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XKCD: Time
- Wingman4l7 14y agoAs much as I love the fancy XKCDs with scripting, I do wish that sometimes Randall would post some background info on them (maybe a week or two in the future after people have had their fun reverse-engineering them) rather than having to wade through dozens of pages of a forum thread to see what was going on.
- semisight 14y agoI respectfully disagree. I think it adds to the art of it for him to not come out and tell his followers exactly what it means. 'Time' is more about the emotion of the comic than a rational explanation, or a joke (like 'nerd sniping').
- lloeki 14y agohttp://xkcd.com/150/ http://xkcd.com/150/
- PakG1 14y agoExactly like nerd sniping. It's a self-selecting filter. If you don't like it or don't get it, but still come back to read more, guess there must be something for you somehow. But the target are the nerds that get sniped, not those who get frustrated because there's a lack of information. I think. :)
- pepve 14y agoThere's also a wiki: http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki
- evolve2k 14y agoGenerally part of what makes something good art is the ambiguitiy around interpretation allowing space for the viewer to add their own meaning and interpretation. As a result he's better off saying very little and allowing us space to engage, condemn, question and critique.
- setrofim_ 14y agoIsn't that what explainxkcd.com is for?
- Wingman4l7 14y agoAh, thanks! This is more what I meant -- not a revelation of the artist's interpretation, but rather a technical explanation of the scripting he used and a post of all the content in its entirety.
- gkoberger 14y agoMuch easier to use/browse version: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ It's still ongoing. I bet most people (like myself) completely missed what was going on here when they first saw it.
- swatkat 14y agoHere's another animated version: http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/ http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/
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- JacobAldridge 14y agoI know I did when I got it in my RSS feed. I stared at it for a while hoping the penny would drop ("Wait for it"), and then concluded it was a reference to the tide that would ultimately wash the scene away ("Time and Tide"). Wowsers!
- gioele 14y agoThe poor server already had load issues. The HN crowd has made it almost inaccessible. Maybe somebody experienced in configuring MediaWiki could help them with some performance and scalability tips. Also, somebody could help with making the URI look better.
- slacka 14y agoHere's a cached copy from google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Time http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- aspensmonster 14y agoNo amount of experience with MediaWiki will stop it from being the massive, bloated beast that it is. Your only hope is reverse proxies.
- brazzy 14y agoAm I the only one who is completely underwhelmed by this one? I mean, yeah, the concept is cool if you hear about it, very modern art. But in effect it's just a comic strip story that is very inconvenient to read. And the only thing that makes it special is exactly this inconvenience? Thanks, but checking back every hour or writing a script in order to see what happens to two stick figures that were (at the time I first saw it) just sitting there and doing nothing is not worth my... time.
- Osmium 14y ago> Am I the only one who is completely underwhelmed by this one? Well--that's possibly a bit premature. After all, we haven't seen how it ends yet. Give it time? :)
- Blahah 14y agoI wonder if the recent xkcds represent Randall starting to explore the possibilities of his medium. He now has a huge community of followers, and he is creating comic-based experiences which are themselves creative platforms. It's like he's saying "here's a new toy, let's see what you can do with it". Next stop - Randall starts controlling the hive mind via comics.
- didgeoridoo 14y agoDone and done: http://xkcd.com/426/ http://xkcd.com/426/ Edit: A little more context- http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/02/27/geohashing-2/ http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/02/27/geohashing-2/
- Cyranix 14y agoI took it to be a bit of a statement on instant gratification. You expect to visit XKCD and get a dose of humor (or something equally interesting), consuming it in a few seconds before walking away. This strip can be seen as a reminder that some things are worth a longer investment of your time -- though maybe you don't feel that a drawn-out reminder was necessary to drive the point home.
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- ryangee 14y agoI logged into a chat that room my friends and I hang out in a few days ago, and mentioned that 'Time' was still going. Then it occurred to me: I wonder if that is the punchline. Randall sits back and cackles with glee as thousands of otherwise intelligent people wake up every morning and exclaim to their friends, with complete surprise: "Hey guys! Time is still going!"
- etfb 14y agoUntil one morning they wake up and exclaim to their friends, with much more surprise: "Hey guys! Ti
- Ovid 14y agoIf you think about it as art, does there need to be a punchline? I would actually be disappointed if there was one. In fact, if this were still continuing years from now, that would be truly amazing and definitely worthy of be called "art".
- vxNsr 14y agoI think you're right... Randall is an evil genius, especially when he ends it and someone says "Time Stopped!"
- maeon3 14y agoI see the video as a reminder that the time you wasted watching this video is like a sand castle, wasted, forever.
- hadem 14y agoTime enjoyed is time not wasted.
- JohnLBevan 14y agoI assume that eventually this will just show a flat (relative to the circumference of XKCD-Earth) expanse of sand due to entropy (maybe followed by a few exciting moments when it gets swallowed by its start red-gianting, is swallowed by a black hole, then billions of years of nothing pending the heat death of the universe).
- alan_cx 14y agoIsnt this pretty much a version of Johnny Castaway? Which I have to add was, all those years ago, a lot more interesting and engaging. At least Johnny had a goal.
- mjt0229 14y agoI didn't realize there were names for the characters.
- ttflee 14y agoI tried to inspect elements and started recording the network requests in Safari, until I got tired saving pictures manually. Any one?
- christianmann 14y agoHave a look at the (293 page) forum thread. You're not the first one to think to do that.