xkcd

by **Mostlynormal** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:52 am UTC

phlip wrote:No, it's still being updated sometimes, it's just that that's where he's caught up to... he's still got a lot of backlog to work through, and people who keep posting more comics are only making it worse...

Is there any way we could help? Are we able to post our own comics up there so we don't contribute to the backlog?

by **teelo** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:11 pm UTC

470. Made this one in MSPaint, which is why I couldn't set the text rotations properly.

: konyxkcd.png (25.7 KiB) Viewed 6269 times

by **darknut** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:50 pm UTC

considering the current madness

Spoiler:

by **MiffTheFox** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:05 am UTC

Once again I return briefly to the XKCD fourms to post a XKCDSW...

Sources: http://xkcd.com/541/ http://xkcd.com/1020/

by **Sprocket** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:02 pm UTC

by **Magnanimous** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:19 pm UTC

This was a little tedious, but I'm proud of it.

by **teelo** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:44 pm UTC

Trying to work out which comic would be a good venue for a "kony2012 has more views than rickroll" joke...

by **Nylonathatep** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:58 am UTC

Original: http://www.xkcd.com/1027/ http://xkcd.com/642/

Trigger warning: Sucide (Thanks e^iπ+1=0 & ameretrifle)

Spoiler:

Alt Text: Please no discussion regarding PUA here. This comic, just like any other comics in this thread.. are just made to make xkcd slightly worse...

Original: http://www.xkcd.com/1029/

Alt Text: Next we'll do a pentagram, and then we summon some demons.

Original: http://xkcd.com/642/

Alt: Text: All I want to ask is where she got that Hello Kitty Netbook...

by **ameretrifle** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:44 am UTC

Exactly. It would be terrible for this to turn into another PUA trainwreck when obviously what you're meaning to say is this: (Spoilered for possible suicide triggers. And badly drawn cheese)

Spoiler:

Sources: http://www.xkcd.com/1027/ http://xkcd.com/642/ http://xkcd.com/383/

It's the obvious interpretation, right?

by **Nylonathatep** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:33 am UTC

ameretrifle wrote:Exactly. It would be terrible for this to turn into another PUA trainwreck when obviously what you're meaning to say is this: (Spoilered for possible suicide triggers. And badly drawn cheese)
Spoiler:
xkcdsw.png

Sources: http://www.xkcd.com/1027/ http://xkcd.com/642/ http://xkcd.com/383/

It's the obvious interpretation, right?

Nicely done. Is this your first Xkcdsw? Welcome to ITT where we made xkcd slightly worse

You just need to make it bigger thou. I understand what the comic is about from the art, but quite frankly I can't read the text.

by **e^iπ+1=0** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:40 am UTC

1. Click to make it bigger.

2. You missed the point entirely. Namely, that you need to put your image in a spoiler and preface it with a trigger warning. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't know better. Essentially, since suicide is such a loaded subject, some people may have strong negative emotional reactions to it. It's customary to put things like that that might upset (trigger) someone in a spoiler and put something like "Trigger warning for suicide" before it.

by **gingermrkettle** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:29 pm UTC

OK, another couple that someone else should have done by now...

by **Tomlidich the second** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:59 pm UTC

can anyone play this game?

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=143zzhl&s=5

by **solarion** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:11 am UTC

: Even they have standards.

by **Tomlidich the second** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:21 pm UTC

aha solved the stupid link.

also, broken kneecaps hurt.

by **Tomlidich the second** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:22 pm UTC

Tomlidich the second wrote:

aha solved the stupid link.

also, broken kneecaps hurt.

facepalm.

fine, here is the link only: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=143zzhl&s=5

by **ostrichguy** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:55 pm UTC

: honk.png (38.9 KiB) Viewed 5358 times

by **longnameislonger** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:54 pm UTC

I'm completely ashamed about how much time I spent on this.

The status of The Project was originally the alt-text, though for safety reasons no forum actually renders it.

