tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post4320377494832205585..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 675: Math people are, yes, STILL BETTER than you!Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-73930676244699661402010-01-01T21:25:41.752-08:002010-01-01T21:25:41.752-08:00look at MEEEEEEEEEeeeeee
how else could I get att...look at MEEEEEEEEEeeeeee<br /><br />how else could I get attention? I am willing to try other things. KEEP IN MIND: I do not want to have to work hard, and I want to be able to do it without getting out of bed.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76704138514596375152009-12-28T01:48:56.411-08:002009-12-28T01:48:56.411-08:00As a philosophy major, I found this comic to be pr...As a philosophy major, I found this comic to be pretty amusing. But if making inane angry noises about a popular web comic is the only way that you can get the attention that you obviously crave, then I say more power to you, my lad!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-87202554745330087572009-12-23T02:11:05.844-08:002009-12-23T02:11:05.844-08:00"I'm a tad confused by the whole "I ..."I'm a tad confused by the whole "I am God" line to begin with.<br /><br />If he were the one who invented all those technologies (e.g. Al Gore), or if all those technologies had been invented for the specific purpose of him (and no one else) doing that, it might have some meaning.<br /><br />As it stands, I don't understand what makes him say that"<br /><br />It's fairly simple but also easy to miss. He's basicly imagining all of these tiny processess which actually are increadably strenuous for the computer in the same manner that the anchient Egyptians imagined their slaves. IE He's got so many diffrent technologies straining desperately so that he can achieve something fairly purile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-64137848061052194532009-12-23T02:08:18.324-08:002009-12-23T02:08:18.324-08:00He's not being elitist. He's making the po...He's not being elitist. He's making the point that people moving outside their areas of expertise are stupid if they think they can overturn the expertise of someone else with only a tiny ammount of work on their part.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-45362841968386508662009-12-22T16:19:55.925-08:002009-12-22T16:19:55.925-08:00I love when the cuddlefish think they have said so...I love when the cuddlefish think they have said something so mind-blowingly original and clever that we will just stop what we are doing. It's great.<br /><br />I'm not very convinced by your argument that if you have ever offended someone you are not allowed to make fun of people for being douchebags, though.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20409970441468086962009-12-22T16:12:22.675-08:002009-12-22T16:12:22.675-08:00DURP DURPDURP DURPaloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318832080088871491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-57438268156985916292009-12-22T16:08:26.403-08:002009-12-22T16:08:26.403-08:00Hey-idea!
Randall Munroe makes a webcomic that ma...Hey-idea!<br /><br />Randall Munroe makes a webcomic that makes people laugh. Why does it make people laugh? Because it makes fun of aspects of people in certain fields (for many of its jokes). And all these jokes are bound to offend some of the people in these fields. If you have EVER made a joke like this, you know some people will be offended. Have you ever made a blond joke? Yes, everyone has. Well, I'm deeply offended that you made it, and so I will flame you. Because yes, that is what you've been doing. You flame Randall when he's more creative than you'll ever be. I'd like to see you set up a site, publish a comic on it 3 days a week and run it so well you make a living off of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-22191133162464212622009-12-16T22:04:26.224-08:002009-12-16T22:04:26.224-08:00I thought Asher left because he wanted to be the n...I thought Asher left because he wanted to be the new Dr. Horrible.Big Ricnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-16804023901841480362009-12-16T21:41:03.593-08:002009-12-16T21:41:03.593-08:00Fantasio! You are amazing, and much loved by all ...Fantasio! You are amazing, and much loved by all of us. You are even, dare I say... <i>fantastic</i>!!<br /><br />anyway I just wanted to leave a comment saying how <i>nice</i> it is that so many of you have names today.<br /><br />also: welcome back asher!Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11192581573588205095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9634659346124157292009-12-16T20:43:18.038-08:002009-12-16T20:43:18.038-08:00I'm a tad confused by the whole "I am God...I'm a tad confused by the whole "I am God" line to begin with.<br /><br />If he were the one who invented all those technologies (e.g. Al Gore), or if all those technologies had been invented for the specific purpose of him (and no one else) doing that, it might have some meaning.<br /><br />As it stands, I don't understand what makes him say that.Svennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-16087573332702054742009-12-16T20:33:24.678-08:002009-12-16T20:33:24.678-08:00I started to realize why XKCD was a bad comic when...I started to realize why XKCD was a bad comic when I noticed that Randall had a tendency to value GOOMH moments more than humor.<br /><br />A lot of XKCD's charm is lost when you realize that the only reason GOOMH comics exist: Nerdy people like us tend to think very alike but can't grasp that there are so many similar minds. It's like he took the effect from comic 610 and marketed it.<br /><br />So in other words, IMHO:<br />GOOHM = bad designRegularjoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14869331404768343684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-20620679172125939752009-12-16T20:28:16.881-08:002009-12-16T20:28:16.881-08:00Abstraction
