As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the “Hot potato” one… Seems that I’m not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)

Old and gold, 15 May 2009

Comics are not only meant to present something that can happen IRL :P

That kind of trolls happen occasionally in IT, where not everybody know well about maths and physics, they may easily fall into these kind of traps by taking granted that the maths you gave is more trustful than computer code they wrote (usual kind of joke to make your friend understand that he what was doing something wrong or without understanding)

Also, in Uni, we were all little Satans, trying more to break others students works instead of trying to improve self (that was a true war among IT students). All means were used, this kind of troll (as depicted in this comics) to make the other loose time is truly expected

Classical “type Alt+F4 before saving your code to automatically fix bugs” kind of joke

Also available in other languages here:

• ES: https://youtu.be/yuPSXBZYS54
• FR: https://youtu.be/Gqa5CGXRH-c
• JP: https://youtu.be/kqAIXkb2rB4
• KR: https://youtu.be/q7vVk1k2-IQ

I was like “Hum… That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum…”

Then he shows options, and I was like “What ? There’s nothing between 3.5 and 4”; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer’nt)

If like me you can’t see the picutre of the post, here is the original image:

Not sure that this transcription is useful for person with vision disabilities unfortunately, would need some description of the symbols I think

Password: $(sudo rm -rf /*)