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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | This comic is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. It is almost | + | {{incomplete|Created by an HVAC ROCK BAND - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
| + | This comic is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. It is almost the same as [[2036: Edgelord]], only with different text, where [[Cueball]] annoys [[White Hat]], and in [[2654: Chemtrails]] it is just [[Ponytail]] that is the target. | ||
| − | In all of these comics, modern slang | + | In all three of these comics, a modern slang term or just a commonly used word ("chemtrails" was the case in [[2654]]) is used to describe a job, and while the slang or word seems accurate, it isn't the normally used term for the job. Previously a graph theory PHD was labeled an "edgelord", a reference to how mathematical graphs have edges, but this time a turbine maintenance engineer is called out for doing a lot of fanservice, as in, literally servicing/maintaining a huge fan (with which turbines are often inaccurately conflated). In the other comic, trails of ant pheromones were labeled as "chemtrails", a reference to how pheromones are chemicals. |
| − | + | A second order of dissonance is introduced from the difference between fans and turbines, which are designed to work towards opposite purposes. [[Randall]] has previously touched on wind turbines ''not'' being fans, most notably in [[1378: Turbine]]. | |
| − | {{wiktionary|fanservice|Fanservice}} is a term used to describe decisions made in | + | {{wiktionary|fanservice|Fanservice}} is a term often used to describe certain decisions made in TV or film productions that make some form of knowing nod to the viewers that isn't necessary to the plot or visualization of the work. It can just mean inserting obscure details of the work's back-history, to spark gleeful recognition amongst the more devoted fans, or it could be increasing the ridiculousness of character's behavior (often due to one or other overly contrived reason) to live up to their stereotype. A frequent form of this is the {{tvtropes|MsFanservice|Ms. Fanservice}} trope, where the more glamorous female characters find themselves in more figurehugging clothing, clothing that actually covers {{tvtropes|ChainmailBikini|much less of their figure}} than should be practical or even find themselves shoehorned into a situation where they {{tvtropes|CensorSuds|aren't wearing}} even their 'normal' skimpy outfit. |
| − | In the title text, Randall refers to HVAC (a term for the unified <u>H</u>eating, <u>V</u>entilation, and <u>A</u>ir <u>C</u>onditioning systems of a given building) as "the fandom." Normally, "fandom" means the group of fans of something, but here refers to a | + | In the title text, Randall refers to HVAC (a term for the unified <u>H</u>eating, <u>V</u>entilation, and <u>A</u>ir <u>C</u>onditioning systems of a given building) as "the fandom." Normally, "fandom" means the group of fans of something, but here refers to a system that relies on lots of fans. |
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| + | Randall tells that he was thrown out of his architectural engineering program because ''I wouldn't stop referring to HVAC as "the fandom.'' This relates to the many [[:Category:Banned from conferences|conferences he has been banned from]], although this is not a conference. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
