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none of them since I'm not a euphoric autist

never before have I seen someone so devoid of talent have such an overinflated ego.

I mean who am I kidding we have but this guys no exception.

i don't see where you get this idea

The best of the bunch

He has no artistic skills and yet is quite proud of his stick figures. He has no creative skill but is quite proud of his "jokes." He has no philosophical revelations worth a second thought but is extremely proud of how deep he is.

He also has a huge superiority complex because "le stem." I put him about two steps away from unironically writing the Rick and Morty copypasta.

Is this Nedroid insulting XKCD, or XKCD insulting Nedroid?

Because whichever it is, Nedroid is the better comic.

It's like asking what's your favorite shadman cp

the way the comic asserts its own message makes it come off as super preachy at the very least.

>xkcd

Honestly, I like the ones where he just makes a neat thing. His actual comics never work because he has zero understanding of how to write. As points out, he consistently fucks up the basic beats of a joke.

The OP is a great example. It actually reads better without the third panel, because anyone familiar with the phrase is going to have gotten to the conclusion before the final panel explains it. Often a weak joke can be propped up by forcing the audience to come to the punchline themselves.

> I have never met Munroe but am very comfortable telling you exactly how he feels and thinks about himself. Trust me.

Typical armchair psychologist. You don't have to like his comic, but to pretend like you understand someone because you've read their webcomic is just childishly ignorant.

> correlation doesn't imply causation

cunt

Yeah! Art tells us nothing about the artist! And if you try to tell me otherwise, I'm going namedrop a Derrida essay and pretend I know what it was about!

Swing and a miss. I didn't say you knew *nothing* about the man from reading his webcomic.

Try again kiddo

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>exactly how he feels
>I didn't say you knew *nothing*

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

His art tells me that he's proud of his work, has no creative skill, and has a superiority complex about STEM. Your move, fuccboi.

I liked him better for the fighting games he made when he was called Xiaoxiao

>actually liking Mr. "Im smarter than you, my stick figures prove it"

"raped to sleep" is one of the funniest throwaway lines I have ever read and I hate that people got up in arms over this comic

Isn't "Sith deal in absolutes" an absolute statement itself, even without "only"?.

Yes.

Fuck off Anakin, I have the high ground and you know it

>correlation=/=causation in a statistics class
Isn't that more of a high school debate level subject? We never covered this in statistics, it was assumed that we already knew this.

You're the one making the absolutist statements; not me.

His art tells you a lot, but you act as if you know everything there is to know about him in an objective sense, and you're deluding yourself.

No skin off my nose; you're free to wallow in your self-indulgent armchair psychology if you want, but you're honestly acting in the same fashion you criticize Munroe for.

>pay attention to me, I'm so smart and insightful!

It's a nedroid fan using nedroid to make fun of xkcd

LOL

>His art tells me that he's proud of his work, has no creative skill, and has a superiority complex about STEM. Your move, fuccboi.
>but you act as if you know everything there is to know about him in an objective sense

Respond to the statements I make, not the ones you want me to make.

@95211905

(you)

CHORTLE

LOL

>He also has a huge superiority complex because "le stem."

Why are humanitiesbabies always so butthurt over the fact of STEM superiority?

I have solely responded to the statements you've made; you are free to labor under the delusion that I've moved the goalposts or strawmanned your argument, but I haven't.

You are a silly little person for being so resolute in your criticism of Munroe despite your sole avenue of insight to the man being a webcomic.

It's just kinda sad.

>His art tells you a lot

Your words.

>His art tells me that he's proud of his work, has no creative skill, and has a superiority complex about STEM. Your move, fuccboi.

My words. Respond.

>He has no artistic skills and yet is quite proud of his stick figures.

Your words. Cite your source for his pride in the stick figures. I want a quote. Don't have one? Didn't think so.

>He has no creative skill but is quite proud of his "jokes."

Your words. Cite a source for his pride in his jokes. When exactly did he claim to be very, very funny and witty? Or are you just assuming that's how he feels? That latter? I thought so.

"He has no creative skill" is also entirely subjective, but you already knew that. You just like making absolute statements to be an obtuse child.

> He has no philosophical revelations worth a second thought but is extremely proud of how deep he is.

Your words. I want a source on when he stated how proud he was of how philosophically deep he is. Don't have one? Didn't think so.

You're just a projecting cunt who thinks that Munroe is entirely self-absorbed and proud of himself when, in actuality, you are pulling that entire perception out of your ass without a single drop of evidence to back it up

>b-b-b-b-but I've read his comic!!! I know how he feels!!!

