The "I can't find a particular XKCD comic" thread

[cdlvcdlv]

I know, actually is the other way round (as in "How it Works") and it didn't sum up, but I was so sure... Well it must be some kind of confabulation - I can even see the picture in my mind (with xkcd style).

I must have seen it somewhere else. Thanks.

[Deva]

How close to these?

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[earplugs]

I think somewhere on xkcd there was a list of things to worry about,
and it was pretty long.

approximately like this

1. war
2. asteroid hitting us
3. global warming
...
101. (was something funny)
...

Looking forward to joyful reunion with this one

I failed to find it by googling for xkcd worries; explainxkcd war asteroid "global warming"; etc.

[flicky1991]

Damn, that one does sound familiar...

[Deva]

What If 146.

[Neil_Boekend]

How close to these?

Huh. If that's correct I tell stories like a woman.

[phlip]

I don't think there's anyone I know who tells stories like the first panel of that one...

[flicky1991]

Clearly you don't know any "real men".

[phlip]

I'mOkWithThis.jpg

[cdlvcdlv]

How close to these?

Yes, it's the first one. It's not as I remembered it. It's B/W and I thought I saw it in xkcd... but it really doesn't quite fit.

Thanks a lot, Deva.

[earplugs]

THANK YOU to Deva for finding the What If 146 for me!

[cdlvcdlv]

I hope this time I'm not wrong...

Is there an xkcd comic where a guy sends private pictures to his girlfriend taking all kind of security measures but she is not avoiding her coworkers watching the pictures over her shoulders? I thought it had the words "weakest link" in it but I cannot find it.

[Deva]

Believes not. Found nothing convincing elsewhere either. Closest:

Attempted various combinations of security, steps, flaw, vulnerability, "weakest link", "weak link", girlfriend, coworkers, computer, phone, comic, and webcomic. (Edit: And cyber.) Welcomes additional keyword suggestions (from anyone).

Do you remember one panel or many?

[cdlvcdlv]

Do you remember one panel or many?

I remember many, maybe 4:

1.- The guy says to the other what he's doing.
2.- The other guy is shocked.
3.- The first tells all the precautions he's taken to prevent the message is intercepted/decrypted.
4.- The girlfriend is watching the pictures and the others are laughing at them while she is complaining but not avoiding them to watch the pictures.

Or so I recall it.

[Deva]

Triggered Google's Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. (Typed in "deter". Appreciates their humor.) Calls it there. Tried Encryption, AES, SSL, Password, Careful, People, and Humans as keywords. (Excludes less common attempts, such as Decrypted, Imgur, and Cipher.) Returned nothing close. Offers a different weakest Link as consolation.

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[cdlvcdlv]

Well thank you for the effort. I am beginning to entertain grave doubts about the reliability of my memories. It's not that the comic is not from xkcd. It seems it never existed anywhere except in my imagination.

[Zohar]

When you're at the point where even Deva can't find what you're looking for, doubting your memory is not an unreasonable position.

[ConMan]

The obvious solution is to start your own comic, draw the one you remember, and wait for someone to write angry tweets in your general direction about how you're ripping off something else.

[passion4film12]

Help! I'm looking for one that explains the "tiers" of friendship by using a hill/mountain. I think it was one in color, and the "strangers" category was the vast area around the hill. There may have been people climbing from one "tier" to another on the hill?

Thanks for any insight!

[Deva]

This?

[passion4film12]

This?
Wait But Why Friendship.jpg

YES! I really thought it was XKCD. Guess not! Thank you!

[Angua]

Deva, I swear you must be the anthropomorphic personification of either the entire internet, or just google.

Interestingly, firefox recognises anthropomorphic as a word.

[Deva]

Exhibits patience (and luck, in this case). Nothing more. Listed the search sequence below. Denoted the type in parentheses.

(Normal) Webcomic Friendship Geography
(Normal + Image) Webcomic Friendship Hill Mountain
(Normal + Image) Webcomic Friendship Hill Mountain Comparison
(Normal + Image) xkcd Friendship Valley Mountain
(Image) "What if" xkcd Friendship Valley Mountain
(Normal + Image) "What if" xkcd Friendship Levels Valley Mountain
(Normal) "What if" xkcd Friendship Levels Mountain

Caught this on page one. Cut it short.

