Dear Randall,
When I want to read xkcd, I want to read a webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language. I see that there is no ``humour'' listed there, but, taking a peek at earlier strips, I can safely assume that one of xkcd's goals was to amuse its readers.
Nowadays, most comics seem to deal with the failures of your personal life[1][2][3][4][5]. While I cannot objectively state that it is not interesting, I can say that I, and many of the older readers, check their xkcd with the intent of being amused. This is hardly possible, having the recent love-spam (dare I call it so) in mind.
When you look above the strip itself, one can see links to numerous sub-sections of the web-site. One of them is a blog, or, as you humourously refer to it, a ``blag''. I see no reason not to refrain from revealing the meanders of your life there.
I, too, have lost a someone dear to me recently. But, unlike you, I did not have the urge to tell the entire world how do I feel. So, Randall, please visit a psychologist instead of trying to deal with your problems by making them everyone's problems.
So please, keep things where they belong and don't entirely derail your once-great webcomic into the areas of love and emotion.
I think you need a sage here. Let me deliver it, please.
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>>1 missed a reference to supposed humor: Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Hello everyone. I've ranted about the decay of xkcd here before, but I'd like to take this time to correct a small failing I often see in such complaints.
While the list romance, sarcasm, math, and language does not contain ``humor'' (and please, if you use the Old spelling, you'll need to remove the comma after ``math'' as well), you may note that xkcd is cited as a webcomic of those things. What you may not have noted is that comics are by definition meant to be humorous. It does not need to be mentioned again; moreover, it would be misleading as there is indeed so little humorous content.
Yes, that was a piss poor attempt at humor while agreeing with someone who spent way to much time on a post (pot kettle etc). Reading 300 of that Questionable Content webcomics somebody here mentioned kinda loosened me up. No, I don't know why I'm reading it either. Why did I (and you) spend time on this crap post anyway?
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Anonymous2008-06-20 21:33
>>33
Because I have absolutely nothing better to do. But I can only speak for myself.
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Anonymous2008-06-20 22:39
>>31
Much like the spelling ``humour'', the Oxford comma is quite British in origin. The ``Oxford'' in the name is from Oxford University, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, in England.
The serial comma may be more current in American English than it is in British English, but its use in British English is still quite correct.
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Anonymous2008-06-20 23:17
>>35
Yah in Lojban you just use 'e' to grammatically describe a set.
Selma'o {A} with member cmavo:
.a - logical connective: sumti afterthought or
.e - logical connective: sumti afterthought and
ji - logical connective: sumti afterthought connective question
.o - logical connective: sumti afterthought biconditional/iff/if-and-only-if
.u - logical connective: sumti afterthought whether-or-not
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Anonymous2008-06-21 0:51
Reading the Questionable Content archive is a good exercise. I started reading QC quite some time ago, and I started by going through the entire archive. The earlier strips made me lol, but as things progressed, it became much less webcomic and much more daytime television, to the point where now, nothing is funny. Ever.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 2:48
peronal faggotry
peronal?
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Anonymous2008-06-21 3:47
>>38
As in ``belonging to Juan Perón''.
I suppose it would be more correct to write it as ``Perónal''.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 14:07
>>26
I was only trying to say the suck and aren't the slightest bit funny to anyone who isn't brain-damaged
>>47
Actually, "pseudo-nerd hispster 'I am so original because I laugh at things nobody else laughs at' humor".
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Anonymous2008-06-22 11:28
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mr vacbob you something awful faggot fuck you and your fucking twitter. KXCD sucking is INVARIANT. There is NO RELATION between any other variable and its suckage. suckage is a constant suck
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Anonymous2008-06-24 8:14
Randall is sooooo cool. I think he is totally funny and awesome and stuff.
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Anonymous2008-06-24 8:26
k-radadj. short for "kilo rad" origin: this is old school hacker slang, first popularized on BBSs
>>67
Vaguely homourous but I have never ever actually laughed at xkcd. I don't even smirk. It's just not really any funnier than anything else out there.
>>1 When you look above the strip itself, one can see links to numerous sub-sections of the web-site. One of them is a blog, or, as you humourously refer to it, a ``blag''.[1] I see no reason not to refrain from revealing the meanders of your life there.
