Things like this
vs. things like this
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Went with death
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
at least MATT is drawn well
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
seriously, if I see another grad student office with an xkcd comic taped to the door, somebody is getting a smack.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
i went with matt. how the fuck is the xcd shit supposed to be funny at all beyond mentioning shit nerds like.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
it's schticks are "lol maths and physics exist and some programming languages are bad" and "i am a belle and sebastian fan with a moleskine"
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 12:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
so it's emo + nerdery.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 13:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm pro-xkcd because they're anti-raptor.
― msp, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 13:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have a couple of friends/colleagues who seem to like xkcd so I try to keep my vocal contempt for it to a minimum, but it really is completely FUCKING HORRENDOUS.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 13:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah i dont wanna get all HYPERBOLE ON THE INTERNET but this is the worst comic ive ever seen
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
i wasn't too sure which was which so for the sake of not accidentally voting for that godawful unfunny first comic strip, i went for death.
― Ste, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
i am bugging out at how bad this is.... this shit is ridiculous
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
hahaha holy shit nobody ever forces me to look at these suicidal ones
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
xkcd is really so, so, so bad.
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
death
― Jordan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok guys are you ready
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
did you guys ever see the xkcd one about led zeppelin???
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
bet this dudes taste in music is fucking champ
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.last.fm/group/XKCD
1 Play Radiohead 50 1 Play The Beatles 50 3 Play Muse 47 4 Play Red Hot Chili Peppers 33 5 Play Nirvana 32 6 Play Nine Inch Nails 31 7 Play Led Zeppelin 30 8 Play Modest Mouse 29 8 Play Pink Floyd 29 10 Play Metallica 27
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
I want to join this group, but then there would no longer be 314 members, so it wouldn't be so pi-tastic. Now I'm not sure whether I should join or not!
jesus christ
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://wetriffs.com/
xkcd is the worst of the 2 by far, but they both suck shit so I went with "death".
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
I used to keep changing dude who writes xkcd's Wikipedia entry to claim that he was a white supremacist, and this shit got altered back within seconds.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
try mentioning him having a sideline in anime furry erotica maybe next time you want to do a bit of wikivandalism? (xpost)
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
thread needs more matt
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
ha ha stalker 101
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
lol economy shitbin
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
xxp, yeah, I thought about posting that matt one, but it's actually pretty good and wouldn't have been fair on the xkcd bedwetter guy.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
fuck, matt is pretty awesome.
he's mining a rich seam here
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
that last one is fine
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
rom Dom Passantino <jur✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧> to pr✧✧✧@x✧✧✧.c✧✧, date Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM subject You not being funny mailed-by gmail.com hide details 3:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Reply Dear Randall Munroe,
Could you please come to this internet forum thread and apologise for being neither funny or insightful. It would mean a lot to us.
Thanks,
Yours, the general public.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
This thread brought to you by the fact that someone I formerly liked and respected added the xkcd app to their Facebook profile this morning.
xp, ZANG
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
i have a horrible certainty that xkcd dude is v. proud of his stick figures, seeing himself as a genius who has broken all the rules of cartooning in order to forge a new, more direct means of etc blah blah
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx
The meet-up was prompted by a March comic entitled “Dream Girl,” in which Munroe’s stick-figure narrator recounts meeting a girl in a dream who urgently whispered a date and time and the mapping coordinates — 42.39561, -71.13051 — of Williams Park in his ear. The narrator goes there at the appointed moment but, as he sadly concludes, “It turns out wanting something doesn’t make it real.”
But hundreds of people decided to make it just that. “Dream Girl” was enough to bring Alex Norris here all the way from England.
“I saw that, and I got my credit card out and booked the plane ticket,” said the 34-year-old IT-support technician, who participated in a tape-measure length competition during the gathering.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
early xkcd looks different, more suicidal but less annoying
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
do people who like xkcd also tend to have a copy of Wall and Piece by banksy? i suspect so.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Other things like by xkcd types:
Something Awful forums membership J-Pop Not shutting the fuck up about Firefly
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
Astrophysics
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
Forwarding xkcd comics to me
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
guys, the comments here
http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/3171503.html
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
― and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
didn't read that comic as anti-sports, just anti-doping-scandal. sort of humorless alt-comic rant if anything.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
I think some of y'all need Explain XKCD
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:29 (2 months ago) Permalink
no i think elmo got it
― goole, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
I don't think it's humorless as such, it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary (but is treated as if it came down from the mountain on stone tablets). And no, Elmo didn't get it.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
yes elmo got it
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
he's done other really dumb anti-sports comics as well, they all have that subtext of "lol I'm more intelligent than everyone else"
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary
this is true but the "punchline" of "oh some people got TOO strong!" imply this guy has no fucking clue what he's talking about
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
if you can derive THAT observation from THAT comic you are a goddamn wizard
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
"humans are sacks of chemicals who eat chemicals" LOL such insight
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:55 (2 months ago) Permalink
he probably thinks the FDA should be disbanded, huh
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
food is just chemicals. who cares what's in it!!
