ITT: We make xkcd slightly worse.

[speising]

It's ABAP.

„Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor“. Quintessentially german.

[chridd]

Catcalling (gotta fix one thing) (Catcalling (1763)) [transcript]

Mouse cursor points => [Up and to the left]

Moving? (Moving Boxes (1762)) [transcript]

This happens a lot in the Mushroom Kingdom, too.

Blank Boxes (Moving Boxes (1762)) [transcript]

Sometimes I forget to come up with title text

I'm with Canada (I'm With Her (1756), Canada (180), Subliminal (960), Still No Sleep (776)) [transcript]

It needed a joke or something, so I added a bunch of references to other comics and one thing that's not a reference.

[teelo]

1776

Anyone who is a fan of 27b/6 should be laughing right now.

[Monika]

[teelo]

So I have a friend whose birthday is January 1st. I quickly threw this together and printed it out as a gift for her.

[Monika]

I hope she appreciated it.

[teelo]

606

[teelo]

246 + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UZQkN52o4

[Coyne]

1800:



Alt text: Quite a few of our political arguments are declared drawn due to the fifty move rule.

Spoiler:

[Sableagle]

One day this'll all be over and I'll have no idea how to talk to anyone.

[chridd]

Color Pattern Obvious (Color Pattern (1814)) [transcript]

♫ When grease gets on your camera's eye / From a big pizza pie / Then your pictures all get blurré ♫

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[Monika]

Color Pattern Obvious (Color Pattern (1814)) [transcript]
color_pattern_obv.jpg

Fantastic

[svenman]

That was worse only in the sense of image quality, and then only if you'd insist on missing the point.

My take on 1814:



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Image based on xkcd comic 1814 "Color Pattern" by Randall Munroe, published under CC-BY-NC 2.5. Text and image modified by myself, modified image also published under CC-BY-NC 2.5.

Edit: Linkfix.

[teelo]

Cueball: "why does this picture look weird?"
Black Hat Guy: "who cares, loser"

[Sableagle]

"Why is the photo covered in these weird rainbow patterns?"
"My cousin and her baby girl are staying with us. EVERYTHING is covered in weird rainbow patterns."

[svenman]

Because I can never make up my mind how to make an xkcd comic slightly worse (again 1814):



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Image based on xkcd comic 1814 "Color Pattern" by Randall Munroe, published under CC-BY-NC 2.5. Text and image modified by myself, modified image also published under CC-BY-NC 2.5.

[teelo]

1817

[svenman]

1682:

Spoiler:

Image based on xkcd comic 1682 "Bun" by Randall Munroe, published under CC-BY-NC 2.5. Text and image modified by myself, modified image also published under CC-BY-NC 2.5.

Edit: I don't want to wait any longer, the place to do that is elsewhere. So I'll edit in my next XKCDSW based on 1822:

Spoiler:

Image based on xkcd comic 1822 "Existential Bug Reports" by Randall Munroe, published under CC-BY-NC 2.5. Text modified by myself, modified image also published under CC-BY-NC 2.5.

And a mashup posted by someone else in another thread (no guesses which one):

This reminds me of something:


(XKCD 1821 + 244)

[Coyne]

1830 and 1828.


...and I thought it was just a model for a lame TV series...

Spoiler:

[billybobfred]

Hey, who remembers 783?

I get enough of this at work! We're friends! Don't you know these things by now?

[Monika]

Made slightly worse!

[Coyne]

Made slightly worse!

I can't agree--it is much worse. Very funny, too.

I have a friend a bit like this--gets mail in one town, at a Post Office Box, lives in another town. Getting the street address was, well, you'd have thought i was an ax murderer planning a tour. Or at least planning to give the address to an ax murderer. I have it, though, nice to be trusted.

I can remember when directions to my grandparents place would have been something like:

Take the gravel road north from Leiter, Wyoming. When you come to the wye, bear left. Go 24 miles until you come to the corrugated iron mailbox. Take the two-lane rut to the right until you come to a house. That's them.

(No house there anymore.) As it turned out, many years later, the gravel road did have a name (Passaic Road) but no one who lived on it knew what it was until I was around 18.

