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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: Flaaron on August 14, 2006, 04:54:35 pm
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I am here to bring you something. And that thing is information (http://www.xkcd.com/).
Fix'd link. -- Jough
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broken link?
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http://www.xkcd.com/ (http://www.xkcd.com/)
Aside from the broken link, the xkcd parody is pretty much lacking humor.
D+, see me after class xkcd.
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I think it wasn't so bad. Besides, a few clicks back and we find this (http://www.xkcd.com/c138.html).
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No, but it was one of those "let's strip something down and poke fun at something's parts." which is just lazy, and thumbing back through the archives, I can see where the fellow understands humor to a degree.
I don't think he was trying hard enough.
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I liked the many panels of expressions. Didn't work nearly as well as Achewood but it was a nice try. And Ray's sign was believable.
Apart from that though, I just think Roast Beef's speech wasn't right at all. It didn't flow the way it should, so kind of fell down.
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i, for one, think it is pretty awesome. i can't wait to see the other parodies this week. also, a permalink for the achewood one:
http://www.xkcd.com/c141.html
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This is basically fan fiction.
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The Philippe panel was gratuitous, and the Beef dialogue was a little overwrought, but I have to say I still enjoyed this, if only for the phrase "all sprung fully formed from the head of Sweet Sweetback."
If I had an animation program, I would animate all the silent panels, just to see if my mental play-by-play ("Ray opens and closes his mouth repeatedly, Beef gets progressively more embarrassed-by-proxy looking") plays out.
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The name if the competition itself was pretty amusing. And on the whole xkcd is a fairly decent comic although it does have its "huh" moments.
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XKCD (http://xkcd.com/c141.html)'s parody week has included some scathingly funny ones of Achewood, Dinosaur Comics et al. As a bonus, today's is hilarious for the geeks.
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http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,3062.0.html (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,3062.0.html)
We have a thread for this a page or so back. Not meaning to be a jerk, I guess someone was going to point it out eventually.
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Hey-O! Let's trash this thread.
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Done.
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HELL OF MERGED
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xkcd is hell of funnier than achewood
i hear 0n$tad puts hella d00d00 in the strip iz this tru
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http://xkcd.com/c149.html
This one is fuck*ng hilarious, but only if you like operating systems made by fat people.
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Jokes about sudo are funny in general, despite there being so few of them. (http://www.bobbyisosceles.com/index.php?id=P138)
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Bobby, you're a total sudo-mite.
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Su-su-suddio
Holy crap, that is amazing.
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I don't get it.
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Funny as a Think Geek t-shirt.
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Funny as a Think Geek t-shirt.
A tiny can of Dr. Pepper to you, sir! You are referring, I presume, to this shirt right here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sysadmin/280d/
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root.
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A tiny can of Dr. Pepper to you, sir! You are referring, I presume, to this shirt right here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sysadmin/280d/
Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root.
Or Phil Collins.
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Just wanted to say the xkcd dude is a friend of mine from small times, grew up in my town, etc. He can naturally talk your brain into a state of being completely overwhelmed by information and also rape you at ping-pong. So what if he can't parody webcomics for shit?
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Just wanted to say the xkcd dude is a friend of mine from small times, grew up in my town, etc. He can naturally talk your brain into a state of being completely overwhelmed by information and also rape you at ping-pong. So what if he can't parody webcomics for shit?
I dunno, I thought his parodies were funny. I think the Achewood one was a bit weaker than the strips he obviously has more affection for -- his A Softer World parody could have been an actual ASW strip and was better than some of them.
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Actually, I thought his Achewood parody was pretty spot on. It's a parody, fergodsakes. It's not supposed to be a dang reproduction!
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I think the Phillipe panel was spot on and the many pages of akward expressions was something I would not be suprised to see in an actual strip. The only odd thing was Beef showing stones and thats probably y' know becuase it was parody.
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Actually, I thought his Achewood parody was pretty spot on. It's a parody, fergodsakes. It's not supposed to be a dang reproduction!
The Dinosaur Comics one was gold
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For some reason I absolutely love this:
http://www.xkcd.com/c135.html
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Upon reflection I've discovered why the parody week didn't sit with me. It was just too dead on. Aside from the minor art differences, the comics could be direct lifts of the actual comics parodied, which doesn't sit to me as a parody exactly, more imitation.
To that regard, they were VERY good imitations. No fun was poked, really, just fan fiction.
