...and [[493: Actuarial]], Black Hat is referred to as "the hat guy" and "Hat guy" respectively. In [[1139: Rubber and Glue]] a young [[Hairy]] also gave him
...lieve in anything" suggesting some traumatic experience made him this way. Some black hat hackers are simply so detached from the real world they don't und
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...ll later asks him to watch closely, holding his phone up to show the other guy what he is doing.
...ible (but that do agree with him). These conspiracy ".net" pages typically just have a black background and use several different sizes of fonts, the large
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...terviewer wait around for 5 years without moving to find out. And as Beret Guy expected they stayed exactly where they were. (This could be suggesting tha
The title text is a continuation of their conversation in which Beret Guy turns down the job because he wants to find out what happened in the last 5
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...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy|Comics featuring Beret Guy]].''</noinclude>
'''Beret Guy''' is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his
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...lace around the time Hitler would have taken his own life anyway, possibly just a few moments before. Indeed, it is possible that Black Hat is, and always
...ifference at all. This is typical Black Hat behavior, going out of his way just to troll people like Cueball and cause horrible things to happen, in this c
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...we could ask for—including an incredible medical team—and we’ve had some really good moments during these months, but it’s still a terrifying and
...ancer}}. He doesn't care about many things like politics anymore, there is just his fiancée's cancer and his romance with her. This is one of many [[:Cate
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In this image [[Beret Guy]] shouts out '''The apocalypse!''' And then he continues to explain what th
After Beret Guy has announced this, he runs into [[Cueball]] who has heard part of this, bu
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...I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do
...renewed in 2006 as they [https://blog.xkcd.com/2006/10/06/many-news-things-some-overdue ran out of money to rehire him], he has supported himself primarily
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...] hands another Cueball-like guy an apple calling it a "Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface becaus
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...l.com/?skip=40#:~:text=Support%20Surreal%20Humor Original caption</span>]: Just sayin'. It's been 30 years now.
...nth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[15: Just Alerting You]], and the next one was [[17: What If]].
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...where they do not meet. The same goes for the other white hat guy, [[Beret Guy]]. See more on how little these three interact in xkcd in the explanation f
...y appeared in his normal hat three times before that comic, and Safari Hat guy has never been shown again, except in [[1000: 1000 Comics]].
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...ted. This way, the code can be referenced to tech support so that there is some feedback from the program as to what is wrong (akin to a car dashboard with
...rror "-41", but cannot tell even what program it comes from. So, the other guy decides to look up the code in a book apparently called ''Error Codes''. Th
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...s no influence on the maximum achievable loudness. The highest mark could just as easily be labelled 'Maximum', which would then accurately describe the m
* The normal guy understands that using eleven is silly, and wants to know what is wrong wit
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...t the Holocaust was an acceptable alternative. It's no secret that the hat guy is closely based on Aram, from Men in Hats.<br><br><span class="plainlinks"
...preferred the Holocaust to have occurred rather than allow Hitler to make some bad paintings. Such a comment that God could be so callous would surely be
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...remember being entertained by both the sequels while in the theater. They just don't hold up nearly as well in later comparison.
...airbun]]; and a security guard in the third scene, as another Cueball-like guy.
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...} and thus makes it self-referential, the sentence is now funny! The other guy Cueball, producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actuall
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| titletext = I'm just worried that we'll all leave and you won't get to come along!
...indication is that these planets are habitable enough for humans, even if just for a visit.
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...[[Cueball]], in true nerd fashion, thinks in base-2, saying that there are just 24 to go until a "big round-number milestone". The joke is that during prog
:Cueball: Wow—Just 24 to go until a big round-number milestone!
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...ysadmin): "[This] comic isn't available everywhere and it can come up i[n] some situation[s] only for recognized browsers."
In the tweet feed, there are three tweets about some podcast on the top, followed by the tweet containing link they clicked on t
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...'s travel ends only with us seeing "pretty dots" - stars in the sky. Beret Guy then tries to return light to its birthplace by using a mirror, which refle
...decides to exhibit another one of his [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers]], it is possible that he can find a way to actually find a
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| titletext = The new crowd is heavily shaped by this guy named Eric, who's basically the Paris Hilton of the amateur plastic crazy s
...a culture that share some property in common, such as hackers or hipsters. Some subcultures form based on a geeky obsession over a trivial topic (for insta
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...least, anomalous emissions, and would not be on store shelves long before some kind of serious recall).
...l have to go to the lampmaker personally to either acquire a lamp or maybe just to check out that they do not look like a uterus or [http://gizmodo.com/536
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...in the title text of [[2277: Business Greetings]], also about one of Beret Guy's businesses. None of these things are common behavior.{{Citation needed}}
...e trade cards and continue to not make money. So that's the joke – Beret Guy does the networking {{w|schtick}}, badly, and yet is somehow making huge am
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...slept, so I say it's still Friday. It's been a weird couple days and I was just thinking it was the weekend. Anyway, the first version of this strip was dr
...the world. The misdirection and punchline of the comic come when the pole-guy asks if his friend can help him down from this pole where he's been standin
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...and change the Web pages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta
...the article, so the text begins mid sentence, the very top of the letters just cut of in the first visible sentence.]
