tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post4050052356418425276..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 819: Randall Needs Better Drinking GamesCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48453910381538332022010-11-23T10:13:25.065-08:002010-11-23T10:13:25.065-08:00"I even like the little Jupiter humping on th..."I even like the little Jupiter humping on the dude..."<br /><br />Now I can't not see it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-66257469915154966612010-11-18T16:50:48.553-08:002010-11-18T16:50:48.553-08:00Arthur you forgot to call him retarded and mention...Arthur you forgot to call him retarded and mention which orifice your blood is spraying from this timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-46583158083818901732010-11-18T16:32:38.971-08:002010-11-18T16:32:38.971-08:00@Rochambeau
"It's e^pi".
HA HA HA....@Rochambeau<br /><br />"It's e^pi".<br /><br />HA HA HA. God that's funny how you just dropped some random math like that. You should write your own webcomic where you make awesome references to high school mathematics. It'd be the funniest thing EVER.Arthurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04837322808525126354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-51923788172831415492010-11-18T15:00:38.468-08:002010-11-18T15:00:38.468-08:00Anon 12:00 here, I actually used to read C&H a...Anon 12:00 here, I actually used to read C&H a lot and thought it was pretty funny but they sorta lost steam some time ago so I eventually lost interest. It's still sort of funny from time to time, I guess, but to be "moved" by... whatever the point to 2236 is supposed to be? That's friggin' weird.<br /><br />CAPTCHA: pampires, pampered vampires.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-73888690399557458182010-11-18T12:54:57.744-08:002010-11-18T12:54:57.744-08:00@Capn
"That's like finding the cube root...@Capn<br /><br />"That's like finding the cube root of old cheese."<br />It's e^pi.<br /><br />@Anonymous 12:00<br />I really like C&H. It is true that 2236 was a bit boring and not the best, but they often make me laugh out loud.<br /><br />I think Carl hates it too, because he said so once here. What do you think?Rochambeaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-66780789983129356622010-11-18T12:00:46.321-08:002010-11-18T12:00:46.321-08:00Someone posted a link to the latest xkcd on Facebo...Someone posted a link to the latest xkcd on Facebook. I don't remember what he said about it, but the post ended with "my life is now complete."<br /><br />Similarly, another person posted this Cyanide and Happiness (http://www.explosm.net/comics/2236/) saying it was "curiously moving."<br /><br />I feel sick to my stomach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85987642115088987892010-11-18T11:43:00.905-08:002010-11-18T11:43:00.905-08:00@Rochambeau
That's way more math than I ever ...@Rochambeau<br /><br />That's way more math than I ever want to apply to web comic.<br /><br />I know John Nash supposedly made it cool to do shit like that, but still ... you lost me when you started taking the derivative of creativity. That's like finding the cube root of old cheese.Capnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77424800953516247462010-11-18T11:24:00.797-08:002010-11-18T11:24:00.797-08:001:47 here.
I think the fact that pretty much ever...1:47 here.<br /><br />I think the fact that pretty much everyone here is saying "comics x (and y) were good, the rest sucked", with x and y different for every person, supports what I said before (the shotgun stuff). He doesn't seem to have time to come up with 7-ish comic ideas that pander exclusively to the circle-jerkers that make up his regular audience, so he actually makes comics that appeal to other kinds of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-24211499667795681912010-11-18T04:42:39.405-08:002010-11-18T04:42:39.405-08:00"I don't really get the sniper one, I can..."I don't really get the sniper one, I can't make out the art. The guy runs onto the diving board, there's a ninja under the diving board, the ninja kicks the diving board up, and... the guy gets hit in the head with a shuriken from another ninja? No wait, it's a sniper on a grassy knoll. What was the ninja doing? Did the ninja get shot as well?"<br /><br />The ninja got knocked out by the guy jumping on the board. It's supposed to be a "LOL OWNED" moment, but it gets immediately broken by the sniper. Kill me, but I actually found that pretty funny. The rest is quite worthless.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-83308808681624722922010-11-18T02:02:15.367-08:002010-11-18T02:02:15.367-08:00Do you think Randy ever throws out an idea? Becaus...Do you think Randy ever throws out an idea? Because if he doesn't, he's doing something very wrong.<br /><br />Don't try and hammer a bad idea into something barely worth publishing; just admit you've had an unfunny idea and let it go.