xkcd vs. MATT

http://xkcd.com/162/

xps oh jesus christ that tattoo

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Best *nix Desktop Environment/Window Manager/whatever
1, 2, 3by Aglet on Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:42 am UTC
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Coding vs. Sex
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Borg vs. Zerg
1, 2by The Reaper on Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:21 am UTC
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Re: The single best computer food
by photosinensis on Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:55 pm UTC

This depends. What am I doing? If I'm gaming, the stellar combination of Cheetos and Mountain Dew is the most awesome thing ever. I must remember to thank Dr. Demento for the idea. However, if I'm coding, I'll generally prefer something a bit more substantive: I've been known to have pizza, sandwiches, and even full dinners while coding. The drink usually depends on the meal, but if I'm not eating anything, I'll go with either a bottle of Shiner Bock or a bottle of Bawls--depending on my mood.

if that girl with the tattoo ran for president against an obese libertarian who wore the same penny arcade hoodie every day I would probably vote for the hoodie

haha ok it took me a second look to realize the person w/ tattoo is girl

MATT.

Cory Doctorow makes MATT look like Jonathan Swift and Chuck Close rolled into one.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14344

started this on another forum and it seems to be going pretty well there. Here is where you post your opinions about music that make most people tell you you're crazy. (There can be a bit of arguing, just dont make it into a flame war m'kay?)

-Pantera is way, WAY over rated, all of their stuff is all the same.
-So is Slayer
-American Idiot is a near-perfect album
-Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out.
-Aphex Twin is a musical genius.
-Punk is not dead, just expanding to the needs of people.
-Techno remixs are better than the regular song most of the time
-J-pop is addicting, but that doesnt mean it is good.
-Gatsby's American Dream, Fall Out Boy and P!ATD all sound the same, but that doesnt mean they are bad, in fact they are great.
-There is no best genre.
-The 80's should have never happened.
-Green Day is punk, but also pop at the same time. And they are 100% awesome.
-Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape.
-No matter how talented the musician, Stairway sucks.
-Anyone who was in a Hair Metal band should be shot.

"m'kay"

now i want to attach an ILM poster to each of those opinions

Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out. - dan perry
Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape. - geir hongro

-Punk is not dead, just expanding to the needs of people. - and what

ew, they have a thread about rapex.

Postby 1337geek on Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:44 am UTC

Ugh. The only good hip-hop/rap songs are the ones Weird Al did, but it's hard to listen to even those sometimes because usually I try to appreciate the original songs that made the parodies possible.

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." --Carl Zwanzig

Burger Dictator: "Have It My Way" --1337geek

As far as 'real instruments' go, that argument is a joke, unless you meant 'people who play instruments'. I'd imagine anything that can be used to create sound would qualify as an instrument.

Talented Musicians? The producer of a good rapper probably understand music better than your average musician. Mr Dibbs, DJ Shadow, and Danger Mouse, have amazing instrumentals that only pure talent could produce.

Great Lyrics? Sage Francis. Immortal Technique. Slug. Eyedea. Just pick a random lyric from any of them. You will you find amazing lyrical talent on topics ranging from politics to philosophy to love.

Theres a huge difference between hip hop and rap, as hip hop tends to focus on counter culture, whereas rap strives to become mainstream and make with the bling. Most hip hop i've heard is less bragging and more spoken word poetry to really good beats, while most rap i've heard is all bragging and mostly nonsensical gibberish about why they'll rape who and her and kill that thug with their homies... But hey, I generalize.

Seriously, if your being cynical, look up Lyrics from the following tracks and tell me with a straight face you don't think its impressive:

Skip town, Garbage, How to Be a Carpenter, Labor, Daylight, Save yourself, Flashflood, No regrets, Battery, 9-5ers Anthem, None Shall Pass...
Float is pretty solid, good introduction of his observations of New York. Labor Days is a mindblowing rail against the frustrations of the daily grind and life... I didn't like his subsequent three albums as much, but his lyrical insanity is still there.

For Atmosphere, look up lyrics for Saves the Day, LoveLife, or Always Coming back Home to You.

For Sage Francis look up lyrics for, Tolerance Level, Makeshift Patriot (this song is win, its angry and evenkeeled), Climb Trees, Broken Wings...

