"[a] vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a silly and harmless comic."
Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.
I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.
Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.
this is just an excuse to demonstrate your skill at solving a rubik's cube, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteA woman turning down someone for loving rubik's cubes would be a fine rebuttal. To Randall's face, priceless.
ReplyDeleteAsk yourself: would seeing the writer behind the blog enhance or ruin the reading experience in the future?
1. Yes
ReplyDeleteAnd thomas - I am imagining it as more just seeing my hands and the cube, to preserve my much valued anonymity. It doesn't really have to do with rubik's cubes, I just had this idea suddenly to do a video post rather than a written one, and this is sort of an excuse.
Don't jump the shark!
ReplyDeleteI don't want to have to start 'xkcdsuckssucks.blogspot.com'.
(I am just talking.)
Yeah, I decided against it, mostly out of laziness.
ReplyDeleteBut for the record - I am totally in favor of xkcdsuckssucks.blogspot.com.
Quick! someone register it and start posting pro-xkcd posts!