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I guess drones have gotten mainstream enough that owning one makes you a suitable target for Randall's disdain, rather than a Hip Geek (TM) on the cutting edge of technology. This sudden obsession with shooting down drones is the result of Randall's reflexive hipster-sense passing its critical point.

This is also another example of Randall's tedious habit of undermining his jokes in an attempt to provide irony. It's like he read somewhere that humor is in the subversion of expectations and made that the biggest item on his comic-writing checklist. Megan-wants-to-shoot-drones and people-can't-fly-drones are two separate ideas here that don't really need to be in the same comic (Are you listening, Randall? You could have gotten almost a whole week's worth of comics out of this, but you blew it on Monday!).