#sorry xkcd))

[todays-xkcd]

me & the tumblr ui are fighting.

accidental reblog shame counter: 4

sometimes i reblog cool additions outside of the actual feed. these are tagged #reblogs.

transcripts are under a cut when ~95% identical to the image description in the alt text.

what's the most common tags you get on a post?

"the xkcd guys have names???"

about potential delays:

#not xkcd #i keep reblogging to this blog i am very sorry #it will probably happen again. #please ignore when it does

[kraniumet]

#arent you happy... fandom is. at least. no longer just about one single guy multiplied 16 times #no due south no the professionals no ds9 but we sure gotta highlight the invisible man and the highlander tv show. thats what #makes this an historical document #also lmao at keller beecher there. the worst most trashy tv you've ever seen. and oz hbo #wait. sorry. no 0 option. xkcd avarage familiarity comic #edit. genuinely. counterintuitively to the joke i was naking my mind was like. most people should know around 10-12 of these people easily #why. why would they

[xkcd-bracket]

Dr. No - Main villain in the first James Bond movie

The Doctor - Ambiguous reference to either the main protagonist of the science fiction series Doctor Who or the emergency medical hologram in Star Trek: Voyager.

Cory Doctorow - He is a real person and has been in many xkcd comics (editorial note: he's also on Tumblr @mostlysignssomeportents)

#xkcd bracket #round 1 #was I looking for a reason to eventually tag cory doctorow in an xkcd post? yes #sorry mr doctorow I'm sure that gets annoying

[origami-butterfly]

Sometimes, I'll read an xkcd comic and then feel guilty for reading it, like "what the fuck are you doing, you're not nearly nerdy enough for this"

#i promise I'm trying to get nerdier #but i currently only have gcse level STEM knowledge #I'm so sorry xkcd fans #my random stuff #xkcd

[t00thpasteface]

You're telling me this old man FUCKS?

#once again sorry i did this on my phone LMAO #shebbz shoutz #tes oc #oc suzy #sheogorath #demiprince oc #xkcd #ask

[squidknees]

so i went shopping for formalwear today

#squid art #the shirt is from the xkcd store which seems to be closed so i cannot link it u_u #also hi sorry i was gone for 100 years rsi flareup etc etc

[xkcd-r34]

when i say im too hot to handle i mean that only about worms and bugs whos skin burns and dries out when it touches human skin

#im sorry to those guys #bugs #worms #i love em #shitpost #xkcd

[stealthnoodle]

Got high and started thinking about one of my most beloved ship dynamics

#is this anything #apologies to xkcd #but not really because i'm not the least bit sorry

[sigridkaffen]

#xkcd #it's small i don't know how to fix it sorry #ea nasir getting into everything again

[gavindna]

How do I apologize to Randal Monroe for accidentally sending the same what if email to him twice 😭😭

#Randal munroe #xkcd #what if? #I��m gonna cry myself to sleep what if he thinks I was being weird and insistent #if any of you guys know Randal munroe please tell him that the person who accidentally asked about bird bones twice in a row is very sorry #maybe I should get cancer and ask make a wish foundation to let me meet Randal munroe so I can apologize to him

[mintaka-iii]

Brain anatomy is cool until you realize it's inside you right now. Specifically, the part of you that you're using to understand brain anatomy.

#xkcd.com/1163 #xkcd.com/913 #I'm sorry I just have pretty much all the xkcds memorized #And I reference them constantly

[jayther]

2045

Subtext: ""Sorry, doctor, I'm going to have to come in on a different day--I have another appointment that would be really hard to move, in terms of the kinetic energy requirements.""

#Sorry #doctor #going #different #day--I #another #appointment #would #really #terms #kinetic #energy #requirements #xkcd #2045

[todays-xkcd]

Theranos partnership: Sorry, we know, but we signed the contract back before all the stuff and the lawyers say we can't back out, so just try to keep your finger away from the bottom of the phone.

xkcd Phone Flip [Explained]

Trancript Under the Cut

[A phone with multiple bits of text with pointers to it.] Exfoliating screen Orthotic shape for arch support Single big pixel Ready to eat Hypoimmunogenic Up to 50% more Full-spectrum backlight optimized for plant growth Long-lasting main sequence battery Break glass to access apps

[Two images of the phone folded up into a fortune teller, also with text.]

