xkcd

by mh » Mon May 21, 2007 8:30 pm UTC

SpitValve wrote:Looks to me more like part of a Mandelbrot Set or other fractal than the large scale structure of the universe...

but meh, I don't think that's the point exactly

You may be right. it's easy to get lost in simple equations sometimes... It's a big universe.

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by **OneLess** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:07 pm UTC

Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

by **Banksy** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:09 pm UTC

This, is Epic.
I love it, the intrigue, the suspense, the tear in reality!
This is the best XKCD in a long time.

And I'm sorry I didn't understand the Sario rip comment, I've never read Animorphs so I don't know what it is.
Wait...

by **Akira** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:11 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

I didn't read the entire thread, I probably would have gotten it ^^;;

by **Belial** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:12 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

Oh, I got it. I just forgot to say anything about it.

by **Kin** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:17 pm UTC

The rip was terribly, horribly, unnerving...It was...so...very..analog...

The scar was wonderful though, such sharp contrast.

by **SohumB** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:33 pm UTC

Belial wrote:
OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

Oh, I got it. I just forgot to say anything about it.

What he said.

by **Drake Zure** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:12 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

YEERKS! RUN!

anyways, i liked this one.

i really hope this isn't "Barrel Lad Type Sequeling".

and isn't a Sario Rip more of a time thing than a space thing?

by **Akira** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:15 pm UTC

Drake Zure wrote:and isn't a Sario Rip more of a time thing than a space thing?

I thought it was, but it's been so long, I can't remember.

by **Drake Zure** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:17 pm UTC

hmm...

well, whatever.

anyways, does anybody else have a little feeling in the back of their mind that says that the other Choices will be unrelated to this one, and each just a separate comic about a different choice of a different-but-extraordinary nature?

by the way, new avatar.

by mh » Mon May 21, 2007 10:28 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

I don't think I get your Sario Rip comment...But I did my research.

Do you mean xkcd may be the back side of the page that Sario created the very colorful cartoon 'Fuzzy Things', on?

mh

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by mh » Mon May 21, 2007 10:32 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

That worked! Like a SOE re-title.

mh

filter--blog.blogspot.com/

by **Iluvatar** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:41 pm UTC

anyways, does anybody else have a little feeling in the back of their mind that says that the other Choices will be unrelated to this one, and each just a separate comic about a different choice of a different-but-extraordinary nature?

Such was my thinking.

by **Drake Zure** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:42 pm UTC

Iluvatar wrote:
anyways, does anybody else have a little feeling in the back of their mind that says that the other Choices will be unrelated to this one, and each just a separate comic about a different choice of a different-but-extraordinary nature?

Such was my thinking.

good. then i'm not crazy.

unless you're crazy.

by **Iluvatar** » Tue May 22, 2007 12:03 am UTC

Drake Zure wrote:
Iluvatar wrote:
anyways, does anybody else have a little feeling in the back of their mind that says that the other Choices will be unrelated to this one, and each just a separate comic about a different choice of a different-but-extraordinary nature?

Such was my thinking.

good. then i'm not crazy.

unless you're crazy.

I am crazy, but that's an unrelated issue.

by **Commander Bob** » Tue May 22, 2007 12:17 am UTC

Sweet!

Not only do we get a running story (implied by the "part 1") but a comic every day! Awesome.

However, I would moreso like to see what became of Janeane Garofalo.

by **Castaway** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:52 am UTC

That was an awesome throwback to the days of quadruled xkcds. I would probably get a rope and secure myself to the side i'm on.

by **Barbie** » Tue May 22, 2007 3:30 am UTC

Anyone else just sitting around waiting for Choices: Part 2?

*Refresh* : }

by **OneLess** » Tue May 22, 2007 4:08 am UTC

Drake Zure wrote:and isn't a Sario Rip more of a time thing than a space thing?

I know that the one dinosaur Megamorphs involved one that took them back in time, but I was pretty sure the basic idea was of a rip in space-time (or Z-space, maybe?).

by **ZoFreX** » Tue May 22, 2007 4:35 am UTC

OneLess wrote:Nobody got the Sario Rip comment...I feel so alone.

Sorry, I'm not into pokemon..

Arancaytar wrote:Actually, the first thing that came to my mind was Myst.

I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that stary expanse of which I had only a fleeting glimpse.

This was a wonderful comic.

Same. That game defined my childhood! Pretty good books too, if memory serves.

by **no-genius** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:01 am UTC

I found the bit I was talking about - page 320 my copy.

here be spoilers for House of Leaves wrote:Regrettably, Tom fails to stop at a sip. A few hours later he has finished off the whole fifth as well as half a bottle of wine. He might have spent all night drinking had exhaustion not caught up with me

If anyone wants to talk about it, we could make a thread in general

Edit: I found a parody from the wikipedia page

by **StuMo** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:13 pm UTC

Drake Zure wrote:anyways, does anybody else have a little feeling in the back of their mind that says that the other Choices will be unrelated to this one, and each just a separate comic about a different choice of a different-but-extraordinary nature?

Like GÃ¶del, Escher, Bach. I never saw the relation between some formal systems, some drawings, some fugues, Lewis Carroll, some ants, some computers, some Buddhism, some recursion, some stacks and pushing and popping, some records designed to resonate at the frequency that breaks the player, some DNA, some excellent witticisms, and the brain.

by **Belial** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:19 pm UTC

OneLess wrote:
Drake Zure wrote:and isn't a Sario Rip more of a time thing than a space thing?

I know that the one dinosaur Megamorphs involved one that took them back in time, but I was pretty sure the basic idea was of a rip in space-time (or Z-space, maybe?).

Didn't they require some kind of ridicu-huge explosion to set off, though?

by **Drake Zure** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:52 pm UTC

yes, they did.

by **Kuuchu** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:18 pm UTC

Hey guys =D
I never post on these forums, but I'm a relativley big fan of xkcd. When in my photography class our assignment was to make our own comic, well, I just had to re-do this story.
I'll post the individual pages in the individual forums for simplicity's sake. :3

by **0x783czar** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:57 pm UTC

So, I recently went back and read this comic, and all I could think of was Amy Pond's Crack in the Universe for Dr. Who. It's even the same shape. Anyone else?

by **EpicanicusStrikes** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:33 pm UTC

0x783czar wrote:So, I recently went back and read this comic, and all I could think of was Amy Pond's Crack in the Universe for Dr. Who. It's even the same shape. Anyone else?

No, which is weird since I'm almost always thinking about Amy Pond's crack.

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