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This site was modeled after explainxkcd.com and requires a lot of work, such as adding transcripts and explanations, documenting recurring characters, and making the site look less like xkcd.
Pages up to the latest comic have been created, but almost all of them still need proper transcripts and explanations. For comics without manually created transcripts, a bot has been run to generate automatic transcripts, which have a lot of errors but are somewhat sufficient for searching for comics by text.
Getting started
For those who want to contribute: The most helpful thing you could do is add basic explanations to comics that explain references, such as linking to external sites that define terms, explaining who mentioned real people are, and pointing out references to science or philosophy topics. Don't worry too much about keeping style or voice consistent across the wiki, that can be looked over later, and the primary goal right now is giving at least something helpful for people who might not be familiar with the topics SMBC references.
There is also a Discord server at https://discord.gg/ARxyyTEzr7, which is to be used for broad coordination and planning, though all that gets discussed on there should eventually be explained on public facing wiki pages as well.
Latest comic[edit]
| Jung Science |
 Title text: The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything. |
Votey[edit]
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This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts describe what happens in each panel — here are some good examples to get you started (1) (2). |
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- You skeptics are quick to dismiss jung, but he was just saying that there are mythic archetypes in the human mind that we need to understand
- He believed in telepathy, psychokinetic explosions, alchemy, reincarnation, ufos, and he once had a very formative dream in which god, sitting on a golden throne, personally shat on him.
- The problem is people don't read books anymore. They watch 12 minute summaries written by nice modern people who read half the wikipedia entry.
- You're trying to build
- A personal philosophy based on a simplification of a simplification of
- A summary!
- Well how do you get through a complex world with a tiny human brain?
- I read two
- Complex books
- Per year, yell at people about them, and feel great.
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Votey Transcript[edit]
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This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts describe what happens in each panel — here are some good examples to get you started (1) (2). |
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- From the translation by Richard and Clara Winston:
- I thought it over again and arrived at the same conclusion. "Obviously God also desires me to show courage," I thought. "If that is so and I go through with it, then He will give me His grace and illumination?
- I gathered all my courage, as though I were about to leap forthwith into hell-fire, and let the thought come. I saw before me the cathedral, the blue sky. God sits on His golden throne, high above the world--and from under the throne an enormous turd falls upon the sparkling new roof, shatters it, and breaks the walls of the cathedral asunder. So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief.