xkcd vs. MATT

Went with death

at least MATT is drawn well

seriously, if I see another grad student office with an xkcd comic taped to the door, somebody is getting a smack.

i went with matt. how the fuck is the xcd shit supposed to be funny at all beyond mentioning shit nerds like.

it's schticks are "lol maths and physics exist and some programming languages are bad" and "i am a belle and sebastian fan with a moleskine"

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wasteland.png

so it's emo + nerdery.

i'm pro-xkcd because they're anti-raptor.

I have a couple of friends/colleagues who seem to like xkcd so I try to keep my vocal contempt for it to a minimum, but it really is completely FUCKING HORRENDOUS.

yeah i dont wanna get all HYPERBOLE ON THE INTERNET but this is the worst comic ive ever seen

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/morning.png

i wasn't too sure which was which so for the sake of not accidentally voting for that godawful unfunny first comic strip, i went for death.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/helping.png

i am bugging out at how bad this is.... this shit is ridiculous

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/journal_2.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/far_away.png

hahaha holy shit nobody ever forces me to look at these suicidal ones

xkcd is really so, so, so bad.

death

ok guys are you ready

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cure.jpg

did you guys ever see the xkcd one about led zeppelin???

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/classic.png

bet this dudes taste in music is fucking champ

http://www.last.fm/group/XKCD

1 Play
Radiohead
50
1 Play
The Beatles
50
3 Play
Muse
47
4 Play
Red Hot Chili Peppers
33
5 Play
Nirvana
32
6 Play
Nine Inch Nails
31
7 Play
Led Zeppelin
30
8 Play
Modest Mouse
29
8 Play
Pink Floyd
29
10 Play
Metallica
27

I want to join this group, but then there would no longer be 314 members, so it wouldn't be so pi-tastic. Now I'm not sure whether I should join or not!

jesus christ

http://wetriffs.com/

xkcd is the worst of the 2 by far, but they both suck shit so I went with "death".

I used to keep changing dude who writes xkcd's Wikipedia entry to claim that he was a white supremacist, and this shit got altered back within seconds.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes

try mentioning him having a sideline in anime furry erotica maybe next time you want to do a bit of wikivandalism? (xpost)

thread needs more matt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/15/matt.gif

ha ha stalker 101

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/find_you.jpg

lol economy shitbin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/12/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/13/matt.gif

xxp, yeah, I thought about posting that matt one, but it's actually pretty good and wouldn't have been fair on the xkcd bedwetter guy.

fuck, matt is pretty awesome.

he's mining a rich seam here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/11/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/10/matt.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/09/matt.gif

that last one is fine

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Dear Randall Munroe,

Could you please come to this internet forum thread and apologise for being neither funny or insightful. It would mean a lot to us.

Thanks,

Yours, the general public.

This thread brought to you by the fact that someone I formerly liked and respected added the xkcd app to their Facebook profile this morning.

xp, ZANG

i have a horrible certainty that xkcd dude is v. proud of his stick figures, seeing himself as a genius who has broken all the rules of cartooning in order to forge a new, more direct means of etc blah blah

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx

The meet-up was prompted by a March comic entitled “Dream Girl,” in which Munroe’s stick-figure narrator recounts meeting a girl in a dream who urgently whispered a date and time and the mapping coordinates — 42.39561, -71.13051 — of Williams Park in his ear. The narrator goes there at the appointed moment but, as he sadly concludes, “It turns out wanting something doesn’t make it real.”

But hundreds of people decided to make it just that. “Dream Girl” was enough to bring Alex Norris here all the way from England.

“I saw that, and I got my credit card out and booked the plane ticket,” said the 34-year-old IT-support technician, who participated in a tape-measure length competition during the gathering.

early xkcd looks different, more suicidal but less annoying

do people who like xkcd also tend to have a copy of Wall and Piece by banksy? i suspect so.

Other things like by xkcd types:

Something Awful forums membership
J-Pop
Not shutting the fuck up about Firefly

Astrophysics

Forwarding xkcd comics to me

guys, the comments here

http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/3171503.html

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097

XKCD is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit. It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

guys, i've never heard of xkcd before, but it's obviously great. it poops all over its 90s/00s poorly-drawn misanthropic forebears, none of which have ever been good.

However much that Pinky Tuscadero up there's dad beat him as a child, it wasn't enough.

xkcd is for those among us who don't wallow in self-pity. It's for those of us who are filled with awe for the ordinary, not those who seek to fill emptiness with bland fiction.

It's for people with an intelligent sense of humor, not a chip on their shoulder.

http://www.froggyville.com/images/collect/thinkmac.jpg

ACHEWOOD REALLY ISN'T THAT FUNNY AND I DO NOT SEE WHY PEOPLE LIKE IT SO MUCH

Where's my Cat and Girl? Halfway up, far right (assuming "funny" can also mean "existentially stimulating")?

reading about xkcd has led me to shit like
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/hstrips/0/1/9/8/01987.png

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1277/1xlstc4jr2.png

otm

matt is like an inch above and to the right of xkcd

Milfwich sounds like one of the opposition teams in Roy of the Rovers

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dream_girl.png

bad man

ts: emo xkcd vs. nerd jokes xkcd

oh god

dino comics is the only web comic that is any good at all and it is REALLY good

it actually took me weeks before i even realized that the drawings in dino comics were exactly the same in every strip

achewood >>>>>>>>>>>>> dino comics >>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

(PBF RIP)

xkcd is kinda like if the guy who does achewood took his meds and got a degree

no

i don't think there's any sequence of events that could lead to the achewood guy becoming the xkcd guy.

romanian orphanage?

that was a nice try at realistic humanoid observation, gabb-bot

it actually took me weeks before i even realized that the drawings in dino comics were exactly the same in every strip

-- Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:13 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

F'real.

are you calling me elitist, TH? ;)

people are bitter, they cling to achewood

maybe that guy would be funnier if he ate some arugula every once in a while

achewood is funny

sorry bros dinosaur comics isnt funny

that MATT 'views of the recession' is great!

Pet peeve: motherfuckers who consider themselves "insane".

I've enjoyed the occasional xkcd ("You're a cat!" was cute) but it's too damn painful overall. Like a lot of those indie and punk comics, it seems to eschew jokes for an "oh, I recognise that! This I like!" reaction. I see no other reason why anyone would give a shit about something like this:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png
Oh ho ho ho, you guys, Dennis the Menace did an SQL Injection on the school's server. That scamp! :^D

^^^ still on the fridge at my office

there's also one where blowing in NES cartridges is the 'punchline'

i think the dude thats on the somethingawful forums all day is responsible, dom otm

I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes

-- J0hn D., Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:49 (45 minutes ago)

hey guys, does anyone know how girls feel about the xkcd question?

(PBF RIP)

-- Jordan, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:14 AM (21 minutes ago)

wait what

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003712741

i didn't even know it was monthly, i thought he just stopped making PBF comics.

lol we have this one stuck up on the wall at work, I had no idea where it came from until this thread, you learn something every day.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nintendo_surgeon.png

hey guys, does anyone know how girls feel about the xkcd question?

-- caek, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

The only girls that are aware of this that I know like to go to B@rcamp and dated the j@vascr1pt adv0cate for m0z1lla j0hn r3s1g. Also when I dated her we had "his and hers" Belle and Sebastian mugs making

it's schticks are "lol maths and physics exist and some programming languages are bad" and "i am a belle and sebastian fan with a moleskine"

OTM.

Achewood has the occasional miss but:
a.) The characters have consistent voices
b.) The stuff that completely fails is usually the weird concept shit, that's a gamble, at least
c.) Even if you don't like the adventures of five year old Phillippe, he's at least pretty consistent

I liked Diesel Sweeties a fair bit a few years back but don't look at it that much anymore, it's more good for one-note jokes and I don't tend to care about the characterization quite as much. xkcd geek jokes get passed around the office, but I really think it's guys in another area just reading it when a database pun gets posted to digg or something, I dunno. Dinosaur Comics has a few funny ones but same thing, I just read the occasional ones I'm sent.

