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Nuebot posted:The easy answer is this. Because people are dumb enough to literally just make the things look nearly identical and then go "What, me? I didn't copy your idea. I drew it first!" Like even with that dude's bug-eyed comic. I distinctly remember a story similar in basic premise when I was a kid where someone planted one of their teeth and it grew into a new person but oh no, who was the real person? And long story short: that's why the tooth fairy exists, so stupid kids don't go planting their teeth and growing more kids. It's not like, a super original idea or anything. I'd say the pale naked person covered in dirt is the fake one. But I can see how this may not always work.
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Nuebot posted:The easy answer is this. Because people are dumb enough to literally just make the things look nearly identical and then go "What, me? I didn't copy your idea. I drew it first!" Like even with that dude's bug-eyed comic. I distinctly remember a story similar in basic premise when I was a kid where someone planted one of their teeth and it grew into a new person but oh no, who was the real person? And long story short: that's why the tooth fairy exists, so stupid kids don't go planting their teeth and growing more kids. It's not like, a super original idea or anything. what
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in re accidental plagiarism Nedroid did this:  They just wanted to say 'Good job' but xkcd had already done this:  2017 called, but I couldn't hear what they were saying over all the screams. so Nedroid did this:  xkcd fans please stop emailing me which I think is a good solution
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I know I said the New Year's one was my favorite in retrospect, but this is also my favorite
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Even if Nedroid read that XKCD comic and immediately decided to copy it, the Nedroid version is a million times better. Also, you can't copyright jokes.
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Skwirl posted:Even if Nedroid read that XKCD comic and immediately decided to copy it, the Nedroid version is a million times better. even posted as an example of what insane xkcd fans are like it's still painful to read. xkcd "peaked" pretty early and is only memorable for that longform comic about the guy who befriends the girl and is there for here nonstop until eventually she just succumbs to be with him.  Not that the comic is great, its really not, but that it ignited a firestorm of posts on web forums as a ton of people did not understand the point of the comic in the slightest and people arguing furiously back and forth on xkcd forums that the other people didn't understand that - the main guy is right and it sucks she doesn't love him back - the main guy is right but she's a bitch who just wants cool guys - the main guy is right and she doesn't deserve someone as good as him
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Skwirl posted:Also, you can't copyright jokes. Robin Williams??? I thought you were dead!
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I've never told this to anyone but the xkcd comic about free speech (aka they're showing you the door [picture of door]) was stolen from a comic I made. Now that all these cases are being busted open, maybe there's a chance for me to set things right...
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Didn't people turn up some evidence that "Megan" (the girl that the XKCD guy's self-insert pines over) is based on a real person, and is the real-life wife of one of his friends? I'm not totally convinced he realizes which side of that comics argument he's on.
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Empty Sandwich posted:
I like to think this is their dayjob but the comoc just never bothers to show it, like Seinfeld's career.
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Paladinus posted:I'll come clean. I've stolen the joke I made 23 pages ago from a different post 87 pages ago. Just press the button marked "plagiarize" like the rest of us
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rodbeard posted:Just press the button marked "plagiarize" like the rest of us
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These comics feel way too real and I understand why the author wanted them gone from the internet.
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pentyne posted:even posted as an example of what insane xkcd fans are like it's still painful to read. I mean, I only vaguely know the Tale of Megan through cultural osmosis, but I'm not convinced that those guys are wrong about that comic's intent.
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Empty Sandwich posted:in re accidental plagiarism yeah like the xfdasf dweeb invented it
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lol that xkcd has to tell us what's on the shirt
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I mean, I only vaguely know the Tale of Megan through cultural osmosis, but I'm not convinced that those guys are wrong about that comic's intent. If you can read that comic and not come to the conclusion that the guy in the comic is a complete weirdo and that the punchline is that he is a complete weirdo and we should all laugh at him - well, congratulations, you're the guy in the comic.
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PYF Tweets thread is here dude: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3879285
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Mr. Sunshine posted:If you can read that comic and not come to the conclusion that the guy in the comic is a complete weirdo and that the punchline is that he is a complete weirdo and we should all laugh at him - well, congratulations, you're the guy in the comic. The obvious, sane reading is not always the same as the intended reading. I'm not convinced that the xkcd guy isn't the guy in the comic.
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I find it hard to believe "eventually you will give up on being happy and settle for me" is intended as a good thing to think.
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Tenebrais posted:I find it hard to believe "eventually you will give up on being happy and settle for me" is intended as a good thing to think. Some people are aware enough of their own inadequacy but not aware enough to change it and so embrace stuff like this so hard that it hurts.
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pentyne posted:even posted as an example of what insane xkcd fans are like it's still painful to read. Im not a fan but I can understand why people keep linking to the infographicy ones like the passphrase strength one because it's faster then explaining the same thing to people each time. I can't understand why anyone would read the ones that try to have characters or jokes though. mystes has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Skwirl posted:Even if Nedroid read that XKCD comic and immediately decided to copy it, the Nedroid version is a million times better. Yeah, Reginald's sincere panic and implication time-travel is actually involved is way funnier than "Le Epic Sarcasm" of that engineer humour bullshit.
