tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post6190676271587649260..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 997: Still Waiting On Those TitsCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-74336052374129051262012-01-08T08:04:56.974-08:002012-01-08T08:04:56.974-08:00COUNTEM ASSHOLECOUNTEM ASSHOLEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68127640192589204862012-01-06T05:31:53.592-08:002012-01-06T05:31:53.592-08:00Are there exactly 1000 figures making up the numbe...Are there exactly 1000 figures making up the number 1000, do we know?Charles Augustus Fortescuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-2062833456098262222012-01-06T02:55:22.601-08:002012-01-06T02:55:22.601-08:00Worst 1000th comic ever.
Not even a funny lookbac...Worst 1000th comic ever.<br /><br />Not even a funny lookback. Just "hey, look at all these CRAZY stick-figures I've drawn over the years" and then a LOLSOFUNNY-nerd joke. <br /><br />Anyone want to bet against me that is is going to be a poster?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17381504207358218632012-01-06T02:50:57.523-08:002012-01-06T02:50:57.523-08:00Michael@7:37, you're doing it wrong.Michael@7:37, you're doing it wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41024226616313979772012-01-05T21:00:55.419-08:002012-01-05T21:00:55.419-08:00OMG GUYZ HE'S LATE WHAT AN ASSHOLEOMG GUYZ HE'S LATE WHAT AN ASSHOLEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9432900371260008092012-01-05T20:54:00.618-08:002012-01-05T20:54:00.618-08:00OMG GUYZ IT'S THAT MOMENT OF TRUTHINESS APPROA...OMG GUYZ IT'S THAT MOMENT OF TRUTHINESS APPROACHINGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-70047170567880321352012-01-05T20:22:20.154-08:002012-01-05T20:22:20.154-08:00some meta comment/argument from a dipshit-characte...some meta comment/argument from a dipshit-character about how it's actually comic 8<br /><br />anything better and i will be pleasantly surprised.ravenzomghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01071866294544174164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-71805527876392606672012-01-05T19:37:19.177-08:002012-01-05T19:37:19.177-08:00Well, he hasn't noted past successes, except b...Well, he hasn't noted past successes, except by being slightly shittier than usual.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032765137272340262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77490383172843715042012-01-05T18:21:18.584-08:002012-01-05T18:21:18.584-08:00you know it would be funny if Randall didn't p...you know it would be funny if Randall didn't particularly see 1000 as significant and comic 1000 was just your typical crock of shitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-47225793240730871972012-01-05T17:48:02.830-08:002012-01-05T17:48:02.830-08:00I believe that comic 1000 will hardly acknowledge ...I believe that comic 1000 will hardly acknowledge the other 998 comics, if at all. Just another boring comic.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032765137272340262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-81398341256249887942012-01-05T15:11:28.642-08:002012-01-05T15:11:28.642-08:00Wait, new prediction! Comic 1000 will be a clip sh...Wait, new prediction! Comic 1000 will be a clip show.<br /><br />Or if not that, then it will be heavily self-referential, and look back nostalgically on the last 998 comics. <br /><br />Captcha: toldi. I toldi you.Jon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-28572122469263708022012-01-05T14:08:17.097-08:002012-01-05T14:08:17.097-08:00' your first paragraph describes every forum o...' your first paragraph describes every forum on the Internet. ' fair point, yeah. xkcd seems to concentrate it a bit, but maybe I just want to hate them more because as you say, the comic itself embodies all that shit and celebrates it and validates it (and likes to pretend it doesn't) so it's to blame.<br /><br />goomh 12:26 I had a scholarship & did latin & russian at school too. omg. wonder what people on xkcd would think about them letting you into a maths degree with all that liberal humanities nonsense on your CV.weaselsoupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68320695473924013012012-01-05T12:26:42.772-08:002012-01-05T12:26:42.772-08:00I just want to say that I went to a £27,000/year i...I just want to say that I went to a £27,000/year independent school on scholarship, I studied Latin and Russian and various European languages. I graduated first class with a BSc in mathematics and later got an MSc.<br /><br />I now clean offices for a living.<br /><br />The moral of the story is that education will not get you anywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-49187871489151093432012-01-05T12:02:17.590-08:002012-01-05T12:02:17.590-08:00weaselsoup, your first paragraph describes every f...weaselsoup, your first paragraph describes every forum on the Internet. There is nothing new under the Sun (that an Oracle won't predict (and chew up and spit out (there's an example of an annoying in-joke for another elitist group right there (anyone who made a LISP remark at this point would be similarly annoying (goomhAnonymous))))).<br /><br />The GOOMH thing isn't that different from any religion or quasi-religion: you're either with Randall or you're against him. All the cool kids on the Internet are socially liberal ("BO is OK as long as you're rich"), fiscally conservative ("oppressing foreigners bad - cheap Chinese electronics good"), atheist ("I refuse to believe God is a pink unicorn therefore there is no God"), science-fans ("science has solved all problems except the ones it's about to solve if only we believe hard enough"), lacking in empathy ("I was born healthy and with high IQ but you're a borderline retarded paraplegic because you're LAZY"), materialistic ("see above") and read xkcd.