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[andrea]

While I assume many of you have already seen it, but it deserves to be posted and spread across the internet.
And since we don't seem to have an active XKCD thread, I am making this one.

Click and drag

At first it seems the ordinary xkcd strip, but try doing what the title says...
and don't forget to pay attention to details! it is easy to see that much effort went into its creation.
I don't want to say more because I don't want to spoil it for readers, but I consider this to be a work of art. Really, check it.

beyond that, I can only say, good exploration. and beware of carpal tunnel syndrome.
and if you find interesting things, please spoiler them! we don't want to ruin anyone's fun, right?
( and trust me, there are enough things to see to keep you busy for a while)

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well, the character with a baloon says that he didn't expect the world to be that big. I must agree with him, I didn't expect it to be that big, not even when I started clicking and dragging in it.
and then I could see all the characters spread in the world; references to several other works, including minecraft, facebook, star wars, mario and past strips of xkcd; the details on the grass and trees; all the places and buildings above and below ground; most of all, I was just awed at how big it feels, and I must wonder how much time it must have taken to draw.

[GoombaGeek]

:O

I thought I had missed something, but no, it's the newest comic.

[Starver]

Ah good, I was wondering whether to post something myself.

I've got a couple of computers in front of me, one I scrolled off to the right[1], and one I scrolled off to the left (almost immediately up, and over, and beyond) and then started exploring the tunnels below a desert island[2], but I can't remember if I still have to explore another tunnel, somewhere below the X-Wing[3].  (I must admit, I first thought the Lemonade Salesman was a Death Star Laser Gunnery Officer.)


(You know, it's obvious that I could just be making the above up, but I aint.)


And if/when I reach the edge/wrap-around point, I'm going to have a look high in the sky and down into the depths (again!) because you just know Mr Monroe isn't likely to miss a trick like that...


[1] Currently I'm heading up some anchored guylines that I think will go to a giant kite, the way that they're splaying, already been past a few bridges and masts and things.

[2] I say "started", I'm way beyond the cavern with the tree in it, if anyone else has wandered that way.

[3] But if/when I get to the 'end' of this particular branch I'm going to head up-left a lot and see if I hit the vertical first or the surface, so's I can travel westwards of the island with the shaft in it.

[majikero]

I'm currently looking down the hole in the

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Mario world. The walls are smooth from all the Mario corpses that tumbled down.

[Darvi]

Poor X-Wing pilot, not knowing that the exit's too narrow for it to get out.

[andrea]

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The first thing I did when I started it was going left and climbing the mountain/skyscraper. it surely was much taller than I imagined, and I was very surprised when I saw how much I could find there, and at some point I wasn't even sure if it had an end. little I knew that I could keep scrolling in the same direction for the next 10 minutes.

has anyone found the trapped guys who instead of rescue ask for likes on facebook and twitter?

[majikero]

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The hole in Mario land goes down into a dome with something in it, like a ship and some huts or something. There's planty of natural caverns and carved tunnels with some explores, a creeper and trees.

Major Spoiler!

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Its very deceptive, it warps around so it seems bigger lets see if it warps up and down. Correction, it actually has an edge. Reach the lest most part.

[andrea]

Major Spoiler!

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Its very deceptive, it warps around so it seems bigger lets see if it warps up and down.

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if by warp you mean wrap, as in by scrolling enough on the left you end up to the right of the starting point... keep going (but this time don't take the tunnels). I think I managed to reach the left edge. I must agree with the 2 guys there.

[majikero]

Yeah the tunnels messed up my sense of directions.

Edit: Reached the right most part. There are plenty of references about the something above but there aren't enough landmarks to know when you've stopped.

[Starver]

Your two guys, Andrea, yup, I'm still exploring off to the right of them, underground, somewhere around the Minecraft reference...  I'm getting a perpetual load on an image, though, at the moment.  A tunnel ends in a sharp edge, all black beyond, I think there needs to be more, indeed I've looked at the image I need on another computer[1], outside of the comic environment.

The other (this) computer, where I'm scrolling right, keeps on crashing an unrelated program, as I move.  Strange.  Probably a memory leak.  (Browser's fault, or OS's, not page's.)



[1] I had half expected a server-side refusal, however.  I think (based on what I learnt without even trying) that it'll be relatively trivial to actually 'rip' the entire world image to my HDD, but out of respect for Randall I'm refraining from that, even though he's not made the trivial effort needed to stop me doing it (or at least slow me down).

[andrea]

interesting trivia: the map is 165888x79872 pixels

[Karlito]

I went along the ground (occasionally climbing up the tall structures) all the way to the right. I was hoping it'd loop around, but it just ended. Now I'll have to refresh and go the other way.

[forsaken1111]

Has anyone constructed the entire image and stitched it together? I'd love to just take a look at the whole thing.

Nevermind, found it.

http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

[Zrk2]

I think one of the trees was from a Fleetwood Mac album cover.

[Levi]

Has anyone constructed the entire image and stitched it together? I'd love to just take a look at the whole thing.

Nevermind, found it.

http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/

Thank you!  I didn't have enough patience for all that scrolling.