Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167

[Tragic_Comedian]

So what's with the ?

Maybe he was actually really boring?

I think I might need glasses. Also, two of my friends are going to fight each other. Over a girl. This is so senseless.

[Mutant Sheep]

So what's with the ?

Cuz he died. So I am sad. But the doesn't really seem right, so I went with the sigh. It doesn't really cut it either.
Well tragic, is she, in fact, a hottie? ...

What? Your friends don't have time for the fuglies! Seriously, that sounds kinda stupid.

[LaZodiac]

Must be Fighting Foodons.

Man, I feel so nostalgic.

I wish it was Fighting Foodons. I'd loooove a game for that series!

But yha. You are slowly but surely getting closer and closer! I'm sure you guys can figure it out!

[Eruantion]

I met Brian Jacques once! He was awesome in person.

I'm jealous. That guy was one of my childhood heroes.

[MoonCat]

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

[Tragic_Comedian]

Well tragic, is she, in fact, a hottie? ...

What? Your friends don't have time for the fuglies! Seriously, that sounds kinda stupid.

I wish you wouldn't use that word. And fighting is always stupid. EDIT: They aren't going to fight each other now, though.

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

Congratulations. The only thing I ever did that for was 8-Bit Theatre. xkcd probably has more strips.

Also, does anybody here watch Columbo? Man, I love that show.

[Ranger Mattos]

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

Alt-texts?

Congratulations. The only thing I ever did that for was 8-Bit Theatre. xkcd probably has more strips.

No, I'm pretty sure 8-Bit Theatre has more strips.

[AsteriskAmp]

Alt-texts?

I'm pretty sure she means title texts.

[Eruantion]

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

I've never done that with xkcd, but I have a couple times for QC. The alt-texts can make the whole comic sometimes though Your local forecast for tomorrow is "Steve." Good luck.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Alt-texts?

I think it's the text that comes up when you hold your mouse over the comic.

No, I'm pretty sure 8-Bit Theatre has more strips.

Well, I don't read xkcd. I was just assuming. Anyhow, far out.

[Ranger Mattos]

I think it's the text that comes up when you hold your mouse over the comic.

Well, I don't read xkcd. I was just assuming. Anyhow, far out.

Ah.

And as of today, xkcd has 945 strips. I know that 8-Bit Theatre has over 1000.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I regularly read through the entire Dr. McNinja archives.

It's just as good the 6th time as the 1st time.

[MoonCat]

I'm pretty sure she means title texts.

no? Unless that's the names of the texts you get when you mouse over the comic, but they're called alt-texts on TvTropes...

I've never done that with xkcd, but I have a couple times for QC. The alt-texts can make the whole comic sometimes though Your local forecast for tomorrow is "Steve." Good luck.

Yeah, I've read QC all the way through a few times. Once backwards. THAT was fun!

Ah.

And as of today, xkcd has 945 strips. I know that 8-Bit Theatre has over 1000.

It'll probably have 946 by the time we refresh it, it's Thursday night.

Never got into Eight-Bit. Even if I could stand sprite comics, there's nothing worse than eight-bit sprites. They give me a headache, and the story was entirely uninteresting, no matter how many times I forced myself though around a hundred and fifty crappy comics, it never caught me.

[AsteriskAmp]

no? Unless that's the names of the texts you get when you mouse over the comic, but they're called alt-texts on TvTropes...

XKCD calls them title text due to the fact that's how they show on code or something like that.

[Tragic_Comedian]

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Never got into Eight-Bit. Even if I could stand sprite comics, there's nothing worse than eight-bit sprites. They give me a headache, and the story was entirely uninteresting, no matter how many times I forced myself though around a hundred and fifty crappy comics, it never caught me.

Well, it's all subjective.

[HalfTangible]

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

I never made it past the concept-art lookin' things...

[MoonCat]

I never made it past the concept-art lookin' things...

Art looking things? Do you mean the stick figures?

[HalfTangible]

Art looking things? Do you mean the stick figures?

I can stand the stick figures (xkcd makes me laugh all the time) but i never was able to read it from start to finish because the first group of 'comics' were largely what looked like concept art for boats, trees on a planet, and other things. And then when it got to those comics they just weren't funny. (Snapple? Really? -_-)

Turns out i'm not very patient.

EDIT: Make that 'sketches'.

[Mutant Sheep]

I wish you wouldn't use that word. And fighting is always stupid. EDIT: They aren't going to fight each other now, though.

Shoulda done a face. Sorry if the joke came across wrong. Like most of my jokes *sigh*

Yay! No random fighting. Well... if its like *Link to Questionable content Marten Angus slap fight/Scott Pilgrim thing I cant find dangit* its fine.