Not experienced enough with this "Matt" comic to have a strong opinion.

there should be one about dudes on a message board arguing about internet comics

I don't think anyone's arguing here, DG! Everyone seems to agree that this comic totally blows.

you obviously haven't been here very long, xp :D

xkcd's "gamble" comics to me are the weird emo-suicide ones where they're all like "but if we could have love..." and some sort of boring shit with a guy sitting staring at stuff. Minimalist representations of the depth of the human condition don't work so good when your writing is better suited to dork jokes and the stick figures aren't doing anything

That Python comic will be wrong when 3.0 comes out in the summer and hello world becomes print('Hello world'). I bet he does a strip about that.

matt archive: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Matt/pMattTemplate.jhtml?pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/18/matt.gif

i laughed

^^ genius

xp

lots of lj goth girls like xkcd

the programming dude + lj goth girl dating combination pretty much sums up a lot of xkcd

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44077000/jpg/_44077318_sophieb.jpg

An xkcd fan, yesterday

First time I saw one I thought "wow, this is the worst thing ever", so I flicked through the previous 4 and they were even worse. Then my nerd friends started forwarding me the geek ones, and I've been semi-amused by some of them, but found most of them a slightly smug trumpeting of the kind of stuff I'm embarrassed to know or think about. The emo ones I've not seen many of until now, and, uh, what John D said, I guess.

Wait, you probably didn't want shut-in aspie rube perl nerds when you said "girls" so eh.

“I saw that, and I got my credit card out and booked the plane ticket,” said the 34-year-old IT-support technician, who participated in a tape-measure length competition during the gathering.

you really, really cannot make this shit up.

this is like when I again admitted to my girlfriend that I went to quakecon, twice, and it finally sunk in and she said, "wait, you went to.... what?"

xkcd strips keep getting posted to Other forums I'm on and universally adored, bewilderingly. I've liked about three of them, but am buggered if I'm plugging through emo-archives to find em.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing any of these cartoons you fucking assholes

^^^

What is wrong with people? This is not funny.

it turns out wanting to have not seen xkcd comics doesnt make it real

I have enjoyed the occasional xkcd comic strip

“It turns out wanting something doesn’t make it real.”

what kind of fucking nutcase sociopath insight is this

That's unfair to nutcase sociopaths, I have known some and they are more tolerable than this comic.

http://i28.tinypic.com/25qgh2t.jpg

xkcd strips keep getting posted to Other forums I'm on and universally adored, bewilderingly. I've liked about three of them, but am buggered if I'm plugging through emo-archives to find em.

No offense stet, but perhaps those other forums need a good hard 2nd look.

by someone else

Guy who started the LJ shitstorm is a pal of mine.

Tracer Hand: yeh, you! Although looking back I see you hating on them there too :)

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70570036/1785054
It's not that I don't get the jokes. It's that I have too much of a life to get the jokes.

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097
So you're saying you have too much of a life to understand intellectual humor?

The path of my BS has not only led to twelve years of a very comfortable living, but the ability to appreciate things like XKCD. Yet it didn't deny me the appreciation that while there are some things that fly a bit past me, their humorous and artistic value is not diminished.

Keep your MA.

(Your programmer boyfriend, by default, should grok the comic. One can only speculate why he puts up with your condescending ass.)

XKCD is the intellectual humor equivalent of a swirlie.

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097
bitches leave

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8784/imageuploadimageab9.jpg

xp later in the thread he says that theres no girls on the internet and somebody else says 'you look girly enough' lolZING

dudes like that in the comment thread are the best argument for the lbzc style hazing on ilx

Invite him to ILX.

pick a new favorite or object of derision:
http://comics.alltop.com/

Anyways, I have about four XKCDs that I kinda like; taken in this context, they are indeed pretty crepey.
I have a soft spot for Copper: http://www.boltcity.com/copper/

JESUS CHRIST HOW MANY OF THESE ARE THERE

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/04/10/matt.gif

genuine chuckle

web comics are god's punishment for original sin

I don't get the "Chinese men in blue tracksuits" gag...?

Gestalt disgust at XKCD is one of the things that makes me still a little proud to be on ILX

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/global_warming.png

I don't get whatever the real joke is either forks but it comes off as utter nonsense which is usually all that makes me laugh anymore anyway

xkcd is like if dave sim NEVER had sex or bothered to even try and learn to draw

forks: from the guys who protect the olympic flame

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

olympic torch was protected by chinese paramilitaries in tracksuits, many tangles w/ protesters in cities not run by gavin newsom. financial system rests on chinese lending, o gnoes. it's a pretty deft little comic! also a little racist.

xp

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89619306

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/valentines_day.jpg

there is nothing that annoys me more than the smug non-scientist's total faith in science

-- max, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 19:17 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this guy actually writes like he majored in theoretical physics, but wasn't smart enough for grad school.

a lot of the physics/information theory/maths, etc. references are spot on, which is a big part of what makes him such a bore.

ha, google says me otm

ah, see i didn't realize that mortgage gag was so current.
I kind of do like this one, even if the middle wordy panel is unnecessary:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

He sounds like he's in mensa.

Life imitates xkcd

"Wikipedian Protester" in Cambridge, 23 September 2007
On several occasions, fans have been motivated by Munroe's comics to carry out, in real life, the subject of a particular drawing or sketch. Some notable examples include:
Richard Stallman was sent a katana[61] and was confronted by students dressed as ninjas before speaking at the Yale Political Union[62][63] – inspired by "Open Source"
When Cory Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon[64] – inspired by "Blagofaire"
xkcd readers sneaking chess boards onto roller coasters[65][66] – inspired by "Chess Photo"
An xkcd reader created a "MBR Love Note" installation program[67] – inspired by "Fight"
Munroe himself solicited contributions from his readers of people playing electric guitars while in the shower on wetriffs.com[68] after posting the comic "Rule 34,"[69] in which a character registers that domain.

Though in retrospect, it's best if that one strip is your ONLY exposure to this cat's stuff.
I kind of think that a photoshopped "SHIT. THAT. FUCK." rearrangement of those panels has memeworthy possibilities.

That is so profoundly WTF that it's impossible to even begin with it, max.

shit like that makes me want to quit the internet forever

who knew that self-satisfied garbage would find such an audience

I remember one time I read Garfield, then ate some lasagna

When Cory Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon[64] – inspired by "Blagofaire"

That's wrong in about 10 different ways.

I would be so bummed if I were Stallman or Doctorow.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Cory_Doctorow_%40_eTech_2007.jpeg

Cory Doctorow wears a red cape, goggles and a balloon as he receives the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award
Inspired by "Blagofaire"

Is there a reason for that beyond simply being Stallman or Doctorow? (xp)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/blagofaire.png

oh my sides

hahahaha oh jesus people are so horrible and deserving of oblivion

"holding the great dialogues of the age"

boards we should start beef with: http://forums.xkcd.com/

oh the beef's BEEN started

"ask a dude who has killed other dudes"?
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5641

great thread

hahahaha oh jesus people are so horrible and deserving of oblivion

That is the one thing I have taken away from this thread.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4282

"Oh god, you did it. You really blew it up."

some challenging opinions on that board

I think bisexuals have got it more honest and balanced than most other people. I mean, I generally think "eww, man-on-man sex" when it comes to the idea of being attracted to another guy (NOTE: this is a purely personal preference, and I think other people having man-on-man sex is just fine), but there are fleeting moments where I realize "You know, if I wasn't so grossed out by that, it would be a fine thing to be able to enjoy" - and I already sometimes experience the momentary attraction or impulse that would lead to enjoyment, which is then rapidly overcome by gut reaction. The attraction is already extremely fleeting, and is always to some aspect that I would characterize as "feminine" anyway. And this rare moment is nothing compared to the fleeting attraction I have to almost every young, healthy female I encounter. Perhaps with age my "gross!" reaction will fade; I don't really care, because I'm quite satisfied to be heterosexual.

