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.
Comment on xkcd #3114: Building a Fire
eksb@programming.dev 8 months ago
As per usual, Randall keeps going after the punchline was already delivered, ruining the comic.
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This guy’s wiring certainly isn’t up to code.
marcos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’d rudimentary.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
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.
eksb@programming.dev 8 months ago
The cabin is already on fire in panel 4. It is clear what happened. Then the words explain the joke.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
The point isn’t it is on fire. The point is the roundabout way of getting it to be on fire.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s a typical instruction delivery speech structure:
- Okay, let me tell you how to ____ 2-n. <steps to do the thing> n. And that’s how you ____ (Optional) n+1. Any questions?
Hence the text in panel 4 completes the pattern.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I know, what a dick right
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I for one liked the fourth panel
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
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.
eksb@programming.dev 8 months ago
fair.