Aramoro posted:

He is a sperg but I still find some of his comics pretty funny really. They're just jokes on the internet, not all of them are funny, not all of them are bad. I don't really know anything about him or why people hate him so much. But him doing whatever doesn't make his comic less good.

Dr_Amazing posted:

XKCD humor is so obscure/technical that there's an entire wiki that's just explaining the jokes. http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

explainkcd posted:

Explanation

Cueball is seen at his desk in front of four devices. He has clearly run out of things to do, or is looking for an excuse to procrastinate. A flowchart describes the process by which he scans the whole environment for something to do, which everyone can relate to.

The comic uses electronics likely because they are the common timekiller these days, and are most likely to contain fresh, tantalizing entertainment. News sites can be viewed as a good source of yet-to-be-seen content. Yet the search yields no interesting content, or the results don't garner enough attention, thus the blank stares and moving on to next device in line. Cueball has four devices, so he can begin with the PC and move through the loop three times - first to laptop, then tablet and finally to smartphone. What happens after this... Back to the PC maybe?

The title text notes that this also happened before there were electronic devices like today, assuming most entertainment came from books. The point made is that, while the Internet and modern electronic devices are often blamed for jeopardizing the minds of adolescents, the attention span of “the kids” is not worse than it ever was, neither in the context of low-tech nor high-tech media. Kids focus on some things for a long time, but they do change this focus often very abruptly. But nevertheless there are still many kids reading books today until the end.

Transcript

[Cueball sits at a desk, accompanied by numerous electronics - a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone.]
[A cyclical flowchart is shown above Cueball:]
stare blankly at screen -> open news site -> start reading -> get bored -> absentmindedly check smaller device -> stare blankly at screen -> …
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Discussion

First explanation. How did I do, veterans? Lacedemonian (talk) 04:45, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Not bad. I reorganised the content and fixed some stylistic flaws.

Awaiting older veterans to cross-reference with older entries. 108.162.229.70 05:11, 22 August 2014 (UTC)Sylvertech

I count 4 devices: monitor, laptop, tablet, phone. 108.162.216.22 05:52, 22 August 2014 (UTC)J. from Mi.

All he needs is to have been wearing a Google Glass-type device, and this can simultaneously be both a smaller display (by absolute scale) to recurse onto after the smartphone and a possibly larger display (by proportion of view) to recurse back out of onto the 'smaller' computer monitor display... 141.101.99.233 09:14, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
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All he needs is to have been wearing a Google Glass-type device, and this can simultaneously be both a smaller display (by absolute scale) to recurse onto after the smartphone and a possibly larger display (by proportion of view) to recurse back out of onto the 'smaller' computer monitor display...

Breetai posted:

That being said a lot of that wiki is devoted to explaining simple jokes such as a child might understand to his legion of beep-boop-beep sperglords.

cthulhoo posted:

Her father is upset she's marrying a prole whistle.

Mierenneuker posted:

So, discuss:

Mierenneuker posted:

Well, sometimes people just don't get the joke. I remember plenty of webcomic threads on SA where always somebody had to explain the latest Perry Bible Fellowship comic. It ended up becoming an inside joke to overtly explain or create elaborate bullshit theories whenever one got posted.

So, discuss:

Dr_Amazing posted:

My favorite was dumb argument was this comic. http://pbfcomics.com/199/

To me it's about whether the boys were disappointed that school was cancelled. They'd rather attend school than play educational board games at home.

Many goons argued that the kids were home schooled, played this game everyday, were unaware that home schooled kids don't get snow days, and were just sad it was business as usual.

Dr_Amazing posted:

My favorite was dumb argument was this comic. http://pbfcomics.com/199/

To me it's about whether the boys were disappointed that school was cancelled. They'd rather attend school than play educational board games at home.

Many goons argued that the kids were home schooled, played this game everyday, were unaware that home schooled kids don't get snow days, and were just sad it was business as usual.

Dr_Amazing posted:

Many goons argued that the kids were home schooled, played this game everyday, were unaware that home schooled kids don't get snow days, and were just sad it was business as usual.

Dr_Amazing posted:

Many goons argued that the kids were home schooled

ryonguy posted:

(hopefully the genitals are small enough)

ryonguy posted:

edit: nvm, nothing really bad but still dragging out a crappy derail

Instead, Oglaf!



(hopefully the genitals are small enough)

AdorableStar posted:

You can just, like, you know, post a link with around it.

ryonguy posted:

Yeah, but a bunch of links in a picture thread is boring.

Theglavwen posted:

Missed the line about the genitals?

pitlo posted:

The Fuzzy Hulk posted:

The Fuzzy Hulk posted:

pookerbug posted:

I have always wondered if the rabbit knew what would happen.

Eschatos posted:

In a similar vein:

Eschatos posted:

In a similar vein:

Karate Bastard posted:

That puts me in mind of happy tree friends. Don't click that link btw it's loving retarded.

Eschatos posted:

In a similar vein:

Dudes! posted:

an almost very funny Garfield.

DrBouvenstein posted:

So long as we're posting some of our favorite PBF comics:

Copper Vein posted:

Suicide Sam E. posted:

If the kid cannot spell, then why is it Deer Jesus?

Jerry Cotton posted:

It's Deer Jesus because the kid can't spell.