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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why does donkey have penises for feet??? Now you know why cloven hooves means it's non-kosher.
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Those penislegs are circumsized though? 
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kode54 posted:Hello, running this poo poo into the ground. Excuse me, we're discussing SMBC and XKCD, the graph-joke comics. I believe you mean 
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Excuse me, we're discussing SMBC and XKCD, the graph-joke comics. I believe you mean Ah, thanks for that.
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Why does everyone hate xkcd so much? From what I've seen it's pretty mediocre most of the time, like Garfield except written for postgrads, but not really worth the amount of attention it gets. The author did something super mysogynistic or racist at some point didn't he? If I wasn't phone posting there'd be something by Kate Beaton embedded here.
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Sep 6, 2014 09:23
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You see, some people don't understand it, and we can't have unopinioned people.
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Sep 6, 2014 09:39
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why does donkey have penises for feet??? Because they do? I don't know what kind of hosed-up rear end poo poo idiot donkeys are you familiar with
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bucketmouse posted:Why does everyone hate xkcd so much? From what I've seen it's pretty mediocre most of the time, like Garfield except written for postgrads, but not really worth the amount of attention it gets. The author did something super mysogynistic or racist at some point didn't he? Basically, take all criticism here with a large grain of salt.
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Sep 6, 2014 10:29
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I can neither confirm nor deny that these events happened.
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Sep 6, 2014 10:53
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XKCD posted:Megan and I first met at
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Sep 6, 2014 11:04
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He's not really misogynistic so much as sort of vaguely pathetic, yeah. He had the creepy  MEGAN thing and is pretty much universally inoffensive otherwise. I read the comic occasionally.You know what you should read right now? Scary-Go-Round! It finished years and years ago and now the author makes a mediocre comic about mystery-solving teens that is just as aggressively British but nowhere near as charming. You should go read all of Scary-Go-Round right this minute. Don't expect edgy, because it is the opposite of edgy. It's delightful and will make whatever small part of you that still enjoys things without irony clap its hands and hop up and down repeatedly.   It's a little tricky to find the archive because the author really wants you to read Bad Machinery instead but the original comic starts here. Panic! at Nabisco has a new favorite as of 11:35 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Sep 6, 2014 11:32
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In fairness Bad Machinery is great. Much more polished than Scary-Go-Round or Bobbins.
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Sep 6, 2014 11:49
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Ooh, Scary-Go-Round! I haven't read that since before it finished. 
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bucketmouse posted:Why does everyone hate xkcd so much? From what I've seen it's pretty mediocre most of the time, like Garfield except written for postgrads, but not really worth the amount of attention it gets. The author did something super mysogynistic or racist at some point didn't he? Funny story, I genuinely thought George R.R. Martin had molested a child from the stuff I read on SA. Then I saw someone complain about how frustrated they were that they couldn't find any creepy/offensive poo poo on some (completely harmless) shut-in indie game developer. It's basically nerdy celeb-culture, but with more projected self-hatred. BioMe has a new favorite as of 12:12 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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BioMe posted:Funny story, I genuinely thought George R.R. Martin had molested a child from the stuff I read on SA. Then I saw someone complain about how frustrated they were that they couldn't find any creepy/offensive poo poo on some (completely harmless) shut-in indie game developer. Yeah, I mean, it's a drat shame we can't find anything creepy about XK... XKCD - Jealousy posted:And now that you're married, ...CD. I mean, no nerd obsessed with childhood romanticism would ever get skeevy and weird like that. But seriously, thank you, forums poster BioMe, for telling it like it is. Truly, I'm only projecting my own infantile obsession with the "pixie dream girl" I barely know onto this stick-figure comic. I only wish I was brave enough to fill my apartment with cheap plastic playpen balls.
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Sep 6, 2014 12:45
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That actually hit a nerve for you. drat.
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J. Alfred Prufrock posted:Truly, I'm only projecting my own infantile obsession with the "pixie dream girl" I barely know onto this stick-figure comic. I only wish I was brave enough to fill my apartment with cheap plastic playpen balls. 