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3590/a...Abstraction<br /><br />http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3590/abstractiona.pngAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-3795414372795431592009-12-16T19:20:26.811-08:002009-12-16T19:20:26.811-08:00Yeah, Carl, you're so far off the mark on 675....Yeah, Carl, you're so far off the mark on 675. So so so so so far. Like, I avoided commenting until now 'cause I was afraid I'd go off on a diatribe about how completely and totally you misunderstood the comic.<br /><br />It's still pretty sucky, though. Like the best thing I can say about it is it very much succeeded as a GOOMH. And 676 is... ugh. Ugh. 676 is the one of my least favorite scifi cliches EVER, played COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY STRAIGHT. It's like he's <i>flaunting</i> just how little he cares about the quality of what he's putting out.harrisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-60410934205054085722009-12-16T18:14:32.550-08:002009-12-16T18:14:32.550-08:00This is more of an attack on armchair scientists t...This is more of an attack on armchair scientists than philosophy students. I hate those guys.<br /><br />But I also hate this comic. It was shit and smug just like everyone is saying yay Randall don't advertise the fact you are a bigot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-52292466489534431552009-12-16T17:56:03.484-08:002009-12-16T17:56:03.484-08:00But "work" is a physics concept, so Rand...But "work" is a physics concept, so Randall was clearly <i>referencing</i> it. You just don't understand the entire depth and subtlety of 676.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-30782587078585453782009-12-16T17:54:30.401-08:002009-12-16T17:54:30.401-08:00another thing that's annoying about the philos...another thing that's annoying about the philosophy-slapping in this comic: so if we buy into the biology-is-just-chemistry-is-just-physics-is-just-maths type thinking that randall goes with, shouldn't we be all agog at, y'know, Frege and Russell and Tarski and heck even Husserl if you approach him from the right angle? aren't they working at an even more fundamental level than maths even?<br /><br />sure that's an obnoxious angle to take, but at least it's one a genuine 'obnoxious philosopher' character might hold.<br /><br />three guesses why randall couldn't deal with that line of thinking though...Keepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-32727610484056308252009-12-16T17:33:55.775-08:002009-12-16T17:33:55.775-08:00Interesting that Randall would follow a comic crit...Interesting that Randall would follow a comic criticizing philosophy with a comic founded in extraordinarily bad philosophy. <br /><br /> The biggest problem with 676 is that Randy's masturbational fantasy of making computers 'work' only makese sense because he personifies the computer. Randy doesn't seem to realize that computer chips don't "scream," never work "frantically," and never ever "strain themselves." In fact, computers do only what the laws of physics require them to do--the electrons constantly go into their lowest possible energy states, and the result is the image on the screen that Randy desires. <br />Computers do not conceive of "work" and "effort," so it's absolutely idiotic for Randy to stroke his ego with the idea that he is powerful to make them work for him.<br /><br />For what it's worth, Dijkstra, a man Randy probably adores, HATED this asinine personification of computers: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26050133150795634242009-12-16T17:25:00.395-08:002009-12-16T17:25:00.395-08:00@aloria: Can't say I agree. Personally I thin...@aloria: Can't say I agree. Personally I think and I have commented to this effect on the 'purity' thread. That there is a bit of a misunderstanding as to what - at least in my meager understanding of this - what a mathematician would refer to as 'purity'.<br /><br />On a more general note and certainly not referring to you specifically but in reading over all of the posts here. I start wonder if I'm missing some joke. Like that many of the posts are all just emulating for the sake of parody the same kind of self-soothing circle-jerks of the xkcd forums.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-4091865711421855312009-12-16T17:19:45.815-08:002009-12-16T17:19:45.815-08:00Richard is spot on.Richard is spot on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-69105842897658503432009-12-16T17:17:42.993-08:002009-12-16T17:17:42.993-08:00I call Linux fanboys freetards, but only to piss t...I call Linux fanboys freetards, but only to piss them off.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17456624636911840962009-12-16T17:15:02.949-08:002009-12-16T17:15:02.949-08:00FACT: Linux is a superior OS, for superior people....<b>FACT: Linux is a superior OS, for superior people.</b>Richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56428959387911976832009-12-16T17:11:56.297-08:002009-12-16T17:11:56.297-08:00"Latest comic: he's using OSX because he ..."Latest comic: he's using OSX because he used Linux for a while but eventually realised it was too much of a hassle for him (like advanced maths amirite) but he was too proud to admit that Windows was working pretty well for him and go back, so he went to OSX instead. THIS IS A TRUE STORY."<br /><br />I gave up on Linux and Windows is doing quite fine to me. WOW, I'm such a speshul ANTI-GEEK and I refer to all the Linux fans as "freetards".<br /><br />No, really, Windows is doing fine.Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41077483240881502682009-12-16T17:03:54.950-08:002009-12-16T17:03:54.950-08:00ALTF's writing reminds me of the weird girl in...ALTF's writing reminds me of the weird girl in eighth grade homeroom who dyed her hair a different color every month and was really into Andy Warhol. You know, with the senseless stringing of certain words together and the pointless weirdness and all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-16382335903719976852009-12-16T16:48:17.037-08:002009-12-16T16:48:17.037-08:00//Additionally, the "I'm better than you ...//Additionally, the "I'm better than you because I understand MATH" attitude is extremely prevalent amongst nerds//<br /><br />(Holy crap, with an account I can actually copy-and-paste. This is sweet.)<br /><br />I remember when I was a college freshman, I had this attitude as well. A little exposure to the world and I realized that there were many people smarter than me (and in a lot of things other than math), and that I was an arrogant bastard for ever thinking myself better than others for math/physics knowledge.<br /><br />As Fantasio said, Randall (and his fanboys) have yet to grow out of this childish attitude.schrodingasdawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11146344773214303802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76501571287441792342009-12-16T16:44:50.373-08:002009-12-16T16:44:50.373-08:00Yeah, Nate, you concluded pretty much the same as ...Yeah, Nate, you concluded pretty much the same as me. An author dubbing himself "a god" in his webcomic would, in 99% of the cases, indicate some degree of irony; but since this is xkcd and we know the kind of shit Randall likes to pull off, he definitely meant it in a sort of "deep" and "us geeks are so SMART and CAPABLE" way. I'm not saying Randall was being serious about it, but that strip betrays a little need of self-affirmation, of using his interests as a self-aggrandising tool. "Hey, guys, I KNOW how computers are ultra special stuff, and you all should be geeks and feel as special as I do".<br /><br />And that alt text? Come on, the joke is ready and finished. If you're such a god, Randall, why wasn't that strip funny?Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.com