References
6. Mispronouncing(#148), http://xkcd.com/148/. Retrieved on 25-06-2008
Natalie Dee writes Married to the Sea. She is a fat hipster luddite. Randal is a dork.
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Anonymous2008-06-26 16:22
Man, I hate hipsters. I hate corny pseudo-nerds. I wish there was a way of making them understand how fucking pretentious and annoying they are, so they would be ashamed to even talk to another person for the rest of their lives. And then they would become severely depressed and die silently. I would enjoy that very much.
I might have issues.
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Anonymous2008-06-26 16:42
>>85
I am glad that you acknowledge ``You have issues'' as a meme.
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Anonymous2008-06-26 16:56
After a quick inspection of the ``Wondermark'' webcomic, I can state that it is not as non-sequitir as MarriedToTheSea, yet I still enjoy. I am going to read the archive now instead of doing something useful like finally reading K&R.
I KNEW RANDALL IN REAL LIFE AND I KNEW HIM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL. I BEAT HIM UP REGULARLY FOR HIM BEING A FAG AND BLOWING KYLE AT THAT PARTY IN THE HOTTUB. THE WHOLE SCHOOL CALLED HIM A FAG AND WENT OFF CRYING TO HIS COMPUTER AND HIS BBS FRIENDS.
FACT RANDALL IS STILL A DOUCHE AND I EARN MORE MONEY THAN HE DOES.
JUSTICE FOR ALL
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Anonymous2008-06-27 16:18
HI, I'M RANDALL MUNROE, FOUNDER AND CEO OF XKCD. LAST NIGHT, AS I WAS RELAXING IN MY BALL PIT, DEBUGGING THE SUPER SOAKER FIRMWARE I AM DEVELOPING IN PYTHON, YOUR MOM HAPPENED TO PASS BY, LOOKING MYSTERIOUS AND QUIRKY. I CONSIDERED IT A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE HER TO MY THICK LINE. I SPREAD HER PARALLEL SEGMENTS WITH MY UPPER STICKS, THEN I TAPPED HER INTERSECTION WITH MY THICK LINE, AT FIRST SLOWLY, THEN I ACCELERATED LOGARITHMICALLY UNTIL MY THICK LINE PRODUCED THINNER LINES. OR AT LEAST, THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. I GUARANTEE IT.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 16:18
UPPERCASE 100GET
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Anonymous2008-06-27 16:20
>>99
I lolled like a demented cretin at this. I don't feel good about this :|
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Anonymous2008-06-27 19:57
>>114
What's the matter? It's much convenient than before, when you had to tell other programmers which instructions and variables to click. You could have made a screencast of course, but that's just silly.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 21:43
Programming is all about knowledge exchange and teamwork. Instant.EXE 3.0 can export an entire script to ASCII code, which you can easily send by email or post to /prog/.
Fix'd.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 22:21
Why can't I just paste the source? I feel kind of confused about it.
>>123
I don't get the what memes are in ``accidentally in your base''.
Still, shit comic. Like every xkcd that references internet/4chan memes, blagosphere and FIOC.
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FrozenVoid2009-03-02 1:51
XKCD Jumped the shark. Quite awhile.
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Doctor, will you tell these fools? I'm not crazy. Make them listen to me before it's too late.
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Anonymous2009-03-02 2:16
>>125
I accidentally 35mb of RAR files + all your base etc.
for i in $(seq $cached $latest)
do
page=$(wget -O- http://xkcd.com/$i/)
img=$(echo $page|grep -Eo 'http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^<;"]+'|head -n 1)
title=$(echo $page|grep -Eo ' title="[^"]+" alt='|sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')
mkdir "$dir/$(printf '%04d' $i) - $title"
wget -NP "$dir/$(printf '%04d' $i) - $title" $img
done
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Anonymous2009-03-02 2:43
>>127 I accidentally 35mb of RAR files
That's the first time I hear this. Google research tells me that it's a /b/ meme.
Shit, rand(all). Shit.
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Anonymous2009-03-02 2:51
>Yes It Does. The Reason I Asked You Is Becasue I'm Working On A Over Laping operating system For Windows But I want To Have People Use My Software But To Have The Same Software as Standard Window. So I Neded This For Media Center, Windows Media Player, Notepade And More.
>Thanks James
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