[Liri]

I can remember when directions to my grandparents place would have been something like:

Take the gravel road north from Leiter, Wyoming. When you come to the wye, bear left. Go 24 miles until you come to the corrugated iron mailbox. Take the two-lane rut to the right until you come to a house. That's them.

(No house there anymore.) As it turned out, many years later, the gravel road did have a name (Passaic Road) but no one who lived on it knew what it was until I was around 18.

Well that is about as far away as you can get from anywhere and still be in the continental US

[SecondTalon]

DS9.jpg
...and I thought it was just a model for a lame TV series...

Hey, I know it's all in good fun and everyone's entitled to opinions and all that, but get the fuck off my planet.

[pogrmman]

DS9.jpg
...and I thought it was just a model for a lame TV series...

Hey, I know it's all in good fun and everyone's entitled to opinions and all that, but get the fuck off my planet.

Yeah! What planet do you live on where DS9 was a lame series?

[chridd]

The most recent comic is missing something...
Rental Car fixed 1 (Rental Car (1837), Mission (452) (title text), Onboarding (1812) (graphics)) [transcript]

It's a scone-eating ghost

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...or...
Rental Car fixed 2 (Rental Car (1837)) [transcript]

Actually, they have two and two halves cars left.

Big Acorn (Squirrelphone (1578), Onboarding (1812) (graphics), Still No Sleep (776)) [transcript]
Making that first comic made me think of this. I hope this idea hasn't been done before...

I wouldn't worry about that, since squirrels tend to use smell.

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Randomness Obsessions (Random Obsessions (1835), Google Trends) [transcript]

The popularity of "probability" isn't actually that random.

Homestar Picture (ISS Solar Transit (1828), Homestar Runner, Superzoom (graphics)) [transcript]

...and then the plugin falls into the sun.

[Envelope Generator]

My own well of XKCDSW ideas seems to have run dry but I'd love to see today's (1839) scenario done with the various stock characters doing their thing as doctor.

[chridd]

Lab Coat Visit (Doctor Visit (1839), Trimester (699)) [transcript]

My USB cables last longer than that.

Genetic Lab Coat Results (Genetic Testing Results (1840), Trimester (699)) [transcript]

Huh. Two comics in a row with lab coats.

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Whose lab coat? (Who? (1841), Trimester (699)) [transcript]

Lab coats were on sale.

Machine Lab Coating (Machine Learning (1838), Trimester (699)) [transcript]

...okay, I'm done now.

[Envelope Generator]

1842 x 307

[The Snide Sniper]

1842 x 307

Can you post that as an attachment?

[Envelope Generator]

Apparently no, I can't: I tried to edit the post to add the image as an attachment but I got an error message saying something to the effect that the file was a potential attack vector.

(Why do you ask? Is posting images as attachments perhaps a forum etiquette thing that I've missed?)

[The Snide Sniper]

Apparently no, I can't: I tried to edit the post to add the image as an attachment but I got an error message saying something to the effect that the file was a potential attack vector.

(Why do you ask? Is posting images as attachments perhaps a forum etiquette thing that I've missed?)

I don't know what tripped it up. Try looking at the file and taking out all of the ancillary chunks.

And yes, it is for this thread.

[pkcommando]

Have been away for a while - long boring story about work computer firewalls.

Anyway, a SW to celebrate getting back to these boards.

1841:

Alt: That was one awkward surprise party.

[pkcommando]

Alright, one more.

1763:

[chridd]

The State Word Map (State Word Map (1845)) [transcript]

The the the the the the the. The the? The! The the the.

IPoSWM (State Word Map (1845), IPoD (190)) [transcript]

...it becomes harder when those searches have to be done using IPoD as well.

[Who]

"What if we want to destroy it?" "In that case we just change our axioms to make it not exist, still no need to actually find the thing."

Spoiler:

[Zohar]

That's pretty good! Failed to make worse.

[pkcommando]

I did this the other way around once, so...
1856 & Garfield:

Alt: Still not the strangest teacher at our school.

[Monika]

existence_proof_2xsw.png

Spoiler:

Nice!

What does the small text at the right say?

[Thesh]

You mean you thought you were in a physics class

The OP's image links to a larger image.