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I feel like Leona is heading for a big fall. Like she is getting somewhat pointedly unhinged and not just because of the killer parasite that she refuses to get treated for reasons.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I feel like Leona is heading for a big fall. Like she is getting somewhat pointedly unhinged and not just because of the killer parasite that she refuses to get treated for reasons. Wasn't it established quite early on that there's no cure for the parasite?
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Sep 13, 2016 12:00
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She's pretty much a terrible person regardless.
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Sep 13, 2016 15:23
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It's been kind of a thing in Prague Race that everyone in the main cast except poor Miko is terrible, terrible, terrible. Toska's at least got an excuse, the plus-sized weirdo's had it rough.
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Oxxidation posted:It's been kind of a thing in Prague Race that everyone in the main cast except poor Miko is terrible, terrible, terrible. Except the werewolves, who are best buds with everyone and just love life.
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Sep 13, 2016 18:51
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Im normally not someone who promotes XKCD. But he made a cool infographic about the global temperature during human civilization. It's really kinda impressive to look at it that way. Whenever someone claims that man made global warming doesn't exists I will probably link to that.
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Sep 13, 2016 22:12
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Why would you use xkcd as an argument.
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You don't have "arguments" on facebook. You link things at each other until the combined likes and shares of your links are greater than the combined likes and shares of their links. Think of it like a war of citations, except instead of using scholarly articles to back your statements up, you just flood your opponent under a deluge of posts from The Oatmeal and Harambe Memes until they give up.
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Sep 13, 2016 22:39
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You don't argue to change the mind of the internet person your arguing against You argue to change the mind of everyone else who's reading it.
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Sep 13, 2016 22:44
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xkcd is at it's best when it's trying to do informative or experimental stuff rather then humor, and that's okay
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The comic has its heart in the right place, but a lot of his presentation of pre and early history is pretty much garbage.
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Things the XKCD guy is good at [ ] Jokes [X] Graphs Think what you will about him, he certainly puts a lot of work in.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:54
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linking to webcomics during an argument is actually the only sure way to lose
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SpiritOfLenin posted:Wasn't it established quite early on that there's no cure for the parasite? 'established' by Toska saying 'I'm pretty sure there's no cure', loving Toska, its the 'turn dude into a werewolf instead of doing literally anything else' bit basically. She's pretty clearly just manic and totally willing to embrace the madness of her situation because of it. Like the bit where she cocoons up and gets her black oily hands all over everything is pretty clearly her taking stock of just how absolutely hosed her entire situation is and threatening to go depressive Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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XKCD is good for graphs and super niche jokes, go in expecting that, and you can't go too far wrong.
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There are people in this world (Usually edgy teenagers) who complain that their life doesn't have enough hardship. That because they don't face the same struggles someone born with a crippling disability does, their life is too mundane and worthless. Leona is the poster child of these idiots, and is gleefully willing to run all her friends lives into the ground as well to let them "enjoy" the same thing. Like, she doesn't actively wish harm upon them. She likes her friends, and wants them to have happy lives, it's just that her idea of "happy" is pretty loving warped. She'd rather be a stick of dynamite that detonates in 15 seconds, than a candle that burns for an entire day.
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SlothfulCobra posted:XKCD is good for graphs and super niche jokes, go in expecting that, and you can't go too far wrong. i remember years ago in college having to go past where all the math professors kept their offices on campus every door had a different xkcd comic
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Sep 14, 2016 00:42
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Blaster Nation is ending apparently. Another webcomic I liked, killed by Slipshine 
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I forgot to say this the first time but as someone who never read the comic it should have been a bad sign that the Patreon linked on Blaster Nation's website was named Rock Cocks.
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Captain Bravo posted:There are people in this world (Usually edgy teenagers) who complain that their life doesn't have enough hardship. That because they don't face the same struggles someone born with a crippling disability does, their life is too mundane and worthless. I dunno I find that's a weird read, like I get that she seems to be the kind of girl who is literally waiting to be told she is a protagonist, but that doesn't quite cover the fact she no-sold the news that she was going to die in under a year.
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Manatee Cannon posted:anyone read prague race? the art is really nice Is the about page meant to be empty?
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Tendales posted:The comic has its heart in the right place, but a lot of his presentation of pre and early history is pretty much garbage. Would you mind expanding briefly on that? It didn't seem that outrageous to me, but I'm pretty ignorant on the subject.
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This blog post http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/13/everybody-always-gets-this-wrong-even-smart-people/ hits way more things than I recognized as being wrong. But short version, for a chart about climate change, it's mostly crammed with a bunch of questionably relevant, if not completely obsolete, factoids that have more to do with the Narrative Of The Progress of Western Civilization than the thesis being presented. Also he's got the industrial revolution in the wrong spot, which kiiiiind of matters.
