The Author has chosen to again describe the First Principle of Nerd Dominance: Knowledge (however useless) is social credit. But we also catch a glimpse of the Fourth Principle of Nerd Dominance: “There is no such thing as a subject not worth arguing over.”
The Author demonstrates this by first showing an argument that has existed for thousands of years and shapes entire world politics. He then contrasts it with the outburst of “Frank,” who recalls an obscure and largely forgotten territorial dispute with no bearing on anyone’s life as a way to be technically correct at the expense of another nerd. For any socially adjusted person, this action would be beyond tedious and ultimately futile. But Frank, being a nerd who is seeking to rise in the Nerd Dominance Hierarchy, knows that even such tiny quibbles can elevate his status in the eyes of other nerds.
The Author is not in college, but wishes he still was because that was the last time he felt purpose and direction in his life. To deal with these feelings, he makes up little stories like this Work to vicariously live out his idealized version of college dorm life.
The reality of dorm life is far less glamorous, and it’d be far more likely that instead of a scientifically enthusiastic Frenchman waking a you up, it would be a wave of vomit-stench and bubbling noises as a roommate throws up on everyone’s shoes again.
Aphasia is a difficulty with language, the guy in the hat is being overtly literal, quine is a program that produces its own source code and orcs are a reference to The Lord of The Ring.
The Author hates women.
Younger, more technologically knowledgeable people do things differently from those that are older and know less about technology.
The Author has taken a cliché (Indian burial ground) and combined it with a twist (two levels of desecration).
In other news, Garfield likes lasagna.
The Author has made a comic about an extremely common observation. It is his hope that the prevalence of this often-noticed oddity will send shockwaves of “agreement chuckles” through our nation.
Because the driver would hear the honking noise and think it was actually happening in real life. This would make him very confused.
The man in the hat wishes to sell Viagra to the other males in line for a full-body x-ray (in order to make their penises look bigger).
Obscure technology reference is combined with male insecurity about penis size.
A series of pornographic film clichés meet in a room through a well-thought-out series of wacky occurrences. Rather than all fucking each other (what was expected) they instead play a geek board game (unexpected therefore humorous).
The Reader is drawn in by the concept of sex, and is then delighted to see a reference to geek subculture.