xkcd comic where a bald stickman (Person1, pressumably male) is walking up to the open door leading to a medium length haired stickman’s (Person2, pressumably female) apartment

(First panel)

Person1: “Hey, I was wondering if you had plans for-- Holy crap, what happened to your apartment?”

Person2: “I filled it with playpen balls!”

Person1: “I… What? Why?”

(Second panel, from the point of view of Person1)

Person2: “Because we’re grown-ups now, and it’s our turn to decide what that means.”

In the third panel Person2 is out of frame and Person1 is seen staring at the ball-apartment, then in the fouth panel he’s out of frame too, the balls are spilling out of the door and a pink heart is flying out of the room

Perma-link to comic: https://xkcd.com/150

I think this was too cute to not be posted here :3 Also did u know xkcd has a youtube channel?! :O

https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif

  • KoboldCoterie
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    10 months ago

    I imagine it would be quite fun for a while, but that the novelty would wear thin about the time you woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom for the first time.

    Filling a basement den with them, though… lounging in a sea of balls while watching TV or something… I am not seeing the downside.

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      10 months ago

      I mean you couldn’t snack while in then - too much risk of crumbs and it’d be difficult to clean with them all around so risk of bugs. I guess you could just vacuum blindly !

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        10 months ago

        I’ll convince people there’s some sort of creature living under the balls as my roomba moves around under them.

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        10 months ago

        Just make it a sauna or something so you can cook them dead every now and again

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      10 months ago

      He said in the blog that they’re kind of expensive and very hard to clean, so he had a rule of no food/drinks in the ball pit.