tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post5002847548393738095..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 686: Admin Boring.Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-7456872816650286932010-01-13T03:15:37.682-08:002010-01-13T03:15:37.682-08:00Not sure why Linux is above bad puns or cheap joke...Not sure why Linux is above bad puns or cheap jokes. It's a product of Finland and contibuted to by Americana, ain't it? Considering its sources, it seems ripe for such humor.<br /><br />I laugh at anyone who tells me what is funny and what we can't joke about. Yes, the self-proclaimed humor masters are the funniest of all.<br /><br />By the way, fuck niggers and rape the baby seals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-54776890926341846042010-01-12T15:35:48.061-08:002010-01-12T15:35:48.061-08:00Oh, gosh, it's indeed "AND THE" inst...Oh, gosh, it's indeed "AND THE" instead of "ANOTHE". I definitely thought there was a writing error there, but I've become so cynical towards xkcd that I took it for granted and forgot about it. Shit, just how fast does Randall write that? Doesn't he even bother to read what he writes?Fernie Cantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753446688169468457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-13868143609408636662010-01-12T09:46:40.444-08:002010-01-12T09:46:40.444-08:00"Surely picking on the fact it says "My ..."Surely picking on the fact it says "My Hobby" is missing the point a bit? It's a framing device."<br /><br />It's a framing device, yes, but that doesn't mean it can't be obnoxious. Whenever he uses it, it always seems to me like he's trying to say, "yes, I totally do this behavior which would be annoying in the real world, because I'm so quirky and strange!" It wouldn't be half as annoying if he did some kind of Far Side-esque thing where he named a different person each time ("Wendell's hobby", "Sylvia's hobby", etc).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-45349318757617868942010-01-12T08:19:05.278-08:002010-01-12T08:19:05.278-08:00Forget about the "shell" pun. The slight...Forget about the "shell" pun. The slightly surreal flow of the narration is almost like Julius KniplAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77449839205203389012010-01-12T05:05:52.709-08:002010-01-12T05:05:52.709-08:00Pigeonholed.Pigeonholed.tsld32https://www.blogger.com/profile/08940250788365594985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-65480507190946838532010-01-12T04:40:40.596-08:002010-01-12T04:40:40.596-08:00What are you if you're the type who's kind...What are you if you're the type who's kind of like Italy?Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26945160950298798862010-01-12T00:41:30.942-08:002010-01-12T00:41:30.942-08:00You type in italics or italic type; you are italic...You type in italics or italic type; you are italic if you are kind of like Italy.tsld32https://www.blogger.com/profile/08940250788365594985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37191653316829038902010-01-12T00:06:36.864-08:002010-01-12T00:06:36.864-08:00What the hell is "anothe"? Is that "...What the hell is "anothe"? Is that "another" misspelled? Oh wait... It's "and the". Fuck your handwriting, Randall. Fuck your spacing, too.<br /><br />Captcha is sehoyel. Sounds Jewish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-183878490248743842010-01-11T23:34:06.855-08:002010-01-11T23:34:06.855-08:00I've never seen a single italic.I've never seen a single italic.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07658641232170030818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33400636284349059362010-01-11T21:29:07.338-08:002010-01-11T21:29:07.338-08:00Actually, it's not a problem that the quantiti...Actually, it's not a problem that the quantities on the left side aren't constant. That's the point of this sort of law. Compare to the ideal gas law: (pV/NT)=k. Nothing on the left side is necessarily a constant and all of them may be fluctuating without external intervention, just like you could keep the width of the English Channel fixed. The punchline is similar to this joke about seahorses (the internet attributes it to Jim Gaffigan):<br /><br />"I was watching Animal Planet, did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, 'Why don't they just call that the female seahorse?' You know it's just some stubborn scientist: <br />'Yeah, that one there's the male seahorse.' <br />'Uh, Bill, that one's having a baby.' <br />'...the male has the baby. You're fired.'"<br /><br />I think the italics on his response are important in that they convey a harsher, frustrated, stubborn tone of voice. ("Italics" is plural, right?)Way Walkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-70446946299874983642010-01-11T19:49:56.958-08:002010-01-11T19:49:56.958-08:00Anon (11:57): It's not something that I care t...Anon (11:57): It's not something that I care to spend time mucking with since xkcd is the only site I visit that I've had problems with. I was merely musing that it is a bit strange between whiskeys.Nozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15107787562233662120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27269820349659081212010-01-11T18:54:28.312-08:002010-01-11T18:54:28.312-08:00@Harrison - I know it's an unfair comparison, ...@Harrison - I know it's an unfair comparison, but it's just a different way of saying the same shit: "XKCD is ridiculously, ridiculously worse these days than it was a while ago." You've just cast it in a more general light than my specific strip-to-strip comparison.John Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-81391554454874100672010-01-11T16:27:16.101-08:002010-01-11T16:27:16.101-08:00so the punchline is that england would float out t...so the punchline is that england would float out to sea?<br /><br />yikes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85796995183738901472010-01-11T16:12:17.507-08:002010-01-11T16:12:17.507-08:00Timofei, I think the fact that the only one of tho...Timofei, I think the fact that the only one of those anything like a "universal constant" is the Planck constant is, in fact, the joke. (Or the "joke", if you prefer.)