Also, I think that girls are generally more bisexual then men - this is purely based on observation, but my theory is that while women are generally gorgeous, men are generally not, and this makes it much easier for women to be bisexual - since they (for reasons of their own) are generally attracted to men in the first place.

ok everybody take this in for a second
http://xkcd.com/159/

now look at this
http://www.bmeink.com/A80327/high/nox0-based-on-httpxkcd.jpg

Just the worst:

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewforum.php?f=40

I've actually signed up a troll account for their forums, but I can't bring myself to stare at it long enough to actually troll.

xkcd fans vs. so not gonna happen 3 dude

http://xkcd.com/162/

xps oh jesus christ that tattoo

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Re: The single best computer food
by photosinensis on Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:55 pm UTC

This depends. What am I doing? If I'm gaming, the stellar combination of Cheetos and Mountain Dew is the most awesome thing ever. I must remember to thank Dr. Demento for the idea. However, if I'm coding, I'll generally prefer something a bit more substantive: I've been known to have pizza, sandwiches, and even full dinners while coding. The drink usually depends on the meal, but if I'm not eating anything, I'll go with either a bottle of Shiner Bock or a bottle of Bawls--depending on my mood.

if that girl with the tattoo ran for president against an obese libertarian who wore the same penny arcade hoodie every day I would probably vote for the hoodie

haha ok it took me a second look to realize the person w/ tattoo is girl

MATT.

Cory Doctorow makes MATT look like Jonathan Swift and Chuck Close rolled into one.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14344

started this on another forum and it seems to be going pretty well there. Here is where you post your opinions about music that make most people tell you you're crazy. (There can be a bit of arguing, just dont make it into a flame war m'kay?)

-Pantera is way, WAY over rated, all of their stuff is all the same.
-So is Slayer
-American Idiot is a near-perfect album
-Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out.
-Aphex Twin is a musical genius.
-Punk is not dead, just expanding to the needs of people.
-Techno remixs are better than the regular song most of the time
-J-pop is addicting, but that doesnt mean it is good.
-Gatsby's American Dream, Fall Out Boy and P!ATD all sound the same, but that doesnt mean they are bad, in fact they are great.
-There is no best genre.
-The 80's should have never happened.
-Green Day is punk, but also pop at the same time. And they are 100% awesome.
-Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape.
-No matter how talented the musician, Stairway sucks.
-Anyone who was in a Hair Metal band should be shot.

"m'kay"

now i want to attach an ILM poster to each of those opinions

Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out. - dan perry
Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape. - geir hongro

-Punk is not dead, just expanding to the needs of people. - and what

ew, they have a thread about rapex.

Postby 1337geek on Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:44 am UTC

Ugh. The only good hip-hop/rap songs are the ones Weird Al did, but it's hard to listen to even those sometimes because usually I try to appreciate the original songs that made the parodies possible.

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." --Carl Zwanzig

Burger Dictator: "Have It My Way" --1337geek

As far as 'real instruments' go, that argument is a joke, unless you meant 'people who play instruments'. I'd imagine anything that can be used to create sound would qualify as an instrument.

Talented Musicians? The producer of a good rapper probably understand music better than your average musician. Mr Dibbs, DJ Shadow, and Danger Mouse, have amazing instrumentals that only pure talent could produce.

Great Lyrics? Sage Francis. Immortal Technique. Slug. Eyedea. Just pick a random lyric from any of them. You will you find amazing lyrical talent on topics ranging from politics to philosophy to love.

Theres a huge difference between hip hop and rap, as hip hop tends to focus on counter culture, whereas rap strives to become mainstream and make with the bling. Most hip hop i've heard is less bragging and more spoken word poetry to really good beats, while most rap i've heard is all bragging and mostly nonsensical gibberish about why they'll rape who and her and kill that thug with their homies... But hey, I generalize.

Seriously, if your being cynical, look up Lyrics from the following tracks and tell me with a straight face you don't think its impressive:

Skip town, Garbage, How to Be a Carpenter, Labor, Daylight, Save yourself, Flashflood, No regrets, Battery, 9-5ers Anthem, None Shall Pass...
Float is pretty solid, good introduction of his observations of New York. Labor Days is a mindblowing rail against the frustrations of the daily grind and life... I didn't like his subsequent three albums as much, but his lyrical insanity is still there.

For Atmosphere, look up lyrics for Saves the Day, LoveLife, or Always Coming back Home to You.

For Sage Francis look up lyrics for, Tolerance Level, Makeshift Patriot (this song is win, its angry and evenkeeled), Climb Trees, Broken Wings...

Anyway, I don't expect anyone to devote the time for these songs, but just want to get it out there that if your judging a genre based on a small sample, or even a series of songs from a DIFFERENT but distantly related genre, your being a prat. That'd be like me saying Johnny Cash sucks because I heard a country song that was stupid. Yes, they both had a guitar, repeated song pattern and a chorus.
Point is similarities don't equal sameness.

dom can you troll this thread plz

There is a fundamental difference between US and UK Hip-Hop and Rap. US lyricists have a tendency to focus on the allure of wealth, and the ability to live a luxurious lifestyle once they have 'escaped' a high-crime area (apparently called ghettoes, but I've looked at ghettoes on the History Channel, and they don't look like what's being described; chiefly bearded old Polish men with armbands saying Jüden). Anyway, US rappers focus on success and the cool hedonism that follows.

In the UK, it's very different; the music is more grimy. It is the aural equivalent of that shade of green they use for the walls in the Saw films. This is because there isn't the money, fame, or opulent lifestyle. A lot of UK hip-hop 'stars' don't have the kind of cash that their US counterparts do. As a result, they are still living in the grimy, seedy, crime-ridden areas that populate city suburbs like weeping buboes; and this is really reflected in the music.

A lot of UK rappers aspire to live like how successful US rappers live, but unfortunately still live with their mum in a 2-bedroom bedsit on the fifth floor of a dilapidated council estate in South London, living on state-handouts with little education and no aspirations other than to get on MTV Cribs one day.

it's very sad, and a terrible aspect of today's society, but I prefer to look on the bright side: it does make for great music. So as long as US rappers are still living in their Beverley Hills mansions waxing lyrical about their tough childhoods, and UK artists are still living in squalor, desperate to get out of the morose desperation of inner-city life, then the rest of us can enjoy thoroughly excellent music!

crime-ridden areas that populate city suburbs like weeping buboes

it's very sad, and a terrible aspect of today's society, but I prefer to look on the bright side: it does make for great music

lol@"weeping buboes"

(apparently called ghettoes, but I've looked at ghettoes on the History Channel, and they don't look like what's being described; chiefly bearded old Polish men with armbands saying Jüden)

I liked it better when we were just bitching about the comic and not the fanlisting

root and branch dude

That's funny. Personally, I can't stand hearing about 'how hard it was growing up in the hood, and what an unstoppable spirit you got, and how you ran your crew, and how you nailed those ho's, and how nothing can stop you!' because frankly, every rapper since the 1970's has been saying the same recycled stupid shit to the same recycled stupid beats.

The new hiphop crowd is full of wordsmiths and poets. If you like the music genre for blasting at parties and getting loose women dancing, then whatever, but "If you dig women who have more to get off their chest then a wet t-shirt" you ought to expand your own horizons.

Rap is to hiphop what Dave Matthews is to Led Zeppelin. Both rock and put up some good stuff. But one rocks significantly better.

there are morons on forums all over the internoodle. let's concentrate on what really counts here, creepy nerd comics

xkcd makes me lol on occassion. feelin like bimble up in this.

It doesn't really matter if XKCD gives you a HOOS-on once in awhile. The important point is that you realize it's got a terminal case of awfulness.