Nope. Give me quotes from Munroe where he explicitly stated, "I am very creatively skilled, I am very funny, I am very proud of my stick figures, and I am very, very philosophically deep." Do it now.

You can't.

Wallow in despair at how pointless your entire life is. No mass of people will ever care about your insights the way people do with Munroe. I think it bothers you how successful he is and that your very witty and very meaningful insights go entirely unnoticed while his gets praise.

amerifats btfo

Yes, if you're going to emigrate to the cherokee indian reservation you should learn their language.

This argument used by leftists is retarded.
It's precisely BECAUSE the natives got BTFO by the European colonists that we should enforce strict assimilation.
You always see those
>Don't like immigration? Tell that to the crying Indian
posts by liberals.
They're missing the point entirely

hilarious

LOL

Are you still here hun? I'm waiting for an answer here

LMAO

Not my words. Different poster, but I'm happy to respond.

You said, "his art tells you a lot" and now you're demanding quotes from outside of his art. Either you lied because it was an expedient retort to my quip about Derrida, or you're attempting to move the goalposts.

As for the observations themselves, they are evident in his work. He has never posted anything of artistic, comedic or philosophical value and yet he continues to bang on without any intention of improving on his skill with the art form. This indicates a deep pride in his work and an inability to recognize his own observations as surface level comprehension cloaked in basic jargon.

Or, to be simple, "His art tells me that he's proud of his work, has no creative skill, and has a superiority complex about STEM. Your move, fuccboi."

this one caused some butthurt on twitter

is he taking a stab at himself?

ROFL

That would be a level of self-awareness that I do not think he possesses

stupid humpty drumpfy

haha?

wow top kek

>You said, "his art tells you a lot" and now you're demanding quotes from outside of his art.

>As for the observations themselves, they are evident in his work.

You don't seem to understand that an artist and their art are two separate entities and can represent two entirely different thoughts. Well today I am happy to bring this concept to you. Please use this to enrich your worldview!

An artist's art does not, in and of itself, by virtue of existing, shout from the highest mountain, "I AM VERY GOOD AT THIS AND I AM VERY PROUD!!".

If you think that all art is the artist automatically jerking themselves off, you're sorely mistaken.

>He has never posted anything of artistic, comedic or philosophical value

Subjective. He has a massive following. Clearly he speaks to many, many people.

>without any intention of improving on his skill with the art form.

How do you know his intentions for improvement? Have you spoken with him? Or are you simply assuming because his comic is the same as it's always been? How do you know he does not work on other works outside of XKCD that he simply doesn't publish? Please explain.

>This indicates a deep pride in his work and an inability to recognize his own observations as surface level comprehension cloaked in basic jargon.

Armchair psychology. By this logic, any serialized media that doesn't undergo substantial change between the first iteration and the final iteration is headed by an artist with a tremendous ego who is too prideful to improve; and that is a facile line of thought.

I look forward to seeing your continued rationalizations

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I said his continuing choice to not improve indicates pride in the work that he is doing, not that art indicates pride.

The rest of your comments are strawmen. I didn't say he was "jerking [himself] off or has a "tremendous ego."

At this point, it's clear that you're projecting other people's complaints about the artist onto this conversation, and you're incapable of responding to the simple statement I made evaluating him as an artist from his art.

I think it's safe to say we're done here. Have a great day, user.

Literally every line in the second panel makes me laugh. Gabe's writing has always pretty consistently hit my funny bone.

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>I said his continuing choice to not improve indicates pride in the work that he is doing, not that art indicates pride.

You're walking back what you said. You said:

>he continues to bang on without any intention of improving on his skill with the art form.

I'll say again: How do you know his intentions for improvement? Have you spoken with him? Or are you simply assuming because his comic is the same as it's always been? How do you know he does not work on other works outside of XKCD that he simply doesn't publish? Please explain.


>The rest of your comments are strawmen. I didn't say he was "jerking [himself] off or has a "tremendous ego."

Ah, you've given up.

I did not strawman your argument even one bit. You simply refuse to listen to reason. Have a good day jerking yourself off over your armchair psychology degree. You're very insightful and smart; maybe you should team up with Munroe and make a webcomic together about how great you both are.

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Here it is.
The one that created a meme.
Someone post the sad photo of that ballpit from that sad sad convention

I read your post.

I wish you'd understood it rather than just read it.

But we can't always get what we want.

What is this comic?

>I wasted hundreds of dollars on plastic trash because I wanted to make some kind of statement about my agency
>god I fucking hate my daddy so much, this will show him

No- you don't plow her when you see this, you run the fuck away from hurricane crazypants.

>>I wasted hundreds of dollars on plastic trash because I wanted to make some kind of statement about my agency

You assume it was to make a statement. A person could just genuinely want a room-size ball pit. That's the point of the comic.


