12-05-2008, 09:14 PM
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| Thank goodness!
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12-06-2008, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata  Women and shoes, one of those age-old mysteries...
Hat Guy...along with South Park and rap, proof that in the modern era one doesn't need talent to become successful as an "artist". :P | xkcd isn't mean to be art, it's meant to be humor.
And occasionally whining about girl problems. But mostly humor. | |
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12-06-2008, 01:11 AM
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| And geekery. Lots of geekery. | |
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12-10-2008, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Women and shoes, one of those age-old mysteries...
Hat Guy...along with South Park and rap, proof that in the modern era one doesn't need talent to become successful as an "artist". :P | .... Old men and their wide ranging vague stereotypes......
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12-10-2008, 02:42 PM
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| When faced with the unfamiliar, the elderly tend to shoehorn it into a pre-existing category in their brains, rather than create a new one. This explains a lot of the "what the huh?"-inducing conclusions and observations they make.
Or maybe they just do it on purpose, to rile them young-uns.
Anyway, I like Telk's new avatar.
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12-10-2008, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint .... Old men and their wide ranging vague stereotypes...... | ...are generally correct ( and clever ).
The use of ellipsis has its perils. 
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12-10-2008, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs xkcd isn't mean to be art, it's meant to be humor.
And occasionally whining about girl problems. But mostly humor. | Actually, the same is true of South Park.
As a matter of fact, the better the animation on South Park has gotten, the worse the content has become. | |
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12-12-2008, 12:12 AM
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| Well, there is an art to telling a joke, and if you choose to tell it via drawing you should bloody well be able to DRAW! Otherwise just write the effing joke out!
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12-12-2008, 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Well, there is an art to telling a joke, and if you choose to tell it via drawing you should bloody well be able to DRAW! Otherwise just write the effing joke out! | Sometimes they are just text. See my favorite: http://xkcd.com/55/
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12-12-2008, 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Well, there is an art to telling a joke, and if you choose to tell it via drawing you should bloody well be able to DRAW! Otherwise just write the effing joke out! | I think that the "art" of the joke is the humor content, and not the artistic content.
And compared to real art, Peanuts (or substitute any other comic strip here) and xkcd are both pretty pathetic, just to varying extents. | |
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12-12-2008, 01:56 AM
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| Art or not, there is certainly a lot of talent involved in managing to consistently draw characters in such a way that they are recognizable and always look like the same character, and with a range of emotion. The range of emotion that XKCD gets through stick figures is incredible. | |
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12-12-2008, 03:34 AM
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| Sometimes I despair for young people.
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12-12-2008, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Sometimes I despair for young people. | Not as often as we despair for you.
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12-12-2008, 07:28 PM
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| I have been at it longer and with more reason, so yes, more than you. 
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