<br /><br />And, yes, I used a semi-colon because I'm an illiterate fuckhead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77589133726364045382010-11-17T20:28:52.098-08:002010-11-17T20:28:52.098-08:00@that douchebag who was comparing 631 to the pony ...@that douchebag who was comparing 631 to the pony comic: <br /><br />What the fuck? <br />The pony comic is infinitely better because RANDALL DIDN'T DRAW ANY VAGINAS ON IT. It is just some dark humor. <br /><br />The vaginafest comic was some weird, creepy, fucked up look into the psyche of Randall Munroe. It didn't have a 'joke'. Or, if you assume the joke is that "hahaha the waiter has to look at naked people!" (which is a fucking piece of shit joke anyway), even then, it was entirely unnecessary for randall to illustrate it in <em>graphic</em> detail. As someone's mentioned before, it would have been funnier (or at least less disturbing) if he'd just had it be drawings of stick figures with labels like "human female vagina", but I guess he had to go down the "graphic anatomy" route.ThePirateKinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03855894192400453985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-64908613480971811022010-11-17T19:44:53.609-08:002010-11-17T19:44:53.609-08:00"was in the comics section" —› of the ca..."was in the comics section" —› of the campus newspaper.Samanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13336216954622639145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-2353834542154853722010-11-17T19:44:19.078-08:002010-11-17T19:44:19.078-08:00Two weeks ago I was at MIT for a conference.
The ...Two weeks ago I was at MIT for a conference.<br /><br />The recent xkcd map of the internet was in the comics section.<br /><br />The MIT Press Bookstore had 'xkcd now in stock' in giant letters in the window.<br /><br />I was SO. SAD.Samanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13336216954622639145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-90295196605178551692010-11-17T19:36:33.637-08:002010-11-17T19:36:33.637-08:00Today I went to my university and read the cheap n...Today I went to my university and read the cheap newspaper, and there was an old XKCD strip in the back. I was kinda saddened. <br /><br />Second comic: Meh? I didn't really care for any.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56221039750870664872010-11-17T19:28:03.259-08:002010-11-17T19:28:03.259-08:00@Anon 8:51: I was disgusted by both 631 and the po...@Anon 8:51: I was disgusted by both 631 and the pony comic. Apparently I am in the minority however, as most people seemed to like the pony comic best. I am also in the minority because I thought that 820 on average was funnier than 819. And I chuckled out loud at the Vader comic.<br /><br />@Rochambeau: I also thought the "bail out" comic had to do with the economic bail-out. The drawing was so terrible that I thought maybe the men were supposed to be throwing money out of the airplane (at companies presumably). I actually think that is slightly funnier than bailing out water.LostInSpacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-63939300414721642712010-11-17T18:12:31.520-08:002010-11-17T18:12:31.520-08:00I've considered stopping reading xkcd-related ...I've considered stopping reading xkcd-related shit to lessen stress in my life. However, if I see someone link to or mention xkcd on some random website I get extremely pissed and need to come here to refresh my faith in humanity. If Randall does a few (or even ONE) five-minute comics every day, I will be able to ignore xkcd forever, knowing that it is just an okay-occasionally-bad-but-sometimes-good comic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-62184203260615370212010-11-17T16:14:22.097-08:002010-11-17T16:14:22.097-08:00Our mistake was to think that a webcomic artist ha...Our mistake was to think that a webcomic artist has a fixed number of good ideas per month, so that the average quality of the comics is a decreasing function of the number of comics:<br /><br />Q=G/N<br /><br />Where Q is the average quality, G is the number of good comics (a good comic takes value 1, a bad comic takes value 0.) G is constant, which means that increasing N will decrease Q.<br /><br />In a second model, the average quality of comics is a constant, so that increasing the number of comics increases the number of good comics (as well as the number of bad comics.)<br /><br />Q=G/N<br /><br />G=QN, where Q is a constant.<br /><br />Increasing N will increase G, but Q will say the same.<br /><br />I think the right model is a third model where the more you produce, the better your comics get on average, so that:<br /><br />Q=f(N)<br /><br />Where f is an increasing function of N.<br /><br />G=QN=f(N)N=g(N) g'(n)>0<br /><br />Increasing the number of comics increases both quality and number of good comics.Rochambeaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-88054399893148080662010-11-17T15:31:13.417-08:002010-11-17T15:31:13.417-08:00AnnA: Dang... you're right. Well, whistles ar...AnnA: Dang... <a href="http://zs.ffshrine.org/album/legend-of-zelda/english-instruction-manual-scans/z1manual-25-26.jpg" rel="nofollow">you're right</a>. Well, whistles are technically flutes in the same way that ocarinas are technically flutes, and it was definitely a flute by <a href="http://zs.ffshrine.org/album/adventure-of-link/inst-na/z2manual-45-46.jpg" rel="nofollow">the second game</a>.<br /><br />So, I stand by my original assessment of Sepia's post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-67213115396767444352010-11-17T14:40:01.809-08:002010-11-17T14:40:01.809-08:00@Pro Mole
