tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post8696822601775087786..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 744: It's All a GameCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-30963811048646874292010-05-29T22:48:19.811-07:002010-05-29T22:48:19.811-07:00Yeah I see ad hominem used incorrectly all the tim...Yeah I see ad hominem used incorrectly all the time but only twice have I seen people call, well...<br />ad hominem conclusion. Yes, that is a brilliant term for people that see that the thing you are attempting to prove is insulting, and then call your argument ad hominem. I am so clever.ScottMcTonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-44868513203718917892010-05-28T13:41:32.407-07:002010-05-28T13:41:32.407-07:00I find the whole 'Asperger's Pride' th...I find the whole 'Asperger's Pride' thing bizarre, to be quite honest. It reminds me of that fable of the fox who loses his tail, and then tries to convince all the other foxes that they should cut off their tails too.<br /><br />I'd gladly trade some IQ points if it would mean I could communicate with other people without so much stress and anxiety. =/ (Are the two even related, though? I do pretty well in college, but I also work hard, study, and pay attention in class. I'm pretty sure that none of those are inherent qualities.)CJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76462357459585959282010-05-28T12:02:11.144-07:002010-05-28T12:02:11.144-07:00guys, you are forgetting the best argument the ano...guys, you are forgetting the best argument the anon troll made: "Usually cliches exist for a reason, too (There right). " THIS IS TRUE, A DRUNK IRISHMAN TOLD IT TO ME ONCE.<br /><br />Anyway, Ves, I too loved your rant and you should e-mail me, so we can talk about how to a) preserve it for all time and b) get you writing some more, if you wish.<br /><br />CJ - thanks for what you wrote as well. The weird fascinating with aspergers or autism that exists in some strains of the Nerd World has always bothered me. Some people seem to actually WANT to have one of those and are annoyed that they don't have it. It's very strange. Thanks for noticing it as well.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-74313212996819290832010-05-28T10:31:31.567-07:002010-05-28T10:31:31.567-07:00I think it's funny how xkcd apologists come in...I think it's funny how xkcd apologists come in here spewing fallacies as wide ranging as the Package Deal fallacy, affirming the consequent and False Attribution.<br /><br />Then when someone responds with essentially, "If you think it's hard to produce three funny jokes a week, then you are a humorless twat", they assume it's an ad hominem and dismiss the argument completely. I'd like to point out that this would be another fallacy called the argumentum ad logiciam, where one assumes a conclusion must be false because its argument included a fallacy.<br /><br />However, it really isn't ad hominem at all, so it's just so off base that even being completely WRONG is too close to right for Anon 10:24. The argument is that if you believe making three jokes a week is hard, then you are a humorless twat. If A; B. Supporting evidence is given that career funny people produce quality material at many times that rate while filling other obligations. As long as you continue filling the prerequisite conditions (believing it's hard to come up with 3 jokes a week) and you fail to successfully challenge the evidence, then you fall under the consequence and remain, sadly, a humorless twat like the rest of xkcd's remaining loyal fanbase.Bretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-23961139883291165982010-05-28T06:32:45.804-07:002010-05-28T06:32:45.804-07:00Anon 9:00, let's go back to your original post...Anon 9:00, let's go back to your original post. Why do you consider XKCD to be better than Calvin and Hobbes? I ask merely for information, because on this particular case, I disagree mightily with you.Alsworthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-28988317731211403002010-05-28T05:38:00.492-07:002010-05-28T05:38:00.492-07:00Randall is not a scientist. To call him that is a...Randall is not a scientist. To call him that is an insult to my profession- who's the one slaving in a lab all day? Scientist.<br /><br />Who's the one making shitty comics that reference high school physics- Talentless Hack.<br /><br />When was the last research or development randall preformed? The fact he talks about science, and does so with such an air of authority (using his old job as a crutch) lends him about as much authenticity as a scientist as a self diagnosed aspie who spends his days reading 70's paperback SF.<br /><br />tl;dr, Randall is as much a scientist as obama is a professional basketballerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-23560058469162356432010-05-28T05:29:49.902-07:002010-05-28T05:29:49.902-07:00Oh Anonymous troll, is there no limit to your flam...Oh Anonymous troll, is there no limit to your flaming?