expand the summation notation slightly. It's common to use index sets or rules underneath large symbols for all sorts of things, like sums, products, direct sums, direct products, unions, intersections, integrals, and much, much more. So here, the large 2 in parentheses represents one of these symbols. Rather than adding or multiplying the elements or whatever, you are twoing them, whatever that means. You are twoing over all values of 2, apparently. It's sort of reminiscent of jokes with punchlines like "for sufficiently large values of 2." There are of course, different 2s out there. Like, there is the von Neumann ordinal 2, the integer 2, the rational number 2, the real number 2, the complex number 2, the residue class of 2 mod 3, etc. All of these may be represented by 2. Perhaps we are indexing over some collection of canonical representations of 2? 172.70.130.161 00:02, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Explanation needs something about one of the 2s being cursed. Also, this should be added to the category for cursed stuff (I think it's cursed things, but did not look it up). 172.70.211.72 01:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Superscript or subscripts before a thing can indicate tetration and pentation. 172.68.66.63 03:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Did anyone else think there should have been a 2 after everything else (after the parentheses) with an arrow pointing to it labeled “sequels”?172.70.126.65 06:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Damnit, I do now; yes.

ProphetZarquon (talk) 19:14, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Damn there is (again?) some idiot that replaces the explanation with text :-/ Wish we could ban those persons! --Kynde (talk) 06:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

What the vandal do those edit summaries mean? 172.70.130.121 06:16, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

What do those "et tu" edit summaries mean? (The ones on all the edits replacing the text with "Friends, Romans, Countrymen...") 162.158.107.142 17:22, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

doug walker! the guy keeps chaging the image to doug fucking walker! awhat the fuck is up wiht that !!! --172.70.114.229 07:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

ok im'm pretty sure janny is soem transphobic slur (for reference the vandalism edit at 07:36's comment was "clean it up janny") did dog wlaker do a transphobic thing and now some altright pople who find it worth there time to change the Exain Xkcd page inage to Dog WAlker are nutting there balls dry???? --172.70.230.75 07:38, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I assumed it was calling us, the people who clear up their mess, "janitors", i.e. menial cleaners/fixer-upperers. But I honestly don't know what dialect/culture uses that (sounds a bit Australian, but not exclusively, and it's a typical and not necessarily derogative kind of word-shortenning that anybody might use) and if they do mean to call us janitors then... I'm happy to be a janitor. It's a worthwhile occupation, and I consider that an important job that I'll willingly do in the face of such a moron.

Jannie is 4chan slang for moderator of some kind, as since 4chan is a an awful place, the people who clean it up are officially called janitors. 108.162.245.251 06:22, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

172.70.86.44 09:49, 3 May 2022 (UTC) This should probably be added to Category:Comics sharing name172.70.178.199 15:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

No there are not other comic called 2. The comic with number 2 is not the name of that comic. And the only other number only comics are year numbers like 2016.--Kynde (talk) 18:22, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

There should be a category: comics featuring cursed items 172.70.230.63 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Can you list at least 5. Then I will consider it. --Kynde (talk) 18:22, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

There's 5 here https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cursed_Connectors and one here 2332 Kev (talk) 18:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Noting that the infamous Cursed Chair had not been labelled, yet Curse(d?) Words had, I added the former and took no additional liberties in adding all other cursed things that seemed to lie within that scope (some by in-comic or in-titletext reference, I know) that weren't already included through the Cursed Connectors membership. I web-commented each Catsgory-markuped entry (to varying degrees of directness) in case anybody needs a clue as to why it is added. Obviously I accept any community disagreement on some of the more marginal representative 'items' (words, air, and a <4^th minus one> thing that is even more conceptual), but that's what a collaborative wiki is for, yes? ;) 172.70.85.177 21:17, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Who put a Ukrainian flag at the top of the page? 172.70.230.63 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

i agree with whoever did that, but maybe a bit smaller or on the bottom so it doesn't interfere with normal usage of this? 172.69.69.170 18:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf

Is it better now? 108.162.245.15 18:19, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Another vandal. Of course it should not be there. I support Ukraine but this page has nothing to do with that situation! --Kynde (talk) 18:22, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

It’s one of very many cases of vandalism in recent days. As Kynde says, it should not be there. And of course we don’t take instructions from vandals. While False (talk) 18:31, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of the militant centrist wing of the ExplainXKCD community, I welcome the support for Ukraine but I worry as to who decides that this website supports a particular perspective. Ukraine's right to self determination is obvious, but another contributor could suggest something more suspect. Kev (talk) 18:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Yeah. I guess the vandal thought he would be any less obvious if his spam was disguised as support for Ukraine. Notice that it appeared at the same time as a new onslaught elsewhere at the site, as well as on this comic. While False (talk) 18:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

The comment about combinatorics, in the section about the "cursed" stuff, uses superscript and subscript 2s. But that isn't quite correct; they should be stacked rather than one after the other. It *should* be possible to get the proper display using math mode, which is permitted in the main body of explanation though not in the transcript. I think it *ought* to be something like "<math>{2}\choose{2}</math>", but when I try it, I get an error: "Failed to parse (Missing <code>texvc</code> executable. Please see math/README to configure.)" -- clearly I don't know what I'm doing. Can someone who's more knowledgeable than I am fix that, please? BunsenH (talk) 18:27, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Vandals

Looks like there's some full scale vandalism happening - can anyone lock the site? Kev (talk) 18:48, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

( Nafedalbi (talk) 19:04, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Indeed, See the contributions of X. K. C. D.. While False (talk) 21:19, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Uh, whoops. Don't mind that. Nafedalbi (talk) 19:05, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

WITW is happening now? 108.162.246.212 21:44, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

This: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:X._K._C._D./common.js While False (talk) 21:48, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Crap. (no pun intended) They wrote a bot. Is there a way to stop that? 108.162.245.251 21:51, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't think the bot can be stopped without an admin, but a counterbot that undos edits to any crapped pages could work. --4D4850 (talk) 01:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

uhh apparently linking to a category puts it at the bottom - how do I link to a category? GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e (talk) 04:13, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Wait you have to put a : before the name GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e (talk) 04:16, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Did the bad bot scare the good bot away? 162.158.107.30 05:22, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Probably. Crap --Kynde (talk) 06:16, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Binomial coefficient notation in HTML/CSS

I'm having some trouble getting (<table style="display: inline-table; line-height: 0.6em; vertical-align: middle;"><tr><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2</td></tr></table>) ( 

2

2

) to work right. The digits are too small on mobile Chrome, and too large on desktop Chrome. Can someone with better CSS experience than I try to even them out please? My apologies in advance if a curse is at play. 172.70.207.8 07:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

The ideal solution would probably be to use "math" mode to display the symbols. There are several options: "\choose", "\binom" / "\dbinom" / "\tbinom". But I don't know how to enable that. I'm under the impression that when a "math" expression is used in this wiki, the expression is essentially compiled into an image, and I don't know how to make that happen. If I edit a page with an existing math-mode expression and make any change to the expression, the expression breaks with an error message, as I mention above. BunsenH (talk) 15:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

I guess we need an admin to fix mathml. I know they exist because someone finally updated the template for which explanation is still incomplete, which hadn't been updated for like a decade. 172.70.207.8 16:37, 12 May 2022 (UTC)