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Did you guys deliberately quote that XKCD in text form rather than quoting the comic image itself because it's creepier in text form where it's not laid out to have the punchline? For what it's worth Randall Monroe says he's never known an actual Megan, and it's a name he picked for stuff like this because when you're doing relationship jokes 'at some point you have to use a name'. Not that I expect any of us will believe that, because BioMe posted:Funny story, I genuinely thought George R.R. Martin had molested a child from the stuff I read on SA. Then I saw someone complain about how frustrated they were that they couldn't find any creepy/offensive poo poo on some (completely harmless) shut-in indie game developer. MikeJF has a new favorite as of 14:17 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Sep 6, 2014 14:12
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Pope Guilty posted:In fairness Bad Machinery is great. Much more polished than Scary-Go-Round or Bobbins. It's pretty weird for me, too, when I hear people bag on Bad Machinery as being a lesser effort than Scary-Go-Round. SGR I liked almost in spite of itself: Allison is obviously a talented artist and wordsmith, but the SGR characters all had this entirely too precious univoice that drove me bananas. He's gotten so, so much better at creating actual characters in his Bad Machinery years, and I think the comic is a bit more of a slow burner as a result. You're not going to get Mister Funnylaffs every single strip, but when you take his stories as a whole, every strip turns out to have been well worth reading.
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quote:And now that you're married, Wow, silly me, I read this as a punch line. I wasn't aware that it was a 100% purely serious cry of unbridled patheticness! XKCD is fine and people who hate the whole thing because "Randall Munroe is definitely serious about being creepy, rather than it just being one character's creepiness functioning as what we call the joke" are dumb dumbs. There I said it.
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I think people are focusing too much on the "Megan" stuff and not enough on other reasons why he sucks. Like how pretty much all his "jokes" are just SCIENCE REFERENCE.
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muscles like this? posted:I think people are focusing too much on the "Megan" stuff and not enough on other reasons why he sucks. Like how pretty much all his "jokes" are just SCIENCE REFERENCE. don't forget elaborate-diagram-of-nerdy-movie-plot
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Sep 6, 2014 15:07
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XCKLMESUJD may suck but I'd rather read it than whomp anyday.
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bucketmouse posted:Why does everyone hate xkcd so much? From what I've seen it's pretty mediocre most of the time, like Garfield except written for postgrads, http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/full-episodes/6jaxht/september-3--2014---randall-munroe
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GelatinSkeleton posted:XCKLMESUJD may suck but I'd rather read it than whomp anyday. Heresy. Ronnie is adorable and awful.
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Palmersaurus posted:The art is still pretty great though: A bit late, but I really like his stuff when he's on. Black humor is the best humor, and you should all watch Killer Joe and The Loved Ones when you get the chance.  
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Bad Machinery is great and if you don't like it you have bad opinions.
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At this point there are more goons needlessly defending XKCD than there are goons criticizing it.
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kazil posted:At this point there are more goons needlessly defending XKCD than there are goons criticizing it. Can I get this post in the form of a graph with stick figures making jokes about it?
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KoRMaK posted:He was on colbert the other night, and colbert made basically that same joke. How did he manage to get on Colbert?
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Dr_Amazing posted:How did he manage to get on Colbert? Probably promoting his new book.
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Dr_Amazing posted:How did he manage to get on Colbert? He was also on Science Friday
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kazil posted:At this point there are more goons needlessly defending XKCD than there are goons criticizing it. I wasn't defending it, I was just saying that whomp sucks
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I'm sorry we have to argue about webcomics.
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I don't really hate XKCD, but I think SMBC does a lot better at the ornate science/philosophy jokes, and the rest of its content really isn't that special. I think the turning point for me was when I noticed XKCD and Nedroid did the same joke once. Not a plagarism thing, or not that I care about, just that XKCD was typically wordy and smug, and Nedroid was this: All that's really left is the infographic style comics, some of those are pretty neat.
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AdorableStar posted:I'm sorry we have to argue about webcomics. But the arguments are the best part! 
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I'm not in favor of talking head comics, but this is is good. It's like a better version of "Escape" by Rupert Holmes. Loses points for just bringing up Hitler, though. Sick of Adolf Hitler over here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQKqhoc_vc
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Holy poo poo, you reminded me of the awful proportions of those digitigrade legs. 
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Pope Guilty posted:In fairness Bad Machinery is great. Much more polished than Scary-Go-Round or Bobbins. Bad Machinery is quite good, but I liked his older art style better. I won't say it's been going downhill since the middle of SGR, but it's been going in a direction I'm not as fond of.
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KoRMaK posted:He was on colbert the other night, and colbert made basically that same joke. I find it interesting how xkcd's fanbase and target audience seems to be split between hipster 'smart' people (see the perpetual xkcd shirt section on thinkgeek with simple gag one liners like 'stand back I'm going to try science') and serious postgrad academics who giggle at the computer science analog to the dad joke and post the strips on their office doors. Every single math/CS prof at my college had at least two of them and one was always the 'lisp uses lots of parenthesis lol' one. The Garfield comparison is just dead-on in the second case.
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