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Posted: January 15, 2011 05:07 am  | |
      IRC Nickname: Gibble00 Group: Emeritus Posts: 775 Member No.: 100 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 9    | In light of a topic on another forum, I want to ask the good people of WildGuard, internet enthusiasts as you are, what your thoughts are on the ever popular XKCD. I appreciate it from time to time, maybe once every forty comics, but I don't really understand its massive internet popularity despite the many other great comics on the internet. I have class from time to time with the creator's younger brother. Yes, he attends my college. To put him into perspective (the younger brother), he and a friend sword fought with pvc pipe at a talent show on campus, an event which I sorely missed but heard about from others. Thought I should share. --------------------  |
Posted: January 15, 2011 10:19 am | |
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Seems like sometimes when you read something, or listen to a song, etc., you just get the feeling that whoever came up with whatever it is you're looking at has actually got a brain. It's a really subtle pull, but I think that's what takes me to XKCD a couple times a week, if not daily, to see what else he's cooked up. I know a really good math prof on campus with a decent outer office, I'm actually planning on buying a hardcopy of XKCD and just leaving it there. With a note threatening bloody evisceration to anyone to thinks about "borrowing" it, of course. // edit // My avatar pic is from XKCD, lol. --------------------  |
Posted: January 15, 2011 12:40 pm | |
 IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | I read it. Perhaps not on a regular basis, but I do read it, because it just seems awesome. And the jokes are cool, provided you know what they are about. http://www.xkcd.com/838/ <-  -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox |
Posted: January 15, 2011 12:58 pm | |
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | Those are really funny. I bookmarked it now. lol Somehow "smart" funny is just funnier. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  |
Posted: January 16, 2011 05:57 pm | |
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | XKCD is awesome. It's just such a witty and intelligent insight on things. He has a map of the internet that he updates every once in a while. If you're in tune with what's going on in the world and the cyber-world, then it just makes things that much funnier. There are definitely some comics that are geared to to people who are computer science people that I simply don't understand... particularly the server jokes. But I can usually solve that by asking my friends in computer engineering. --------------------   |
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