Buy one get one Bending phone activates chemical flashlight SPF 15 coating protects your face from websites Iatrogenic construction All-vinyl data storage for maximum fidelity Locks in moisture National Weather Service partnership: phone is afraid of thunder One-click ruina montium Free refills Caption: Introducing The xkcd Phone Flip

Subcaption: We actually didn't mean for it to do this™

#xkcd #xkcd 2831 #xkcd phone flip #webcomics #smartphones

[mirqmarq428]

Mutual 1: this 5-dimensional polytope is really cool because if you bop it twist it pull it reverse it, that proves a cube has 6 identical faces

Mutual 2: [five reblogs of amazing fanart from things I'm never getting into sorry]

Mutual 3: free Palestine [reblogs several very compelling posts and headline screenshots]

Mutual 4: exposed circuitry. You agree. Reblog

Mutual 5: tabs vs spaces poll I MEAN THE CHARACTER ON A KEYBOARD NOT BROWSER TABS OH GOD

Mutual 1: kinda depressed rn

Mutual 5: [reblogs 7 times] trans people y'all deserve a nice warm cup of tea and world domination

Mutual 2: [today's xkcd reblog]

Mutual 5: 5d polytope cube reblog, but from a completely different chain of users

Mutual 3: Linux is so cool. I wish penguins were real

Me: 53rd attempt at formatting this hard drive

#no hate. hope that's obvious #mutuals be like

[loriache]

Notes on the World Map: Melini

I'm kind of annoyed the complete World Bible doesn't have a version of the World Map with Melini filled in... unless it does and I missed it, but I literally bought it and looked at the relevant pages for this post! Anyway, I think this is the closest we have. I'm looking at this and -- Kahka Brud literally doesn't have a coast anymore. No wonder they're pissed!! Any industry involving the sea, trade, fishing, etc. is basically impossible now - you'd have to get to the coastline on the west side of the continent. That's probably miles!

Speaking of miles... how big is Melini?

This is where I got... really unwell. So first off, let's assume the official Dunmeshi World Map is a Mercator projection. I think the stage cartography in the Dunmeshi universe is at, it's going to be most important that maps are useful for marine navigation. So we can't just drop an approximate scale onto the grid and leave it at that; we have to work out where the equator is.

The way I've done that is via two places that seem like they have a close(ish) real world equivalent - in terms of climate and culture - Utaya and the Island of Wa (Toshiro's home). The Island of Wa is obviously Japan, and I've seen plausible arguments that Utaya is probably a climate/location similar to Nepal.

So, here's the (approximate) location and latitude of those places on a Mercator map of Earth:

If we arbitarily superimpose the two maps, asssuming they're the same size, we can draw a theoretical equator line that puts the two places at the same latitude, though on a different side of the equator. Putting them on the same side as Earth made the equator really low. I feel like that's ... unlikely, so we're going with this.

That puts Melini at a rough latitude of .. ~55? which would, using the same scale as the previous map, make two squares (at that latitude) about 600 miles. Very roughly calculating the size as given on the map based on that, that gives a width of (approximately) 250 miles and a length of 400, coming in at a bit less than 100,000 miles² due to the shape. Probably it's between the sizes of the UK and Aotearoa.

That really helps me visualise what Laios is working with here when I think about post-canon. Though I reckon what I've done here is "Just enough research to really annoy an expert". Sorry if you're that expert. I really don't know much about cartography <3 It's like that xkcd comic:

On distances, as someone who lives in the UK; with a car, you can get almost anywhere in a day if you're prepared to drive until late. But they don't have cars, so getting from one end to the other would take multiple days of travel. It'd take about 7 days to walk the approx "length", 400~ miles (from the top of Scotland to Liverpool) (according to Google Maps) and 2 days cycling, so probably 3-5 days with horses, depending on how you pushed them. That'd vary a bit depending on terrain, of course.

#og post #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #world map notes #dungeon meshi meta #melini #if anyone DOES have the knowledge to work this out better than i have #please do! please tell me the answer! #but i just couldn't rest until i had an approximate area to work with #when i'm imagining the characters dealing with administration of remote territory #populating and partioning out land; crop failures and ensuring central storage of grain and other staples; collecting taxes and so on #kahka brud is literally a port. this is such a diplomatic nightmare. lmao. not even getting started on the monsters! #good luck with that kabru honey #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #dunmeshi spoilers

[foone]

you wrote part of 4chan??

Yeah. Back in the late 2000s I was a janitor-turned-moderator (having signed on to janitize /r/ (requests) and /y/ (yaoi) ), and I ended up writing both /r9k/ and /rs/.

/r9k/ is still around, it's the Robot 9000 board, although apparently they renamed it Robot 9001? Anyway it's based on an XKCD thing about a forced-originality IRC channel. I ported the code to PHP so it could be implemented as a 4chan board. I did a lot of the early moderation to keep the board on track, then it absolutely went to shit later. I'm sorry about that. Like most 4chan things, it was not a good idea.

/rs/ is long gone but it was the "rapidshares" board. It indexed all the various one-click hosters posted to 4chan, and let you search them. Basically just making piracy more efficient, I guess.

BTW, I've been uninvolved in 4chan for a long, long time. Like well over a decade. Not exactly proud of being involved with that site, but it is what it is.