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...l okay with being "in second place" since the main argument from the other guy was about being the fastest-growing.
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| titletext = I was sure he was just getting revenge, but then he did the same thing to Carrie Underwood. Then h
...roke up with him the day before, as she explains to [[Cueball]], but Beret Guy is so strange that she now can't tell if it was revenge or even if he remem
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...nt Hairy and the talking Megan who both failed to understand him. Megan is just frustrated by the outcome of her encounter and thinks about White Hat talki
*[[Beret Guy]] notices a dangerous hole, and thinks he should warn people about it.
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...sets up a sign reading "GULLS FOR SALE" with a jar for money. Though Beret Guy probably expects to profit, the confused reactions of other people in the l
...idea of people sweating over their pitch with such seriousness, when Beret Guy's pitch is literally a childish exclamation. Wheeee!
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...f a building. Two Cueball-like guys are standing in front of it. The first guy has his hands in fists up in front of him and a black cloud over his head.]
:First guy: ''Argh!''
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...officer: Look, you're a good guy. We can work this out. Hey, lemme get us some coffee.
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...ll]]) are sitting at a restaurant. The waitress, [[Ponytail]], tells Beret Guy there is a special on Tuesdays for "endless wings". Restaurants often have
...instead of ordering them by telling the waitress: "I'll have those", Beret Guy tells her: "i have those", meaning that he already has literal "endless win
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...or an internet troll (see the xkcd version of [[Black Hat]]), and also the guy saying {{w|LOL}} is already laughing out loud at you before you read his te
...n to complain I was violating [https://www.4chan.org/rules rules] 1 and 2. Some 4channers are a little slow on the uptake.}}
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:A reference to comic [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]], where [[Beret Guy]] shows his liking for bakeries in first panel. His love of bakeries is a r
;Panel 22 ''The future's pretty cool!'' (Beret Guy in a forest.)
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...sion, intending to destroy whatever machine they are in, except that Beret Guy tends to be a bit surreal and brought a bag for holding pastries instead of
...tation needed}} He bites into them and it hurts him, but as he says, maybe some of them are not lug nuts, and he wishes to test them all.
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...Hat lives up to his reputation though, as it turns out that the journal is just part of a plot to hurt innocent, preferably shy, girls.
.... He also tries to let her believe that he may be interested in her. He is just waiting for her to start smiling, and then he gets to the point of it all.
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...require a higher-quality problem to hold their interest. Alternatively, he just dislikes mathematicians more, and is thus willing to award more points for
..., Cueball is standing next to him. Across the street, another Cueball-like guy is coming from a building walking towards the pedestrian crossing across fr
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...text = Twister would've been a much better movie if they'd cut out the bad-guy storm chaser and all the emotional romance crap. All you need for a good mo
Spoofing off of {{w|tornado chasers}} are these permafrost chasers, who are just like tornado chasers, but they are chasing very boring<sup>[[[285: Wiki
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...e writers of Family Guy derived the word from this comic, heard of it from some other source, or thought of it independently is unknown.
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In this strip, Goatee Guy claims that "if they made my life into a movie, no one would believe it", s
...ents Goatee Guy is describing aren't especially well-told, and that Goatee Guy himself is personally unpleasant (in addition to not be especially articula
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:Cueball: Haha, check it out–This guy's mansion has an actual rotating bed.
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:Friend: You know that giant hamster ball you've always wanted? I just found out that Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips crowd-surfs in one.
...to the far left partly outside the panel frame is yet another Cueball-like guy from the crowd. Above Cueball and to the edge of the hamster ball is a fram
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...and we're getting older faster than we think. Events that seem like they "just happened" have happened long enough ago for a whole other person to come in
...which came out in 1995. A movie many people will remember fondly and feel just came out the other day. He continues with these scary thoughts by mentionin
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...ression that Snoopy has died. His statement that he "Got three mimes, too" just proves his casual disregard for collateral damage.
...ld be extremely difficult. Whether Black Hat actually believes this, or is just trying to troll conspiracy theorists, is unknown. Black Hat uses a common r
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...4chan, of a {{w|Stick figure|stick-figure}} character (often wearing a {{w|Guy Fawkes mask}}) who fails at everything he tries.
...as been dug between the road and a house. A small stair up to the house is just on the other side of the moat. Behind her is Cueball with a large TV camera
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...ll: I recommend you appoint a Secretary of the internet. Someone to impose some orders on this mess.
:Cueball: I know just the guy.
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...should be called "cryonics", preserving humans, not "Cryogenics", which is just science at low temperatures)
...next, hoping the situation 30 years later will be different. But then the guy in one of the nearby chambers gets the same idea as she did (again). Howeve
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...een endorsed by Tracy Morgan, John Wilkes Booth's ghost, and the Time Cube guy.
...d names are mentioned in the title text). Given the frankly absurd, and in some cases illegal nature of Grayton's campaign promises, using a fictional char
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...s as an opportunity to make yet another Your Mom joke, implying that Beret Guy's mother is fat.
But apparently, Beret Guy's mother is dead, or at least missing, and he takes the joke seriously. He
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...d the spoken words but not the subtitles. Annoying Hungarian subtitles are just an example for a language most people don't understand. Finnish, Czech, or
:Cueball-like guy: Why?
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