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| title    = Nachos
 
| title    = Nachos
 
| image    = nachos.png
 
| image    = nachos.png
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| titletext = 'Cheater!' 'Hey, gaming on wifi? You have only yourself to blame.'
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| titletext = Hey, gaming on wifi? You have only yourself to blame.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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[[Megan]] and [[Ponytail]] are playing together on an online multiplayer shooter game. Ponytail calls [[Cueball]], who is living with Megan, and easily persuades him to make {{w|nachos}}. {{w|Wi-Fi}} and {{w|microwave oven}}s both use {{w|ISM band|radio frequencies around 2.4 GHz}}, so Cueball's cooking disrupts Megan's connection and allows Ponytail to kill Megan's character. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boom-headshot Boom! Headshot] is a catchphrase made popular through a web mockumentary series called ''Pure Pwnage'', and is also used in the game League of Legends by the character Caitlyn.
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{{incomplete|Maybe mention that the whole microwave-wifi interference thing is a myth?}}
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[[Megan]] and [[Ponytail]] are playing an online shooter game. Ponytail calls [[Cueball]], who is living with Megan, and "subtly" persuades him to make {{w|nachos}}. {{w|Wi-Fi}} and {{w|microwave oven}}s both use {{w|ISM band|radio frequencies around 2.4 GHz}}, so Cueball's cooking disrupts her connection and allows Ponytail to kill Megan's online character.
  
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The title text points out that Megan has only herself to blame, as gaming on WiFi is susceptible to such issues, while gaming with a wired connection (e.g. {{w|Ethernet}}) is not.
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The title text points out that Megan has only herself to blame, as gaming on wifi is more susceptible to such issues than gaming with a wired connection (e.g. {{w|Ethernet}}).
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Note: If using the microwave actually does interfere with your WiFi, then get another microwave. Not (strictly) because it would mess with the WiFi, but because your microwave has a hole somewhere and is leaking non-ionizing radiation it shouldn't. It won't kill you, but it's not operating at peak efficiency. See this [https://youtu.be/ot4_jVFXxUU video] on the subject.
 
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Around the time of this comic's release, the xkcd website was temporarily redesigned using {{w|Yahoo! GeoCities}}. Snapshots of the site at the time can be found on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027014324/http://xkcd.com/ Internet Archive Wayback Machine].
 
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This was the fifth time Megan is drawn and given the [[Megan#Name|name Megan]] in xkcd, the first time being in [[159: Boombox]]. Once in between this and the previous of these comics ([[478: The Staple Madness]]), her name was used in [[596: Latitude]], but she was [[596:_Latitude#Trivia|not drawn]] there.
 
  
 
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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[[Category:Food]]
 
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[[Category:Video games]]
 

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