.... Is it me? Am I the "special character"? (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

Oh well that's really interesting and very cultured of you and stuff.

But I'm just gonna keep assuming it's a replica of your butt because that's funnier to me.

A replica of what?

A replica of WHAT?!?

D... Did you do it?

Look, if I wasn't gonna have daddy issues, maybe they shouldn't have drawn it putting on glasses exactly like my dad. I'm just saying.

Also, check this out: I can throw something in the fire and it definitely won't burn you.

(Giggling) no, really, pick it up! (ppppfffthhhh)

Look, if we shake hands? Your name is immediately thrown into the void. You will forever be "Oh hey!" to me.

Thank you for proving this wrong.

But please let me live in this world where a dongfish has a horngus for just a little while longer.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but I fucking love corporate pride.

Do you remember being gay a decade ago? Corporations were just starting to touch us with a ten foot pole. And it felt amazing to be acknowledged as existing, without any negative connotations.

Two decades ago? No one would touch us, unless we were the butt of a joke. That we'd hear a million times everyday.

I see corporate pride as a sign of change: sure, those billionaires are just trying to get more money out of us. They couldn't give a shit about you, or me, personally. But they're now willing to openly market to us.

That means public opinion is changing. Support for the queer community is growing. We've even become a market to be advertised to.

No, those rainbow ads don't mean anything more than the green and red ones in December, or the red hearts in February. But the fact that corporations are openly showing support, without fear of death threats, or "more importantly" losing money, means something to me.

...... I mean, have you tried diet, exercise, and sleeping more? For more than a week or two?

Outside of a drama TV show where a 1 in a billion case shows up once a week, that's usually a good start.

Cute femboys who are reading this should absolutely NOT dm me pictures of how pretty they look today. I swear, I will get SO angry, and not even reply with a "thanks, btw you look super cute".

The joke of the comic, as it also turns out, is that the two Cueballs dressed up as ninjas were just out to have a fun time teasing Stallman, and they seemed to know that Stallman's paranoia about Microsoft makes him sleep with no fewer than two katana swords near his bed. This type of sword was one of the traditionally made Japanese swords that were used by the samurai of feudal Japan mainly as a sidearm. A ninja or more accurately a Shinobi no mono was basically special forces in feudal Japan. They specialized in espionage, sabatoge, etc. they were a rough combination of MI6, CIA, and Navy SEAL in feudal japan. Although they did not specialize in assassinations, that is something that they could do. Although samurai could also be shinobi/ninjas if they chose to do that job, samurai is a social class while shinobi no mono/ninjas were a job, not a social class. So this makes sense in this comic with Stallman, the samurai, and the ninjas, the lackeys of the oppressing Microsoft (at least in his mind). It also turns out that they specifically choose targets for their raids who have reason to be paranoid of larger companies that might send someone after them, and thus sleep with weapons near their beds. Stallman has received a Katana due to this comic (see the trivia section).

If explaining a joke "kills" it, this violates every single article of the Geneva Convention, and then goes on to commit acts of war so indescribably inhumane that the authors never even considered them (lest their tongues burst into flame on the spot).

Jokes aside, I love ExplainXKCD and have had to check it more times than I'd like to admit.