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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.

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Daylight

Title text: There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with everyone on twitter.

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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Daylight savings time: An analysis

Pro: Nearly an hour extra awake daylight time per day in summer.

Con: Lost time due to clock confusion and altered sleep schedules.

If only there were a better way.

The obvious solution: Use conversational ai to restore "natural timekeeping"

Pro: All meeting times sound like they're from fantasy novels.

Behold! When the shadow of the tallest elm falls upon the waters, we begin it compliance training!

Con: There are none. None.

The first swallows are on the wing! I must turn in travel receipts ere the coming of cricketsong!

It's almost the coming of cricketsong? Fuck me, I gotta reply to my general manager.

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Votey Transcript[edit]