xkcd vs. MATT

tbh anyone who laughs when they stumble across the graveyard probably needs to talk to someone

Yeah, I don't think it's much cop aside from being an interesting idea reasonably well executed. Though I didn't see the graveyard, maybe there's some unutterable pathos he's got going on?

huge lols at anyone who was on the page for more than 3 seconds

― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 20 September 2012 06:42 (16 hours ago)

Pup

with whiney on this one -- can see being impressed by the amount of work that went into it but not at the actual result

don't really care about this dude's comics but i do like the austere black & white landscape look here

with whiney on this one -- laughing at you for spending more than three seconds looking at something potentially interesting

I like exploring even if what I'm exploring is a bit pointless and boring, e.g. making sure I've seen every last corner and opened every box on an RPG level, so I did enjoy this for more than the 3 seconds allowed by WGW.

But it was kind of sparsely populated, like (on my screen at least) if you go down the mineshaft it takes a hell of a lot of mouse-swipes to see even a tumbling stick figure or a small side niche with nothing amusing in and then it goes further down and I just thought "err... nah". I liked the concept though.

The pic and concept itself is a lot of work but the javascript code is a bit weird and maybe hastily assembled? Every time your viewport goes (even partially) into undrawn territory it still tries to load an image for that section, e.g. on the aforementioned mineshaft you're probably not exactly horizontally aligned with the image boundaries so every time you move down it requests two new images, one which exists and one which doesn't. Dude's web server logs must be full of literally millions of image 404s this morning.

Yeah nobody except me is enough of a nerd to care about that.

this was fun to screw around with for a few minutes, but the earnestness of this guy's style makes me squirm... makes winnie the pooh look like a william friedkin movie.

honestly it sort of gave me carpal tunnel

when will this guy learn how to draw

What would you consider the benefits of learning how to draw for him?

better at job?

more money

for a couple of weeks some people might not realise it was just awful until they read the words

not really thinking about benefits for him tbh

All good points from the fun-haters!

XKCD is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit. It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

kudos guys, I now hate XKCD again, plus all of you, and the baby Jesus

Actually sort of surprised it took you guys as long as 24 hours to completely ruin this.

it reminds me of one of those inspirational posters that hang in elementary schools. hot air balloon in an endless sky... "the only limit ... is YOUR IMAGINATION!". this comic is about the closest it comes to exploring the world contained in that poster. not surprisingly, it's full of dorks.

from the stories

i expected your cock to be sad

and it was

and i expected it to be wonderful

it was

i just didn't expect it to be so big

What would you consider the benefits of learning how to draw for him?

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 September 2012 15:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is how we end up w/ dilbert

The art has never been the big problem with Dilbert!

tbf the art's not the biggest problem with this shite

i kinda have to give the guy props for this

http://xkcd.com/1127/large/

lol Democrats being "left"

truly the christopher nolan's writer brother of web comics

the right/left divide is interesting but kinda inadequate for the first like 125 yrs

well it's pretty clearly back-dated from the current orientation. was andrew jackson a 'leftist' in any meaningful sense? sure, on a couple of metrics, hell no on others.

oh so holier than thou

http://xkcd.com/1176/

As ever, you might want to check the mouseover text there.

does it contain an apology for this shit?

nah just a weak gag that doesn't undercut the main point.

guys he's patrolling the boundaries of modern social ethics

webcomics are shite generally and xkcd is particularly horrible but I can't help it, I find dinosaur comics funny pretty much every time* I look at it, like it exists in this alternate universe where xkcd/I fucking love science "humour" is actually funny. Dude just seems to be operating on a higher level.

*not every time, sometimes it's insufferably twee I guess

that comic was a bad way to start the day. but what the hell can i expect clicking on an xkcd thread.

Lotta people defending the god-given right to be a judgemental asshole on this thread.

it's not judgmental if everyone agrees

if you don't have any annoying people in your social circle that you can't get rid of i'm jealous; if you don't get the pleasure of bitching about them behind their backs then i'm sorry.

sorry but I think saying bad things about people to their faces is rude

i honestly don't know why these comics annoy me so much. for the sake of my health I need to never read one of these things again.

oh yeah, i created a bitch about annoying roommates thread so this dude's talkin' about me. that's right, randal, scoot away from me you creepy manchild. so what's worse, talking shit about people in private, or passive aggressively attacking a fairly large swath of humanity with utter condescension in a widely read comic? that guy needs to get the ultimate wedgie, which generally requires using a colostomy bag after its performance.

i'm not personally into bitching and it - sometimes - makes me feel a little uncomfortable but it's never made me feel as much dislike for my fellow humans as the average XKCD does

bitching behind somebody's back i mean. obv am happy to walk right up to your face and zing you.

venting online hardly feels like bitching anyway, sometimes you got let those feelings out before they curdle

you know who never bitched? INSERT NAME OF FAMOUS DUDE WHO SUDDENLY WENT POSTAL WITH AN AUTOMATIC RIFLE ONE DAY HERE, that's who

haha the worst part of this particular comic is the formulaic set-up he uses all the time, which is the dumb "here's a thing i do" or "this my new hobby" bullshit

"i can't write jokes so i pretend to do zany smart-guy things in my webcomic"

The scales have fallen from my eyes - I genuinely thought he was doing all those things.

i'm sorry you think this terrible, toxic comic is funny : (