"random number generator just generated another number" -LITERALLY ALL SPORTS COMMENTARY EVER, booooya!!!
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
though FWIW athletes should stuff themselves as full of drugs as they like. Bring it on!
― Neil S, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:59 (2 months ago) Permalink
a wiki devoted to the exigesis of xkcd comics, that sounds like a great place to learn about humor and what is funny
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:59 (2 months ago) Permalink
??? I hate xkcd as much as the next man, but this is quite clearly what he's trying to say. Whether or not it's funny is a different matter (hint: it's not funny, it'x xkcd).
― emil.y, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
the line is hardly 'arbitrary' nor is it treated like it came down from heaven either. ignorant fucking nerds.
― goole, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:08 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah but I read an article on Reddit that says it kinda is sometimes because Kobe Bryant (when he wasn't rapin') did something
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
ok i know a whole bunch of sports fans who have basically the attitude of that xkcd comic towards steroids/doping. they don't try to turn that into stickman funnies i grant.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:12 (2 months ago) Permalink
everything looks pretty arbitrary if you describe it all as "chemicals"
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:12 (2 months ago) Permalink
keep your ethic's out of my sport's
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:14 (2 months ago) Permalink
you see stickman, all programming languages are just 0's and 1's, but some of them use more 0's and 1's than others, and this makes people angry
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
would not read your comic.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:22 (2 months ago) Permalink
don't worry, there will be a disclaimer: WARNING - This comic may be unsuitable for nerds
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:51 (2 months ago) Permalink
lol "why is ok for athletes to eat food but not ok for athletes to take steroids" is the sort of thing only a genuine idiot who was stupid and not smart and didn't understand simple things would say
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
fwiw the "explain xkcd" page for this comic states:
"This comic is one of many instances where Randall attempts to trivialize sports."
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:17 (2 months ago) Permalink
this was posted in another thread but i hope everyone sees these
http://imgur.com/a/5wM95
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 18:20 (2 months ago) Permalink
that's great
― forks is lucky he didn't get stabbed over a marilyn monroe cd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 March 2013 19:04 (2 months ago) Permalink
these are actually funny
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:10 (2 months ago) Permalink
the baseball diamond one is really good
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
Took me a few comics to realize they were parodies.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 March 2013 19:29 (2 months ago) Permalink
btw, they don't advertise this around i think, but the xkcd dude provides hosting to pbf basically gratis because he likes the strip. so there's that too.
― s.clover, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:35 (2 months ago) Permalink
by basically i mean totally.
haaaaaaaaah, these all rule
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 1 March 2013 19:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
also gives money to a "battered women's group" iirc (so it's okay for him to talk about rape)
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:54 (2 months ago) Permalink
no that's the oatmeal weirdo
― caek, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:55 (2 months ago) Permalink
hosting pbf is pretty menschy
― goole, Friday, 1 March 2013 19:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
bet PBF dude was a liberal arts major
― 乒乓, Friday, 1 March 2013 20:02 (2 months ago) Permalink
he was a film student if I remember correctly. low man on the totem pole
― frogbs, Friday, 1 March 2013 20:08 (2 months ago) Permalink
i'm sure his actions in real life are mostly commendable, but his comics are mostly pish
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 07:38 (2 months ago) Permalink
loving the parodies btw
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Saturday, 2 March 2013 07:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
Yes, loved those, who made them?
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 2 March 2013 17:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
can someone explain the lasagne whisperer to me
― maybe i don't "do" the "harlem shake" —bennett braauer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 3 March 2013 03:24 (2 months ago) Permalink
Findus beef lasagne withdrawn after tests show high level of horsemeat
let's replace "horse" with "lasagne" in a movie title! because it's topical
― garfield drops some dank n' dirty dubz at 2am (unregistered), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
lol duh
― maybe i don't "do" the "harlem shake" —bennett braauer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:19 (2 months ago) Permalink
i didn't get it either
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:36 (2 months ago) Permalink
never been funnier
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 04:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
supposed to be poignant i think.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 04:31 (2 months ago) Permalink
made me laugh
― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:10 (2 months ago) Permalink
I feel ashamed of myself for mentally parsing that code.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:42 (2 months ago) Permalink
ok this is very funny, but not in a way that takes much cleverness. it just sort of takes being in the niche of actually being willing to make that joke.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