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Upon reflection I've discovered why the parody week didn't sit with me. It was just too dead on. Aside from the minor art differences, the comics could be direct lifts of the actual comics parodied, which doesn't sit to me as a parody exactly, more imitation.
To that regard, they were VERY good imitations. No fun was poked, really, just fan fiction.
I sort of had that feeling too. Also, he mainly parodied webcomics that were supposed to be funny: serious one's usually supply more material.
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the board has an autowarning that says Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic. However, people tend to say, "Havent' we talked about this before??" So I'm just going to resurrect an old topic rather than start a new one.
My new favorite XKCD comic is the one about Jimmy Carter being terrorized by a rabbit: http://xkcd.com/c204.html
In Carter's defense, it coulda been a nutria. (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_019.html)
RABBIT REDUX
Dear Cecil:
I have a theory that should put to rest this President Carter/killer rabbit thing once and for all. I propose that the president's antagonist was not a rabbit but a nutria (Myocastor coypus). The world's largest rodent, the nutria is semiaquatic with webbed hind feet and is very aggressive. Native to South America and valued for its durable fur, the nutria was introduced into the southern United States in the last century and quickly became a well-established pest species. A partially submerged nutria (a lightning-fast swimmer) would look very similar to a rabbit. Its lack of long, rabbitlike ears could easily be overlooked in the fog of battle.
I hope this serves to partially rehabilitate the much-maligned 39th president. --Thomas Canaday, San Francisco, California
Cecil replies:
You think being attacked by the "world's largest rodent" is an improvement? Then again, it had to give Carter a taste of what it would be like fending off Alfonse D'Amato.
Incidentally, the nutria isn't the world's largest rodent. The honor, such as it is, goes to the capybara, 110 pounds of pure ugly. Jimmy should count his blessings.
--CECIL ADAMS
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The capybara, 110 pounds of pure ugly.
Gah! The capybara is the cutest of all the huge water-dwelling rodents.
Also, this is so true it hurts: http://xkcd.com/c202.html
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This is my favorite one: http://xkcd.com/c10.html (http://xkcd.com/c10.html)
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There is nothing ugly about capybaras. (http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/)
Edit: I like this one. (http://xkcd.com/c206.html) Why don't I read this comic?
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My favourite was one I can't find now - about exercise and wanting to do so more once he associated it with powering-up.
That's totally what got me into fitness. I keep thinking of my weight loss milestones as reaching "the next level" with <300lbs. being a level boss, etc.
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My favourite was one I can't find now - about exercise and wanting to do so more once he associated it with powering-up.
That's totally what got me into fitness. I keep thinking of my weight loss milestones as reaching "the next level" with <300lbs. being a level boss, etc.
Schweet! I'll have to find that comic. It's all about leveling-up! That is hella rad. That thought keeps me going on bad days.
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Here it is, titled "Exercise":
http://www.xkcd.com/c189.html
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Has this video been posted yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUdU8Q0nAo
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Has this video been posted yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUdU8Q0nAo
Yup, though I can't find the thread off-hand.
Much was agreed to about that not being Ray's voice. At all.
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Oh, I love this one (http://xkcd.com/c133.html) too.
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Has this video been posted yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUdU8Q0nAo
That one led me to this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HY-wlwmhs&NR)
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Oh poop. You know what I hate? Reading dozens of comics in an archive before noticing they have that alt-text dealie.
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Oh poop. You know what I hate? Reading dozens of comics in an archive before noticing they have that alt-text dealie.
I remember talking to my wombie (kellichou, not omba) about the Achewood strip. We were talking about the Halloween series wherein Philippe is kidnapped by Nice Pete. We were talking about Mr. Bear's Mini with the retrofitted switches for Laphroaig, &c. I responded with the alt-text (which I believe was "the catalytic converter warms fine brandies" or something like that). She gently and ever-so-diplomatically explained the varietal of Scotch to which Laphroaig belongs. We shared a hearty chuckle as I explained the alt-text phenomenon, and that I was not mistakenly calling Laphroaig "brandy". Since then I've never forgotten it. It's a fun Easter egg on webcomics.
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For those of you with Firefox and Greasemonkey there's a script (http://adamv.com/dev/grease/scripts/comicalt.user.js) that will add the alt-text right underneath the comic on several popular strips
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For those of you with Firefox and Greasemonkey there's a script (http://adamv.com/dev/grease/scripts/comicalt.user.js) that will add the alt-text right underneath the comic on several popular strips
Oooh! What an unexpected gem of code, CJ. Thank you for the link. I had no idea that such a thing existed. God Bless Programmers, each and every one!