xkcd makes me sad

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Dubyamn

PatrThom said:
He was going for an interesting story. It's certainly no less interesting than The Island. The unfold-the-plot-as-you-go reminded me a lot of the early Cyan games.

--Patrick
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So your example of an interesting story is a movie that got 40% on Rotten Tomatoes? I mean when I can't get more than one minute into a quick scrolling show of the entire comic I honestly believe that it has failed to be interesting of fun.

The entire thing just seems useless and self indulgent.
 
Gusto

Gusto

It was interesting as a media experiment but shouldn't really be considered a comic. And yeah, if we're following the film metaphor here, I'd say it's entirely reasonable that an experimental film with an "interesting story" to still be weird and inaccessible.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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It felt like a comic version of a short story I would have been forced to read in the 7th grade to make me think about things differently.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Dubyamn said:
So your example of an interesting story is a movie that got 40% on Rotten Tomatoes?
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No, what I said is that I would certainly not rate it worse than a movie which got 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. A movie with a multimillion-dollar budget compared to a webcomic done by one guy. (full disclosure, I haven't seen the movie in question, just going on reputation).
Dubyamn said:
The entire thing just seems useless and self indulgent.
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I think you just described every webcomic out there (some more than others).
--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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stienman said:
I couldn't help but think of it as a metaphor for the human relationship with space exploration. We may be doing it for fun now, but there's something nagging in the back of our heads that says it'll ultimately be necessary.
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How does the quote go? The Universe littered with the single-planet graves of civilizations that made the sensible decision to not prioritize space exploration? Something to that effect?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
I couldn't help but think of it as a metaphor for the human relationship with space exploration. We may be doing it for fun now, but there's something nagging in the back of our heads that says it'll ultimately be necessary.
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That's also what I thought he was referring to, and where I thought he was going, but then it diverged from that a bit and I just went with it. I assumed the story started driving itself at some point and he only got to stick close rather than right to it.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
But I like the space thing better.
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It's the language thing that really tears the space metaphor for me. Otherwise, the sea's rise could be compared to our sun going nova or something like that.

Really, I just saw it as watching the lure of exploring The Unknown unfold. And they learned something, something important. And they acted on it, and were better for it, but I was very conflicted about the theft.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I would like to point out that, as of this post, we are only 8 comics away from comic #1337.
Let's see what happens.

--Patrick
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Today's XKCD makes me irrationally happy.

Hacker is such a dumb movie, but it's so fun. I need to rewatch it.
 
fade

fade

Staff member
I totally refer to people in real life by their online names. Which gets awkward for names like Pay-tur-thom and juh-wowk and en-tee-see-ess-dodge-man.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Just remember the first two letters are my first and middle initials.

<cackles evilly as he imagines the mispronunciation of his last name>
 
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