This is Ravenzomg of Ravenzomg fame to review this monsjavaty.
To demonstrate the absurd pointlessness of this massive... thing, I will review this comic using a single cropped but otherwise unedited screenshot and three sentences following it. I wish I edited the picture to make that juxtaposition, but look for yourselves (which I know you won't because that's why you're here).
(2)It's a good thing his readers apparently aren't good at money, or they'd realize the absurdity of paying $15 for one 36"x24" poster, but $150 for four 36"x24" posters -- should i be yelling or laughing, what even is this.
(3)There are many things wrong with the java script (such as creating a new page every time it tries to reload the image or just being unintuitive), the graphic presentation (such as requiring us to follow it in what can only be described as an 'S' if it had fallen forward onto its face, drunk from all the colorfully named drinks it bought which it kept claiming made it "eccentric" and "interesting" in a way that you filthy plebes just wouldn't... ahhhh.... hold on [*throwing up noises*], or the fact that he presents sums on the order of 6000-8000 in thousands, and expects us to be awed at the fact that there is all of a 1-2 tiny boxes difference), and questionable factual issues/typological mistakes/general mistakes (such as... well, I'm not going to say anything because unlike the previous two criteria, he can actually ret-con these), but rather than make a ginormous list I'm going to let you all say what you disliked or found incorrect in this comic, because I know you are all just dying to post your individual fault that you have discovered and I wouldn't dare threaten your pride by stealing your stolen thunder using this stolen thunder which was itself stolen, mmk, so go nuts down there i know i might.
rob, why do you keep allowing this shit on this sacred site
ReplyDeleteFinance is the most boring shit.
ReplyDeleteMoney, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you try to get a rise it's no surprise they're giving none away.
ReplyDelete...
ReplyDelete"but if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away"
nono, it's much funnier the other way, Anon625
ReplyDeleteGood God, I thought you were just joking/forgetting what you had said when you said there were three sentences, but no, that monstrosity after point three is indeed on sentence.
ReplyDeleteWho the fuck in their right mind would waste time reading even a fraction of this bloated wale carcass of a chart?
ReplyDeleteFirst!
ReplyDeleteI have located a problem which you did not mention and cannot be easily retconned: the image did not contain any reference to romance, sarcasm, math, or language. Or humor. Randall usually at least makes some feeble attempt at something meant to be intelligent or funny. This is just a dump of data. Not even good data.
ReplyDeleteFrom the store page:
ReplyDelete"This is a preorder and should ship around the start of December and will include corrections."
"... will include corrections."
So, I guess, he knew he was posting something that needed editing.
Do you think he will just fix the posters or will he actually fix the comic too?
As anon @9:44 said this is just a data dump. It's also something that has been done before. LETS COMPARE HOW MUCH THINGS COST IN RELATION TO OTHER THINGS!
ReplyDeleteI don't care how much research someone does, if they have nothing interesting to say with all the data they've collected then no matter how big a poster they make, it will not be impressive.
The only thing impressive about it is the amount of time he wasted.
It also helps when the data has been compiled by somebody credible.
ReplyDeleteAgreed with 11:20. The radiation one in the past was sort of interesting because it's something that most people have no idea about and this mode of graphical representation wasn't something he'd done before.
ReplyDeleteWhat he did was completely reuse one of his old ideas and apply it to a new concept that most everyone understands really well already (how much shit costs). It's so... not interesting at all.
And it pisses me off so much how some of my Facebook friends are drooling over it. I guess people have such low expectations for xkcd now that anytime he does something that looks like he put time into it, people go crazy.
"(2)It's a good thing his readers apparently aren't good at money, or they'd realize the absurdity of paying $15 for one 36"x24" poster, but $150 for four 36"x24" posters -- should i be yelling or laughing, what even is this."
ReplyDeleteI didn't even look at the prices, but HOLY SHIT. If you want to know what Randy really thinks of his readership, look no further. He didn't even bother to design the chart in quarters, so doing it as four tiled posters is going to look like a cheap DIY job anyway. God dammit Randy, if you're going to charge someone $150 for a poster the least you can do is make it look professional.