<br /><br />Mal, of course it's not as good as 171, but these days I judge xkcd like I judge the Simpsons. It's just not fair to stack up a current episode against something from season 4, for example.<br /><br />Ann: Really? Too long? I thought it was very tight, particularly for Randy. No PPD, not too much setup besides what's necessary (I guess the definition of "dimensional analysis" was unnecessary, but then y'all would bitch about needing to go to Wikipedia, God love ya). Certainly it's not like the godawful TV Tropes comic from a while back.harrisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-22488773153870863592010-01-11T12:39:08.592-08:002010-01-11T12:39:08.592-08:00Is it just me or has SMBC become really boring lat...Is it just me or has SMBC become really boring lately? It's not bad, it's just that he seems to be running on auto lately. Also I'm kind of unnerved by the fact that he seems to keep picturing himself naked.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05717170141815160544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91044884946389873022010-01-11T12:28:41.810-08:002010-01-11T12:28:41.810-08:00If you think xkcd sucks, wait till you see this!If you think xkcd sucks, wait till you see <a href="http://sicksenseofinevitability.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">this</a>!Sick Sense of Inevitabilityhttp://sicksenseofinevitability.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48826945110788700432010-01-11T12:25:10.181-08:002010-01-11T12:25:10.181-08:00Beautiful. Imagine rubbing one out and then sudden...Beautiful. Imagine rubbing one out and then suddenly seeing a laughing Linus Torvalds in a speedo.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-71866754723465034912010-01-11T12:15:25.754-08:002010-01-11T12:15:25.754-08:00Reading this on Linux (albeit Ubuntu), I just happ...Reading this on Linux (albeit Ubuntu), I just happened to be masturbating. And yes, I happen to multitask in such a way that I can end up on xkcdsucks while masturbatingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-11254050990834478592010-01-11T11:57:38.419-08:002010-01-11T11:57:38.419-08:00@Noz:
"What I don't get is if Randy is a...@Noz:<br /><br />"What I don't get is if Randy is a Linux user, why do the fonts on his site look like shit in Linux?"<br /><br />It means that you probably need to turn on subpixel font rendering in your OS.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering<br /><br />Because I don't know what distro you use, I'll leave you to find out how to turn it on yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26389630537612916912010-01-11T08:31:39.007-08:002010-01-11T08:31:39.007-08:00Ha ha, yes, I have just complained that the joke i...Ha ha, yes, I have just complained that the joke is too long and too stilted in a post that is both long and stilted. Thanks in advance for pointing that out, twat.Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-7013049887913425772010-01-11T08:30:10.144-08:002010-01-11T08:30:10.144-08:00Right, people:
Anon 2.19 is awesome.
Surely pick...Right, people:<br /><br />Anon 2.19 is awesome.<br /><br />Surely picking on the fact it says "My Hobby" is missing the point a bit? It's a framing device.<br /><br />The fact the left side is not constant is kind of the point - I don't think anyone seriously thinks that the dude in the comic is valid in his reasoning. That's why it's "abusing" dimensional analysis rather than, well, "using" it.<br />An explanation: for light, wavelength times frequency is always c, right? So if wavelength goes up frequency goes down.<br />The guy in the comic is positing - erroneously - that his equation is also a fundamental law, and thus if the Prius becomes more fuel efficient the English Channel will have to get wider to balance it out. If you've correctly spotted that, in fact, that is not a fundamental law of physics, then, er, well done.<br /><br />Comic itself: pictoblog. As a joke, it's just far too complex - it just ain't worth it for the crummy punchline. It's not that I don't get it (I do maths, yay, go me), it's that it's far too setup heavy. (That's excusable for jokes if they have such a massively contrived punchline that the contrivance and obviousness is what you laugh it, or if they're well executed brick jokes. This isn't.)<br /><br />And this just isn't a joke that could be cut down to work, because essentially it isn't a joke, it's a pictoblog topic.Ann Apolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91783294491796044552010-01-11T08:07:36.190-08:002010-01-11T08:07:36.190-08:00Dude right above me, you're kind of reaching. ...Dude right above me, you're kind of reaching. This is one of the less obnoxious ones in the "My Hobby" series, and maybe I'm just in an especially good mood, but it totally deserves a pass. This time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85342085147455890122010-01-11T07:38:29.260-08:002010-01-11T07:38:29.260-08:00#687
Those are elementary school desks. Those are...#687<br />Those are elementary school desks. Those are short stick-figures. Ergo, he is teaching in an elementary class. The typical elementary student response would not be discussing the fuel economy of the Prius, but rather texting “OMG! munroe sux gaga rox.” while simultaneously picking their nose with the wrong finger. At least set it in a high school class (and yes, we do teach dimensional analysis in high school).Saint Cadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-79876651626622872662010-01-11T06:58:43.044-08:002010-01-11T06:58:43.044-08:00Thanks Rob. Although that's mildly annoying a...Thanks Rob. Although that's mildly annoying and inconsistent - B sounds enough like P (and other letters) and originates from Beta - but as far as I know no one pronounces it bed.<br /><br />Ah well.Corenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212091179352013947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-79881475223265498392010-01-11T06:23:34.059-08:002010-01-11T06:23:34.059-08:00I feel insulted. I just used zsh the other day!
B...I feel insulted. I just used zsh the other day!<br /><br />But ksh is totally better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com