Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Comic 959: Christmas Time Is Here
[Noted copyright criminal "The Pirate King" sent me this review for the one about King Wenceslas. So, you're welcome. -Ed.]
So, we've got a christmas carol comic in early october. That's cool I guess, I mean all the stores are gearing up for the holidays so why shouldn't xkcd? Or I don't know, maybe Randall's been working on this one for the better part of a year and finally found the courage to publish it. That would make more sense given this comic's track record with timeliness.
So it's another black hat guy comic. As much as I agree that randall has totally forgotten how to do these, I find them a relief from the usual crap, ie, some horrible pun, nerd reference, or emotional bullcrap. I mean who doesn't like some good ol' fashioned trolling?
That being said, this is a pretty tired joke. It's the setup where one character is trying to tell a joke or be enthusiastic about something, and another character kills it with tragedy, and then the first character feels guilty. "How dare you say that, my father was killed by a _____!" Randall is just putting it in a different context, and one that doesn't make any sense. According to Wikipedia, an infallible source of information on all things everywhere, King Wenceslaus didn't massacre anybody. So check your fucking facts, RANDALL.
I did find a tidbit in the alt text amusing, although not in the dark-humor way that randall intended it. To my knowledge, the phrase "a thousand generations" can come from only two sources; the Bible, or Star Wars. Since Randall has made it clear he is an atheist, I can only assume this is a Star Wars reference; possibly an unintentional one.
So, we've got a christmas carol comic in early october. That's cool I guess, I mean all the stores are gearing up for the holidays so why shouldn't xkcd? Or I don't know, maybe Randall's been working on this one for the better part of a year and finally found the courage to publish it. That would make more sense given this comic's track record with timeliness.
So it's another black hat guy comic. As much as I agree that randall has totally forgotten how to do these, I find them a relief from the usual crap, ie, some horrible pun, nerd reference, or emotional bullcrap. I mean who doesn't like some good ol' fashioned trolling?
That being said, this is a pretty tired joke. It's the setup where one character is trying to tell a joke or be enthusiastic about something, and another character kills it with tragedy, and then the first character feels guilty. "How dare you say that, my father was killed by a _____!" Randall is just putting it in a different context, and one that doesn't make any sense. According to Wikipedia, an infallible source of information on all things everywhere, King Wenceslaus didn't massacre anybody. So check your fucking facts, RANDALL.
I did find a tidbit in the alt text amusing, although not in the dark-humor way that randall intended it. To my knowledge, the phrase "a thousand generations" can come from only two sources; the Bible, or Star Wars. Since Randall has made it clear he is an atheist, I can only assume this is a Star Wars reference; possibly an unintentional one.
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Wait, the Pirate King still lives? GLORY BE THE PIRATE KING.
ReplyDeleteSo I guess we should expect an xkcd comic about Steve Job's death in a few months.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the time when...
ReplyDeleteSeriously, just one more thing...
*BOOM*.
It's been 123,456 hours and 5 days since Diana died. This time the tears will be virtual and the flowers artificial, but the sentiment will remain as annoying.
He already did one, over two years ago. 527 is gonna look nice and tasteless now.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks to you, DarkJesus, I'll always remember that I heard it here first, because it was 1:30am and I just HAD to check the xkcdsucks blog. Thank you for making this moment memorable.
That's 123,456 + 123.456 hours capitalist saint inter-death period, meaningful even for Eurofags who abuse the comma.
ReplyDeleteQUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY QUASI-RELIGIOUS CONSPIRACY
Ravenzomg, thanks, and nice icon. I've just been lurking more than posting.
ReplyDeleteAnd JohnLevi, 527 was always tasteless.
We all have those days/weeks/months, PirateKing. I also wish everyone else had continued with Christmas Carol based posts. [[I was doing a very poor "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"]]
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth King Wenceslas' feast day in the Catholic Church was in late September, so that's possibly the inspiration for a christmas caroling comic this early. Of course even then it's late...
ReplyDelete@Ravenzomg: Really? I was wondering what you were doing there. Should have responded in kind, but oh well.
ReplyDeleteAnd REM3, I don't think randall would do something like that and not brag about it, either in the alt text or in post punchline dialogue.
Come to think of it, this comic had no PPD. Bravo, randall.
What the hell does anyone be talking about now?
ReplyDeletesteve jobs is dead? get ready for another fun cancer comic, everyone!
ReplyDeletecaptcha: unfat (what rob is not)
Cancer = lolz amirite?
ReplyDeleteI don't really think that Randy necessarily thought King Wenceslas massacred anybody... I mean, it is black hat guy, and I just figured he was being, well, black hat guy.
ReplyDeletebut why is that supposed to be funny or interesting?
ReplyDeleteBecause his hat... it's black. He's wearing a black hat, so anything he does is comedy gold if it's even the least bit dickish. He could throw a balloon full of vomit and it'd be hilarious.
