xkcd vs. MATT

Went with death

at least MATT is drawn well

seriously, if I see another grad student office with an xkcd comic taped to the door, somebody is getting a smack.

i went with matt. how the fuck is the xcd shit supposed to be funny at all beyond mentioning shit nerds like.

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"

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wasteland.png

so it's emo + nerdery.

i'm pro-xkcd because they're anti-raptor.

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.

yeah i dont wanna get all HYPERBOLE ON THE INTERNET but this is the worst comic ive ever seen

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/morning.png

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.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/helping.png

i am bugging out at how bad this is.... this shit is ridiculous

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/journal_2.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/far_away.png

hahaha holy shit nobody ever forces me to look at these suicidal ones

xkcd is really so, so, so bad.

death

ok guys are you ready

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cure.jpg

did you guys ever see the xkcd one about led zeppelin???

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/classic.png

bet this dudes taste in music is fucking champ

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

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

http://wetriffs.com/

xkcd is the worst of the 2 by far, but they both suck shit so I went with "death".

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.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes

try mentioning him having a sideline in anime furry erotica maybe next time you want to do a bit of wikivandalism? (xpost)

thread needs more matt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/15/matt.gif

ha ha stalker 101

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/find_you.jpg

lol economy shitbin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/12/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/13/matt.gif

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.

fuck, matt is pretty awesome.

he's mining a rich seam here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/11/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/10/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/09/matt.gif

that last one is fine

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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.

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

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

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.

early xkcd looks different, more suicidal but less annoying

do people who like xkcd also tend to have a copy of Wall and Piece by banksy? i suspect so.

Other things like by xkcd types:

Something Awful forums membership
J-Pop
Not shutting the fuck up about Firefly

Astrophysics

Forwarding xkcd comics to me

guys, the comments here

http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/3171503.html

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097

food is just chemicals. who cares what's in it!!

"random number generator just generated another number" -LITERALLY ALL SPORTS COMMENTARY EVER, booooya!!!

though FWIW athletes should stuff themselves as full of drugs as they like. Bring it on!

a wiki devoted to the exigesis of xkcd comics, that sounds like a great place to learn about humor and what is funny

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

if you can derive THAT observation from THAT comic you are a goddamn wizard

??? 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).

the line is hardly 'arbitrary' nor is it treated like it came down from heaven either. ignorant fucking nerds.

yeah but I read an article on Reddit that says it kinda is sometimes because Kobe Bryant (when he wasn't rapin') did something

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.

everything looks pretty arbitrary if you describe it all as "chemicals"

keep your ethic's out of my sport's

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

would not read your comic.

don't worry, there will be a disclaimer: WARNING - This comic may be unsuitable for nerds

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

fwiw the "explain xkcd" page for this comic states:

"This comic is one of many instances where Randall attempts to trivialize sports."

this was posted in another thread but i hope everyone sees these

http://imgur.com/a/5wM95

that's great

these are actually funny

the baseball diamond one is really good

Took me a few comics to realize they were parodies.

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.

by basically i mean totally.

haaaaaaaaah, these all rule

http://i.imgur.com/aNgCk.png

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.

also gives money to a "battered women's group" iirc (so it's okay for him to talk about rape)

no that's the oatmeal weirdo

hosting pbf is pretty menschy

bet PBF dude was a liberal arts major

he was a film student if I remember correctly. low man on the totem pole

i'm sure his actions in real life are mostly commendable, but his comics are mostly pish

loving the parodies btw

http://i.imgur.com/XcqMC.png

Yes, loved those, who made them?

can someone explain the lasagne whisperer to me

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

lol duh

i didn't get it either

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bonding.png

never been funnier

supposed to be poignant i think.

made me laugh

I feel ashamed of myself for mentally parsing that code.

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.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/integration_by_parts.png

C. G. P. Grey's Youtube videos: classic or xkcd?

So this happened?

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/

WHY DONT YOU JUST READ THE SAME XKCD COMIC 15 TIMES HUAHAUHAHUAHAHAAHAH

dude discovered animation

Cooooool.

something so depressing about a guy being that absurdly ambitious with his expressionless stick figures

little stickman all grown up

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rejection.png

they had this guy on Colbert last night and I don't know if I've ever seen a guest less comfortable

that was funny, i saw it in the hospital this morning

literally the first xkcd thing to ever make me laugh, am i officially lame now?

https://scontent.fslc3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/350801000_3145616905745763_1023466992662230364_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=5_7BR41njXMAX9phZnD&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-1.fna&oh=00_AfAz7ph_rNz2XYhUa4tKmvYR4ihEfowGJdtw8itFezaKVA&oe=6482E1CE