2365

If it's "supported by everyone", doesn't that make it "modern"?

(Although I am unable to hate this as much as I ought because he at least acknowledges IRC in the alt text) 

 2364

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggghhh

 2363

lol Randall thinks girls were posting on message boards in 2000

 2362

Well, at least there's an actual joke here-- just needs some work on the setup.

 2358

No one ever asks me what the secret to detecting gravitational wave pulsars is :'(

2359 

Thank you, Randall, for explaining to us that life has probably not been discovered on Venus.

2360

Has Randall mentioned that he worked for NASA?

2361

This is why David Foster Wallace killed himself.

 2357

Well, looks like Trump is going to win again.

 2356

The joke with these is always "I am le master trole" instead of the actual comic, because to Randall, the true value of humor is in making other people react to him.

Also the names are in the wrong order. Would "Scorbravirgleo" have been that much worse?

2355 

By my count, Randall explains this joke 3 times.

(121758)

 2354

Like I was saying-- at some point puns become the only safe jokes.

 2353

Nothing about this distinctively pertains to Black Hat Guy rather than Beret Guy, Megan, or the other denizens of Randall's psyche. Indeed, any of these could be substituted without changing the comic at all: Black Hat Guy is doing something wacky, but nobody actually got hurt, and it's For Science. They have lost their differentiation, because a terror of hurting anybody's feelings has become his foremost artistic consideration. This terror is fundamentally to blame for XKCD's asymptotic approach to perfect mediocrity. It's not that Randall has sold out-- he's just getting old.