Whenever I go to the animation link, I start by left-arrowing straight to the end (it loops), and then left-arrowing back to something I recognize seeing before, and then watch it forward from there.
It was a Dark Tower (the Stephen King saga) reference. It didn’t actually happen.
“Steam bottle”?
Oh, and from a few frames ago: “Yeah, but that’s what the first part of not ending looks like”. Might be a hint from the author, I think.
And yet again, damn, that guy has way too much time on his hands.
This is what he does for a living.
That sounds ominous…
I keep watching from the beginning on a super-speeded up version. This works okay, but I miss all the dialogue. Is there a site with the dialogue up?
Thanks for any help.
Thank you. That went way over my head. Plus, there is a black hat character in the strip, right? So it was plausible. In the future, I’ll be on my guard for more whooshes from Cy (i.e., Mr. Cyan M. Y. Key).
My prediction is still that Time reaches its singularity at frame 1190. It may or may not involve a steam bottle. (Ugh.)
There are other rivers
I’m waiting for one of them to say “if there’s nothing wrong with me…there must be something wrong with the universe!”
The Dark Tower quote being referenced is the opening line, “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” The paraphrase just cast Black Hat as the man in black and Cueball as the gunslinger.
I like the version at http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ because you can scroll through it using the scroll wheel on your mouse.
The aubronwood site is good for scrolling through the images too, but the explainxkcd link explicitly has all the dialog and action listed on one page, like
Hit the spacebar to pause. Use right arrow to advance one frame. Left arrow to go back a frame.
No need. Just pause as soon as you load the page, use left arrow a few times and you’re at the newest frames.
I can’t tell what’s supposed to be happening in the last few frames. The river seems to be getting bigger. Its not beacuse the “camera” is zooming out, since the figures stay the same size, but some sort of lump (an island?) sinks into the water, and the land the figures are standing on moves to the right.
I think they are walking along the river bank, there’s an island in the middle of the river, they think it’s the opposite bank, but they realize it’s an island when they get to the end. It’s notg sinking, it’s just getting narrower as they pass it.
Ah, good call. I’m sure your right. The landscape on the left bank changes as well as they go.
There was also a scene there where it looked like they were about to start getting intimate, and then stop and apologize. I’m not sure what the significance was of that.
I thought he was pulling her back from the edge because the bank gave way earlier.