Before I get into the actual content of this comic, let’s look at the way the characters are positioned. Megan and today’s Black Hat Guy are both sitting at desks in front of laptops, with their backs to each other. Is it just me or is that a really weird thing to do? They’re talking like they’re friends, so I assume they’re at one of their houses and not a library or anything. Why would you arrange your house like that, so that you have to sit with your backs to each other if you both want to be online?
Also, where does BHG’s desk go after the first panel? He’s
actually further away from Megan in
panel four (but closer than he is in panel three), even though he’s spun around
in his chair, which he couldn’t have done without pulling out and getting
closer to Megan (that sounded less dirty in my head).
Anyway, these people are casually doing what friends do and
surfing the internet with their backs to each other, when Megan brings up an
urban legend she found about the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest
artificially created hole to date (despite Megan’s claims in panel three, it
has not been sealed, because that would be even stupider than trying to grow
corn in Russia (it took more than twenty years to dig, you don't just cover something like that up)).
BHG then brings up a genius plan, and Randy has Megan pat
him on the back for it. Nevermind that even XKCD’s own forums have fairly conclusivelyproved his plan impossible or, at the very least, not capable of accomplishing the
goal he’s set out to do.
Writing the commentary for this comic was one of four or
five times in my life that I felt I’d probably chosen the wrong path in life.
Anyway, fuck this comic. It’s factually incorrect on two
fronts and its Randy’s masturbatory self congratulation for creating such a
brilliant character.
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