Friday, January 23, 2009

Comic 533: Comic Hell

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So super-commenter and guest blogger Thomas was very angered by this comic. His phrase, in an e-mail to me that I hope he didn't think was private, called it "pandering to the point of self-mockery" and I think I agree. This comic is Randy saying "boo hoo, I liked this product and now it's gone. boo hoooooo also sony suxors"

I really have nothing else to say. This comic is just simple and dumb. "My product was great, whoever stopped making it should go to hell." xkcd needs to stop being a website that just complains about technology products that Randy doesn't like.

And for anyone who laughed at the tired old "someone is pretending to be me ON THE INTERNET" joke just know that it's from here: Bash.org, # 5775. Remember when xkcd used to be about new jokes, not just copying another person's joke and going "hey, look, this funny thing happened to me also!" And seriously, how labored can you get? "I hope he doesn't get revenge by messing with what I type!" Why not just draw a cartoon bad guy going "Gosh, I hope a piano doesn't fall on my head today!"

Anyway, a trusted friend who usually likes xkcd a lot more than me has told me that the next comic is just godawful, so I am going to stop writing and read it now. Discuss amongst yourselves.

16 comments:

  1. I could not finish this one. I made it to the second panel and it was so boring I actually just stopped. I think that might be a first for me.

    I have a decent attention span too.

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  2. Secret hidden fifth panel: the woman and the Devil get suffocated to death by all the text.

    CAPTCHA: logic. The Captcha is an XKCD-fan too!

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  3. Oh! And I thought it's just some catchphrase 4chan's /b/-tards say.
    Encyclopedia Dramatica agrees with you with regard to its origin.

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  4. Hey, remember when Randall Munroe used to care about not being homophobic? Guys? Guys?

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  5. Cow, if you think that I don't read Encyclopedia Dramatica for research purposes you are mistaken...yeah I read that too. I think I like the phrase "DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS" because of the contrast between the juvenile cocksucking thing and the formal diction of "disregard." welcome to OVERANALYSING HUMOR WITH YOUR HOST MR. CARL WHEELER

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  6. I didn't even really understand the point of this one, is the joke "ha ha, sometimes great products fail regardless" or is it really just "ha ha Sony sux"?

    Either way, get to Fridays already, even if your writeup is just DERP DERP DERP it's going to be better than the comic.

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  7. XKCD rules.

    You don't.

    Face it

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  8. DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS!

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  9. OK, I don't know if that was planned out or both Anons are the same person but that was nice.

    Well done.

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  10. The Cuddlefishy exchange was unsurprisingly enough wayyyyy funnier than the comic.

    I think the biggest reaction I had to the comic was, "Huh. He said 'cocks.'" And then even that went away as I figured it was probably from some old net meme and LO AND BEHOLD IT WAS A MEME.

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  11. How would the Devil even know about that Fujitsu laptop if he has to use Sony?

    I guess the "take that" at Sony was just too important for, you know, the comic to make sense?

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  12. Well I've been rackin' my brains trying to work out what this comic reminds me of, and I finally got it! It's Ctrl-Alt-Del.

    Four panels, look. Two talking heads. Walls of text. And the fourth panel, where the punchline should be, doesn't have a punchline. It just has... a comment. "The Devil uses Sony." Uh... ha ha ha?

    (Also notice that all the characters have exactly the same facial expression!)

    (Unrelated: why is one of the Devil's hands a mallet)

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  13. DoubleBlackbird: I think the Devil is holding a piece of paper.

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  14. Actually the correct answer is, "to squish sinners' heads with".

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  15. I almost think the alt-text was a bonus for those nerdy enough to remember jokes from bash.

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  16. still, he should change it in some way so it's a reference, not just copy-pasting "DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS"

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