6/29/2023 0 Comments New xkcd bookGames have gotten more sophisticated about that over the years. You of course run into an invisible wall almost immediately. Munroe: I was always the kid who, when I played a car racing game, and I’d see cool mountains on the horizon, I’d want to go off the track to get closer to them. Spectrum: Boundaries seem important to your humor-finding them, exploring them, defying them. (This interview transcript has been edited.) IEEE Spectrum spoke with Munroe in his fortress of solitude somewhere in Massachusetts. Munroe, who is the author of two best-selling books What If? and Thing Explainer and has gained Internet celebrity for his incisive XKCD comic strip, has a new book out this month called How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. In it, he offers hard-won advice in such essential matters as “How to build a lava moat” and “How to catch a drone with sports equipment.” (In the latter chapter, he enlists tennis star Serena Williams to knock a quadcopter out of the air using her powerhouse serves. These are some of the contradictions one grows accustomed to in Randall Munroe’s world. It only takes the 1,000 most common words to sell a million books. Physics equations are the surefire road to absurdist humor. The guy who draws those comic strips with stick figures is actually a very capable and talented artist.
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