There's a poster of it already? So fucking awful.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=BIRD-SEARSPRINTLARGE&Category_Code=BIRD
ReplyDeleteA SEVEN FOOT LONG POSTER, not split into 4 pieces, for $65. What the fuck is Randy thinking.
That he can get away with it.
ReplyDeleteListen, he spent a lot of time compiling that data. He has to earn all that opportunity cost back.
ReplyDeleteMoney money money, musty cunny, in a rich man's world.
ReplyDelete@anon1218
ReplyDeleteclick on poster
try to see the fullsize image
look it up online
realize it's seven feet of two flat colors with one word on it
AMERICA FUCK YEAH
But anon112, if you don't get the poster how will people know that you are "hip" and "with it" and "get the references"? YOU COULDN'T, but this man has a solution for only $65!
ReplyDeleteLuckily, I am too poor to be hip because I gave all my money to John Campbell to be hipster as hell.
Cost is a fact; price is a policy.
ReplyDeleteAs he astutely points out below "The Economic Vortex", for these drooling idiots, "The process is complicated." With my mathematician's hat on, I see nothing complicated at all: you buy stuff as cheaply as possible and you sell as expensively as possible to the most ignorant consumer available.
In particular, the "price" of his large poster is $150, a policy borne of his knowledge of the stupidity of his readers.
(An interesting poster would actually show, for various industries, the flow of money and who creams off from the top at each stage. This poster has no coherence and no value, just like its mediocre, cancer-pandering author.)
Wow. "java viewer" ? It's javascript which has absolutely nothing to do with java. Also it's great. Panojs is amazing. I spent like an hour looking at the code.
ReplyDelete")There are many things wrong with the java script (such as creating a new page every time it tries to reload the image " ..
ReplyDeleteUmm wow. None of those things happen. You may perhaps glimpse a redraw because panojs works on a tile system. (but hey so does google maps). This is simply the way it was done, not js's fault. Also, it's a fairly good way to do it. You might notice only the hash changes in the URL, the page is *not* being recreated. a js function is just running to update the hash, the images etc. js actually does quite the OPPOSITE of making a "new page" every time. You just talk out your ass and are incredibly wrong whereas randy makes a chart with hours of research. Amazing. I hope your web site goes away.
Hogwarts is not a real school by fact, Ravenzomg or should I type RavenZAMEFAG (HEH).
ReplyDeleteSure, what ever you say muggle.
ReplyDeleteYou'd do better by just admitting this comic/graphic is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteOMG I'm so fucking wacky and zany
ReplyDeleteMy idea of a turn-on is cascading file folders!
(won't someone please love me)
Dear anonymous commentor who posted at 6:04 in the am,
ReplyDeleteWhen you go to the javascript viewer and look around a little bit and then press back, it does not take you back to Randy's terrible homepage but rather just ineffectually changes the hash tag such that you must either press back for every single navigation that you made in the viewer or give up all together. This is what we mean when we say it makes a new page; we are not talking about any technical specifics of what it means to load a new page, but rather the practical issue that it poses to the end user as it takes up space in our back button queue.
Thank you for your time and have a pleasant thanksgiving, you fuckstain.
I looked back in my web browser [Chrome] history, and between loading the javacritter that runs the thing twice (i must have closed the browser for some reason), I managed to rack up 35 pages worth of history that just read "xkcd: Money Chart" over and over and over. So I don't really care about the definition of "page reloading", because my real point was "why the fuck does this one webpage which I opened twice take up 300+ entries in my history?" Yes, I can just delete it, and no, it's not like this inconveniences me in any real way. I just don't get WHY.
ReplyDeleteThat's because you couldn't program to save your life.
ReplyDelete"fucking megan, keeping our kids from going to Hogwarts"
ReplyDeleteThat sentence is made of so much win.
Captcha: extersu. Spell taught at Hogwarts to remove tumors (though it's taught in sixth year, chemo would still be cheaper).
That's because you couldn't program to save your life.
ReplyDeleteSrsly. =[ I will never know the joy of kneeling before Randall like you guys, mouth open and ready to receive my reward. Truly this review was just the product of envy. I will never be as awesome as you leet hackers =[
How the hell can anyone read this comic. By buying a huge poster of it for $150?
ReplyDeleteAhh.. I see what Randy has done here.
anon9:19am:
ReplyDeleteYes... doing deep linking with javascript breaks the back button... big whoop. You can fix it though some wizardry with iframes or timers, and most people don't bother. (because it's a clusterfuck) This is an off-the-shelf free viewer. its not like randy coded it jees.
Srsly. =[ I will never know the joy of kneeling before Randall like you guys, mouth open and ready to receive my reward. Truly this review was just the product of envy. I will never be as awesome as you leet hackers =[
ReplyDeleteBecause, you know, only xkcd fanboys know how to program.
He misspelled "Liliane Bettencourt" as "Lilianne Bettencourt". That means he is gay.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only completly annoyed by Randall not knowing that Hogwarts is a STATE* school? It's never stated outright, but it's hyper-implied.
ReplyDeleteAll the students have to pay for is school materials (including uniforms, cauldrons, potion ingredients, books, wand, etc.), but there's even a fund meant to cover those costs for those who need it. The Ministry of Magic can't afford to leave badly-educated wizards and witches running around, they are forced to make sure Hogwarts exits; not to mention that individual persons can, and aften do, make donations to Hogwarts through the Ministry.
Hogwart's biggest expenses are probably food and staff's salaries, since it must be extent from any form of taxing used in that world. Hagrid grows some vegetables and what not, so the food they actually have to buy is not much, considering that wizards, while they can't produce food out of thin air, can enlarge the quantity of already existing food.
* I say STATE, to avoid the confusion between British public(i.e. paid) schools and American public (i.e. state school).
I was most disappointed because this info was missing:
ReplyDeleteExpect to pay about two to three dollars an ounce for breastmilk, though your insurance company may pick up a portion or all of that cost.
How to Buy Breastmilk
It is quite common for breast fed newborns to eat every 1-2 hours around the clock for a few weeks and for each feeding to take as much as 30-45 minutes to accomplish
How many ounces should my newborn eat per feeding?
So babies waste like $50 a day in breast milk and that's not counting them wasting 12 hours a day of the mother's time, valued at $30/hr, = $360 a day. $131,500 a year. So you'd be way better off getting a Wii than having a child.
Anon 1:23 does not seem to understand that British schools are not funded by money falling out of the sky.
ReplyDeletePretty sure Anon 1:23 said it was funded by taxes and donations, unless you somehow count that as "money falling out of the sky."
ReplyDeleteHogwarts definitely doesn't have any tuition. After Harry first finds out he's a wizard, they take him to his vault and specifically tell him to only take out as much as he needs for school supplies. If he needed to pay tuition, he would have had to take that out, too. But they never say anything to him about taking out enough gold to pay tuition.
Also there are lots of characters who are poor and who fret about being able to afford things like robes and school supplies, but there's never any mention at all of them worrying about tuition.
And Tom Riddle was an orphan with no money, but he still went to the school. And since he was poor, they gave him free gold specifically for school supplies- again, tuition is never mentioned.
I think it's pretty much the law that all magical people have to go to school- it's not legal to do magic on your own until you're 17 and educated. That's why Hagrid's wand was broken and he's not allowed to do magic- because he didn't complete school. So they'd have to make sure every single witch and wizard went to school. They couldn't make it tuition-based and keep out all the poor people.
11:23, so what you're saying is that Javascript is a half baked solution to application development and that only a bunch of morons would choose it as a platform for serious coding?
ReplyDeleteAnd if you read that I'm implying that Google are staffed by morons, then you're half-right: Google is a one trick search pony with a thousand useless tools Apple-marketing down geeks' throats because they do adore having all of their information taken from them and their features reduced to one tenth their original AS LONG AS IT'S NOT MICROSOFT CUZ GATES IS THE DEVIL AND BALLMER SWEATS.
that was actually a really cool comic...
ReplyDeleteI think the worst thing about this graphic is that Randy did not correlate the facts in it in any significant way. I looked at that box called "six things I learned while researching this chart" and I thought: All that research to learn THAT? What a waste!
ReplyDelete-
What is the point of collecting so much data if you are not capable of actually understanding it?
I would say hogwarts is funded mainly by donations hence the power of the Malfoys. This is often the way in public schools (private schools) where succesful old pupils donate large amounts. This is becoming less so of cause but certainly was the case.
ReplyDeleteof cause? of cause?
ReplyDeleteof course?
a horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course, that is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed
ReplyDeleteI love the "incl. tuition" clarification, because tuition is one of those hidden costs of attending a school that you never think of.
ReplyDelete"I love the "incl. tuition" clarification, because tuition is one of those hidden costs of attending a school that you never think of."
ReplyDeleteyeah, usually people say "including fees," because you sometimes don't think of the various fees you might have to pay to be a student somewhere when just looking at tuition. but I guess that's for us normies, and not for Randy, who is OMG SO QUIRKY and thinks backwards from the normal world
"I would say hogwarts is funded mainly by donations hence the power of the Malfoys. This is often the way in public schools (private schools) where succesful old pupils donate large amounts. This is becoming less so of cause but certainly was the case."
ReplyDeletewhile it was not a wizarding school, the private school I attended here in the States received a lot of money through donations, and there were several families that were comically powerful because of it.
"I think the worst thing about this graphic is that Randy did not correlate the facts in it in any significant way. I looked at that box called "six things I learned while researching this chart" and I thought: All that research to learn THAT? What a waste!"
the part that bothers me is the implication that he already knew the rest of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IHMctrKCg
ReplyDeleteRob I think I found your personal theme song.
basically
ReplyDeleteZOMG PR0N lololololol and that nerd is doing it wrong! Goatkcd is exceptionally good today.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/11/infographic-xkcd-shows-you-the.php
ReplyDelete<3
no decimation goomh? or is it implied?
ReplyDeleteAs if outsourcing the editing job to the fans wasn't bad enough already, here's a suggestion from the forums:
ReplyDeleteJust a thought: What if xkcd offered a subscription whereby people could pay maybe $15/yr to get the comics a day early? This way a smaller more dedicated audience could see and report typos a day before each comic is released to the masses.
"more dedicated" is not the first term i would think of for such people.
ReplyDeletecaptcha: nontaked. if you're on this sight, you are very nontaked at the moment =[
pay to make your favourite webcomic creator even lazier
ReplyDeleteThat's fucking depressing, anon 4:27. 600 comics of decline, and this guy still has a dedicated fanbase willing to put up with all that shit.
ReplyDeletelink
ReplyDelete"Marketers, the xkcd Money infographic is now the standard by which all of your infographics will be measured by."
You can't be serious. Xkcd 980 is not a bad infographic, but it's obviously not the best.
This bit is worse though:
"The entire chart is 12,528 by 8,352 pixels. That would take five Apple 27" Thunderbolt Displays to render full-size, side to side. It would take 30 Apple 27" displays to show in its entirety at full size. Or you could buy your very own copy to hang on the wall and admire without having to purchase a phalanx of $1,000 monitors."
He's surely not suggesting that we actually do this. And sure, when you put it that way, buying the giant poster seems like the better option.
This is why we fight.
ReplyDeleteJon Levi, what is the best infographic?
ReplyDeleteOr I could just get it printed at a printshop.
ReplyDeleteThe best infographic to ask for is the one Anonymous 12:00 PM asked for, and the best one to give in reply is the one Jon Levi responds with.
ReplyDeleteOk, so I've been coming to this site for a while now, every now and again, and I've gotta say: this sucks. Everyone here is so goddamn smug, it's just a giant circlejerk. I'll give you that the webcomic is bad, I'll give you that it's gotten worse, and I'll give you the fact that originally it was this site that made me see it. However, it's really degenerated into mindless hate and trolling. I get the impression that even if Randal managed to create a good comic people here'd be unable to see it because they're so focused on finding things to dislike. I should make an XKCD sucks sucks site.
ReplyDelete@7:49:
ReplyDeleteYou do that, asshole.
"However, it's really degenerated into mindless hate and trolling."
ReplyDeleteAlmost as if it's just "[a] vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness [...]", eh Anon?
come on people, at least TRY to pass reading comprehension if you aren't socially developed enough to pick up on social cues.
"fucking megan, keeping our kids from going to Hogwarts"
ReplyDeleteSeriously, ppl, stop obsessing with Megan and "Randy"... criticize the webcomic itself, stop with the ad hominem, you look like dorks.
learn what ad hominem is plz
ReplyDeleteWhat would you know 9:43? You can't even spell.
ReplyDeleteMegan jokes stopped being funny awhile ago. Just because the site is about being nasty for no reason, that doesn't mean the nastiness can't be more creative and original, and based more on the problems of the comic. You guys do this on your free time so you don't have to change anything, it's just my opinion. Keep doing what you're doing if you want. :P
ReplyDeleteGood review by the way, Ravenzomg. This comic was shitty and boring beyond belief. Who honestly would spend the time to read all of that, enjoy it, and PAY to have a large copy of it? It boggles my mind.
Goodbye Janet Doe
ReplyDeleteThough I never knew you at all
You had the grace to wear your wig
While those around you scrawled
They scrawled into MSPaint
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the milk pump
And they made you change your name
chorus:
And it seems to me that you're Randall's wife
A mistake but not a sin
Having no real man to cling to
When Big C set in
And I would have liked to have bought you
But I was just outbid
Your bosom burned out long before
Your potential to be milked for sympathy by a failing comic who desperately needs a new creative angle and to look like more than a big kid with no real responsibilities ever did
Stick figure female geek was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Randall created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the trolls still hounded you
All the hate blogs had to say
Was that Megan was found lactating
[repeat chorus]
Goodbye Janet Doe
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to wear your wig
While those around you scrawled
From the young man browsing xkcdsucks
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Megan Munroe
[repeat chorus]
My favourite infographic? Hm, I suppose the Death and Taxes infographic is the one I spent staring at the longest.
ReplyDeleteIt visualizes sums of money, and has an annoying flash viewer, but I assure you, it's better, kinda. Okay that last sentence had way too many commas in it.
I'll let you know if I come up with a better answer.
Ever notice how there are so many infographics about 'social media'? I swear no one apart from infographic designers uses that stupid phrase.
ReplyDeleteJon, almost everybody i know uses that term, the only types i can think of that don't are people that are able to avoid social media (lucky asshats) or hipsters that refuse to be a part of the system, took that term, AND THREW IT ON THE GROUND
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:14 - You must be an infographic designer. Could you please make us an infographic entitled 'How Social Media Caused the Decline of Xkcd'
ReplyDelete"Like this'll make a difference", I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteXkcd has been decreasing in quality for a while now and sometimes it's lame, but THIS site is sometimes "a giant circlejerk" as you put it, where ppl pat themselves on the back for making agressive comments about "Randy", and other times is pure shit thrown at the guy who makes a web comic - and his fiancée. Personal attacks are the lowest, and show you how this site has degenerated to a much lower level than whatever xkcd has ever done.
But I guess there are pleasures in circlejerks...
Savvy people don't call it social media they call it web 3.0
ReplyDeleteRe haters: I'm basically trying to break down this site through shitty guest reviews. Unfortunately, people keep saying i'm doing something right, so i don't really know any more. I thought the "Randall x Rob slash fic" review would've done it, but apparently not. I don't really understand what these people dislike anymore, and it's become a morbid fascination more than anything: what level of crap are you people willing to put up with before just leaving. Answer: more than i would ever have thought. >:?
ReplyDeleteAnd Randall doesn't come to this site because he said it would be weird, so I will never feel particularly bad about the meaningless straw-randalls and straw-megans we create.
Also really savvy people use the word "cutting edge" a lot more.
Ravenzomg!, as I'm sure I've said in the past, if you were to just post alluring pics in place of reviews then the site would surely "break down".
ReplyDeleteThat's a rather futile goal, Ravenzomg. Pretty sure the vast majority of people who were interested in criticizing xkcd in a semi-intelligent fashion gave the site up long ago. The people remaining don't give a damn what they read or write. It's little better than /b/ with a significantly smaller audience, which is as broken down as it's ever going to be. All that's left is for everybody to finally drop off because they get bored of it or get girlfriends or jobs or something.
ReplyDeletemostly out of intertia i guess
ReplyDeletesame reason people will keep reading things they no longer like because it's occasionally amusing and doesn't take much out of their day
3:38, is "criticizing xkcd in a semi-intelligent fashion" like contributing a regular column in Turd Review? Do you create a Bristol Stool Chart for xkcd comics or something?
ReplyDeleteNo, some people here used to do that. Now we all just giggle while throwing the turds at one another.
ReplyDeleteI love how people come to this hate blog and act like it should be held to some kind of standard. Like, it's our duty to post only reasonable, rational criticisms of comics, and give it praise when necessary.
ReplyDeleteI suspect these are mostly middle-aged housewives who only just discovered the Internet and log on to AOL 4.0 during the commercial breaks of their soap operas. That's the only explanation for that kind of cluelessness.
The last time somebody tried to hold this blog to some kind of standard was November 25, 2011 11:41 PM. You should come here more frequently so your comments can be more cutting edge!
ReplyDeleteNo wait, it was November 26, 2011 9:27 AM. OK, you're good, carry on.
ReplyDeleteYet another joke stolen!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2135#comic
"I love how people come to this hate blog and act like it should be held to some kind of standard. Like, it's our duty to post only reasonable, rational criticisms of comics, and give it praise when necessary. "
ReplyDeleteWell, Rob does that every once on a while, he pretends to be all reasonable and rational and acts as if those who question him were not. So what is this about?
i do? why wasn't i notified?
ReplyDeleteAgreed, goatkcd 982 is pretty much one of the best ones there is.
ReplyDeleteGO TO THE OTHER BLOG IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU
ReplyDeletehttp://xkcd-sucks.blogspot.com
ReplyDelete"i do? why wasn't i notified?"
ReplyDeleteCut the shit. You know what you've done and how you've attacked others. Come on, anyone here can go back some posts and find your words pretending to be all reasonable and rational, so stop being a smart-ass.
you got me a-quakin' in my boots! cut me to my very core!
ReplyDeleteI see cptnoremac doesn't answer... I am still curious about what he thinks of it.
ReplyDelete<and what does ROb himself think?
ReplyDeletei have no thoughts, only hatred
ReplyDeleteThen why do you pretend to be all reasonable and rational while the ones who criticize you are not?
ReplyDeletei don't
ReplyDeleteI've mostly seen him posting retarded stuff like: "you cannot like something because you like it; one needs a reason. the reason you like this comic is because you are dumb as shit."
ReplyDeletehttp://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2011/09/comic-954-steady-decline.html?showComment=1316587584611#c4366397873435796562
But I guess he sometimes pretends as well. Don't let him fool you, though :-)
is that meant to be an example of me pretending to be reasonable?
ReplyDeleteIt is clearly and example of something different, in the text it says "retarded stuff like", so it's obvious it's an example of something different.
ReplyDeleteI see it as an example of retarded stuff, as is clearly stated in the comment above. It clearly is.
ReplyDeletewell, keep fucking that chicken
ReplyDeletefuck moar goats
ReplyDelete