[huongtram]

I checked the "before you post" thread's list of threads...I tried seraching for the comic in various ways, and I tried searching for "find the comic" "which comic" and things of that nature...and if I found something, I wouldn't be posting here. Also, the more I think about this, the more I hope this was an XKCD comic...

Wasn't there a strip one day that started out with someone setting their facebook status to "I love cookies!" and a bunch of people liked it and commented " Me too!" "Me three!" "Oh me yarm YES ME TOO!" ...then he used the edit button and changed the status to "Man, I love killing babies!" Where did that comic go...>.>;

[SecondTalon]

I checked the "before you post" thread's list of threads...I tried seraching for the comic in various ways, and I tried searching for "find the comic" "which comic" and things of that nature...and if I found something, I wouldn't be posting here. Also, the more I think about this, the more I hope this was an XKCD comic...

Wasn't there a strip one day that started out with someone setting their facebook status to "I love cookies!" and a bunch of people liked it and commented " Me too!" "Me three!" "Oh me yarm YES ME TOO!" ...then he used the edit button and changed the status to "Man, I love killing babies!" Where did that comic go...>.>;

Not an xkcd to start....

[Deva]

Similar results:
1. Cyanide and Happiness 2398
2 and 3.

Spoiler:

[oldfolkiedad]

I apologize if I'm using this board all wrong -- my first time here.
While randomly browsing, I came across a comic about taking forever to write an email, and then forever to respond -- trying to get the wording perfect. Any ideas?

[Deva]

1873, 1915, or 1783?

[oldfolkiedad]

1915 is it. Thanks!

[MalayTheDynamo]

I'm searching for a comic. I'm sure it's xkcd.

A guy tells someone to get something strange for him from out of the house. Just before the other person leaves, the guy starts saying sappy things. I remember there being text like 'whenever someone goes out of the house I'm afraid'. Almost these exact words.

Thanks!

[NotGrouchy]

Some times I just want to help out my fellow human !

https://xkcd.com/791/



-NG>

[occorled]

Not 100% sure this was ax XKCD comic. I'm searching the internets but can't find it. It might be a PhD Comic or other comic... But I'd really like to find it

It's about someone at a computer trying choose/decide the name they will use for their first paper publication, and the importance of it as all their work will carry that name, citation metrics, history, etc. They are explaining this to someone talking to them, which made me think of it as an XKCD comic because there are so many of them with someone walking up to someone at a computer...

[Zohar]

Doesn't sound like an xkcd to me... Not sure what else it could be though. Maybe Abtruse Goose (which started updating again after three years)?

[ConMan]

I'm also pretty sure that there isn't an xkcd about naming a paper (PhD or Abstruse Goose are much more likely to cover that topic), but you might be getting mixed up with #910: Permanence, which is about naming a server.

[Deva]

This?

[Liri]

I had that conversation a couple weeks ago. The PhD student in my lab (I am a tech) is publishing soon and asked me what I wanted. Still resigned to people forever mixing up my first and last names.

[occorled]

This?

That's it!! Thank you very much )))))))

I swear I searched various key words, but didn't find it. And I saw XKCD: Permanence obviously at top of Google, but no I wasn't getting confused about that.

[Huston]

I need to find a comic--I'm sure it's XKCD--with a single panel, panorama of a kingdom on the left and an identical, reverse image on the right, where one side has positive labels and the other side has the same things with negative labels. The point was to expose our tendency to subjectively judge "the other." Does anybody remember this comic? Have a link, please?

[SecondTalon]

I need to find a comic--I'm sure it's XKCD--with a single panel, panorama of a kingdom on the left and an identical, reverse image on the right, where one side has positive labels and the other side has the same things with negative labels. The point was to expose our tendency to subjectively judge "the other." Does anybody remember this comic? Have a link, please?

And I'm sure you're wrong, because it's not an XKCD comic.

Us vs. Them by Tom Gauld

[Keybounce]

This looks like the right place to ask.

You know how there's an XKCD on every topic? Where's the XKCD talking about the fact that there is an XKCD for every topic?