XKCD: It's more than a comic

It's philosophy disguised as a children's book!

Funny strip, though.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

And we're back to geek jokes. Not that I didn't get a chuckle out of it.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I nodded knowingly at that. The main problem I have with open source software is, that most of it is made for maximum efficiency, instead of making them accessible to the casual user.

I did mean Four. Implying I have a need for attention because of my 'different opinions' in a discussion thread, you need a Wag of My Finger. And that goes double for the internet armchair psychologist.

The IQ question was brought up to identify someone who specifically recognized me on some other website as "that guy who hates xkcd on the tv tropes fora." If that's none of you, nevermind.

@Lyanna, I didn't read past the first two pages when I started to post in this thread. It seems to have happened after I joined in.

RAGE at the newest strips. Reference humor w/o the humor and a "lol Linux" comic. *SIGH* Why do you do this to me, Randy?

The promises of children are worth less than the children themselves.

I think I agree with Mr. Lostman on this one. It was pretty bad.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."

I liked that he did a Take That! at slashdot nerds, but it wasn't funny.

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None of my criticism from after you joined in received any extreme reactions, either.

Exits, pursued by a bear.

I like how Mr. Lostman RAAAAAAAAAAGES at 612 for making a Windows joke and then gets annoyed at 619 for making a Linux joke...

edited 6th Aug '09 8:55:28 AM by Nyktos

I guess it is.

Today's strip gives us a Shout-Out to Greek mythology as well as a nice Don't Try This At Home from the Alt Text. I laughed.

edited 7th Aug '09 10:53:53 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

That one was really good. I laughed out loud.

Nyktos, you misunderstand. (Yes, yes you do.) 612 is a simple and mediocre "Take That!" at Windows when really this doesn't just apply to Windows. The art is lazy as well. (A single horizontal line would have improved this to meh status, perhaps.) 619 just forgot add a joke entirely and is just plain pandering. (what most of his comics seem to do now, with all the reference humor and all)

@Lyanna, so we're agreed then. Only my criticism gets criticized.

620, I feel conflicted about. It's simple, the art is alright (minus the lines connecting the 3rd & 2nd to last panels in the last row), but the extraneous details, questionable physics, and poorly worded dialogue push this back to mere so-so.

The promises of children are worth less than the children themselves.

"Only my criticism gets criticised"

I lolled.

Then I have done more for you than Randy ever has.

It's funny because it's true.

The promises of children are worth less than the children themselves.

I found it absolutely hilarious in a it's-funny-because-it's-true way. It probably requires less knowledge of Linux than this early and extremely popular strip.

I guess it is.

He just made a statement, not a joke. A rather stupid one too. If there was a joke, it's akin to something like "What's the deal with airline food anyways?"

The promises of children are worth less than the children themselves.

The joke is "But who uses that?" I can respect if you didn't find it funny but there was clearly a joke there.

I guess it is.

Nyktos, I didn't get the recent one, but I had no trouble getting the older one.

Sudo is quite basic knowledge. Has to be if I'm familiar with it. ^^;

I like to picture you saying "true" while wiggling your fingers and drawing out the "oo" sound.

I'm with Nyktos here. I got the joke of 619 immediately, and thought it was amusing. The sudo gag went right over my head.

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I'm with Bobby.

Sex, Drugs, and Rationality

I originally thought the "sudo" strip was a Sudoku joke.

While I knew that wasn't it, I still didn't get the joke. Nor did I get the more recent joke that prompted the mentioning of the original sudo strip.

I hope there is a follow-up to the last strip, because to me it feels like it has no punchline.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

That strip kinda makes me feel uncomfortable. Possibly in a good way? Then again, it's not strong enough to really have a punch to it. I guess the point is that in order to be interesting, you really have to commit yourself to something? Yeah.

It's a parody of those "most interesting man in the world" commercials that have been on recently...

...not a very good one, in my opinion.

Exits, pursued by a bear.

It kinda hit close to home to me. Especially the part about French. Fuck.

Anyway, culture specific reference humour. Not for me.