Relevant XKCD

February 25, 2019 4:50 PM

Relevant XKCD (SLRXKCD)
posted by sammyo (16 comments total)

Duty calls
posted by flabdablet at 5:42 PM on February 25, 2019 [8 favorites]

I thought this had to be about .NORM Normal File Format
posted by scruss at 6:33 PM on February 25, 2019 [7 favorites]

The only thing wrong with this xkcd is the implication that "power orb" is a cooler, more futuristic sounding name than "plutonium."
posted by straight at 7:15 PM on February 25, 2019 [2 favorites]

i think this is moar relevant
posted by lalochezia at 7:16 PM on February 25, 2019 [7 favorites]

I thought xkcd perfectly defined male-female relationships with this vintage strip: "sudo make me a sandwich" and has never improved on it.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:45 PM on February 25, 2019 [2 favorites]

Just as I always expected: it's xkcd all the way down.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:51 PM on February 25, 2019 [2 favorites]

this vintage strip: "sudo make me a sandwich"

The mouse hover text for that one is "Proper Use Policy apparently means Simon Says". I've always thought that, essentially, some form of "Simon Says" accounts for an astonishingly (and embarrassingly) large percentage of human behavior.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:59 PM on February 25, 2019 [4 favorites]

Be sure to check our this game linked below the xkcd:

https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
posted by M-x shell at 9:01 PM on February 25, 2019 [3 favorites]

(someone once told me "Simon Says use a lot of adverbs", and ever since I've helplessly complied)
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:01 PM on February 25, 2019 [5 favorites]

There's Always an XKCD is the much less anger-inducing version of There's Always a Trump Tweet.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:39 AM on February 26, 2019 [4 favorites]

is xkcd mostly an old person thing now, like email, facebook, metafilter, and the possibility of eventually some day becoming a homeowner, or is it something that still has relevance to people under 30?
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 9:29 AM on February 26, 2019 [3 favorites]

Hey now, many of us over 30 also have no possibility of home ownership! We're still hip! That's what the kids say, right - hip?
posted by sysinfo at 10:32 AM on February 26, 2019 [6 favorites]

Nerds and their love affair with recursion.
posted by BrotherCaine at 10:37 AM on February 26, 2019

> Nerds and their love affair with recursion.

I know, right?
posted by farlukar at 11:04 AM on February 26, 2019 [4 favorites]

...and the possibility of eventually some day becoming a homeowner...

Relevant XKCD
posted by hwyengr at 11:21 AM on February 26, 2019

Incidentally, Simon is the name of the guy who writes the Bastard Operator from Hell. And sudo make your BOFH happy, or else...
posted by Jubal Kessler at 6:01 PM on February 26, 2019 [1 favorite]