ReplyDeleteJUST BECAUSE HE'S AN ATHEIST DOESN'T MEAN HE HASN'T READ THE BIBLE.
ReplyDeleteNo, but it makes it pretty unlikely that he'd quote it randomly.
ReplyDeletei don't remember the thousand generations bit in the bible, where is it
ReplyDelete@Anon 11:47 No, but it does mean he's unlikely to reference it.
ReplyDeleteWhat if Good King Wenceslas was BAD King Wenceslas? xkcd explores.
ReplyDeletecaptcha: hitere
ReplyDeleteI kinda liked the alt text. Not the thousand generations part, but the bit about feasting on Stephen. It's not comedy gold, but it made me chuckle a little, which is more than I can say for the comic.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so Randall must have been hit with the hugest spark of inspiration ever, because today's comic is great.
ReplyDeleteSince when does he update on Thursdays?
ReplyDeleteHis wife informed him he'd be spending all day Friday sucking her dick, so this was his last chance.
ReplyDeleteCaptcha: muffe. Guess again, captcha generator.
While the "pause some act and replace it with a beachball" thing is about ten years old, it's been applied in a reasonably meaningful and timely fashion by Munroe here.
ReplyDeleteI hated Jobs and hope he is burning in hell, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate good execution of a comic strip to milk his memory.
I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
ReplyDeleteAin't got no money, Ain't got no class
Ain't got no skirts, Ain't got no sweater
Ain't got no perfume Ain't got no bed
Ain't got no mind,
Ain't got no mother Ain't got no culture
Ain't got no friends, aint got no schoolin'
Ain't got no love, Ain't got no name
Ain't got no ticket, Ain't got no token
Ain't got no god
and what have i got?
why am i alive anyway?
yeah what have i got?
nobody can take away?...
Got my hair. Got my head
Got my brains, Got my ears
Got my eyes, Got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile
I got my tongue, Got my chin
Got my neck, Got my boobies
Got my heart, Got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex
I got my arms, got my hands, got my fingers,
got my legs, got my feet, got my toes,
got my liver, got my blood..
I've got life,
i've got my freedom
i've got life
I've got life
and I am gonna keep it
I've got life
and nobody's gonna take it away
I've got life!
@Anon 8:29
ReplyDeleteHey, if you wanna flame Steve Jobs, then take it to the xkcd forums.
OMG GUISE DIANA DIED
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of cancer this time.
Take note, Randall.
Jobs was a lot richer than your whore of a wife, and his money couldn't save him.
well that's not very nice
ReplyDeleteHow dare you call her a whore? She always makes guys do her up the ass, so that doesn't count as sex.
ReplyDelete@Rob
ReplyDeleteIt's Exodus 20:6: "but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments"
Translations vary on that one though, it seems.
R., your using a computer made by slave labourers working under an oppressive regime half way across the world as part of a global system of exploitation and resource appropriation isn't nice.
ReplyDeleteXKCDsucks sucks. XKCD is great. that is all
ReplyDeleteHaha. Slave laborers. Those guys got pwnt. In more than one sense.
ReplyDeleteAs did I, by outliving Jobs. There is no god, and he is dust.
ReplyDeleteAll his billions but he is still no more.
I live on.
haha 960 is mysteriously brilliant
ReplyDeletewtf :D
*961
ReplyDelete11:26, it's "you're", not "your"
ReplyDeletedumbass
fake R., i am usually only facetiously hostile and i don't really care about your/you're
ReplyDeleteyou're getting better though
fake R. you are the reason I still post here
ReplyDeleteHey guys you can check out how many of my buddies you're making use of at http://slaveryfootprint.org/
ReplyDeleteHow not very nice are YOU?
Actually, R. 2:01, in this instance "your" is the proper homonym to use. Anon was using "using a computer made by slave labourers working under an oppressive regime half way across the world as part of a global system of exploitation and resource appropriation" as a noun, albeit an extremely long and descriptive one. It could be rephrased "Your use of a computer..." to a similar, but less obfuscated effect.
ReplyDeleteIt's bizarre to use Wenceslaus I as an example though. His brother Boreslav, yes. The only thing Wenceslaus was ever accused of was authorizing or abetting the killing of John of Nepomuc, and that was probably a false charge, as well.
ReplyDeleteI think it's just a mondegreen - like little kids sing and think it's a feast of St. Stephen. Meaning, haha they ATE him haha! Still wouldn't make it a massacre.
ReplyDelete@Slavey McSlaverton - I think you're missing the point. Slavery is not a club where you know every other slave.
ReplyDeleteBack on topic...
961 was good. The alt text explains the joke, but thankfully does not ruin it. I will point out though that Randall has had this comic in storage for months, and chose to post it just now. That is, it was not drawn specifically to mark Mr Jobs' passing, for two reasons:
1) If it had, it would contain a reference to Mr Jobs in the alt text.
and 2) Randall could not conceive and execute such a good idea in, what, 12 hours?
