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What if you tried to print Wikipedia? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/

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[–] MBM@lemmings.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Randall sounds exactly like I imagined

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not a redhead so no

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What about Zach Weinersmith then? He's the guy who makes SMBC https://www.smbc-comics.com/ and this is what he looks like:

(source)

[–] fern@lemmy.autism.place 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WTF does he not wear polos, I thought that man only wore polos based on the comics lol

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Perhaps it was an off day :P

This is a polo, right? https://www.youtube.com/live/VQe3hrWqNiE (starts at 14:55)

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

More or less. Before I knew what he looked like, I kind of just pictured him as a generic Cueball stick figure, which I suppose is a decent first-order approximation. I also just realized that I assume his wife looks like Megan.

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

You'd be at it for a while I reckon.

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

This was one of the less interesting what if articles, considering how the pricing of printer ink is a scam. Would be more interesting if he touched on Brother or commercial printer pricing.