[MoonCat]

I can stand the stick figures (xkcd makes me laugh all the time) but i never was able to read it from start to finish because the first group of 'comics' were largely what looked like concept art for boats, trees on a planet, and other things. And then when it got to those comics they just weren't funny. (Snapple? Really? -_-)

Turns out i'm not very patient.

EDIT: Make that 'sketches'.

Oh! I didn't mean to offend you. I'm sorry!

I totally get it though. That's what kept me from reading the archive before, a problem which I cleverly fixed by reading it backwards. It gets ****tier very slowly, and by the time it's boring we can just click through in anticipation of the end being ten strips away.

[AsteriskAmp]

Oh! I didn't mean to offend you. I'm sorry!

I totally get it though. That's what kept me from reading the archive before, a problem which I cleverly fixed by reading it backwards. It gets ****tier very slowly, and by the time it's boring we can just click through in anticipation of the end being ten strips away.

I can stand the stick figures (xkcd makes me laugh all the time) but i never was able to read it from start to finish because the first group of 'comics' were largely what looked like concept art for boats, trees on a planet, and other things. And then when it got to those comics they just weren't funny. (Snapple? Really? -_-)

Turns out i'm not very patient.

EDIT: Make that 'sketches'.

I for once disagree with both, I find the sketches as good as, if not better than the comic, their value lies in different places, while the sketches are great, and hold certain humour in either composition or thematics, they tend more toward the completely random and surreal giggling of them, while the comics are more streamlined into a punchline and an actual joke.

[MoonCat]

I for once disagree with both, I find the sketches as good as, if not better than the comic, their value lies in different places, while the sketches are great, and hold certain humour in either composition or thematics, they tend more toward the completely random and surreal giggling of them, while the comics are more streamlined into a punchline and an actual joke.

No, I like the sketches. But the earlier jokes I disliked, as they weren't actually all that funny, and not all that great artwise either. I mean, there's stick figures that wouldn't look out of place as some sort of Mac logo, and there's the stick figures that look like he scanned a ballpoint pen doodle while scrawling, which is pretty much what he did. The sketches are actually quite nice, but it was boring to read stuff like the Scrapple Jack joke, which didn't make sense, and the Irony strip, which was just plain BLEH.

[AsteriskAmp]

No, I like the sketches. But the earlier jokes I disliked, as they weren't actually all that funny, and not all that great artwise either. I mean, there's stick figures that wouldn't look out of place as some sort of Mac logo, and there's the stick figures that look like he scanned a ballpoint pen doodle while scrawling, which is pretty much what he did. The sketches are actually quite nice, but it was boring to read stuff like the Scrapple Jack joke, which didn't make sense, and the Irony strip, which was just plain BLEH.

I found Irony beautifully ironical, in the sense "I'm so META" is beautifully META.
I found the less sense they made the more they made me giggle.

[Heliomance]

I'm exuberant, and euphoric, and energised, and just plain ALIVE!

I have no idea why an early morning cycle across the common to watch the sunrise has had such a strong effect on me, but I like it. I need to do that more often. Like, ever.

[LaZodiac]

Jesus. Good god. What the hell.

Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution, has a bug that makes a mission impossible to complete. I...in this day and age, with a game this high profile, it should not be this EASY to BREAK A GAME LIKE THIS.

Strike 2. Strike, freaking, two.

[Coidzor]

Considering that they refuse to have a polished X-COM, of all things, and instead made a cover-based shooter which punishes you for using the alien's weaponry against them.... I don't think much could really surprise me at this point.

[LaZodiac]

Considering that they refuse to have a polished X-COM, of all things, and instead made a cover-based shooter which punishes you for using the alien's weaponry against them.... I don't think much could really surprise me at this point.

Up untill hearing about the punishment for using alien tech (which is the first time I've heard about this) I actually liked the new look for X Com. It is worthy of note that I hate the original X Com.

[factotum]

It is worthy of note that I hate the original X Com.

I thought that was illegal, or something...

[Coidzor]

Up untill hearing about the punishment for using alien tech (which is the first time I've heard about this) I actually liked the new look for X Com. It is worthy of note that I hate the original X Com.

Ah, so the cat it out of the bag now that we know the real reason for all of this.

[Feytalist]

MoonCat just read all of xkcd front to back, with alt-texts, for the first time. Woohoo!

xkcd is awesome. Not so much the jokes, which are usually good, and the meta referentialness, which is always awesome, but the ideas that the guy comes up with. You know, stuff to actually do. Geo-location, kite photography, the recent webcam-cloud idea, rollercoaster chess, hell, that whole see the sunset twice idea. And the fact that he makes it actually viable. He's obviously a guy who manages to enjoy life to the fullest. Which is awesome.


Also, Deus Ex 3? I never even knew they were making one. Excuse me while I go have a nerdgasm.