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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Geolocation|GeoIP}} is a service that converts IP addresses to their respective location on the Earth. This is done by looking up the IP address in a database maintained by various internet service providers. Advertisers often take advantage of the {{w|Keeping up with the Joneses| | + | {{w|Geolocation|GeoIP}} is a service that converts IP addresses to their respective location on the Earth. This is done by looking up the IP address in a database maintained by various internet service providers. Advertisers often take advantage of the {{w|Keeping up with the Joneses|Joneses effect}} by creating localized ads which misleadingly appear to be specific to your location, but are often simply stock photographs with the name of the nearest town superimposed on top. |
− | The comic satirizes this phenomenon. The {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) has a high speed data downlink, but no direct connection to the internet. But here, [[Cueball]] trolls the advertisers from | + | The comic satirizes this phenomenon. The {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) has a high speed data downlink, but no direct connection to the internet. But here, [[Cueball]] trolls the advertisers from onboard the ISS, by inserting his actual location on {{w|low Earth orbit}} into the database under that IP address. He proudly present his result to [[Ponytail]] where the advertisements claim that there are "local girls" in low Earth orbit; a distance of roughly 420 kilometers above the Earth surface, and thus at least that far away from all other girls in the world if they are not on the space station. |
− | The title text | + | The title text refers to how specific GeoIP can get. However, knowing that someone is in their mom's basement is hyperbole, but it sets up for another nice [[:Category:Your Mom|Your Mom joke]], which explains why the guy reading this advertisement takes it personal and tells GeoIP: ''screw you''. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[External view of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the blue Earth below, shown with white clouds as stripes below and black sky above. Dialog, written in white on the black sky, comes from within the ISS.] | + | :[External view of a the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the blue Earth below, shown with white clouds as stripes below and black sky above. Dialog, written in white on the black sky, comes from within the ISS.] |
:Cueball (inside the ISS): ''Yes!'' | :Cueball (inside the ISS): ''Yes!'' | ||
:Ponytail (inside the ISS): What? | :Ponytail (inside the ISS): What? | ||
:Cueball (inside the ISS): I got our downlink into a GeoIP database. | :Cueball (inside the ISS): I got our downlink into a GeoIP database. | ||
− | :[Internal view of the satellite, Cueball and Ponytail are floating weightlessly around, Cueball is at a laptop style computer mounted to the wall. They are in a white room, with black around, but due to being | + | :[Internal view of the satellite, Cueball and Ponytail are floating weightlessly around, Cueball is at a laptop style computer mounted to the wall. They are in a white room, with black around, but due to being wightless in space, the room is turned on edge as to not give any semblance of a given up/down direction.] |
:Ponytail: Why? | :Ponytail: Why? | ||
:Cueball: To mess with advertisers. Check it out. | :Cueball: To mess with advertisers. Check it out. |