If you only sometimes check out XKCD, today is a good day to do it.
It’s one of those ‘fun to discover on your own’ things, so I’ll spoil my first comment in case anybody rolls over. I have no idea how much spoilworthy material is actually in it.
It was released last night and did not work on my older iPad. I initially assumed it was an April Fool thing, but dug deeper and found out what was up.
Meanwhile, a podcast I listen to released yesterday. The topic was one they’ve sworn they’d never do. I listened and after four minutes there was some interference and it restarted. Rinse, repeat. Over and over. Boy, did I feel stupid when the realization hit.
No, to be clear, all of the branch nodes branch out as they should. I’m asking about the ones without an arrow after them, that should do something rather than leading to more menus.
Oh, thought you meant you weren’t seeing arrows on the top level. Like which ones don’t work for example? Some aren’t immediately apparent, e.g. View > Minimize. Others don’t seem to do anything.
View > Full Screen seems to work in Chrome but not Firefox.
I assumed it was an April Fool’s joke, too. I right-clicked and saved it. Viewed the image. Nothing special.
Thanks for the spoilers link. Apparently the firewalls I live behind disable the intended behavior. I don’t think any of the “special” comics he’s done have worked for me.
OK, I explored a bit more, and I did get it to sing this corrosion to me. And fullscreen and minimize neither one did what they were supposed to, but one of them turned my mouse cursor tiny. I feel like I’m missing out-- Maybe I’ll try it on Safari later.
I thought turning your cursor tiny WAS what Minimize was supposed to do.
There isn’t anything that works the way you expect. Though I’d say the main point is to complete one of the games so you can actually save the bonus comic.
Pretty sure that turning your cursor tiny is exactly what Minimize is supposed to do. I just wish that it changed the option to Maximize and would bring your mouse back (or make it bigger, then change to Restore for the normal cursor)
The vast majority of options don’t do what you’d expect. The ones without arrows tend to lead to comics. I’d argue the games (ADVENT.EXE and Mornington Crescent) are the point, as beating either one is the only way you get a Save option–which actually saves a different comic than if you manually save the image.
(sorry about the double post. This one is better.)