xkcd vs. MATT

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 : (

I am sorry that due to personal reasons your sense of humour is off, but how is it "toxic" from any viewpoint other than "nerds are bad, and should feel bad"?

you end up on the other side of the line almost every time. get thee away from me!

xp it presents condescension as a positive bromide, among other things.

read all the comments in this thread not written by you for further deets (we are all nerds).

I genuinely thought he was doing all those things.

haha way to miss the point of the criticism, which is that this dude is dumb and bad at jokes

He's not condescending, he's getting away from there to something he'd rather be doing (A lesson for ILX, etc).

But yeah I don't think that looking at this as a delivery platform for joeks (rather than quietly ironic ideas) is going to get you much joy.

"i only have time in my life for positive people" is the sort of sophomoric sentiment i would expect from a webcomic artist tho

sorry "artist"

lol @ being furious at a webcomic about not talking about ppl behind their back, dont worry guys, he's not going to actually take away your god-given right to say mean things about ppl when they're not around

wtf it's the internet, getting furious at people who will never have any significant impact on our lives is the whole point.