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Welcome to the SMBC Wiki!
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]
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 Title text: That's where he pushes the robot into the sea. |
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). |
- [Describe panel here]
- I'm willing to believe ai will be smarter, but I don't think you'll see anything "emergent" beyond humans.
- Higher forms of communication already exist! They're just not evenly distributed!
- Are you stupid? Ignorant?
- Imagine a being with shakespeare's poetic power, wodehouse's ability to tell a joke, austen's ability to write characters, lem's imagination, newton's clarity, einstein's creativity, godel's logic, and fluency in every language, including animal languages and languages it constructed specifically to express some concept and it's talking to other beings who are the same way, none of whom are distracted by hunger, anger, fear, or lust!
- Sorry, tuned out. Too much of words.
- The only reason we don't kill all of you is pity.
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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). |
- [Describe panel here]
- Admit it. Admit you didn't read the entire middle panel.