Welp, back to studying.

by **Boris Veganofsky** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:18 am UTC

Did I miss a memo? I thought you were supposed to make the comic slightly worse.

by **Monotonius** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:49 am UTC

I missed the memo too.

http://xkcd.com/1031/

by **Nylonathatep** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:45 pm UTC

Source: http://www.xkcd.com/1033/

Alt text: The only winning move is not to play?!?

by **RollingHead** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:13 pm UTC

Nylonathatep wrote:Source: http://www.xkcd.com/1033/

Alt text: The only winning move is not to play?!?

Laughing so hard at this!

by **Two9A** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:56 pm UTC

Mostlynormal wrote:
phlip wrote:No, it's still being updated sometimes, it's just that that's where he's caught up to... he's still got a lot of backlog to work through, and people who keep posting more comics are only making it worse...
Is there any way we could help? Are we able to post our own comics up there so we don't contribute to the backlog?

You are not. For two reasons: the archive is intended to be chronological by ID and posting date, and having current comics uploaded into the middle of that would kinda throw that a little. Also, it's an archive of this thread, as opposed to an archive of the SW concept in general.

The backlog can be worked through at a reasonable rate, posting automatically once a day, as long as I get around to filling the queue before it runs out. For a few weeks now, that hasn't happened. I've plugged about 15 comics into the backlog now, and I'm only seven pages behind you guys. Still in August though...

"Do you just not check the queue?"

I do automatically receive an email when the queue runs out and a "new post" fails. The next scheduled failure is after Easter, so hopefully I'll get some time over the long weekend to plug the queue some more.

"What can I do?"

The queue is comprised of a CSV file, built manually. You can, if you really want, build portions of the CSV starting here, on page 160. The CSV format is:

Code: Select all: SWID,"ImageURL","Title","Poster",UnixtimeDate,"AltText",Source1,Source2,..,SourceN

For example, the last 'sw on page 159 is in the queue like this:

Code: Select all: 3444,"http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=30829&mode=view","Empirical","GenericAnimeBoy",1314344366,"By the third trimester, you will be forming hundreds of babbys...",943

So page 160 starts at #3445. Just post any CSVs you feel like doing here, and I'll try to pick 'em up; just be warned that it's data entry, and I do enough of that in my day job to get bored of it real quick. You may become afflicted with the same issue.

TL;DR: There aren't enough hours in the day. Thank you for perservering.

by **Yakk** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:34 pm UTC

Two9A wrote:The queue is comprised of a CSV file, built manually. You can, if you really want, build portions of the CSV starting here, on page 160. The CSV format is:

Code: Select all
SWID,"ImageURL","Title","Poster",UnixtimeDate,"AltText",Source1,Source2,..,SourceN

For example, the last 'sw on page 159 is in the queue like this:

Code: Select all
3444,"http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=30829&mode=view","Empirical","GenericAnimeBoy",1314344366,"By the third trimester, you will be forming hundreds of babbys...",943

Getting about half of this can be done via automation.

Ie, building an Image link, poster name, and a link back to the original post. Ordered by posting date, checked to make sure that there aren't duplicates. Maybe even get the posting date to turn into a unix timestamp.

Could split out an edit box with a partially filled out entry, maybe with a frame containing the original post, and next/previous buttons that advance/retreat. To keep things simple, it should not deal with the XKCDsw number (you can add that after building the file).

Then you can build a line by copy/pasting the alt-text, title and sources.

Collect said lines, and then add in SW numbers at the front. (I say do this last, because the above method will have false positives if done naively).

I estimate this will only take 2 to 10 times longer than doing it manually. But it would be more amusing.

by **Two9A** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:27 am UTC

Yakk wrote:Getting about half of this can be done via automation.

Ie, building an Image link, poster name, and a link back to the original post. Ordered by posting date, checked to make sure that there aren't duplicates. Maybe even get the posting date to turn into a unix timestamp.

Aye, I've experimented with this in the past. It turns out that you can only reliably get the date for a given post: that's always 100%. The "poster" for an image has, on occasion, been someone other than the person making the post, so that's 99% reliable.

Anything else is too variable: the image is either directly in the post or an attachment, 50/50; some posts have no alt-text, some have it in italics, some have it with "Alt-text:" in front; some posts contain sources, some link to sources, some require original research.

It'd be amusing to build a soft-AI which could deal with all those conditions, but I'm supposed to be at work...

by **WolfieMario** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:04 pm UTC

I think the April Fool's comic will spawn a lot of sw's :shock:

Browser Window Size

I found out that resizing the snake comic changes it, but then I forgot to stop.
Source: http://xkcd.com/1037/ (snake version)

If you can't see it: https://sites.google.com/site/wolfiemar ... edirects=0

EDIT: And before people bring a certain micromeme into this, I'll get it over with...
Meme Predator

No, really, this is my fault. I saw him coming through the portal, and I didn't get in the way...
Sources: http://xkcd.com/776/, http://xkcd.com/1037/ (snake version)

EDIT: To get off the topic of snakes for a moment...
GeoIP Umwelt

Since this comic was different based on your location, I seriously wonder if this is what the people from #713 got.
Sources: http://xkcd.com/713/, http://xkcd.com/977/, http://xkcd.com/1037/ (earthquake vs. snowstorm version)

by **Ken_g6** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:56 am UTC

Hey, this thread is awesome!

Say, did you ever wonder what happened after "Sandwich"? (http://xkcd.com/149/)

Edit: Alt text: Be careful what you sudo wish for!

(With semi-mismatched parts from http://xkcd.com/442/. Hey, it's my first worsening!)

by **Ken_g6** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:18 am UTC

I guess nobody liked my last one. Edit: Or I just can't find the view count. :oops:

Maybe you'll like this one better:

1995

: 'Whoa, two in two days!' 'Your site got two hundred subscriptions in two days?' 'No. Two. But still, that's like half the people on the internet!'

855

by **SecondTalon** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:29 pm UTC

Yeah, I liked the sandwich one.

But there's no upvoting here, no real individual views per post. Attachments.. might have a view count, I forget.. but that tells you nothing about who liked it and who disliked it, just that it was viewed.

That said, this thread moves in waves. It's currently in an ebb. It'll flow soon enough.

by **rigwarl** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:04 pm UTC

I liked it as well. I like a lot of them so I think this thread would be way too many pages if I posted every time for that =P

by **Burkitt** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:10 pm UTC

This is EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT TO HAPPEN, okay?

by **Elvish Pillager** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:39 pm UTC

Here's my take.

: Congratulations, you just walked past three fountains. With an umbrella.

by **Menacing Spike** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:48 pm UTC

What's that? I'll give it a go...

Probably done before but eh.

by **philsov** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:35 pm UTC

Source: http://xkcd.com/1039/

Hold on, I got a bit of Rubisco on your chin.

partial CSV:

Spoiler:

by **philsov** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:24 pm UTC

Sources:
http://xkcd.com/1041/, http://xkcd.com/335/, http://xkcd.com/857/, http://xkcd.com/1012/

Our copy of the Kama Sutra has a couple mistranslations.

Partial CSV:

Spoiler:

by **eSOANEM** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:58 pm UTC

The link in that last one seems to have linked to a blank image. You sure it's not based on xkcd.com/404/?

by **philsov** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:08 pm UTC

Odd. Displays on both my PC and phone fine. O.o

by **SirBryghtside** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:10 pm UTC

I can see it too.

by **eSOANEM** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:15 pm UTC

huh? That's strange. It isn't working in chrome, firefox or IE for me.

What's really weird is that I can see the one you posted before it so I'd be surprised if it was a location-based issue.

by **Linux0s** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:18 pm UTC

Title text: I have a terrible perception of the timeline of history.

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