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WCDT Strips 3181 to 3185 (21 to 25 March 2016)
St.Clair:
Emily doesn't let little things like "insufficient data for a meaningful answer" stop her.
Tova:
I don't think that even Emily's talent will overcome entropy. But that is okay! This is what makes entropy the perfect nemesis*.
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Mar 2016, 19:22 ---Wikipedia got rid of those after that xkcd.
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What makes that comic funny, of course, is that it is mocking the Internet's fetish for popular culture references, a fetish that xkcd has itself fostered for many years.
* Nemesis, n.: A rival or opponent who cannot be beaten.
Method of Madness:
Man, I like seeing tomorrow's strip early but I hate not being able to talk about it!
--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Mar 2016, 19:37 ---* Nemesis, n.: A rival or opponent who cannot be beaten.
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Well, that doesn't mean you can't beat your nemesis, just that doing so makes them no longer your nemesis, right? Or at the very most it means they retroactively never were.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Mar 2016, 19:37 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Mar 2016, 19:37 ---* Nemesis, n.: A rival or opponent who cannot be beaten.
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Well, that doesn't mean you can't beat your nemesis, just that doing so makes them no longer your nemesis, right?
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Yes, exactly! Which means you need to find a new one. Finding an unbeatable one is far better.
TheEvilDog:
Stay classy Pintsize. :facepalm:
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