XKCD Contest Winners Force Book Tour Stop In Juneau Alaska (xkcd.com) 22
XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe says he received "a huge number of submissions" in a contest to choose an additional city for his upcoming book tour. The challenge? "Write the best story using nothing but book covers... You'll get extra credit for including as many books and people as possible." And the winning entry involved 98 people in an earnest community project featuring Alaskans young and old, in a series of four YouTube videos that lasts nearly three minutes. ("Listen to me. This idea is brilliant. Stop staring at screens. If you love me, get a life...!")
Munroe applauded their efforts in a blog post announcing their winning entry. I'm a sucker for (a) public libraries, and (b) people who get so excited about glaciers that they lose their train of thought."
Several runners-up will receive a personalized drawing of their bookstore or library -- or a signed book. Runners up include the Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minnesota, who assembled over 60 people for a story in the form of a choose-your-own adventure flowchart. And Naitian Zhou of Ann Arbor, Michigan built an interactive tool that generates arbitrary grammatical sentences by running a database of book titles through Python language tools. ("Don't judge a book by its cover," jokes its web page. "Judge it by its linguistic productivity instead!")
The How To book tour starts on September 3rd in Cambridge, and Munroe says "I'll be appearing in conversation with some very cool people, including researchers, journalists, and cartoonists. We'll be discussing How To, science, comics, the destruction of the universe, and the ethics of hitting drones with tennis balls."
Munroe applauded their efforts in a blog post announcing their winning entry. I'm a sucker for (a) public libraries, and (b) people who get so excited about glaciers that they lose their train of thought."
Several runners-up will receive a personalized drawing of their bookstore or library -- or a signed book. Runners up include the Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minnesota, who assembled over 60 people for a story in the form of a choose-your-own adventure flowchart. And Naitian Zhou of Ann Arbor, Michigan built an interactive tool that generates arbitrary grammatical sentences by running a database of book titles through Python language tools. ("Don't judge a book by its cover," jokes its web page. "Judge it by its linguistic productivity instead!")
The How To book tour starts on September 3rd in Cambridge, and Munroe says "I'll be appearing in conversation with some very cool people, including researchers, journalists, and cartoonists. We'll be discussing How To, science, comics, the destruction of the universe, and the ethics of hitting drones with tennis balls."
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XKCD Contest Winners Force Book Tour Stop In Juneau Alaska
It appears to me that no actual force was involved.
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For sufficiently loose definitions of “force”.
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Got it.
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Maybe it's both!
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Well... except for CloudFlare and reCAPTCHA. He's spot-on with them. I'd love for both of those abominations to die in a fire and for everyone who's had any part in inflicting them on anyone to be beaten unconscious with a live trout every day for a fortnight.
But even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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The comic on Wednesday was the last one for me:
https://xkcd.com/2192/ [xkcd.com]
Bookmark removed.
Meh.
It was kinda funny, but I don't think that one was mic drop funny.
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THAT caused you to stop reading XKCD forever?
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The comic on Wednesday was the last one for me:
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand XKCD. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head.
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His quote is "Stop staring at screens. If you love me, get a life...!" It sounds like a plea for others to leave the digital behind and go out in the real world occasionally. It is entirely possible 2192 is saying "it's a huge world," and if you go see it in person "the graphics are great." That was my take, YMMV.
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Never mind, I can prove we still don't RTFA. Maybe next time...
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The levelling and exp gain system sucks and is poorly thought out. It's a fucking endless grind for just the most basic things, and what's up with that whole permadeath thing? I would dock about 4 of those stars.
Also the most PTW game ever made.
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V2 : "Mostly harmless".
V3 : "Great Graphics, huge world" - presumably by a planet reviewer who didn't see Saturn.
Seems straight up Munroe's regular street.
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they were a shoe in (Score:2)