xkcd vs. MATT

Achewood has the occasional miss but:
a.) The characters have consistent voices
b.) The stuff that completely fails is usually the weird concept shit, that's a gamble, at least
c.) Even if you don't like the adventures of five year old Phillippe, he's at least pretty consistent

I liked Diesel Sweeties a fair bit a few years back but don't look at it that much anymore, it's more good for one-note jokes and I don't tend to care about the characterization quite as much. xkcd geek jokes get passed around the office, but I really think it's guys in another area just reading it when a database pun gets posted to digg or something, I dunno. Dinosaur Comics has a few funny ones but same thing, I just read the occasional ones I'm sent.

Not experienced enough with this "Matt" comic to have a strong opinion.

there should be one about dudes on a message board arguing about internet comics

I don't think anyone's arguing here, DG! Everyone seems to agree that this comic totally blows.

you obviously haven't been here very long, xp :D

xkcd's "gamble" comics to me are the weird emo-suicide ones where they're all like "but if we could have love..." and some sort of boring shit with a guy sitting staring at stuff. Minimalist representations of the depth of the human condition don't work so good when your writing is better suited to dork jokes and the stick figures aren't doing anything

That Python comic will be wrong when 3.0 comes out in the summer and hello world becomes print('Hello world'). I bet he does a strip about that.

matt archive: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Matt/pMattTemplate.jhtml?pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/18/matt.gif

i laughed

^^ genius

xp

lots of lj goth girls like xkcd

the programming dude + lj goth girl dating combination pretty much sums up a lot of xkcd

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44077000/jpg/_44077318_sophieb.jpg

An xkcd fan, yesterday

First time I saw one I thought "wow, this is the worst thing ever", so I flicked through the previous 4 and they were even worse. Then my nerd friends started forwarding me the geek ones, and I've been semi-amused by some of them, but found most of them a slightly smug trumpeting of the kind of stuff I'm embarrassed to know or think about. The emo ones I've not seen many of until now, and, uh, what John D said, I guess.

Wait, you probably didn't want shut-in aspie rube perl nerds when you said "girls" so eh.

“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.

you really, really cannot make this shit up.

this is like when I again admitted to my girlfriend that I went to quakecon, twice, and it finally sunk in and she said, "wait, you went to.... what?"

xkcd strips keep getting posted to Other forums I'm on and universally adored, bewilderingly. I've liked about three of them, but am buggered if I'm plugging through emo-archives to find em.

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

^^^

What is wrong with people? This is not funny.

it turns out wanting to have not seen xkcd comics doesnt make it real

I have enjoyed the occasional xkcd comic strip

“It turns out wanting something doesn’t make it real.”

what kind of fucking nutcase sociopath insight is this

That's unfair to nutcase sociopaths, I have known some and they are more tolerable than this comic.

http://i28.tinypic.com/25qgh2t.jpg

xkcd strips keep getting posted to Other forums I'm on and universally adored, bewilderingly. I've liked about three of them, but am buggered if I'm plugging through emo-archives to find em.

No offense stet, but perhaps those other forums need a good hard 2nd look.

by someone else

Guy who started the LJ shitstorm is a pal of mine.

Tracer Hand: yeh, you! Although looking back I see you hating on them there too :)

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70570036/1785054
It's not that I don't get the jokes. It's that I have too much of a life to get the jokes.

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097
So you're saying you have too much of a life to understand intellectual humor?

The path of my BS has not only led to twelve years of a very comfortable living, but the ability to appreciate things like XKCD. Yet it didn't deny me the appreciation that while there are some things that fly a bit past me, their humorous and artistic value is not diminished.

Keep your MA.

(Your programmer boyfriend, by default, should grok the comic. One can only speculate why he puts up with your condescending ass.)

XKCD is the intellectual humor equivalent of a swirlie.

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

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8784/imageuploadimageab9.jpg

xp later in the thread he says that theres no girls on the internet and somebody else says 'you look girly enough' lolZING

dudes like that in the comment thread are the best argument for the lbzc style hazing on ilx

Invite him to ILX.

pick a new favorite or object of derision:
http://comics.alltop.com/

Anyways, I have about four XKCDs that I kinda like; taken in this context, they are indeed pretty crepey.
I have a soft spot for Copper: http://www.boltcity.com/copper/

JESUS CHRIST HOW MANY OF THESE ARE THERE

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

genuine chuckle

web comics are god's punishment for original sin

I don't get the "Chinese men in blue tracksuits" gag...?

Gestalt disgust at XKCD is one of the things that makes me still a little proud to be on ILX

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

I don't get whatever the real joke is either forks but it comes off as utter nonsense which is usually all that makes me laugh anymore anyway

xkcd is like if dave sim NEVER had sex or bothered to even try and learn to draw

forks: from the guys who protect the olympic flame

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

olympic torch was protected by chinese paramilitaries in tracksuits, many tangles w/ protesters in cities not run by gavin newsom. financial system rests on chinese lending, o gnoes. it's a pretty deft little comic! also a little racist.

xp

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89619306

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

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

-- max, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 19:17 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this guy actually writes like he majored in theoretical physics, but wasn't smart enough for grad school.