Agree with the shotgun sentiment as it ...@Pro Mole<br /><br />Agree with the shotgun sentiment as it relates to SMBC, disagree with which comics suck more this time go 'round.<br /><br />Before it was a long held belief that he should just not stick to a schedule, that he should update when he has something funny. He thought TGI Vagina was komedy gold, so obviously this solution is wrong and the correct one is counter intuitive. Update every single day, do the 5 minute game with your 'friends', get a buffer going, and be able to push one out everyday, 'cause there is going seem to be a whole lot less suck this way, even though the suckage will actually remain constant.<br /><br />Pregnant sick figure was funny, I don't care who knows I think that, but then I have a good time laughing at clips from "I didn't know I was pregnant".Capnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-49408595792127256072010-11-17T13:57:38.401-08:002010-11-17T13:57:38.401-08:00I'll join Mr. 1:47 on this: Randall sure would...I'll join Mr. 1:47 on this: Randall sure would do a better job doing 5-minute comics everyday.<br /><br />I mean... look at these! Sure they aren't all ingenious, but neither is every SMBC, but I can forgive Zach Weiner for doing a bad comic because I know tomorrow he might give us a better one.<br /><br />Also, I think it's been well stablished that Randall can't spend more than 15 minutes doing his comics that are published once every 2 days(Sundays thrown out for good measuer). That's 47 hours and 45 minutes of idle time. What does he do with all that idle time considering his webcomic is the doorway to his business(his posters and prints), and he doesn't really work?<br /><br />So, here's my proposal for the imaginary Randall we address in this blog: update every day instead of thrice a week, you have no real reason to leave your fans waiting and you'd do much better with your hit and miss humor if you tried to shoot more times!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-89372601058830874262010-11-17T13:47:05.144-08:002010-11-17T13:47:05.144-08:00On 820:
Wow. I actually think that Randy should s...On 820:<br /><br />Wow. I actually think that Randy should stick to this form (form monday and today) forever. Even though he has some terrible strips, there a few that are worth it in each. It's like before, it was randy shooting at a target, and he is a terrible shot. Now, he gets several shots at least. <br /><br />Also, seems to only feel the need to pander to the "nerds" that read his strip once per comic, which used to be the entire comic but now is only a portion of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-11442734173544312422010-11-17T12:37:10.666-08:002010-11-17T12:37:10.666-08:00Elementary mistake there 11.46: while that one loo...Elementary mistake there 11.46: while that one <i>looks</i> like a flute it's actually a whistle.Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-66680547705281142712010-11-17T12:36:45.799-08:002010-11-17T12:36:45.799-08:00An ocarina is an aerophone like the flute, but if ...An ocarina is an aerophone like the flute, but if an ocarina is a flute, then so is a tin whistle. There is a distinction, albeit a minor one.Alsworthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-6294877151092679602010-11-17T11:46:52.785-08:002010-11-17T11:46:52.785-08:00Does Zelda even have a magic flute? I thought it w...<a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/" rel="nofollow">Does Zelda even have a magic flute?</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXqNZ6m6Hg" rel="nofollow">I thought it was an ocarina.</a><br /><br />(Although, I think an ocarina is also a flute.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-12473503694991364912010-11-17T10:58:00.993-08:002010-11-17T10:58:00.993-08:00I don't really get the sniper one, I can't...I don't really get the sniper one, I can't make out the art. The guy runs onto the diving board, there's a ninja under the diving board, the ninja kicks the diving board up, and... the guy gets hit in the head with a shuriken from another ninja? No wait, it's a sniper on a grassy knoll. What was the ninja doing? Did the ninja get shot as well?<br /><br />Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: Is this a Lolita reference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com