<br /><br />As a political commentator noted around 14 years ago, Blair was more Thatcherite than Thatcher; as a recent survey noted, the British people are more Thatcherite than Blair. The same surely applies in the US. xkcd is a Thatcherite's comic: arrogant, technocratic, inhumane and hypocritical. And Munroe, like Thatcher, barely conceals the root of its odious path: the terrible truth that its background is as one of the common folk, no better or (back then, at least) worse than anyone else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-79305384966569500712012-01-05T11:51:17.863-08:002012-01-05T11:51:17.863-08:00This maybe isn't exactly what you're talki...This maybe isn't exactly what you're talking about overall, 11:26, but your second paragraph describes this guy perfectly (from the 997 thread):<br /><br />"I've just registered to point out the tiny quote from a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld in article 4C. I always like coming across evidence that one of the people I like and follow is familiar with the works of another."<br /><br />What really bugs me is that this guy seems to have missed that xkcd is full of pandering references to nerd culture, and Pratchett is certainly a part of nerd culture. <br /><br />GOOMH Randall, I feel so validated knowing that you like [stereotypically nerdy interest]. Not everybody does, and I never would've suspected you did too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-52022704637861465472012-01-05T11:26:27.452-08:002012-01-05T11:26:27.452-08:00also I think for comic 1000 someone should do a gu...also I think for comic 1000 someone should do a guide to xkcd forumites. there's several distinct types on there - the ones who think that mild criticism is blasphemy; the ones that go to a lot of effort to appear sneeringly sarcastic to those they disagree with, but aren't clever enough to pull it off; the mostly harmless sycophants; the dangerous sycophants (usually these are distinguished by having moving gifs as avatars, which is the worst thing in the world today); the 'look at me I'm so random and weird' goomhers; the intellectual snobs who think that the stuff they post is 'academic' and have quotes from other forumites praising them in their signatures...<br /><br />the goomher thing has been bothering me a lot recently. it's a similar thing to the morons portrayed in xkcd 807 - it's some idiot who thinks that something they think makes them special, and that therefore a shared thought - especially one shared with an idol - makes them extra special. <br /><br />It's the kind of person who says 'is it weird that I like hippos AND margarine?' They desperately want the reply 'yes, and it makes you cool and unusual and different'. They want people to think that they don't care about convention - hell they don't even know what's weird or not, that's how wacky and creative they are. If you say 'is it weird that I think...' WE KNOW YOU ALREADY THINK IT IS (even if it isn't even 'weird'. (whatever 'weird' is)) And at the same time they want to assert their difference and specialness and the superiority they think this implies -they like what they like *despite* boring bland society telling them it's strange. They're so misunderstood! And the fact they can't see how this looks to other people is the saddest thing of all.<br /><br />this is the xkcd audience. It's mostly a disease of young people, to be fair, and many of them will grow out of it and wince if reminded that they once posted 'omg, Randall is so creative and special, and is it weird that I too get obsessed with plastic bags? omg soul mates' but for some reason it's annoyed me enough today that I typed all this out.weaselsoupnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-62436585460599376582012-01-05T09:25:42.237-08:002012-01-05T09:25:42.237-08:00Consciousness is necessarily a supernatural concep...Consciousness is necessarily a supernatural concept. Discuss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-67002410828358132702012-01-05T09:23:41.315-08:002012-01-05T09:23:41.315-08:00I predict xkcd1000 (or 1001, with a smug remark ab...I predict xkcd1000 (or 1001, with a smug remark about 404 missing) will incorporate some form of thanks to his loyal audience combined with a quip on the general if-only-everyone-was-a-slave-to-the-love-of-science-the-world-would-be-great-(kinda-like-China-now-but-who's-watching)-but-it-isn't-so-everything-sucks <i>res rerum</i>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-56525796951861931072012-01-05T09:10:26.461-08:002012-01-05T09:10:26.461-08:00Capitalism requires a large supply of idiots to ex...Capitalism requires a large supply of idiots to exploit, so would not support eugenics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-16275311164691359292012-01-05T09:09:36.332-08:002012-01-05T09:09:36.332-08:00Eugenics is just capitalism without the suffering ...Eugenics is just capitalism without the suffering that those born less able have to endure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-5032900043832078492012-01-04T17:12:49.036-08:002012-01-04T17:12:49.036-08:00I think I'd no longer say xkcd sucks but rathe...I think I'd no longer say xkcd sucks but rather that it cares for its readers. If the latest one had said "Reason #58 why I should never have children: Even if I could get a woman to stay with me long enough to raise children, I'd be deathly afraid they'd inherit my Asperger's and/or my obsessive-compulsive disorder. [alt text: and having one person occupy the bathroom 30 times a day just to wash his hands is enough.]"<br /><br />Instead of being amused or admiring his honesty and daring, we'd all just feel bad. So Randall's lightening up a sad world on this one.Marion Delgadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493068399042656060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-82120657412290889952012-01-04T17:06:10.964-08:002012-01-04T17:06:10.964-08:005:02 = 5:03 = 5:05 = samefag5:02 = 5:03 = 5:05 = samefagAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-25415967306360809782012-01-04T17:05:30.395-08:002012-01-04T17:05:30.395-08:00how... ironichow... ironicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9767302559141042502012-01-04T17:03:19.482-08:002012-01-04T17:03:19.482-08:00Somehow I'm worried that 1000 won't be the...Somehow I'm worried that 1000 won't be the disappointment we all hope it to be. If it isn't, it would be so disappointing.Jon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-61718011433804215902012-01-04T17:02:46.185-08:002012-01-04T17:02:46.185-08:00It is a good thing to see Randall admitting that h...It is a good thing to see Randall admitting that he should never have children, though.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032765137272340262noreply@blogger.com