Anyway, I don't expect anyone to devote the time for these songs, but just want to get it out there that if your judging a genre based on a small sample, or even a series of songs from a DIFFERENT but distantly related genre, your being a prat. That'd be like me saying Johnny Cash sucks because I heard a country song that was stupid. Yes, they both had a guitar, repeated song pattern and a chorus.
Point is similarities don't equal sameness.

dom can you troll this thread plz

There is a fundamental difference between US and UK Hip-Hop and Rap. US lyricists have a tendency to focus on the allure of wealth, and the ability to live a luxurious lifestyle once they have 'escaped' a high-crime area (apparently called ghettoes, but I've looked at ghettoes on the History Channel, and they don't look like what's being described; chiefly bearded old Polish men with armbands saying Jüden). Anyway, US rappers focus on success and the cool hedonism that follows.

In the UK, it's very different; the music is more grimy. It is the aural equivalent of that shade of green they use for the walls in the Saw films. This is because there isn't the money, fame, or opulent lifestyle. A lot of UK hip-hop 'stars' don't have the kind of cash that their US counterparts do. As a result, they are still living in the grimy, seedy, crime-ridden areas that populate city suburbs like weeping buboes; and this is really reflected in the music.

A lot of UK rappers aspire to live like how successful US rappers live, but unfortunately still live with their mum in a 2-bedroom bedsit on the fifth floor of a dilapidated council estate in South London, living on state-handouts with little education and no aspirations other than to get on MTV Cribs one day.

it's very sad, and a terrible aspect of today's society, but I prefer to look on the bright side: it does make for great music. So as long as US rappers are still living in their Beverley Hills mansions waxing lyrical about their tough childhoods, and UK artists are still living in squalor, desperate to get out of the morose desperation of inner-city life, then the rest of us can enjoy thoroughly excellent music!

crime-ridden areas that populate city suburbs like weeping buboes

it's very sad, and a terrible aspect of today's society, but I prefer to look on the bright side: it does make for great music

lol@"weeping buboes"

(apparently called ghettoes, but I've looked at ghettoes on the History Channel, and they don't look like what's being described; chiefly bearded old Polish men with armbands saying Jüden)

I liked it better when we were just bitching about the comic and not the fanlisting

root and branch dude

That's funny. Personally, I can't stand hearing about 'how hard it was growing up in the hood, and what an unstoppable spirit you got, and how you ran your crew, and how you nailed those ho's, and how nothing can stop you!' because frankly, every rapper since the 1970's has been saying the same recycled stupid shit to the same recycled stupid beats.

The new hiphop crowd is full of wordsmiths and poets. If you like the music genre for blasting at parties and getting loose women dancing, then whatever, but "If you dig women who have more to get off their chest then a wet t-shirt" you ought to expand your own horizons.

Rap is to hiphop what Dave Matthews is to Led Zeppelin. Both rock and put up some good stuff. But one rocks significantly better.

there are morons on forums all over the internoodle. let's concentrate on what really counts here, creepy nerd comics

xkcd makes me lol on occassion. feelin like bimble up in this.

It doesn't really matter if XKCD gives you a HOOS-on once in awhile. The important point is that you realize it's got a terminal case of awfulness.

I'm not going to universally bash it since other comics do the same thing to reasonable effect, but xkcd does the "secret caption in alternate text" thing on every comic, which is often even MORE emo on the really gothy suicidal ones. Just kind of hover over that image, if you really want.

dom can you troll this thread plz

-- and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:15 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Give me a link and I'll start posting as Yungun's street team.

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

Garfield remains one of the worst comics in the world, but it is still better than xkcd.

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

this isn't entirely unfunny:

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

this is entirely terrible:

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

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

urrrrrrrggggghhhkk

DAN LACEY SAVE US

Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out. - dan perry

RONG

ps: I lauughed at the Python comic but that was it.

you only laughed because it had a random death in it though. anything funny about it is padded with five panels of garbage

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

geeky, amusing, harmless:

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

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/rockaway.jpg

Bit of context from Spamusement:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6972/picture9xy5.png

NONONO NOT THAT ONE, I MEANT THE ONE WITH THE FLYING DUDE

ARGH WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM, TOM????

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/06/matt.gif

Clear winner here is MATT.

Isn't there some spoof of MATT in Private Eye or Viz? Like a UK version of The Onion's Kelly?

sorry dan but you do like to laugh at random death and maiming y/n
that's all I was getting at
btw the one you actually claim to have found funny is also terrible

Yeah, but it has a drug reference in it.

xp to bodrick, matt isn't the only single-panel topical cartoonist in the uk papers. There was Austin in the Guardian, but he dead.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

also pugh in the times and the godawful rick brookes in the metro.

bugger

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg