I thought about trying to put up an image link for this one, but then I realized there is no single image. So, here's a link.
I think for most of us, the real problem with xkcd has always been its fans. The worst of the comics have always been the ones that are just pandering to the fanbase, whose sense of humor is insipid and whose fanaticism is unparalleled. Now, look at all of the text on 1350 is fan-submitted. All of these random lines and references? This is the stuff they think is funny.
Of course a lot of that comes from the disconnect between the art and the text, and the fact that each line is written by a different person, but the only interesting thing about this April Fool's comic is that he might be using the Humor Sans font for it.
In other news, I probably won't be updating regularly but if you want to submit guest reviews I will post them.
Monday, April 7, 2014
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ReplyDeleteNow that I know that ALL of the lines were fan-submissions, I'm really saddened by how banal most of the options were.
ReplyDelete"You're just a brain in a jar and the simulation is breaking down" LOLOLOL
How can I contact you for guest posting?
ReplyDeletethat is an excellent question. i believe that the contact information in my blogger profile contains a valid email address. if you make the email subject line 'I HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE ABOUT COMIC X' i am more likely to notice it, because sometimes emails from random people look like democratic campaign spam
DeleteDearest Sam Barber,
DeleteCareful my friend, Rob'e email might be valid, but the blogger profile in which it is contained is certainly an insidious fiction. And may I suggest you make the email subject line. 'I AM A CUNCTATOR'. He will think the email is from me and he loves my emails. I usually include photographs of yours truly sodomising Ted Nugent with one of his own assault rifles - with the safety off. Republican campaign spam as it were.
i print most of them out and put them on my wall
Delete".....In other news, I probably won't be updating regularly but if you want to submit guest reviews I will post them......"
ReplyDeleteAnd how, pray tell, is this considered news?
the second part is clearly news
DeleteFuck off!
DeleteThe second part is clearly shite!
And nonsensical!
I'm sure there are many cunts who want to submit guest reviews. I myself desperately want to submit guest reviews all the fucking time, but are they posted? No they are not. It doesn't seem to matter what any of us want, now does it Rob? No it does not.
Potential guest reviewers who want to submit, must also actually electronically submit these alleged reviews BEFORE you, with your christian largesse, deign to post them.
Yes?
In fact, I can envision a select group of cunts who do not at all want to submit guest reviews under any circumstances but do so nonetheless out of some idiotic sense of misdirected camaraderie. What of them?
maybe you just aren't reading the right blog. I've posted dozens, if not hundreds, of your reviews over the time.
Deleteas for your final question: peace, Mercutia, thou talkst of nothing.
Mercutia?
DeleteFuck off!
Though I must begrudgingly admit, if ever there was a character of literate lore who best resembles your's truly, Mercutio in drag is that person.
and you said I never gave you anything.
DeleteOther than that love in the time of cholera and the subsequent embarrassing inconvenience of crabs which followed, you haven't.
DeleteDoes it matter what the guest reviews are about? Would you post my reviews of the Game of Thrones show if I started watching it? Even if I've never read the books?
ReplyDeletedo what you want
DeleteHas anyone else noticed that Burmese women look like filthy little Mexicans?
ReplyDeleteSometimes I just eat a big bowl of clam chowder for dinner, and then about 18 hours later my poop is this rather unsettling off-white color. But, I love clam chowder. Is this a problem?
ReplyDeleteEat Manhattan style clam chowder instead. Clams in a tomato-based sauce with potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, and a little bacon. Lay off the New England Clam Chowdah with its vile reliance on heavy cream(aka, Bovine semen).
DeleteI just watched this really shite movie, Black Hawk Down. Supposedly, it was based on the true events of April 14, 1994 when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down during a mission over hostile territory. This film is considered by some to be almost a non-fiction Documentary because it is said to represent the actual events so accurately.
ReplyDeleteWell the only factual representation of the events of that so-called battle with which I can agree is that there were two Black Hawk helicopters shot down in real life that day - as there were in the film.
The rest is a complete load of fictional bollocks!
And they couldn't even bother to caste the role of the one Chaldean-Catholic civilian who is known to have died in one helicopter. Probably because this civilian was a religious compatriot of the soon to be even more famous than he was in 1999/2001 enemy, Tariq Aziz.
Are you getting lonely with nobody else to yell at? It's time for you to move on, and find another internet community to shit up.
DeleteFuck off!
DeleteYou're right about the lonely bit, though it has nowt to do with a paucity of morons at which I might yell, it has more to do with being attractive.
Who is attractive?
DeleteRob is.
DeleteWell, at least in a naked mole rat kind of way he is.
Did you know that the naked mole rat does not age? No matter how old the little nippers get, they still look young and supple.
Like Rob.
Hey Rob, I hate to blogspam but could you take a look at this?
ReplyDeletehttp://finewhiningandbreathing.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/randall-munroe-teaches-us-what-we-all-already-knew/
i am a heron i ahev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans
ReplyDeleteWhen you sponsor a girl like me, you’ll be doing more than just putting food on my table and a roof over my head. If just one in every four Americans gave only one single measly dollar once a week - that's less than the cost of a single cup of so-so coffee from a third-rate non-branded coffee outlet per week - to folks like me, a lot could be accomplished. No one, least of all me, should ever have to go to bed hungry.
ReplyDeleteThis would guarantee me and my kinfolk a weekly income of about 80 million dollars - that's a little in excess of 4 billion dollars a year. That kind of money buys a lot in my home village you know.
Enough dog haunch and cassava tubers to stretch from here to Neptune transported and placed there by single-use solid-gold-gilded SpaceX shuttles each of which is fuelled by burning nothing but bank notes.
BOLD
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