623

I almost didn't get this one. Then I realized I was just a year or two too young for it to be a defining part of my childhood. It was the Amazon for me.

Yeah, I never played Oregon Trail. However, I read some book where the characters played it and I was like "damn, I want to play that". I didn't realize at the time that it actually existed, of course.

I know the game out of Popcultural Osmosis and Memetic Mutation.

I played it a couple times. Generally I was always killed by frostbite. At least I didn't overload on ammo like in the comic.

All my classmates always just played it for the shooting minigame, of course. Damn schools exposing our children to evil FPSs.

edited 16th Aug '09 10:53:26 AM by Tzetze

A shame there wasn't a joke, instead of a poor, ineffective chart that didn't build on the game and a mere reference in the alt text.

624

I liked it.

Combine the popularity of Social Networking with The Internet Is for Porn and you have a very descriptive strip.

@Lostman: I guess it depends on whether you think Fridge Logic is funny. The whole "mostly children and adolescents packing nothing but bullets for hunting" counts as building on the game, I'd think.

Okay, the "RSS&M" pun was quite funny.

625 is up.

edited 19th Aug '09 11:08:25 AM by jaimeastorga2000

It's funny because my wife frequently teases me about my bookshelves full of science fiction and fantasy novel series that I dust off and read once in a blue moon. Ironically, she has an entire shelf full of books that she never reads at all.

It helps some people keep thier insanity.

http://www.xkcd.com/626/

Excuse me while I LOL. XD

edited 21st Aug '09 8:41:06 AM by GG Crono

My god, that is terrible. That's Irregular Webcomic!-level bad punnery.

Oh man, I loved 626. Probably the best one since 599. Yeah, it is a pun, but unlike some of Randall's puns the setup is actually believable. And, despite the unoriginality of mocking David Caruso & CSI Miami, it somehow never gets old for me.

If only he hadn't shoe-horned in an unneccessary reference (bordering on meme territory) this might have been something. Must he throw in references as if his humor depended on it?

http://www.epiconeliner.com/

I sort of agree with Mr. Lostman here. I thought the pun was funny, but I didn't like the reference.

edited 21st Aug '09 11:12:55 AM by Lucky Revenant

Yeah, the pun could've stood on its own.

I disagree! There needed to be something to fill that void, and that glasses thing was as good a lead-in as any. It even makes just as much sense without thinking of it as a reference. It's like, "whoa there, guys, prepare to be frikkin AMAAAAAZED!" and then, lame pun, and BAM. ... I mean, seriously, the pun would've just been "heh silly" without that.

It's nerdy of me to say so, but it needs to be said that the priority dispute wouldn't have happened if Newton hadn't sat on his results for ten years.

Yes, Faw, but I can't help but think the "epic one-liner" is a suboptimal choice.

You know, if I remember correctly, Newton didn't actually use the term "derivative". That term was invented by Leibniz.

edited 22nd Aug '09 5:48:16 AM by WilliamWideWeb

@Nornagest: That's exactly what everyone is saying in the xkcd forums.

Flowcharty goodness.

I liked this well enough. It got a solid chuckle out of me. Funny enough to go on the flow-chart flow-chart me and my roommate have been working on in the living room.