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I've never quite understood the intensity of goon hate for XKCD. Not enjoying it, sure, it's not my favorite either, but some people just go above and beyond, whipping themselves into a weird public tantrum whenever it comes up. I guess it's a performative thing? XKCD's fanbase is "cringe", as the kids these days say, and some people just need to make sure nobody accidentally thinks they like it. I don't know, it's weird. Anyway the dating comic is very obviously framing the passive aggressive guy as wrong and his hypothetical relationship after wearing her down as bad. Trying to argue otherwise isn't a sick burn on the XKCD guy, it just makes you look dumb.
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Snake Maze posted:I've never quite understood the intensity of goon hate for XKCD. Not enjoying it, sure, it's not my favorite either, but some people just go above and beyond, whipping themselves into a weird public tantrum whenever it comes up. I guess it's a performative thing? XKCD's fanbase is "cringe", as the kids these days say, and some people just need to make sure nobody accidentally thinks they like it. I don't know, it's weird. Honestly, I just find a lot of STEM humour is just a Shibboleth for smugly identifying other nerds and it isnt any smarter than Family Guy lazily relying on people recognising things. It get mistaken for smart humour because you need to be proficient in the field to recognise it, but it's rarely clever beyond "yeah, I recognise that programming language!" or whatever. I find the relationship stuff cringeworthy, but par for the course for the kind of person who gets excited by a pie chart.
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Tenebrais posted:I find it hard to believe "eventually you will give up on being happy and settle for me" is intended as a good thing to think. screaming "but he doesn't respect you" has been the mantra of angry male friends since the dawn of time who are mad their female friend hasn't come to her senses and fallen for them yet. the rest of it, the wistful regrets, the small pause before saying "i love you" back, the implication the whole thing was the result of drinking and a mistake she's too afraid to walk back, etc. just hammers the point home. It's not an exaggeration to say a massive chunk of xkcd's fan-base sided with the guy, I'm pretty sure the consensus on the xkcd forums at the time was "why is he making fun of us? this is a normal thing to do"
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Disco Pope posted:Honestly, I just find a lot of STEM humour is just a Shibboleth for smugly identifying other nerds and it isnt any smarter than Family Guy lazily relying on people recognising things. It get mistaken for smart humour because you need to be proficient in the field to recognise it, but it's rarely clever beyond "yeah, I recognise that programming language!" or whatever. Yeah, it's mostly just not that well done. If you compare their version of the joke to the Nedroid one it's way wordier, more awkwardly delivered, specifically dated, and meaner for no reason.
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womb with a view posted:wordier, more awkwardly delivered, specifically dated, and meaner for no reason So it was an xkcd comic is what you're telling me
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womb with a view posted:Yeah, it's mostly just not that well done. If you compare their version of the joke to the Nedroid one it's way wordier, more awkwardly delivered, specifically dated, and meaner for no reason. Also the Nedroid one has actual art, which means the joke that Reginald is dressed like it's the 90s doesn't have to be awkwardly explained by describing a shirt, the author can just trust that the audience gets that part of the joke with no words required.
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Snake Maze posted:I've never quite understood the intensity of goon hate for XKCD. Not enjoying it, sure, it's not my favorite either, but some people just go above and beyond, whipping themselves into a weird public tantrum whenever it comes up. I guess it's a performative thing? XKCD's fanbase is "cringe", as the kids these days say, and some people just need to make sure nobody accidentally thinks they like it. I don't know, it's weird. Probably that Nickelback thing where the creator isn't that great but is much more widely-known and successful than better creators, so gets more flak than unknown and unsuccessful creators who are simply bad. The mismatch between quality and success, basically.
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Snake Maze posted:I've never quite understood the intensity of goon hate for XKCD. Not enjoying it, sure, it's not my favorite either, but some people just go above and beyond, whipping themselves into a weird public tantrum whenever it comes up. I guess it's a performative thing? XKCD's fanbase is "cringe", as the kids these days say, and some people just need to make sure nobody accidentally thinks they like it. I don't know, it's weird. Its the Rick and Morty of comics. People read it and reference it and think that shows how smart they are. Also everything else people have said.
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 Plus, I’d Be Able to Float by Holding My Breath  I Also Bought a Dog Collar. Well, a Dog Harness Actually… but Close Enough, Right?  My Initiation was to Cook a Turkey  Lazy Cat
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Garrand posted:God this whole thing is a hilarious clusterfuck of drama. I'm not a big fan of any of these comics but there's a big difference between super easy jokes that will occur to any cartoonist with a regular schedule like "kissing a dog" and "being a language pedant" and a shot for shot remake of a really specific weird situation.
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Ccs posted:I'm not a big fan of any of these comics but there's a big difference between super easy jokes that will occur to any cartoonist with a regular schedule like "kissing a dog" and "being a language pedant" and a shot for shot remake of a really specific weird situation. Yeah the funny thing is if Adam had just said that people come up with the same joke independently all the time he would have gotten away with it. You can only tell he's guilty because he tried to cover his tracks after someone called him out.
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