I'm not going to universally bash it since other comics do the same thing to reasonable effect, but xkcd does the "secret caption in alternate text" thing on every comic, which is often even MORE emo on the really gothy suicidal ones. Just kind of hover over that image, if you really want.

dom can you troll this thread plz

-- and what, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:15 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Give me a link and I'll start posting as Yungun's street team.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/garfield.jpg

Garfield remains one of the worst comics in the world, but it is still better than xkcd.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hyphen.jpg

this isn't entirely unfunny:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curse_levels.jpg

this is entirely terrible:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cliched_exchanges.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/monty_python.jpg

urrrrrrrggggghhhkk

DAN LACEY SAVE US

Bjork needs her vocal cords cut out. - dan perry

RONG

ps: I lauughed at the Python comic but that was it.

you only laughed because it had a random death in it though. anything funny about it is padded with five panels of garbage

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/couple.png

geeky, amusing, harmless:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/highway_engineer_pranks.png

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/rockaway.jpg

Bit of context from Spamusement:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6972/picture9xy5.png

NONONO NOT THAT ONE, I MEANT THE ONE WITH THE FLYING DUDE

ARGH WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM, TOM????

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/06/matt.gif

Clear winner here is MATT.

Isn't there some spoof of MATT in Private Eye or Viz? Like a UK version of The Onion's Kelly?

sorry dan but you do like to laugh at random death and maiming y/n
that's all I was getting at
btw the one you actually claim to have found funny is also terrible

Yeah, but it has a drug reference in it.

xp to bodrick, matt isn't the only single-panel topical cartoonist in the uk papers. There was Austin in the Guardian, but he dead.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

also pugh in the times and the godawful rick brookes in the metro.

bugger

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

At first, I thought this said, It turns out you can't take turns taking responsibility for someone else's happiness.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/helping.png

Which is like a mutual-assistance pact of sorts, but she obv fell down on the job.

xp to bodrick, matt isn't the only single-panel topical cartoonist in the uk papers. There was Austin in the Guardian, but he dead.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/cartoons/2005/09/19/190905_austin.jpg

also pugh in the times and the godawful rick brookes in the metro.

-- ledge, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:03

Oh yeah, course. (The Metro fella is well rubbish, you're right.) But this parody seemed to be directed at some centre-right bod like MATT.

Haven't bought a Private Eye in a while but don't remember any parodies like that. Seems like it would be a bit of a nebulous target, he's mostly harmless and often funny - unlike the ones the onion satirises.

lol ile losing its shit about harmless geek comic shocka

lol shocka

I picked matt for the other option here having never really read any of his stuff, but it turns out he has a way better strike rate than, say, the New Yorker cartoons and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> xkcd

I don't mind a couple of xkcds, like the one about having a bit of one's brain devoted to planning the ultimate treehouse is cool. Appeals to me, I love treehouses.

But ffs, the idea of the geeks acting out what he writes about - like the aforementioned coordinates park party, the stallman cape n goggles shit - jesus people, you make yrselves look bad enough with the Potter slashfic and land rights for poly whales bullshit. Just stop.

No, keep going; it will tell the aliens who to cull first.

Having said that, I'm pretty amused at how violently angry some ppl on this thread are getting over this. Keep it up, angry dudes.

No, keep going; it will tell the aliens who to cull first.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

or who to ignore as completely harmless and posing no threat to their domination whatsoever

HGWDYGAL?

i don't see what the big deal is. mocking lame-ass web comics is fun.

Pardon, but I think that ILX is above that kind of lowbrow buffoonery, latebloomer.

there's a very small handful of funnies that i can say were consistently good. calvin. far side. the vast majority suck about 95% of the time. i would say xkcd is better than that. artistically MATT is boring. it's also a bit novel that compared to your usual funny strips, xkcd could try occasionally to branch out of the standard thematic form. (even tho the melodramaticness of a few of those upthread feels like heartaching by the numbers.)

m.

my music history professor tried to tell us that hip-hop = swung sixteenth notes, rap = played straight lol

lolol

haha.

'what you know' - rap
'get it' - hip-hop

THIS GUY CAN'T EVEN DRAW GARFIELD????

This is the much stupider version of Ted Rall's beef with Art Spiegelman.

And that beef is no winner!

What's the worst online comic strip?

New today:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/techno.png

Just wow.

THE BOOMERS ARE KICKING OUR ASSES

hmmm might buy some techno on itunes today, anyone in?

i already wrote a program in c++ that loops itunes samples to make whole tracks of so-called techno "music" ;-)

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

passive remote trolling

proxy trolling

-Screamo is like Rap. It isnt music, just ear rape.

Noel Gallagher?

This thread needs an Exploding Dog Red Robot

http://cellar.org/pictures/redrobot.gif

bloody hell these xkcd comics are worse than ilx!

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

-- and what, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lolool

Stewie: All right, that's it! I could handle the crappy apartment and the pedestrian job, but now you're telling me I'm a 35-year-old Parade magazine reading virgin?! Well, you, sir, are pathetic! So forget about sending me back, because I'm not leaving until we do a complete overhaul on this sad thing you call "our life"!
Stu: Can I still read Parade?
Stewie: NO, YOU CANNOT STILL READ PARADE!

OK waht why did my bf laugh at that xkcd from last night. He is so dead.

quoting the direct-to-video family guy movie on a thread about how something isnt a funny is not a good look

I'm pushing the envelope.

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

-- and what, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:44 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

obama vs. hillary still #1

Classical music in general bores the living shit out of me, but I never tell anyone for fear of being thought "uncultured". Wagner = exception to this rule.

— Adolf Hitler

this may be the most successful remote trolling of ilx ever

www.robertchristgau.com

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

passed a software developer in the hall at work today wearing an xkcd shirt :)

xkcd reminds me of the 20-something girls who wear mom jeans walking around Kendall Square in Cambridge. Not a good thing.

Or this guy...

http://www.craphound.com/images/corycosplayer.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/tv/posters/big_bang_theory.jpg

yes, i am a fan.

of the geeky sitcom, not that comic!

lol she doesn't understand his equation!

http://www.poptower.com/images/db/2184/500/500/the-big-bang-theory.jpg

xkcd reminds me of the 20-something girls who wear mom jeans walking around Kendall Square in Cambridge. Not a good thing.

-- Mr. Goodman, Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:10 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Doesn't the dude live in Boston?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

TOTALLY DUDE!! 4
white bitches wanna marry me 4
now i'm on the golf course 1
i make it rain from the center of my guitar 1
i uuaah like I uuaah 1
but this hoe won't let my thang go 1
on the yacht with marilyn manson 1
i'm tryin' to rap and hold my pants 1

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/03apr/uf005440.gif

http://www.handrooster.com/comics/20070427.gif

http://www.handrooster.com/comics/20070829.gif
id like to see a smug grammar nerd vigilante

a guy who kills people who make a big fucking deal out of misplaced apostrophes

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/forks_and_spoons.png

This dude must have been playing TI-83 games through bio class. Fuck him

i hate fucking stick figures

stop dating models, then

boom tish etc

that forks and spoons strip really is about as funny as herpes.

thought dude was going somewhere there but talk about flubbing the punchline.

Really? I had the opposite reaction, that PBF-style violent endings can't save a miserable premise.

hmmm, maybe we should have a lively debate!

http://www.yale.edu/ypu/blog.html

fucking die

I posted that comic not only because I found it unfunny and the art horrible, but because the idea that you could create sporks in a binary proportion is fucking stupid. Although the fact that I am now questioning whether silverware has mendelian genetics is making me doubt my interest in this

the only stick figure comic worth reading
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Iap0gibw8AiC0M:http://www.bigtimeattic.com/blog/uploaded_images/feazell07.jpg

TRUTH

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

I'm thinking of sending the next student of mine who sends me this a link to wall of 'ginas.

the purest

yeah well english literature is applied GENIUS

;-)

(also, yeah, you oughta!)

i still really like the moral/message behind the 1st strip here

Every time I think I come up with the definitive counterfeit XKCD, he goes and does something like this

See recent 'geo-hashing' comic for the most blatant bullshit trend-baiting yet GOD why does he make me so angry

so MATT mustve really fallen fast & hard

i dont even see an example strip here anymore

^^^ this!

Just read the entire thread, thinking: who's this MATT?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Matt/pMattTemplate.jhtml

thanks! i think the twain are incomparable, though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/ is better

what % of forksclovetofu posts are essentially xkcd?