<br /><br />Previously employed as astrophysicist != good cartoonist. Bill Watterson (and btw, this is how I know you're a troll, because not even the most insane xkcdfanboy would suffer a delusion so powerful that they rank xkcd anywhere NEAR Calvin and Hobbes) worked part-time jobs advertising before he wrote Calvin and Hobbes, and everybody knows Calvin and Hobbes is not to be fucked with. Gary Larson I'm pretty sure didn't even have a real job before he started writing the Far Side. And on the flip side, Stephen Pastis was a lawyer and Pearls Before Swine has been shit for the past couple years.<br /><br />Please. If you're going to fight with fire, try to make sure you at least have the *shadow* of a leg to stand on.Vesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-23446281715304472102010-05-28T00:14:09.785-07:002010-05-28T00:14:09.785-07:00Calling you a humorless twat isn't an ad homin...Calling you a humorless twat isn't an ad hominem.<br /><br />It might be an ad hominum, though.<br />Otherwise, excellent post. People here so often forget that Randy is an astrophysicist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-31302198423077878832010-05-28T00:10:48.607-07:002010-05-28T00:10:48.607-07:00"Randall churns three out a week, and you'..."Randall churns three out a week, and you'd be hard-pressed to find anything that's so consistantly funny."<br /><br />I agree. Randall never fails to not bring a smile to my face.<br /><br />You know, I've seen the worst of xkcd apologism but I have never yet seen someone claim that xkcd is better than Calvin and Hobbes. Troll.<br /><br />"(which is enough to convey the nessecary information)."<br /><br />Mostly functional, but the jokes tend to be mangled or not be as good as they could have been.R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-68344485808208508192010-05-27T23:04:22.420-07:002010-05-27T23:04:22.420-07:00Randall Munroe's webcomic is popular, therefor...Randall Munroe's webcomic is popular, therefore he is funny. Similarly, Stephanie Meyer's book is popular, therefore she's a good writer.Whumpusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-16220619598682660802010-05-27T22:44:52.795-07:002010-05-27T22:44:52.795-07:00Randall is an astrophysicist. that he is now self-...Randall is an astrophysicist. that he is now self-supporting based on xkcd should be a testament to its quality. it is now the most successful webcomic of all time, and you may criticise the art (which is enough to convey the nessecary information). <br /><br />"humorless twat"- resorting to ad hominum attacks now? you do realize that a majority of people enjoy the comic, and YOUR sense of humor is the one in question. just what DO you consider to be funny?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84418140792014626582010-05-27T22:24:52.589-07:002010-05-27T22:24:52.589-07:00@ Anon 9:00, 9:57: You really think it'd be ha...@ Anon 9:00, 9:57: You really think it'd be hard to make 3 eh-funny doodles a week?<br /><br />You must be a humourless twat if so.<br /><br />I know some guys who do stand-up ok? They work full-time jobs or go to college or whatever, and EVERY DAY they find a whole bunch of things that are potential material for their set. <br />Most of it is crap but a day spent neither 1) getting good ideas or 2) crafting last week's/last month's ideas into something better is a day not spent as a comic.<br /><br />Randy does not have a job. He does not go to college. His full-time preoccupation is supposed to be: every two days find ONE thing to make a joke about.<br /><br />He fails to do so.<br /><br />He fails to make up for it with effort, with careful drawings or well-thought out scenarios or polished delivery.<br /><br />The man is not a comic.<br /><br />And he gets praised by brainless humourless twats like you who think what he's producing is actually <em>laudable</em>??<br />You're a moron.<br /><br />Nobody has to appreciate the backstage of comedy, of creativity, of craft, in order to laugh. But if you don't, don't act like you know what you're talking about.<br />Because it makes you look like? A moron.Keepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17457818173088145532010-05-27T22:19:44.899-07:002010-05-27T22:19:44.899-07:00#746: OMG WTF IS THIS NEW COMIC I DON'T EVEN
T...#746: OMG WTF IS THIS NEW COMIC I DON'T EVEN<br />THIS IS AWFUL. THIS DESERVES A RANT.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-7515078843357428312010-05-27T22:00:11.721-07:002010-05-27T22:00:11.721-07:0011:50, Thursday night: "Pregnant women are al...11:50, Thursday night: "Pregnant women are always asked to push, but never to pull. That sounds like it has potential to be a good punchline. But what is the least contrived setup possible?"Leonardhttp://overratedfilms.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-15381649946103817992010-05-27T21:57:15.099-07:002010-05-27T21:57:15.099-07:00this is anon from 9:00
