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| This comic reminds me a lot of [[1683: Digital Data]], which is also about degradation of images through re-posting screenshots. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.211|162.158.222.211]] 09:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC) | | This comic reminds me a lot of [[1683: Digital Data]], which is also about degradation of images through re-posting screenshots. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.222.211|162.158.222.211]] 09:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC) |
| : Absolutely no question, I spent half an hour looking for that one. Added; thanks! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.162|172.70.211.162]] 21:03, 14 September 2022 (UTC) | | : Absolutely no question, I spent half an hour looking for that one. Added; thanks! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.162|172.70.211.162]] 21:03, 14 September 2022 (UTC) |
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− | " This is funny because the default resolution of contemporary camera phones can be too large to meet size requirements for e.g. mobile phone {{w|Multimedia Messaging Service}}, web file uploads, or email attachments, so one or two steps of this awkward procedure are sometimes necessary." - if true (presumedly screen-res and thus screencap-res is lower than the camera output, so after the image viewer is used to effectively downscale (maybe even pinch-zoom in and reframe the image) without using an actual image-editor/cropper app) then I don't see why two steps are necessary. The second scrcap step has the same number of pixels as the first... But, hey, it sounds like a kludge anyway. And I just thought I'd comment, don't mind me. (Can't see how "this is funny because", though. This is lacking all the humour of the almost-literal ''reductio ad absurdum'' already demonstrated and discussed. I don't think many times "This is funny because..." has been a useful thing to add to an Explanation, even if that's the intention of the site.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.65|172.71.178.65]] 10:57, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
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− | : What's more useful on this site than explaining the jokes? If you want to teach people how to fish, you should be on WikiHow. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.210.209|172.70.210.209]] 22:11, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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− | ::"This is funny because..." is redundant if true, I would say. The explanation can reveal the humour explicitly or by cluing the reader into it, but those four extra words add nothing. And subtract much when wrong. Interesting interpretations (like the above? Do people actually downscale by screenshotting?) may add to understanding, but not any humour. And then the statement is wrong, as it stands. That's without the "...or two steps", which I also think is just plain wrong, just never got around to editing out. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.61|172.70.90.61]] 00:30, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
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− | A similar case in real life: https://9gag.com/gag/aL2e3YM {{unsigned ip|198.41.231.180|13:41, 21 September 2022}}
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− | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2671:_Rotation&oldid=315629 "(Why was '.' being used instead of '*' for multiplication?)"] – possibly because it's one of the various {{w|Multiplication#Notation and terminology|valid notations}} in use, although I might have used ''x•a'', or even just gone for ''xa'', myself. Just a matter of style choice, really, though there are indeed many different styles that some situations might (differently) stronly suggest. But it's perfectly understandable in context. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.64|172.71.178.64]] 14:31, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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