I told my girl, "If I die tonight and come back as a zombie, promise me that you will allow me to infect you and be my zombie bride."
And she promised. Good for her!

-- forksclovetofu, Friday, December 28, 2007 11:50 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

isn't his girl named Lady?

We named the dog Indiana.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_happened.png

HAY GUYYYYYYYS I'M I'M GETTING LAAAAAAAAYED

so lame he didn't go for something more overtly sexual there.

that's what she said

i like to read all the "one last night. take me now." ones remembering that dude looks like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/XkcdMunroe.jpg/396px-XkcdMunroe.jpg

Shit, which high school massacre perpretrator does he look like?

I think the point is more that he hangs out with people who say "that's what she said!" even when it's appropriate and therefore not funny. As do I (hi there, little brother), so I find it funny.

that is mr xkcd?? he actually doesnt look bad at all esp when you consider the lighting of that pic

xp also unfair dom

It's a little sad to imagine you searching through your .xls "and what".
Lady's a singer friend.
The answer to bad webcomics = http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayex/

although to answer yr question, dylan klebold

is that a nerf gun on the table behind his OHP?

he looks like the sociopathic kid from my fav episode of third watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHRO48_SnJs

He looks like a couple of perfectly harmless cross-country runners I knew in school.

he looks like... any of us.

lesson learned.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Cn.png/308px-Cn.png

oh man

A man in a hat who looks like a normal stick-figure xkcd character, except for the addition of his trademark black hat. Referring to himself as a "Classhole" (classy asshole), he is intolerant of internet newbishness. He does not shy from pointing out the foibles in others and has at times used extreme violence in order to emphasize a point.

what is this MATT, anyway?

its apparently this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

http://free.pages.at/hbredel/dateien/dylaneric.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/XkcdMunroe.jpg/396px-XkcdMunroe.jpg

Not quite, but close.

it is true, they are all young white men

So have we talked about Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby yet – other than here: truth bombs

Such fucking shite and a Bostonian (like xkcd dude)

the main thing that bother's me about the poignant guide is how fucking long and badly written it is.

that's the main thing.

guy looks like the reanimator

i dread the future -- photocopied Far Side cartoons posted on faculty office doors become more & more rare and xkcd strips are repopulating that cultural niche

loooool

http://www.b-movies.gr/UserFiles/Image/Ready%20pics/beyond%20reanimator/beyond%20reanimator%207.jpg
it turns out wanting something doesnt make it real...

did anyone else ever own a 'far side' t-shirt?

mine was 'midvale school for the gifted'

everyone told me 'how a bird sees the world' was funnier & they were right, in retrospect

Every generation gets the nerd comic they deserve.

he was pushing on a door that said pull! and he had glasses & it was a SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED GOD DAMMIT

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/how_it_happened.png

god I know so many people like the guy on the right

did anyone else ever own a 'far side' t-shirt?

mine was 'midvale school for the gifted'

everyone told me 'how a bird sees the world' was funnier & they were right, in retrospect

-- deeznuts, Friday, June 13, 2008 5:15 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Every generation gets the nerd comic they deserve.

-- forksclovetofu, Friday, June 13, 2008 5:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

he was pushing on a door that said pull! and he had glasses & it was a SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED GOD DAMMIT

-- deeznuts, Friday, June 13, 2008 5:25 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

This needs to be turned into an xkcd comic.

ugh the love romance & sex bits of xkcd make me feel icky and slightly violated

the guy on the right is a hero though

ZINGSTANCE

im totally copping it

"she puts her hand over mine, grinds against me, leans down, and whispers, 'LYSOL DOUCHE!!!!'"

ilx needs a wdyllzinging thread

god I know so many people like the guy on the right

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, June 13, 2008 12:25 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

you know people who strike Saturday Night Fever poses when making poorly conceived wisecracks?

ugh the love romance & sex bits of xkcd make me feel icky and slightly violated

-- elmo argonaut, Friday, 13 June 2008 16:28 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yes, very much. Very queasiness-inducing.

ilx needs a wdyllzinging thread

-- deeznuts, Friday, 13 June 2008 16:33 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

We already had one. There wasn't a whole lot of mileage in it, as I remember.

right, i mean, i wouldn't be bothered if it was eskimo kisses and picnics and shared milkshakes, but something about THE UNIVERSE HAS CONSPIRED TO MAKE YOU MY LADYFRIEND makes me think that this guy totally goes off the deep end when he gets dumped

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/find_you.jpg
is he climbing the shroud of turin?

http://xkcd.com/98/

huh

we are grownups now

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/grownups.png

so embarrassing

ok, matt is really unfunny. i don't get the appeal.

http://xkcd.com/98/

huh

-- and what, Friday, June 13, 2008 4:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

scary shit

I wonder if his girlfriends always have black hair or if he just has no idea how to draw blondes.

http://xkcd.com/30/

"Patch Adams," about a doctor who believes in treating his patients with humor as well as medicine (and based on a true story), is marginally more enjoyable, but again Williams kicks his mugging and sermonizing into high gear. I disliked "Patch Adams," but when Williams was allowed to be Williams-trapped-in-the-body-of-Patch-Adams, I laughed. As when, trying to woo a fellow medical student, he half hides himself behind a skeleton and waves its arm enthusiastically, calling out, "Donner, party of 50!"

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/donner.jpg

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_man_who_fell_sideways.png

i mean, what is this shit

I literally do not get that at all

xpost to the donners one

This shit sucks. Definitely no Leisure Town. Remember that/????????

xkcd guy is totally a self-styled dread pirate roberts on a tandem bicycle with a crate full of intimidating sextoys powered by a hydrogen generator and i cannot stress how much it creeps me

oh man leisure town was ACE

ok, matt is really unfunny. i don't get the appeal.

-- Maria, Friday, 13 June 2008 17:42 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that's the point. he's the most anodyne, unfunnny comic I could think of, and xkcd is still worse.

I wrote a paper about leisure town in college

If you don’t read xkcd or have it in your feedreader, then you are not a true Cool Web Person.

Sorry. That’s just an objective fact.

xkcd Gives Me Hope
I'm a huge fan of xkcd. I think it's the very best thing on the web right now, and I secretly want to marry Randall Monroe.

This comic made me smile an awful lot, and I had to share it with everyone.

Randall, if you ever read this, I'm cute and single. Ask me about my math tattoo. And I'm totally willing to move to Boston.

xkcd vs batshit right-wing (minus dan lacey to make it almost fair)

HA

uhoh

for the MATT readers

EPIC TROLLING INITIALIZE

:D

yay for jw

dude, linking back to the only other thread on ILX about xkcd seems like a recipe for getting rumbled.

search-proof crutis borad probably best place for following this particular escapade, which i am 100% behind btw

i'll need an invite if that's where you're taking it

i am 100% behind full-out xkcd/ilx clash

yea, let's move this to the borad

wait, who the fuck is "Ian Ex Machina" on that thread? surely not a coincidence?!

SHUSH

lol i r retard

MOVE THIS TO THE BORAD

http://www.cinecultist.com/archives/design_fortress1.jpg

http://www.mutanthigh.com/tech/asteroidm1.jpg

maybe delete some telltale posts from this thread and start a new thread?

thought this was an xkcd at first

http://www.yamonsvotal.com/Images4/HPorn31m-1.gif

way too funny

XKCD is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit. It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

http://boards.networkipedia.org/wakaba_test/src/1211233692389.gif

jokes bruv

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/suv.png

XKCD is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit. It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

-- and what, Friday, June 13, 2008 7:15 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

well it's not for me then cuz i am all about trophy wives.

yeah if you're not about a happy ending with a trophy wife then I don't want to know you

It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

are these supposed to be the same people or three different kinds of people?