Why are these really simple messages lost on autists everywhere?

>Removing the barrier
>Make it impossible to close the door

Why does this make me so furious

The essence of a 17 year virgin about to go to college and study BASED STEM

Is there anything else to study in college?

Business/economics, like a real person

>A person could just genuinely want a room-size ball pit.
That can be a genuine desire- but no matter how much you want that ball pit it's a considerable amount of money, a lot of time, a great deal of inconvenience, for at the most two days of fun.
So if someone does it, they are either very bad at measuring costs and rewards OR there are other reasons underlying their decision.
The dude who wants to plow her directly asks her why she did what she did- she doesn't say that she did it to have fun.
"Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means" That's her reason- at the center of her reasoning we have "it's our turn", this turn stands at opposition of another turn.

I'm not autistic, I just analyze the subtext and connotations of something I read more than you do, because I'm both interested in content and also the rhetorical forces behind that content.
Having that interest or not is just a preference.

it's just possible that this is the single most autistic post i've seen on this site and i've seen some autistic fucking shit around here

It's the hallway of an apartment building, and the rising heart balloon implies that they may be engaged in sexual acts.
So there are plastic balls everywhere in a communal area that could be either a nuisance or potentially dangerous to the elderly or infirm- also everyone can see them rutting like pigs in a pile of children's toys. They're bad people and they're doing bad things.

Anything related to IT, technology reliance is only growing and so is data management.

IT is part of the T in STEM.
>Science
>Technology
>Engineering
>Mathematics

>That can be a genuine desire- but no matter how much you want that ball pit it's a considerable amount of money, a lot of time, a great deal of inconvenience, for at the most two days of fun.

>So if someone does it, they are either very bad at measuring costs and rewards OR there are other reasons underlying their decision.


"Disposable income" is a thing that exists, user. Some people have the capacity and will to save up for a big thing they want so that they can enjoy life some. Yes, there are of course very poor people who can't, and buying something big and expensive would be irresponsible, but that is not a facet of the point the comic is making.

>The dude who wants to plow her directly asks her why she did what she did- she doesn't say that she did it to have fun. "Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means" That's her reason- at the center of her reasoning we have "it's our turn", this turn stands at opposition of another turn.

She's acting as a narration device in the comic. Munroe wanted to sell the idea of adulthood meaning autonomy to the reader. If the comic was just, "Why did you fill your apartment with balls?" ---> "Because it's fun!", there would not have been any takeaway for the reader other than "Do things that are fun." There is a specific takeaway that Munroe was aiming for, and the dialogue makes it obvious.

Too many young adults spend all day whining about how adulthood blows and it's all bad and bills and terrible and they miss childhood. The comic is meant to counter that by pointing out that adulthood means you are the master of your own destiny and can do what you want, even if it's something ostensibly childish.

I don't even know who is being mocked here.

He's trying to mock Trump and Trump supporters because they say "It's not what Trump says, it's what Trump means that's important".
Trump=Drumpf=Dumpty
See the logic?

fuck

I think the idea might be that theres nothing particularly special about english that means it should be the language everyone speaks

These are both STEM subjects though

It wasn't so much the comic they were up in arms about but Gabe's reaction to their reaction. After the comic was released, a few people went "dude, not funny" and "rape isn't a joke", just like anytime someone popular makes a rape joke. And normally, that's the end of it, with people saying their peace and moving on. But Gabe absolutely couldn't stand the idea of someone not thinking he's funny, so he posts a super sarcastic "apology", and basically fans the flames all over his twitter account/blog. Then he fanned them even more with his dickwolf merch at PAX, and then again a year later when he said his biggest regret was removing the dick wolf merch from their store.

Basically the whole thing would have been a non-issue if not for Gabe making a big deal out of it every step of the way.

I'm just applying real-world logic to manic pixie shenanigans- when actual people need to maintain a constant sense of whimsy or act that impulsively it's bad news 99% of the time.
Munroe's obsession with this "type" means that he thinks a crazy person would spice up his life, which is just such a bad idea.

Business is not part of STEM
Unless you want to include history, archeology, and anthropology in there too

Do you feel your fedora growing in yet, STEMlord?

He worked for nasa

Not that user, but

>An artist's art does not, in and of itself, by virtue of existing, shout from the highest mountain, "I AM VERY GOOD AT THIS AND I AM VERY PROUD!!".

