Comment on xkcd #3114: Building a Fire
eksb@programming.dev 6 days ago
As per usual, Randall keeps going after the punchline was already delivered, ruining the comic.
You know, no one is holding a gun to your head. There are a billion other webcomics out there if you don’t like this one.
I, for one, like Randall’s more conversational style. I wouldn’t want him to abruptly stop after a punchline like a stage comic from the 90s.
fair.
I feel like the last panel especially builds on the joke by continuing to divert expectations. It goes from humorously building too accurate of a log cabin, to coming back around to accidentally/on purpose starting a fire, thus completing the initial request.
The cabin is already on fire in panel 4. It is clear what happened. Then the words explain the joke.
It’s a typical instruction delivery speech structure:
Hence the text in panel 4 completes the pattern.
The point isn’t it is on fire. The point is the roundabout way of getting it to be on fire.
It didn’t understand the 4th panel as an explanation of the joke but just an emphasis on how absurd it is that the character planned all along that his installation will be wrong.
This guy’s wiring certainly isn’t up to code.
It’d rudimentary.
I know, what a dick right
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I for one liked the fourth panel