There's an xkcd for that

About the blag I am not Randall Munroe, nor am I associated with him, but should I ever get the chance I'll pass along your love.

[noelle-ism]

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

[noelle-ism]

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.

[xkcd-for-that]

I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.

Steal This Comic

[kosmogrl]

[glowingghosty]

[xkcd-for-that]

I don't even *want* this package! Why did I join the stinging insect of the month club, anyway?

Online Package Tracking

[minecraft]

[canoncanidae]

[booooooooof-9-o-s]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

The place I'd least like to live is the farm in the background of those diagrams showing how tornadoes form.

Geography

[capnsoapy]

One time I spent money registering a domain like "dotat.horse" because I wanted an email address which was as difficult as possible to give out

[capnsoapy]

I think it was something like [email protected]. I never used it for anything for obvious reasons

[xkcd-for-that]

You can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no one can pronounce.

Namespace Land Rush

[blowery]

they killed my boy. what have they done to zombo.com.

[cyle]

nnnnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!

[xkcd-for-that]

In memoriam:

'Whoa, twenty-two in two hours!' 'Your site got twenty-two hundred hits in two hours?' 'No. Twenty-two. But still, that's like half the people on the internet!'

1999

[fuckboyzuko]

Don't worry, mutual with a zero-note post. I've added your post to my queue. So, in 6-8 business weeks, we're going to do big numbers! Such as, 1.

[impossibletruths]

don't worry mutual with a zero-note post. I've added your post to my queue. so, in 6-8 business weeks, I'm going to be doing big numbers! such as, 1. while you will continue to have a 0 note post. Because this website is managed by idiots.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Hi, popping out of hiatus for a moment - This was much of the fun of running a somewhat "bigger" blog.

You could come across a smallish post while browsing a blog, think "acually, that's pretty fun", and bring it out to all those following me.

The other part was it felt like we were all in it together. Yeah it is fun getting notes, but they weren't just my notes, they were our notes.

Without specific amounts of notes attributed to each part of a reblog chain, it was like we were all equal contributors.

Also, the gimmick of this blog literally does not work if I don't have other reblogs to riff on. I don't want to be a clout stealing, annoying big blog taking stuff from others. I am here to pwith everyone else.

[hbmmaster]

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

[hbmmaster]

like I've never heard anyone just say "the simpsons season 7 episode 21" without also saying the episode title but I have heard people say "xkcd 2501" without also saying the title of the xkcd

[willowhelmiam]

Yeah, we shouldn't expect everyone to know every comic by heart. The average internet user probably only knows 1053 and 936.

[hbmmaster]

and 2501, of course.

[willowhelmiam]

Of course!

[worst-egirl]

sigh

hold on

[worst-egirl]

xkcd 1053:

xkcd 936:

and of course, xkcd 2501:

[yuukisjourney]

So is xkcd an acronym or?

[hbmmaster]

just a sequence of four letters

[xkcd-for-that]

It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata.

What xkcd Means

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[yousaytomato]

do you still laptop in bed?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 18

[xkcd-for-that]

I had a really hard time not writing '...profit!'

Morning Routine

[debian-official]

we simply need hardware developers to get weird with it again

[debian-official]

initially meant this for things like the thinkpad nipple and the touchbar on those apple laptops but it's broader than that of course

[jansila]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

I know a lot of people hate these, but I prefer them to touchpads.

Appropriate Term

[xkcd-for-that]

favorite word?

This was an incredibly fun and difficult question to answer, thanks for sending it in! Upon consideration I have to select axiomatization. It's a fun word on its own, and I'm a big fan of the process the word describes.

A small subset of the other words I considered below the readmore.

the alphabetically first word which doesn't appear on your list (warning for mature humour through the link)

syzygy - incredibly fun to say

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - long

absement - a simple yet relatively unknown physics word with a fun instance of the Scunthorpe problem

notionally - I use this way too frequently in my day-to-day life

vitreous - I just like the way this one feels. It's got good vibes!

heterological - Russell's paradox in a word

a whole bunch of words with dubious distinctions like "most consecutive vowels", "most consecutive consonants", etc.

[vetchtibbles]

canoeing is a fantastic word . those vowels are absolutely out of control in there

[imlikeabirdithink]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.

Consecutive Vowels

[wayfire-official]

Simon says write a valid tar command first try

[jansila]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

I don't know what's worse--the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can't keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I'm still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.

tar

[foone]

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[sreegs]

you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results

[manyblinkinglights]

#you don't actually have to be good to have these problems#you just have to be obsessed with a micro-issue that no one else cares about

[teratocybernetics]

[xkcd-for-that]

Certified skydiving instructors know way more about safely falling from planes than I do, and are way more likely to die that way.

TV Problems

[lensdeer]

I made a little web app to generate xkcd 2501 edits right from your browser

[xkcd-for-that]

[Image ID: A Toyota Rav 4 with a vanity license plate from Kansas which reads "XKCD 37" . The car also has a bumper sticker which reads "What the hell was I thinking?".]

Unclear whether the bumper sticker is referring to the vanity plate, but I like to think so. I've also never been so tempted to get a vanity plate as I am right now.

I do this constantly

Hyphen

[xkcd-for-that]

It's Monday???

[ben-shapiro-onlyfans]

wikipedia is a gem

[laineysbucketlist]

If I’m correct, this is from the article “list of common misconceptions” which happens to be one of my favorite Wikipedia articles

[xkcd-for-that]

[ID in alt text]

[xkcd-for-that]

Happy first Tuesday in February!

[xkcd-for-that]

Apologies to anybody west of approximately China who I confused by posting this on Monday (including myself!), I queued this late at night when visiting a friend in Australia and failed to account for timezones. 😅