I hope that those who live in reality aren't also insane, because that says something pretty stupid about reality.

dude it sez REALITY MAKES US INSANE

that said that is one of the worst slogans i have ever heard

"my hobby"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00682/matt260608_682269a.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00679/matt180608_679876a.gif

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00677/matt110608_677989a.gif

this isn't even close

This isn't entirely relevant but uh, I went to a meeting to hear from this activist from Oaxaca and on the board there was a huge message saying 'XKCD-DO NOT DELETE'
And...it was weird because no one discussed it at all.
Anyway I loves these, they are very cute, good lolz

What kinda meetin was that, Verona??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00679/matt180608_679876a.gif

You see it's funny because models don't eat much food! ROFL!

Seriously, though, Private Eye pulls this shit every issue in their "Models" cartoon and it just comes across as misogynist rubbish.

True, but xkcd is even more perniciously sexist.

Seriously, though, Private Eye pulls this shit every issue in their "Models" cartoon and it just comes across as misogynist rubbish.

But surely it's just misomodelist.

Maybe misogynist is the wrong word, but it's basically "lol eating disorders" which is pretty off IMO.

hmmm, maybe you've got something there. should we re-evaluate our uncritical love of MATT?

MATT is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit. It's for those of us who live in reality. It's for the intelligent. It's for the insane.

-- and what, Friday, June 13, 2008 7:15 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

It's made you think hasn't it!

But if PBF did it?

The artwork would be better.

Seriously, though, Private Eye pulls this shit every issue in their "Models" cartoon and it just comes across as misogynist rubbish.

hear hear. the cartoons in Private Eye are almost uniformly rubbish, in fact, aren't they.

PS xkcd is great so ner.

^^^ Sentence 3 invalidates Sentence 2.

If you actively like xkcd then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

(should have been the title for this thread. all the matt stuff turned out to be a red herring.)

well blame my lame-but-obscure sense of humour. and my rampant emo-nerdism.

It's generally a sensible precaution never to respect anything I say about anything ever.

^^^realest of talk

It's true, but it's not that funny.

PS I also like dinosaur comics.

so sue me.

http://theinternetisterrible.com/wp-content/things/1166217802iursri6yob_1_1_l.jpg

uggh seriously dude??

He writes the date funny like britishers.

Nah, we do it the other way round, that is the way that scandinavians and geeks use. (Write the date in that order and computers can sort things by date in numerical sorts)

<img src="http://hardwarelogic.com/articles/blogs/Website_Reviews_and_You/MoreYouKnow.jpg";>

lol, i don't know much apparently.

A summary of the international standard date and time notation

lol the cheque is for two-tenths of a cent. kill me.

(if that's wrong then it's because i'm drunk)

gosh i just spent five minutes trying to remind myself how to do sums to infinity before realising how drastically not worth it this was

i would imagine the gag is that it adds up to two cents, not sure what the middle glyph is in the e^((some thing)(pi)), the last bit is the sum of 0.5 + 0.25 + 0.125 etc

or, lol high school math

e^iπ = -1 (Euler's Equation)

sum to infinity = first term/1 - ratio = (1/2)/(1 - 1/2) = 1 in this case

XKCD is for those of us who realize life is not all about happy endings and trophy wives and who is better than who and all that shit.

so he's admitting that its for 14 year olds?

Geohashing, because geocaching wasn't nerdy enough.

http://i32.tinypic.com/i5t9ts.jpg

Hey guys. I've got this great idea. Let's go meet up in the middle of some random farm and play board games!

He can find all those co-ordinates on a map, yet he still can't locate a decent hairdresser or a gym. A real tragedy.

Come on, that SUV one is worth a snicker.

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097

^^^

the intelligent.
the insane.

that dude SO reminds me of every insufferable pompous long-winded classmate at my alternative high school.

http://www.sonicenterprises.150m.com/knuckles.gifhttp://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70015897/110097

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/know_your_vines.png

He could have done without either the caption or the last panel

Also I love how he specifies 'light' bondage so it seems feasible that he's getting some but no one outs him as a freak

he could have gone without lying about the whole goddam deal

Oh yeah and the whole 'not our fault' pseudo-irony thing is fucking annoying

xpost yeah "my hobby" indeed

he could have gone without lying about the whole goddam deal

??

the girlfriend he doesn't have that isn't into bondage light or otherwise that he didn't fuck on the camping trip he didn't go on stfu you lying fucking nerd with the shittiest comic ever

Uh, I don't see where it says "this is autobiographical". There's plenty of shit in that comic that clearly isn't.

xkcd apologist!

Naah, I just don't like it when people ascribe all kinds of stuff to something just because they dislike it, rather than because it's really there. That said, I don't have a problem with xkcd; there are so many things far more deserving of annihilation.

Charlie Rose Shitty Webcomic Fan, morelike

...and speak of the devil.

http://www.feureau.com/2008/07/xkcd-book-about-man-and-his-comic-is.html

[05:22am]feureau:Awesome!!! To the blagmobile!

The fact that people still use IRC chatrooms in 2008 really creeps me out.

ILX is like IRC but laggier.

"I was rickrolling myself when a highlight word flared up in my colloquy… it turned out to be something spectacular!!"

http://www.feureau.com/2008/07/quotes-by-xkcd.html

what the fuck

it is good that there will be a book, and with any luck the spine will be identifiable from at least 15 feet away, so you can leave politely

rpm:<rpm> and then plant explosives in the framework of the building where the new people won't notice. That's basically how I orchestrated 9/11.

Frowardd:<rpm> I fantasize about being British. The closest I've gotten is extended my pinky when I masturbate.

rpm:<rpm> I have a webcomic.

Frowardd:<rpm> I donate hi-tension hunting bows to orphanages

Frowardd:<rpm> I miss working a desk job. It was fun to sneak up on female co-workers and stuff their hair down my pants.

Frowardd:<rpm> I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for in November. I don't really agree with McCain's economic policies, but then again I can probably overlook quibbles about taxes in favour of getting a real American in office. It's about time people that look like me and you regained this country.

Frowardd:<rpm> Some days I brought in a paperback so I could chat her up while I stood behind her.

Frowardd:<rpm> Heidi in Marketing must've been homeschooled, she had hair past her ass.
-------------------------
Frowardd:<rpm> Some days I brought in a paperback so I could chat her up while I stood behind her.

first one is otm & kinda funny next one i have no idea what he's even talking about

Frowardd:<rpm> I'm white btw.

thing is that string of quotes is disgusting enough w/o any clowning

Frowardd:<rpm> I kinda enjoy..drowning autistic children..

Frowardd:<rpm> It was down to either XKCD or XDGC, but I picked the former because your mother is such a filthy slut.

randall hamburger

Frowardd:<rpm> I kinda enjoy..drowning autistic children..

its this kind of stuff that sorta exemplifies both his & that typical geek style IM SO RANDOM humor that i find disgusting

a couple of the things his stickman quoted arent that bad, even if they arent that funny either

WTF
http://seantevis.com/kansas/3000/running-for-office-xkcd-style/

that is way better than any actual xkcd comic I've ever seen by about a million miles
kind of scott mccloud, actually

genuine lolz at verbal rick roll

I would totally vote for that guy.

If he seemed like an asshole I would have donated my mighty British Pounds to get him in funding trouble.

http://seantevis.com/images/uploads/sean-diner.jpg

he looks like a tool but in a good way

early edition still?

He's the older brother from the TV show Jericho and I claim my $5.

wow he tripled his donor base in 24 hours

where did that link pop up that you saw it, forks? actual xkcd forum?

via waxy; it's since made the runs through boing boing and been linkafied all over. I think he's gonna get his goal before next monday.

Actually, fuck that; I think he'll do it before Saturday.

he's going to do it in about two hours.

he's going to... "do it"???

$8.50 is only like two gallons of gasoline guys!

xp, with a girl into light bondage, yes.

Worth noting: if dude had done a Matt-style campaign website comeon, he'd have enough for a snickers bar.

I wonder how much you get if you do a daybyday style comic

Based on daybydaydude's understanding of female anatomy, I'd guess not much.

uh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U

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Death is too good for you people.

