XKCD: It's more than a comic

Lawn Alone.

Edit: Damn, looks non-sequitur as a pagetopper

edited 23rd Jan '13 8:34:51 AM by Medinoc

I'd watch it, too.

You could justify the wacky booby traps by saying that, realistically, the guy doesn't want to kill kids. Hence not just shooting them.

I'd watch it too.

could be mischief night kids going after him.

I watched it already, and it was called Skyfall. (Except for the "non-lethal" and the "kids" and just about everything else, but whatever.)

edited 23rd Jan '13 6:55:25 PM by Pyrite

Gran Torino with high school children, perhaps?

Maybe a bit younger. I can definitely see the plot getting kicked off in a similar way. Kid tries to rob adult as gang initiation. Adult catches and humiliates kid. Whole gang declares vendetta (let's say the initiate trying out is the leader's little brother or something, to make it a bit more understandable why they don't just brush the kid off with a "Ha ha, loser" and not let him in the gang.)

... I would watch that.

I think I like the "it's Halloween night and the kids are trying to pull an unfriendly prank" idea better. Of course that version would have the violence-level of the traps toned waaaay down; the kid would be covered in paint or have the rug pulled from under him, not have heavy objects swing into him and be knocked down stairs.

It might also work better as a cartoon.

I could definitely see the shock-value straight version you guys are describing being made and earning enough money to justify itself, but I would never watch it.

Ditto. hose em, hit them with paint, ect.

also, throw in a scene where the kids parents think "their little angels" would never have done it and have the videos show up. and at least one should make fun of their mom with the audio caught on tape

http://m.xkcd.com/1165/

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=99903

Ah, but couldn't you order your cow pre-skeletonized?

That's kinda what you do at a butcher shop/slaughter house.

XKCD #1166: Argument

He could just as easily have titled this "Irony". Seems that some people just won't give up their pet ideas.

Ouf, bad altext today.

Today's comic's thread: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=99962

This reminds me of a joke I made on the Madoka thread about how Kyubey should have harvested the energy potential of a million nerds raging and flaming each other, because such nerdragery clearly defies entropy

you know, I like mythbuster's episode on perpetual motion. especially one that was basically a glorified over-engineered and inefficient solar generator.

Let's go for a flight!

Another interesting way in which Venus is horrible: Instead of the relatively small, near-continual volcanic eruptions we have here, the entire surface of Venus just explodes every few million years.

edited 29th Jan '13 3:52:52 PM by Gilphon

From the list of "Places where there is a Good Reason why no life has evolved".

I love how he included 23 different drawings of a completely parabolic flight curve. Just in case you weren't sure what the Charon flight would look like.

Also, today I learned something about Venus. Specifically that it's the creative man's substitute for Hell.

I haven't checked but I'm sure the surface colours of all those solar system bodies are approximately right.

edited 29th Jan '13 4:46:02 PM by BestOf

Now I really want to go to Titan.