0256: "Online Communities"

[jimmythesax]

I love the qwghlm bit.

[cmacis]

Are you happy now? You produced a comic so awesome that I've paid for international shipping. I'm also getting some t-shirts.

[Mother Superior]

I will buy this as soon as I can steal my dad's credit card, or ASAICSMDCC.

[Arancaytar]

I love the qwghlm bit.

I looked and looked and did not find Qwghlm.

Which doesn't surprise me, as I only know that as a fictional place from Neal Stephenson's book, not an online community...

[cmacis]

Well, my parents needed me to set their paypal accounts, but I now have my own.

[mrguy753]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
i need this poster!

[Zenthor]

I question the lack of porn on any map of the internet.

[APL]

Shouldn't The chain of islands be WikiMedia? With Wikipedia as the biggest?

That's a very minor nitpick though. I absolutely need this as a poster. This is great.

I love how USENET has fallen into The Sea like Atlantis.

[william]

I question the lack of porn on any map of the internet.

That's because there are no porn communities(unless you count 4chan)

[Carosaurus]

I question the lack of porn on any map of the internet.

my friend made this... I lol'ed. (Please excuse the vandalism) I know that there aren't any porn communities... but still... the internet is, after all, for porn.





*edit* I just read back in the posts, apparently we've been over this. Ah, well.

[the_padawan]

I find it quite funny that sourceforge is the farthest thing from practical.

[Workaphobia]

The poster for this comic absolutely requires the presence of the alt-text. Or if it's not on the poster, then it definitely needs to be on a T-shirt along with some smaller version of the map.

[kibiz0r]

Where is StumbleUpon?

Also, I would buy a t-shirt of this.

[tetromino]

I know that others have complained about this already -- but here are some numbers to think about.

Gaia Online gets ~1 million posts per day, has ~7 million members
SA gets ~60k posts per day, has ~100k members
IGN boards get ~60k posts per day, have ~1 million members
LJ gets ~200k posts per day, has ~12 million members

Now, 2channel gets 2.7 million posts per day. What does that suggest about the size of its userbase? What does its influence on Japanese public opinion suggest about the ratio of 2channel users to Japan's population of 127 million?

I find the size of the 2channel island completely impossible to justify.

[Belial]

Those people aren't people.

[EvanED]

Any child who gets xkcd is mature enough to see a few 'fuck's and the occasional stick woman griping at the bed.

I agree. I was just disputing the 'G' rating, which it isn't; at least PG.

BTW, Chuck Norrіs. Please don't ban me.

What happened to the word filter there? Hmm... "Saladin's Mom" *previews*. It still works for me. How come it didn't work when you said it?

Magic.

Actually, that 'і' in 'Norrіs' isn't an 'i'. It's a "Cyrillic Small Letter Byelourssian-Ukrainian I" according to the Windows character map, Unicode 0456. ('i' is 69.)

You can convince yourself of this if you have Firefox 2 if you reply to this, look to see that my 'Norrіs' is misspelled, but if you type 'Norris' (or you look at this one) it won't be.

There are a lot of letters that have alternates in the Unicode character set that you can use to bypass filters. For instance, "Latin Small Letter F With Hook", Unicode 0131, can be used to type Æ’uck, which will get you around the mechanical filters at at least one site, though not the mods if they see it.

You may only use this knowledge for good.

[MrSkullhead]

What, no Kingdom of Loathing? We have a million+ members (though only about 200,000 of those are active at any given time). I think we might be bigger than Everquest or UO -- and more popular than Jesus, too. Or maybe not.

Nah, I keed. Great great comic, and I'd love a poster of it, too.

[grark]

Dangit, I was trying to stop spending so much money.
But I couldn't resist the poster.

My roommates think I'm weird enough already for using Dvorak... wait til they see my new poster

[bbctol]

What, no Kingdom of Loathing? We have a million+ members (though only about 200,000 of those are active at any given time). I think we might be bigger than Everquest or UO -- and more popular than Jesus, too. Or maybe not.

Nah, I keed. Great great comic, and I'd love a poster of it, too.

Kingdom of Loathing FOR TEH WIN!

[Eschatokyrios]

Speaking from a purely artistic point of view, that's just a cool looking map. Personally, Tolkien-style triangle mountains aren't my thing, but they look good in the style you're using. The color is just perfect.

[WhiteWizard42]

Who submitted the comic to NotCot? It's one of my favorite sites and daily visits, so imagine my surprise when I see the latest xkcd comic as the newest link.

it got linked over at the MetaFilter, too.

I might buy this poster as well.

[Therum]

1) Where is the porn? Unless that's represented by the water....Which now that I think about it makes sense.

Oh god...But...I just went swimming, and...oh god...

Oh, shitshitshit. I have to go call my girlfriend.

[Belial]

1) Where is the porn? Unless that's represented by the water....Which now that I think about it makes sense.

Belial: If one more person asks where the porn is, I'm stabbing *everyone* in the eye with my penis.
Randall (XKCD): I understand that for some people porn is a highly social activity that brings whole communities together.
B: It is? Who the fuck are these people.
R: They're the Slash people, and they live on Slash Island
B: Ahh. Hahah. Of course.
R: But for the rest of us, porn is something we download and watch by ourselves. When there's no one else around. So it's not on the map.
B: Well played.

[hotaru]

Magic.