It might have been charming if a whole third of the vid wasn't the 'stars' names scrolling up the screen.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_popular_culture.png
i kinda liked this but remind me again why the fuck this is a comic and not just some dudes blog

so sick of the bottom half of any entry on something out of myth or theology being taken up by loving description of how it's been ripped off by some fucking anime or square/enix game.

stfu nerds

-- gff, Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:04 PM (10 months ago)

bitch is late, imo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U

-- forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 21:37 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

I watched this, it made me want the world to end.

+1'd Dom's comment, everyone else also plz +1 it!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/youtube.png

http://imgs.xkcd.com/store/imgs/witty_square_0.png

^^I own this shirt. I don't know why.

It's understated... yet pathetic.

I'm the guy who sucks, plus I got depression

do u still h8 illmatic (xp)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23283084@N05/2733156024/

^ trex four square

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/regrets.png
can this guy write his self-help book & stfu already

if these people got any help xkcd wouldn't need to exist

if these people got any help xkcd ilx wouldn't need to exist

http://xkcd.com/175/

http://craphound.com/images/kfjhdkjghdfgIMG_0537.jpg

This XKCD shit is nothing more than a hip version of purple ronnie, no? I hate it.

lol xkcd "hip"

presumably in the same way that cosplay is hip

http://www.ichizen.com/goat/goat_shopping/images/2002_05_08_02.jpg

maybe shd have put "hip" in inverted commas, eh.

still wish we could have gotten reddit readers to come here for the counterfeit thread :(

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/x_girls_y_cups.png
why is this is a comic? wtf is the point of this? why not just have a blog
?? it really pisses me off that people who obviously don't give a shit about cartooning as an artform are using it and getting more shine than actually funny actually talented artists

Prob much funner if that were plotted as a 3d continuously differentiable manifold.

^^^^^^ omg lolz so true!

^^^^^^^ doesnt care about trophy wives

and what OTM. i can't wait for him to have a show on Adult Swim

ha i never thought of that but its a great comparison - when you think about all the great animators like bob clampett and tex avery and dave fleischer and chuck jones and bruce timm, serious people who seriously labored over this shit and really cared about making it work as animation, not just using it as a static delivery method for bad jokes, and now the most popular cartoons are fuckin family guy and some shockwave flash mouse-dragging garbage on nickelodeon and adult swim it makes me wanna kill myself

ya seriously non-sequitur-filled adult stoner flash cartoons are the WORST

something about being too pandered to...

http://image.hotrod.com/f/editorials/you-know-what-grinds-my-gears/1034951+w500+cr1+re0+ar1/what-grinds-my-gears.jpg

Federal Reserve Skateboard: A Short Story

(Written after sitting in a car for five hours listening to financial news stories.)

——-

Damn these subprime lenders, thought Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, barely keeping his balance on the wobbling skateboard. We can’t afford more debt. He snapped a grappling-hook-tipped quarrel into his crossbow as the skateboard slowed. When the country owes trillions and is asking for more, its shadowy creditors start calling in favors.

The crossbow twanged, carrying his climbing rope up the side of the Federal Reserve building. As he began his ascent, he reflected on the years past. I inherited a broken system, he insisted to himself. We’re simply doing what’s required to prevent a catastrophe. It’s not my fault.

He tossed his skateboard over the parapet and hauled himself over. He dropped six feet to the roof, landed heavily on the board, and trundled on into the night.

——-

From her perch in a tree across the street, the blogger watched through her blogoscope as Bernanke disappeared over the wall. She spoke quietly into her radio: “Subject is in the haybarn. The chickens are in danger of roosting.”

“Roger that,” came the reply. “Deploying Agent Harpsichord.”

——-

Inside, Bernanke moved along the wall like a shadow, elongating and contracting as the light sources shifted around him. In the midst of a sea of filing cabinets, he froze. He sniffed the air, then dropped to his knees, licked the floor, and paused. Yes, he thought, Greenspan was definitely here.

——-

The blogger had waited five minutes and was starting to get impatient. She picked up the radio. “Situation imminent. Pass the ducklings through the snorkel. Repeat: Pass the ducklings through the snorkel.”

“We are go for mode Sinatra,” replied the commander. “Reticulate core and set throttle to ‘cryptic’. Prepare to jitterbug.”

——-

Bernanke forced the door on yet another inner office, realizing too late that the light was on inside. The chair in the corner swiveled around, and Bernanke found himself face-to-face with Alan Greenspan. There was silence for a moment.

“You won’t get away with this,” said Greenspan, rising to his feet. “The Fed is subject to general congressional oversight. But you never understood that, did you?”

“Congress sold out the country, not me,” replied Bernanke. “Don’t shoot the messenger.”

“I wasn’t planning to,” said Greenspan. He flicked open a switchblade.

——-

The blogger peered once more into the eyepiece of her blogoscope. She threw the switch labeled “overlay building schematics.” The external view of the building disappeared, but instead of blueprints, she was presented with a green puzzle piece. “This view requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in. Do you want to search for this plug-in now?”

Shit, she thought.

——-

Bernanke, trying not to slip in the patches of blood on the floor, struggled with Greenspan. The older man moved like a snake that moved like a former Fed Chairman who moved like a ninja. At last, Bernanke got a solid grip on Greenspan’s collar and hurled him through the fourth wall, knocking you to the ground.

Improvising a tourniquet from the remains of the snake left over from the earlier simile, Bernanke moved on through the hallways.

——-

The moonlight-bathed roof of the Federal Reserve building fell suddenly into shadow. A pair of night watchman looked up in alarm to see what had occluded the sky.

“Is that …” one whispered to the other, “… is that a blimp?”

——-

Bernanke reached the central vaults, accessed the Gibson mainframe, and began transmitting the requested files to his distant masters. He didn’t hear the gentle thud on the rooftop, the muffled explosive charges, or the sound of the door opening behind him. But at the last minute some sixth sense kicked in. He spun around just in time to see a golf-ball-sized lump of gold rapidly expanding in his vision. It struck him in the forehead, and he collapsed to the ground like a burlap sack full of scrapple.

Congressman Ron Paul retrieved the gold nugget from the floor and returned it to his satchel. “Try that,” he said, donning his sunglasses, “with a fiat currency.” He spun on his heel, cape swirling behind him, and swept from the room.

Read more of these adventures in the thrilling new novel, Ron Paul and the Chamber of Commerce — in bookstores now!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_end_is_not_for_a_while.pnghttp://www.simpsoncrazy.com/gallery/screenshots/s3/8f01_017.jpg

http://xkcd.com/484/

^ did this need a caption?

GAME STATION 20,000

The recent powers of ten ones. Good grief.

Anything particularly bad about them other than being unfunny?

GAME STATION 20,000

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:32 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

Bbbbbut he might get sued if he had used a real brand

Just that they are not funny and they have more attempts at jokes than usual by virtue of their size.

But while I'm on the subject, his jokes (which are really just banal observations) are designed massage the egos of the weenies I encounter every day. They imagine they are part of the 2% of the population who get them, and the very fact that only 2% of the population get them is what makes them funny. It's totally circular bullshit, which they should be able to spot since every fucking one of them has read Gödel, Escher and Bach.

Although the fact that I encounter weenies every days says more about me as it does about them.

your memoirs should be called "weenies every days"

subtitle
"by virtue of their size"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4916946.ece

O Natalie, O TBA, O Tusja: I had long assumed the terrorsits balaclava that you sport on the cover of Annule -
which was, for too long, the only image of you I possesed -
was there to conceal some ugliness or deformity
or perhaps merely spoke (and here, I hoped against hope) of a
young woman struggling
with a crippling shyness. How richly this latter theory has been confirmed by my Googling!

O who is this dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows
ranged like two duelling pistols, lightly sweating in the pale light
of the TTF screen?
O behold her shaded, infolded concentration, her
heartbreakingly beautiful face so clearly betraying the tru focus
of one not merely content - as, no doubt, were others at the
Manover Elektronische Festival in Wien -
to hit play while making some fraudulent correction to a
volume slider
but instead deep in the manipulation of somecomplex
real-time software such as Ableton Live, MAX/MSP
or Supercollider.

