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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Please edit the explanation below and only mention here why it isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
+ | [[Cueball]], as a form of catharsis, narcissism, and addiction, is imagining bad opinions, searching them up on the Internet, and excoriating the opinion givers. In an immediate new low, he imagines another hitherto unexpressed opinion, and promptly makes it a problem and false self-esteem booster for the Internet to bask in. | ||
− | [[ | + | The use of the [[181: Interblag|Interblag]] by smart and idiotic alike to [[1974: Conversational Dynamics|violently express their opinions]] has been a regular theme in xkcd. |
− | In title text he goes | + | In title text he goes to a new level, where he can't find an opinion he imagined on the internet, but still wants to discredit it, just because he is so infuriated by just being able to imagine it. |
− | Ironically, the comic itself could | + | This demonstrates a "strawman argument", where someone refutes an argument that wasn't actually made by anyone. (Ironically, the comic itself could be considered an example of this behavior. Randall imagines the absurd person and behavior depicted in the comic, and wrote a comic satirizing it, without knowing if such a person actually exists.) |
− | + | This is a rather obvious callback to one of the most popular XKCD comics, [[Duty Calls]], wherein Cueball is actively seeking to discredit and correct people who are "wrong" on the internet. | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
+ | [Cueball sits at a computer] | ||
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+ | :Offscreen: What are you doing? | ||
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+ | :Cueball: I just thought of a bad opinion someone could have, and now i'm searching to see if anyone does so I can be mad at them. | ||
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+ | :offscreen: Sounds like you have a healthy relationship with the internet. | ||
− | + | :Cueball: Hey, at least i'm not ''this'' guy i found | |
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− | :Cueball: Hey, at least | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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