Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending 226
CaptSlaq writes "According to the current imagery, it looks like Randal Munroe has finished the story he was telling with the Time series. The long running series that has spanned over 3000 images and spawned multiple methods of viewing and comment appears to have come to an end."
Re:There's a Wiki and a replay site (Score:5, Interesting)
I know about a second replay site [aubronwood.com]. It's not as good as the one on geekwagon.net, but it has sound :-)
And don't forget the forum thread [xkcd.com], which currently has 51583 posts. In this thread a new religion that worships the One True Comic was started. Also a few new standard units were introduced, based on the NewPix (half an hour), which was later replaced with the LongPix (one hour) when the update interval of the comic changed. People in the thread did extensive analysis of the comic, and later on some started analyzing the forum thread itself. The thread was also the starting point of the replay web sites.
Re:The concept of a geek card (Score:5, Interesting)
Either that, or it just happens to be another fashion phenomenon, and doesn't say anything at all about their inner lives or philosophy or willingness to look directly into reality's hard face, as you have apparently done. Maybe they just, you know, enjoy sci-fi and tech stuff and chicks in horned-rim glasses.
Like tattoos. People who don't have tattoos seem to want to create an entire psychodrama in their heads about the motivation and world-view of the person with the tattoo. But sometimes, it really is just because somebody wanted a fleur-de-lis on their calf because they like the way it looks.
Everybody is so anxious to diminish other people as this AC seems to want to do. I wonder what's made so many people so grumpy that they feel the need to try to minimize others with such ersatz psychological profiles based on data picked out of their underpants. Maybe it's the economy. Or maybe it's just that grumpy people seem more apt to complain loudly.
And I for one say "Thank God" (Score:2, Interesting)
Geez, what a manipulative waste of time. Randal is a smart guy; maybe that was the point of the exercise: To see just how many morons out there (including myself) followed this banal story to its bitter and anticlimactic end.
For those just dying to poke sharp sticks in their eyes, I recommend this link [aubronwood.com] instead.
Re:And I for one say "Thank God" (Score:4, Interesting)
I enjoyed it. But then, over time I got to see Munroe as generous and friendly rather than cynical and manipulative. So no, to me that was definitely not the point of the exercise.
Re:Darmok and Jihad at Viagra (Score:3, Interesting)
You're getting older. That's all.
Antares (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't forget Antares was missing from the night sky; I cling to my theory that it going supernova damaged to ozone layer sufficiently to precipitate an ice-age that dropped the ocean levels, closing Gibraltar.
Re:The concept of a geek card (Score:2, Interesting)
Tattoos are not cheap, so having large amounts of skin covered with them adds up to a lot of money, and it says something about someone who wants to spend that much money on adorning themselves instead of making a house downpayment, investing, or saving for their kids' college tuition..
As a heavily tattooed geek, I have to disagree. Being a geek/nerd is about caring about something to the point of wierdness. That is what we are. I live so far into my own head about gastronomy that I am a freak amongst Chefs, the guys who make a living by cooking. My tattoos are less permanent than my nerd style, as long as my mind runs it will think about food. I have spent more on cooking books than on ink. A maniac with a potato peeler and an hour would get rid of my tatts. Being passionate about stuff is for life. The meat is just for the weekend.
Re:Misleading summary (Score:5, Interesting)
Dude...
I just read this:
http://remembersue.tumblr.com/remember [tumblr.com]
Wow. :( Made me cry a little.
I won't say I'm sorry, as I don't know you, but thanks for sharing; There's so much shit on the Internet not worth reading these days, it's nice sometimes to find something so real and emotive.
-Jar