Then there’s also the executives at MasterCard, I suppose.
The same diagram famously(?) features in Finnegans Wake
where (it is claimed by commentators) it is related to the precession of the equinoxes
as well as various astronomo-mystical texts and poetry related to cosmic cycles, and the source of all life, a river delta, ALP’s vagina, etc.
Trivia: Most Siamese cats have a defective tapetum lucidum that doesn’t reflect light very well. So if your opponent in the video game is from Thailand, does the double-tapetum lucidum technique work?
For the record, this is the first time I’ve seen the college-knowledge bit at all. When I was a kid, it was just Mars-stars (NOT jars!) and Jupiter-stupider.
XKCD has done this before.
A callback to 2115: Plutonium.
Hmm. There was an Asteroids descendant game called Subspace which allowed player-on-player combat (I quit it because there was no option to reconfigure the awkward default controls to one’s liking). Is there another game that is being referred to in this strip?
Explain XKCD claims it’s similar to XPilot:
Dunno if the game has blaster-reflecting walls.
Space Wars from 1977.
I played that in an early arcade in Connecticut (the other games at the arcade were mechanical (pinball, skeeball, etc.)).
Huh, I remember when I was making crepes for Mother’s Day, and they were worried about the flare from the alcohol burnoff.
I mean, neutrinos are delicious, but they go right through me.