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AriadneThread posted:i remember years ago in college having to go past where all the math professors kept their offices on campus One of my lecturers used to have the Nerd Sniping comic on her door (the one about how certain types of people will be completely distracted by an interesting problem). She took it down when people started coming in to discuss the resistor puzzle.
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Grapplejack posted:Blaster Nation is ending apparently. Another webcomic I liked, killed by Slipshine Why is slipshine to blame?
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While in another context I'd say the kind of person likely to be swayed by Facebook posts is also XKCD's target audience I'm pretty sure people who respond well to XKCD already loving Love Science and are posting dank memes about how bad global warming is from their SUV
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The other thing is that the point he's refuting, "the temperature has changed before", is never actually made that way. The actual argument people make is "it's been hotter than this before", backed up with a graph of climate data stretching anywhere from a few hundred thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago and including a steep spike or three for good measure (though because of the scale these are impossible to honestly compare to current climate change). Presenting a graph of the last 20,000 years is a good way to contextualise the recent massive acceleration of temperature change, but doesn't do anything to address the most likely form of argument that it claims to be for. In conclusion, all graphs are biased.
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Stormgale posted:Why is slipshine to blame? I posted some stuff about it earlier, but the short of it is that they had two comics, one porn and one slice of life. The porn one had a patreon and is on slipshine, while the slice of life, well...didn't.
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Wrist Watch posted:I posted some stuff about it earlier, but the short of it is that they had two comics, one porn and one slice of life. The porn one had a patreon and is on slipshine, while the slice of life, well...didn't. The porn one isn't actually on slip shine. The pilot of it and a bonus chapter are but the rest is free on the internet.
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AriadneThread posted:xkcd is at it's best when it's trying to do informative or experimental stuff rather then humor, and that's okay xkcd is only good when it's goatkcd:  https://goatkcd.com/strips/1732.jpgAriadneThread posted:i remember years ago in college having to go past where all the math professors kept their offices on campus yeah
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djw175 posted:The porn one isn't actually on slip shine. The pilot of it and a bonus chapter are but the rest is free on the internet. It's still hosted on slipshine's site, so I assumed they were making money through them somehow. I'll admit, I have no clue how slipshine works because I've never cared enough to check it out before
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Hogge Wild posted:xkcd is only good when it's goatkcd: why would anyone want this
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Wrist Watch posted:
Its netflix for porn comics.
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Hogge Wild posted:xkcd is only good when it's goatkcd: The goatkcd people really should special-case that one to creation.jpg
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SynthOrange posted:Is the about page meant to be empty? dunno, never looked at it before
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Renaissance Robot posted:Lily Padds is adorable. Her beret looks like a lily pad! 
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Grapplejack posted:Blaster Nation is ending apparently. Another webcomic I liked, killed by Slipshine Around the time they changed the title to "Blaster Nation Forever" (which I took as a reference to Duke Nukem Forever, that is to say, an implicit admission that they had no idea what they were going to do with this but felt obligated to keep it going anyway) they said they had already written just about everything they wanted to do with these characters. It seems to me that what killed Blaster Nation is simply a prolonged case of writer's block. They don't know what to do after wrapping up Rinnie's story so they're just going to not do anything.
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Sometimes people don't want to work on something anymore/would rather work on something else.
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Sometimes comics just die. Better to fade out than MSPA your way to an ending.
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Least I Could Do has been lovely for awhile, but y'know, three or four years ago it WAS telling jokes. Now its creator just bitches about American politics while living in Canada and it's not even jokes. The art hasn't developed any, I'm pretty sure Lar doesn't give a poo poo except for a steady paycheck, but drat. This comic used to be about sex jokes and wacky antics, now it's about incredibly stupid political rants. Like at one point the main character, who literally charmed his way into a 6-figure paycheck, has a nonsensical conversation with a "low-level employee" about...I think it's about classism? Or...or something, I don't even know. But it went on forever. And on that subject, PvP just spent two weeks sucking Garfield's dick because the best way to follow up the most awkwardly shoe-horned in "special episode" trio of strips is to apparently fellate the most soulless, insipid and mass-produced newspaper comic of all time. Like, I kind of expected it to end with Jim Davis being murdered or something, but no it's literally just a big "GARFIELD IS THE BEST THINGEVER I LOVE GARFIELD GARFIELD!" Scott, you've been doing webcomics for 15+ years now and somehow you haven't died from diabetes yet. You don't need to keep doing this, it's sad.
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