Poll of the Day > Today's XKCD is on point.

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http://www.xkcd.com/
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XKCD stopped being funny long ago. Or maybe it was never funny. Just an annoying, overrated webcomic that tries to sound "smart".

it's painful when you have to have text on the bottom explaining why it's funny...
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That would be the case for comics in general, but not one that's entirely explanatory by nature. Which is not to say the whole series is explanatory, but this strip is.
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Maybe before, but since everything comes with an USB cable nowadays since it became the standard and the law.
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Went back one comic and already got tired of it. XKCD is like an alternate universe Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal that takes itself seriously and is often up its own ass.

This reminds me. I wonder if Dr.Ninja and Romantically Apocalyptic are still running.
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So, how bout that comic.
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So true.
And I love their cellphone versions.
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we have two good usb cables here, and i guard them with my fucking life.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Today's XKCD is on point

...is a statement which has never been true at any point in history.



SomeUsername529 posted...

XKCD is like an alternate universe Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal that takes itself seriously and is often up its own ass.

There are definitely parallels between the two, but I'd say that the main difference is that SMBC is only occasionally pretentious or annoying, whereas Randall Munroe comes across like an alien who only barely understands what it means to be human, and who spends nearly all of his time oscillating between overly pretentious jacking off over how much he loves science and math and overly pretentious emo-teen pseudophilosophical musing.

Though to be fair, I'm basing my opinion there on what SMBC used to be, because I haven't read it in years. It's entirely possible that it's reached douche-chill levels of cringe on its own over the last few years or so, so they're both equally terrible. But SMBC was always at its best when it was focusing on pop culture and at its worst when it was going the science nerd route.


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Jesus Christ, people.
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^ikr

I couldn't disagree more with any of that. I'm not even sure how the label of pretentiousness could be applied, and one of the main appeals is just how relatable it is.
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