Okay, you can carry on arguing now.
shadowsbane, my bad
ReplyDeletefake r, i don't use capital letters. you should know this by now
Shadowsbane. "Your use of" and "Your using" are not equ- aw fuck this.
ReplyDeleteYour misunderstanding of English grammar makes me a sad panda :-(
ReplyDeleteAnon352: That's the spirit. If you spend too many words telling people their corrected corrections are wrong, you let the terrorists win.
ReplyDeleteRavenzomg: I believe you mean "If your using of too many words tells people their corrected corrections are wrong, you let Randy win."
ReplyDeleteIT'S A GERUND, YOU STUPID FUCKS. A GERUND.
ReplyDeletedid you know that gerunds exist
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of people would attack someone they don't even know by calling her a whore, just 'cause she's the wife of the guy who makes jokes they don't like?
ReplyDelete...oops, right, people who like this website! Sorry, keep on and enjoy your ability to insult. Mind you, repeating that on and on will not help you to learn how to argue... not that you care, I suppose.
good call! nobody cares about "learning how to argue" because none of us are in high school debate club, which is the only time that "learning how to argue" is ever going to be useful for anyone.
ReplyDeleteMeaning that you have no arguments, and you don't care about having them?
ReplyDeleteno, I have plenty, I just don't care about having them. one of these days, if you're lucky, you'll understand. but probably not.
ReplyDeleteLeaving aside whether you have arguments or not (oh, you do! But you don't want to use them... lol, does anyone buy that, seriously?), there are still the insults, completely uncalled for. How do you feel about them appearing in your page?
ReplyDeleteI don't see a problem with this comic.
ReplyDeleteMr. Black hat has a reputation of doing things nonsensical and/or destructive for the sake of ruining someone's day.
He just wrecked caroling by invoking the fact that history has many sides to be interpreted. Whether it's true or not does not matter to Black hat himself.
I agree with the previous poster. Coming with something like "King Wenceslaus didn't massacre anybody. So check your fucking facts, RANDALL" is very retarded since the author is not stating that as a fact in any way. It's clearly the kind of evil joke BHG would make to a group of people caroling. But I guess you had to find something to critique, so you pretended to believe that was meant to be a historical fact.
ReplyDeleteAs for the previous-previous poster, I'd say the author of this blog actually encourages insults and is not shy to use them himself. Don't sweat it.
"there are still the insults, completely uncalled for. How do you feel about them appearing in your page? "
ReplyDeletei endorse them 100%. where the fuck have you been?
...well, apparently, at a place called "respect", which I think you haven't heard of. So, when someone calls the wife of the guy who writes xkcd "a whore" and mocks of her cancer, you endorse it 100%? Why is that?
ReplyDeletebecause it's hilarious
ReplyDeleteWhat is hilarious in someone having cancer?
ReplyDeletelook, i think you may have gotten the wrong blog
ReplyDeleteWhatever. What is hilarious in someone having cancer?
ReplyDeleteeverything?
ReplyDeleteHow exactly?
ReplyDeleteschadenfreude ist die schoenste freude
ReplyDeleteYes, when someone steps on a banana skin and falls, or receives a pie in the face... but CANCER? And what about the "whore" bit? That one doesn't even have the schadenfreude excuse.
ReplyDeletecancer is like a banana skin x1000, how is that not funny?
ReplyDeleteand whore is one of the most hilarious words in the english language, look it up
Anon, cut him some slack... this guy does not have a succesful webcomic, despite being so good at criticizing others'. But he still can, at least, find some joy in others' misfortune, specially if those others are related to the guy with the succesful webcomic he hates for all those reasons that he doesn't want to mention. So again, don't sweat it.
ReplyDeleteif i don't want to mention them why have i written so many posts explaining why i hate xkcd
ReplyDeleteExplaining? But when someone questions your "arguments" you either attack that someone personally or pretend to be in posession of a truth that they cannot understand, like saying "one of these days, if you're lucky, you'll understand. but probably not", as to avoid, precisely, giving an explanation.
ReplyDeleteCome on, you just said in this post that you had arguments but you didn't want to use them.
I also note that you don't even mention the rest of my comment... sorry if I hit a nerve.
explanations are not arguments. there is a big difference that i hope to god you will figure out when you're older.
ReplyDeletei don't mention the rest of your comment because i don't care. suggesting that someone who has just said 'schadenfreude ist die schoenste freude' might enjoy himself a bit of schadenfreude is not a very interesting comment. did you really think that was clever or incisive in any way?
Are you actually interested in my answers to that?
ReplyDeletenot particularly
ReplyDeleteI still don't get why all the hate. Is it really jealousy?
ReplyDeleteWhat the fu ck is a tidbit, you bowdlerising cu nt?
ReplyDeletehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tidbit
ReplyDelete