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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Posts and discussion about the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith (and related works)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago

Jesus christ. The dodgeball of prophesy strikes again

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think the labels on the axes of the bonus panel are flipped?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Must be, because multiple death tolls could have the same funniness but one death toll should not have multiple funninesses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For graph charts, dependent data goes on the y-axis; independent data on the x-axis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but why can't a death count have two levels of funniness?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The chart should be somewhat descriptive in the correlation, and usually processing in intensity. The single death count having two different levels of funny isn't really explained by the chart, which isn't a real statistical analysis which might have odd data points like that, but instead is an extra joke.

As a joke, it doesn't portray itself well if the axies aren't swapped. When swapped, the joke is pretty obvious and understandable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed, doesn't make sense to me otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe laughter really is the best medicine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

"keep the funny going or everyone dies! no, slow it down, you're getting TOO funny!"