O Natalie, how can I pay tribute to your infinitely versatile
blend of Nancarrow, Mille Plateaux, Venetian Snares, Xenakis,
Boards of Canada and Nobukazu Takemura
to say nothing of those radiant pads - so strongly reminiscent
of the mid-century bitonal pastoral of Charles Koechlin in their
harmonic bravura -
or your fine vocals, which, while admittedly limited in range
and force, are nonetheless so much more affecting than the
affected Arctic whisperings of those interchangably dreary
Stinas and Hannes and Bjorks, being in fact far closer in spirit
to a kind of glitch-hop Blossom Dearie?

I have also deduced from your staggeringly ingenious
employment of some pretty basic wavetables
that unlike many of your East European counterparts, all your
VST plug-ins, while not perhaps the best available,
probably all have a legitimate upgrade path - indeed I imagine
your entire DAW as pure as the driven snow, and not in any way
buggy or virusy
which makes me love you more, demonstrating as it does an
excess of virtue given your country's well-known talent for
software piracy.

Though I should confess that at times I find your habit of
maxxing
the frequency range with those bat-scaring ring-modulated
sine- bursts and the more distressing psychoacoustic properties
of phase-inversion in the sub-bass frequencies somewhat taxing
you are nonetheless as beautiful as the mighty Boards
themselves in your shamless organicizing of the code,
as if you had mined those saw and squares and ramps straight
from the Georgian motherlode.

O Natalie - I forgive you everything, even your catastrophic
adaptation of those lines from 'Dylan's' already shite
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
in the otherwise magnificent 'Sleepwalkers', and when you
open up those low-
pass filters in what sounds like a Minimoog emulation they
seem to open in my heart also...

At least, my dear, let me wish you the specific best:
may you be blessed
with the wonderful instrument you deserve, with a 2 Ghz
dual-core Intel chip and enough double-pumped DDR2 RAM
for the most CPU-intensive processes;
then no longer will all those goreous acoustic spaces

be accessible only via an offline procedure involving a freeware
convolution reverb and an imperfectly recorded impulse
response of the Concertgebouw made illegally with a hastily-
erected stereo pair and an exploded crisp bag

for I would have all your plug-ins run in real-time, in the
blameless zero-latency heaven of the 32-bit floating-point
enviroment, with no buffer-glitch or freeze or dropout or lag;
I would also grant you a MIDI controller of such responsiveness,
such smoothness of automation, travel and increment
that you would think it a transparent intercessor, a mere
copula, and feel machine and animal suddenly blent...

Forward Prize for Poetry judges don't read much then?

Presumably not. They have one opportunity to get quoted in the press each year, and this is the prose they come up with:

“No poet can possibly have done more to elevate our awareness of a pop star or the benefits of Google as Don Paterson does in Love Poem for Natalie “Tusja” Beridze. This is an impassioned love poem for a distant and not yet very famous, although becoming more so by the minute, idol,” Ms Hughes said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01007/matt111008_1007627a.jpg

yeah, cuz people dress like tramps on dress down friday?!?!

A lot of the stuff in these comics I feel I could ignore or whatever if someone I knew just said them in kind of a glib or offhand manner (or, say, were running their mouth on a message board), but this shit is someone's message.

(ok, some of it is straight up punchable, regardless)

imo this one kind of otm
http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/xkcdwrongoninternet.jpg

is that the newest one on DRM?

even the scratchy way xkcd guy draws and his handwriting creep me out.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/cartoonoff-xkcd.html

katz's "favorite animal eating your favorite food" deserves more recognition.

hey, this unfunny shitstain got some love from the new yorker, that's fantastic

And Matt got some luv from the London Review of Books recently.

ron paul reference ftw

http://mtblog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/stringXKCD.jpg

Just stop it.

These are no better than those fungi/fun-guy puns your middle school biology teacher told, but ya kinda chuckled at those cuz the attitude is like "lolz i said a stupid" where as this shit is...am I wrong in thinking they're sorta smug and elite or something? I mean they're meant to be cute, but there's something else.

http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1355.png

Randall Munroe-written episode of Dinosaur Comics. Seriously, fuck this guy.

I don't understand that comic...?

He managed to fuck up the format.

how dare he mess with dinosaur comics

if you can't think of an actual joke or amusing scenario, then just do some lazy meta shit instead.

signed, "internet person"

exactly

While he has had to tread carefully at times, he has never felt that his hands have been tied by political correctness. “I’ve done quite a number of cartoons about women in burkas,” he says, with a soft chuckle. “My favourite one involved a ventriloquist in a burka whose dummy was also wearing a burka. But we didn’t get a single complaint. I don’t think Abu Hamza reads The Daily Telegraph.”

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/secretary_part_4.png

this may be worse

Yeah, that was some pretty horrendous shit right there.

"evolves"

what does it mean

waht

Randall has another shot at Dinosaur Comics:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4391/xkcdol6.png

I know! Wacky.

whoops, should be

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4391/xkcdol6.png

http://web.archive.org/web/20070624123359/lunacee.livejournal.com/133536.html

You're a little too obsessed with luna, Ethan. Its pretty creepy.

Its Chaki-level ew, actually.

Studs Terkel of Fictitious Skanks

http://i37.tinypic.com/o6cvo6.gif

^ pretty lame but i give a free pass to any cartoon about puppies

N****** M***** thinks the worst part about weekends is two days straight without xkcd updates.
5 hours ago

You're a little too obsessed with luna, Ethan. Its pretty creepy.

― Trayce, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:17 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Its Chaki-level ew, actually.

― Trayce, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:17 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nice try but... no.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/firefox_wicca.png
i know it would be more interesting to try and find xkcd comics that actually ARE funny but this is still.... huh

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/advanced_technology.png

like, outta sight man

is he about to vomit?

He's considering whether to retool the factory to produce theorems or colorful plastic balls.

he has no idea how humans reproduce

I'm pretty sure he thinks going all the way with a girl is performing cunnilingus for more than one hour.

all xkcds would be improved by having the main character wear a white moustache, a monocle, bedroom slippers and a tweed jacket with patches at the elbows

and adding "gadzooks!" or its equivalent before everything he says

You think Xkcd would be better as Wondermark?

http://www.isxkcdshittytoday.com/

^^^ truthbomb

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/xkcdwrongoninternet.jpg

...so i'll just say this?

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6433/xkcdonwindows7gl2.jpg

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/01/12/9306612.aspx

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/piano.png

Is this some sort of "girls who like small penis" fantasy dude is engaging in?

I think it's more 'girls who cannot tell lame implied fantasy world puns from reality'.

She's going to be his tiny pianist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20link.html

"The print xkcd book is not being published through a traditional company but rather by breadpig — which was created by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of the social-news Web site reddit. The site has sold high-concept merchandise like refrigerator magnets or T-shirts, but never a book."

=

"I've conned people into thinking I have a book deal, but really I'm on some Cafe Press ish"

that picture.

wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags
wildly popular among techies the world over for its witty use of programming code in its gags

Also just to clarify with that last comic, the punchline of the joke is not "tiny pianist" but "12-inch pianist", not that it makes it forgivable

gaaaaahhh that picture

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/xkcd_arshavin.jpg

the strip’s fans, who frequently act out the concepts in the strip in real life

ok waht

It's true. I live in the same area as Randall Munroe, and apparently a few months before I moved in, some of my friends went to an xkcd flash mob. And I don't think it unlikely that all 10,000 copies of this book could sell out in the Boston area alone.

Barf

He looks like some terrible Ferris Bueller gone wrong.

;_; ;_; (xpost 2 maria)

Dear science nerd indie weenies,

Plz just fucking do drugs or something.

Thx,

Rabies

You dont wanna know how much MORE scary extreme math/coder indie weenies are when they ARE ON DRUGS. Fleeeee from this persons.

http://option4.seantevis.com/i/01.png

Now forwarded to everyone who sends me 'funny' emails. Anyone who responds positively will be permanently blocked, maybe punched irl.

New low

http://imgur.com/NNaAZ.png

Yes Randall Munroe just drew you a vagina