: Randall Munroe is Mr. Lostman, trying to draw attention away from his real identity. 
Gotta love blatant pandering. 
literary masochist
I saw the title of the new strip in the RSS and I knew exactly what was coming. Who knew he was a fan?Fan? For all we know, that could have been a Take That! instead of a mere Shout-Out.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Squad Leader
Did you actually read the comic, man? He's clearly gotten sucked in and enjoyed it.
And I was grinning like a moron when I checked XKCD. I somehow feel slightly more vindicated.
My Blog thing
DUMB
Mr. Lostman, there's an easier way to link to wiki articles. Just use Wiki Words (WikiWords) and a link gets created. For single-word links use {{Singleword}}, like XKCD.
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\m/ ('.') \m/
@Mr. Lostman: I bet you run that XKCD Sucks blog, don't you?
"They wanted to play 'memes' with the Old School. Now there are tears." - Fast Eddie
DUMB
Speaking of which
, I'm glad Dr. Horrible didn't insult us.
First comment: "This whole comic felt like an ad for TV Tropes, whith the alt text an ad for Cracked. Do you think they paid him?"
I for one doubt that Mr. Lostman writes xkcdsucks.
edited 13th Jul '09 8:27:36 AM by Tzetze
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DUMB
There's a link to Universal Tropes on the comic page, was that there before? Anyway, today we've gotten almost 8500 hits from xkcd.com and www.xkcd.com, almost 1500 from the digg page on the comic, about 2000 total from the xkcd forums I'll guess. So with horrible rounding, about 12000 hits total.
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The question is, how many lives ruined? 
SOULS! MORE SOULS FOR THE TROPE GOD!
DUMB
Oh, and for reference, total number of hits is about 23000 at this time, so XKCD is more than half of that.
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Also, what's your third time eater?edited 13th Jul '09 7:52:02 PM by Topcatyo
http://waterloggedcomic.com/
The Good Troper
How neat! Such things are always nice.
Mathematics Is A Language.
Queen of Filks
This comic made me grin from ear to ear. :D
Not here, look elsewhere
Me too. I'm still wearing it.
An useless name, a forsaken connection.
OG Troper
Bah, this site is so overrated.
the statement above is false
Planescape Hijack
Bah, Ho Yay with Jethro is so overrated
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
Gentleman Adventurer!
You know, I was going to think nothing of this strip, but then the topic in Yack Fest made it impossible to ignore how blatantly Randall seems to be pandering in an attempt to shore up goodwill with this part of his fanbase. It feels like cheating.
Your funny quote here! (Maybe)
The Good Troper
What? Is there any evidence of such duplicity?
I don't understand how someone could come to that conclusion just given the comic.
edited 14th Jul '09 9:39:08 AM by CTrombley
Mathematics Is A Language.
Pandering to your fanbase is what you're supposed to do. They're your fanbase!
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax
The Good Troper
Pandering has implications of dishonesty and manipulation. Considering similar jokes have been made about this in the past, what makes someone think that this one is false and hollow?
Mathematics Is A Language.
Gentleman Adventurer!
I dunno, I think just the fact that it worked, and people in Yack Fest are saying they thought it was funny, despite it being by far the least original joke he's ever made, rubs me wrong.
Your funny quote here! (Maybe)
The Good Troper
Well, people identify with it. It's not really a joke.
Mathematics Is A Language.