once again you trolls comp...this is anon from 9:00<br /><br />once again you trolls completely missed my points, instead misinterpreting what I said and resorting to calling my arguments "cliched". I guess that means im not the only one disgusted with this site. Usually cliches exist for a reason, too (There right).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40743515594916293902010-05-27T21:50:36.709-07:002010-05-27T21:50:36.709-07:00I could've projectile vomited upon seeing 746....I could've projectile vomited upon seeing 746. It's some sort of perfect fusion of everything that makes xkcd horrible. It has pregnancy/birth, it references the girl by the name "Megan" unnecessarily, it contains a cringe-worthy joke that makes no sense whatsoever. Can you pull? Seriously? And then some sort of joke about videogame violence in the alt text that somehow makes the scene make even less sense. Joke crafting is largely about the contradiction of expectation, but some concepts are so alien that if you introduce them without preamble, they leave an audience scratching their heads, wondering what just happened. Andy Sandburg had an SNL bit about a grown man being born instead of a baby, but it was going for gross out humor and spent almost 5 minutes of setup preparing the audience for the joke. Even then, it wasn't amazingly funny.<br /><br />Randall gives us two panels of setup that only establishes this is the scene of a birth. Every aspect of setting, action, mystery, subversion and resolution is established through dialogue, and the art barely changes, only barely expressing the emotion of trepidation in the male character in the final panel.<br /><br />Can it really even be called a "comic strip" when the joke actually works BETTER if you remove the art entirely and relate the joke in pure story format?Bretnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-69024853020402163702010-05-27T21:41:40.680-07:002010-05-27T21:41:40.680-07:00Oy...
Sure, all the heads are connected to bodies ...Oy...<br />Sure, all the heads are connected to bodies this time, but how did Randall forget to draw the *fucking strap* of the surgeon's mask!?<br /><br />The man needs an editor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-57034689478231841652010-05-27T21:25:55.953-07:002010-05-27T21:25:55.953-07:00http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww135/MaxGore/c...http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww135/MaxGore/ctrlkcd.jpgJimbobbowilly (Max W Gore)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-53870812345278454412010-05-27T21:25:54.676-07:002010-05-27T21:25:54.676-07:00SOUTH PARK
Only not so bizaregrosswrong that it c...SOUTH PARK<br /><br />Only not so bizaregrosswrong that it crosses the line.<br />So just...disgusting. No punchline, even an unfunny one.<br /><br />And Megan.<br /><br /><br />Why do Randy's worst comics involve vaginas?<br />(Subconscious fears manifesting themselves maybe? OH SNAP)Keepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17209547205022207292010-05-27T21:23:05.854-07:002010-05-27T21:23:05.854-07:00Man, he's just trying to creep people out now,...Man, he's just trying to creep people out now, isn't he? <br /><br />I mean, at the very least, you can't tell me he didn't put "Megan" in there for any reason than to fuck with us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-36652152710573662002010-05-27T21:22:12.710-07:002010-05-27T21:22:12.710-07:00What the fuck was that???
(746)What the fuck was that???<br /><br />(746)Defiantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-46101503845596550512010-05-27T21:16:12.124-07:002010-05-27T21:16:12.124-07:00I've often thought of xkcd as the family guy o...I've often thought of xkcd as the family guy of web comics. except even less funny.<br /><br />comic 746 proved it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-50092045005840441892010-05-27T21:15:25.837-07:002010-05-27T21:15:25.837-07:00Yup. There's Megan again.Yup. There's Megan again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85625190252225974312010-05-27T21:15:01.139-07:002010-05-27T21:15:01.139-07:00But Rob! Dinosaur Comics has made like twice that...But Rob! Dinosaur Comics has made like twice that many, and we all know they suck! WHAT'S GOING ON HEREAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-52467486762228953362010-05-27T21:09:53.757-07:002010-05-27T21:09:53.757-07:00oh man I haven't seen the "Randall has ma...oh man I haven't seen the "Randall has made over 700 of them" one before! YOU'RE RIGHT, IF YOU WRITE ENOUGH OF SOMETHING IT AUTOMATICALLY MAKES YOU GOODrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.com