Actually, that 'і' in 'Norrіs' isn't an 'i'. It's a "Cyrillic Small Letter Byelourssian-Ukrainian I" according to the Windows character map, Unicode 0456. ('i' is 69.)

You can convince yourself of this if you have Firefox 2 if you reply to this, look to see that my 'Norrіs' is misspelled, but if you type 'Norris' (or you look at this one) it won't be.

There are a lot of letters that have alternates in the Unicode character set that you can use to bypass filters. For instance, "Latin Small Letter F With Hook", Unicode 0131, can be used to type Æ’uck, which will get you around the mechanical filters at at least one site, though not the mods if they see it.

You may only use this knowledge for good.

you know you could just do this: Chuck Norris

[The LuigiManiac]

Magic.

Actually, that 'і' in 'Norrіs' isn't an 'i'. It's a "Cyrillic Small Letter Byelourssian-Ukrainian I" according to the Windows character map, Unicode 0456. ('i' is 69.)

You can convince yourself of this if you have Firefox 2 if you reply to this, look to see that my 'Norrіs' is misspelled, but if you type 'Norris' (or you look at this one) it won't be.

There are a lot of letters that have alternates in the Unicode character set that you can use to bypass filters. For instance, "Latin Small Letter F With Hook", Unicode 0131, can be used to type Æ’uck, which will get you around the mechanical filters at at least one site, though not the mods if they see it.

You may only use this knowledge for good.

you know you could just do this: Chuck Norris

Who knew there were so many workarounds to our filter? And yes, I promise to only use this knowledge for good. Whether others will or not, I'm not certain...

[Jacque]

Who submitted the comic to NotCot? It's one of my favorite sites and daily visits, so imagine my surprise when I see the latest xkcd comic as the newest link.

it got linked over at the MetaFilter, too.

I might buy this poster as well.

It also made it on the Make Magazine RSS feed.

[frostyservant]

I see I'm not the only one who created a new account specifically to commend the inclusion of Qwghlm.

[SpitValve]

1) Where is the porn? Unless that's represented by the water....Which now that I think about it makes sense.

Belial: If one more person asks where the porn is, I'm stabbing *everyone* in the eye with my penis.
Randall (XKCD): I understand that for some people porn is a highly social activity that brings whole communities together.
B: It is? Who the fuck are these people.
R: They're the Slash people, and they live on Slash Island
B: Ahh. Hahah. Of course.
R: But for the rest of us, porn is something we download and watch by ourselves. When there's no one else around. So it's not on the map.
B: Well played.

I noticed the Slash island and pretty much figured out that logic...

Badgers need a home too

[Lawngnomeslayer]

Yay for the poster pre-order! *runs off to get one*

Favorite part: "The Bay of Angst" and "Your Base"

While waiting for the poster, my roomate went through and made an SVG version of the map. Its still beta quality (I'm missing the names of the smallest islands, no land shading, I'm not sure the fonts are portable, etc) but it's not too bad. Avalable here

[quintopia]

If someone told me they were from the internet, I would ask "Oh, what port?"

[airtank]

If someone told me they were from the internet, I would ask "Oh, what port?"

i'm pretty sure you just made my week.

[LE4dGOLEM]

I just noticed the note about this is the 256th post (that's 2 ^ ... you know what, nevermind). That's cool. There should be a celebration.

One time I impressed my professor and a full class of freshmen calculus students by calculating log(2) 4096 in my head in about 2 seconds (the answer is 12). They gave me an applause. I didn't tell them that I knew the answer because I remembered that the Amiga had 4096 colors which where made up of 12 bits per color.

You aware that is now on the front page?

[TheRequiem]

I always wondered where Qwlghm fell on the map.

Asked and answered.

[Masklinn]

Well thanks a lot Randall, now you've forced me -- FORCED ME -- to buy not only a poster of that map (well, two actually, I want one at work) but also a batch of T-Shirts.

That was mean

[Koboldskind]

GENIUS

Okay, you can calm down, i ran out of tags to add =)

Ordering posters as soon as I know if soem of my friends want to share shipping costs

And thank you for Qwghlm, the place that only true geeks know about[/i]

[grark]

*le sigh* I feel geekiness-deficent for not knowing Qwghlm.
Maybe because I don't read that much
but it's on my to-do list

[suso]

I just noticed the note about this is the 256th post (that's 2 ^ ... you know what, nevermind). That's cool. There should be a celebration.

One time I impressed my professor and a full class of freshmen calculus students by calculating log(2) 4096 in my head in about 2 seconds (the answer is 12). They gave me an applause. I didn't tell them that I knew the answer because I remembered that the Amiga had 4096 colors which where made up of 12 bits per color.

You aware that is now on the front page?

Yes, that's where I saw it first. I'm just saying nobody is talking about it here and that's kinda suprising. But I guess we are talking about it now.

Now here is where you say: "What is there to talk about? Its a number."

[Colone Goth]

*le sigh* I feel geekiness-deficent for not knowing Qwghlm.
Maybe because I don't read that much
but it's on my to-do list

You feel geekiness-deficient? I cried because I didn't know most of these places and some only by name....didn't stop me buying a poster (and t-shirt) and making an account (and spelling my username wrong)

Now here is where you say: "What is there to talk about? Its a number."

Well if wikipedia can have massive articles on each number then apparently there's a lot to talk about =p

[tartley]

Third life should be an island in a lake in the middle of Second Life.

[ouin]

By the way, is it round?