#xkcd 409

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Unsafe vehicles, hills, and philosophy go hand in hand.

Electric Skateboard (Double Comic) [Explained]

Transcript

[Cueball showing off electric skateboard to Megan reading something.] Cueball: Check it out! An electric longboard! Megan: Sweet!

[Cueball riding longboard with Megan sitting onboard — people in background.] Longboard: RRRR

[Megan turned around on longboard.] Megan: I feel like we're missing something... Cueball: Yeah...

[Cueball holding 3 green Koopa Troopa shells; Megan throwing 1 red Koopa Troopa shell - like Mario Kart.] Music Playing Longboard: RRRR

[Cueball and Megan still on longboard, going up an incline.] Cueball: Skating uphill like this is amazing. Years of gliding downhill and pushing uphill, and now suddenly it's gliding both ways. Longboard: RRRRRRR

[Cueball and Megan after passing an S-curve and boulder.] Cueball: It's like going from C to Python. You don't realize how much time you were spending on the boring parts until you don't have to do them anymore. Megan: But coding C or assembly makes you a better programmer. Maybe the boring parts build character.

[Cueball and Megan on longboard.] Cueball: Yeah... but it depends how you want to spend your life. See, my philosophy is-

[Longboard gets into an accident.] WHAM

[Calvin and Hobbes lying down in the grass near Cueball and Megan lying down in the grass - Calvin and Hobbes's wagon is on the path, as is the longboard - all characters seeing stars.]