Like pic related, he often shows his views in his comics. Now, this can be done right- don't make an strawman, have a funny punchline, etc. But he doesn't any of that, just punch an strawman in the face for the audience to have wish fulfillment. Plus, it sometimes show that he has
difficultly even seeing different view points, as shown by him genuinely thinking everyone's pretending rather than them enjoying beer in. His art is terrible, portraying people as stick figures and rarely tries to do something decent or improve, like the time he drew the fast and furious poster. This isn't armchair physiology, this is basic fucking reading comprehension, like how you can figure out things about how Kelly is a terrible person from his political cartoons. You don't need a direct quote form him.

His comics are rarely funny, often covering it up with high school math and other shallow knowledge to make his audience feel smart, which is even how he got a following in the first place.

He has posted nothing of artistic value.

>I'm just applying real-world logic to manic pixie shenanigans- when actual people need to maintain a constant sense of whimsy or act that impulsively it's bad news 99% of the time.

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything I said.

>it's bad news 99% of the time

I'm sure you're not projecting that figure at aaaaalll. Totally based on actual statistics from actual people. Totally real. Not made up.

youtube.com/watch?v=lMss1CeHOiM

Except demographics.

He contracted for NASA. Lots of people do

That might be true if the didn't use Cherokee as an example of an "alternate language"
It implies that Native languages have more right than "foreign" English for being the language of America.

But even they weren't saying that, English is actually rather special and should be chosen as a lingua franca.
English is extremely open to loan words
English is a non-tonal language
English is open to a wide array of mutually intelligible accents (i.e. vowels do not need to be pronounced precisely the same)
English is non-gendered
English is a mostly non-inflective language

It's easy to pronounce, easy to learn. Yeah, there are some legacy rules that don't make much sense (like strong vs weak verbs) but that's overall very minor compared to the wackiness that gendered inflective languages have

Maybe
But I'm talking more about the average reader

>I'm not sure what that has to do with anything I said.
I'm making a point about where I'm coming from when it comes to our entire discussion- I assumed you'd be able to contextually understand that each reply doesn't exist in a vacuum.
>getting pissy about my using "99%" in an off-hand hyperbolic way in a stupid thread on the toon board on an embarrassing troll-based imageboard made by a teenager in the early 2000's
Wait, are you actually Randall Munroe? Gross.

Economics at least is a BSc subject

the statistic is common sense- doing impractical shit like that all the time will effect your life negatively, as that will take a lot of time and money to clean up. And having someone urging you to do that constantly is unhealthy, especially concerning that disposable income can't last forever.

>It's easy to pronounce, easy to learn.
That's complete bullshit, though. There are dozens if not hundreds of exceptions to every single rule, and not only is it not easy to tell how something is pronounced; it's not even possible to tell the correct pronunciation of a word by looking at how it's spelled.

So is Bible studies

>He often shows his views in his comics. Now, this can be done right- don't make an strawman, have a funny punchline, etc. But he doesn't any of that, just punch an strawman in the face for the audience to have wish fulfillment.

I don't believe any of my posts disagreed with any of this. I never claimed all of his comics were good, self-aware, or even humble. I merely pointed out the other user was talking out of his ass by claiming Munroe is self-indulgent, prideful, and has an overinflated ego (without a single source to support those claims other than, "but I can tell because I read the comic!!", which isn't an argument)

>Plus, it sometimes show that he has
difficultly even seeing different view points, as shown by him genuinely thinking everyone's pretending rather than them enjoying beer inAgain, the person in the comic is not necessarily stating exactly what Munroe personally thinks. I think too many people automatically assume whatever character has the primary dialogue in one of his comics is just serving as his mouthpiece. Which is a logical assumption in some cases, but is still an assumption; too many people forget a comic can say something without it being the author's personal, resolute opinion.

Additionally, I do not conflate the idea of Munroe being wrong with him being a self-indulgent asshole (e.g.: the beer comic. The character is clearly wrong about people pretending to like beer. But I don't think him being wrong makes him a asshole)

> His art is terrible, portraying people as stick figures and rarely tries to do something decent or improve

Did Munroe state somewhere that he's a diehard artiste and that he strives to improve XKCD's art by working hard on his drawing skills? I don't recall Munroe ever making any statement claiming that his art is great and improving.

>This isn't armchair physiology, this is basic fucking reading comprehension

You could've just said "My opinions are right; others' are wrong."

>it would have been a non issue if he didn't defend himself
There's only so long you can run

LOL

>the statistic is common sense
This is a non-argument. If you have to say your argument is "common sense", it isn't an argument. Try again.

>doing impractical shit like that all the time will effect your life negatively
Who said anything about doing it all the time? Not me, and not the comic.

>And having someone urging you to do that constantly is unhealthy,
Who said anything about urging? Not me, and not the comic. He accepted that she wanted to have a ball pit. There was no urging.