Post your favorite xkcd strips.
The reddit ones
man, xkcd really does suck
>>82622198
It's pretty good actually.
Not great, but good.
My favorite one. http://xkcd.com/1663/
When I was 14-15 I loved xkcd but with the time I started to get bored.
>>82622310
I like to think it's blue-pilled normie trash sprinkled with occasional flashes of brilliance like this one.
Few and far between, though.
>>82624516
>concerns about datamining are foolish, because I purchased and consumed a consumer foodstuff
bruh, you aren't a Mexican national. You even knowing what a burrito is is a product of marketing. This particular instance of use of metrics and datamining might be benign, but you should at least be aware of that and the changes that very real phenomenon can have on the actual real world you live in.
>>82622107
the one were he tells everyone they are subhuman apes because they dont have a maths degree oh wait thats every strip
>dilbert
for actual smart comentary
>peanuts
for life reflection
>calvin & holbes
for charm
![subhuman-o[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/lNWU4UG.gif "subhuman-o[1].gif")
>>82626760
>dilbert
>smart commentary
Choose.
>>82622310
It has its moments, like >>82626642
It also has its pants-on-head retarded moments like >>82622318
Normally it's just mediocre trash that gets reposted to Reddit all the time, since it makes the average idiot feel intelligent and superior. Like you OP.
>>82622107
also i know its the guy who makes this shit that keeps making these threads to pick fights and totally prove u wrong
also pic related is the only way to enjoy the comic, the guy just makes a comic of wathever shows up in some tech blog so he doesnt even know what the comics are about
>>82626760
Apply Dilbert and Peanuts to Calvin and Hobbes.
>>82626798
it actually is, im sorry you cant understand it, im truly am. I weep every time a kid graduates highschool in america
>>82626844
yes, of course calvin & holbes does that great too but i wanted to recommend more than one thing
>>82626803
The pants-on-head retarded one isn't real.
>>82622107
>>82626642
There's nothing brilliant about that, it's one of the most basic observations on the nature of subjectivity that it's possible to make
xkcd is best when it's informative or absurdist, the weaker strips tend to err on the preachy side
this is pretty good for example
>>82622107
I feel like the majority of the strips, particularly the popular ones, are more about philosophy more so than just pure math
Math is very philosophical, but still
For what it's worth, I enjoy its simplistic views on things like the economy that help outline how dumb everything is once you take a step back from it and really examine it...
Pic related
>>82622318
wait this isn't something that actually happened is it
>>82627093
Yeah, this one is a personal favorite. I think it'd be better without the last panel though.
>>82627115
i was able to read the whole 50 page long galt speech in attlas shrugged and i cant read this
>>82627156
This one's pretty good
>>82627177
I'm at least 93% sure he was referring to this gem...http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2891
Pic related is another one of my favs.
>>82622107
xkcd goes through a love/hate pattern that is strikingly similar to the one that people go through with Ayn Rand
On normie/reddit tier, you have people who "FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE" and think it's deep/romantic
on pepe/angry 4chan autist tier, you have people who fucking loathe it and act like it's some horrific pretentious affront to civilization itself
Then you age beyond 25, and you gain the ability to appreciate the bits of wisdom and humor in it and not mind so much when he goes off the rails (which really, isn't that much nowadays)
>>82622107
>>82627244
I don't get it
>>82627286
>reading xkcd past 25
Jesus, it's worse than I thought
Often clever, rarely funny. I prefer SMBC, but sometimes the infographs are neat.
>>82622107
Is there a joke here somewhere?
>>82627354
past 25, you also realize the whole 'shit on everyone's tastes so you can feel superior' thing that anons do on 4chan is retarded
>>82627504
It's JavaScriptI thought everyone would know this by now. It's 2016 for God's sake.
>>82627596
CURRENT
YEAR
>>82627596
>You don't know or agree with such and such thing? It's current year!
Thanks tumblr.
>>82627007
I hate this argument. Americans do this whole little song and dance around free speech and it makes me puke.
As though hundreds of years of common law and political thought went into such a small and trivial interpretation of free speech. Under this limited dipshit interpretation, The Church could use it's soft political and social powers to censor opposition and that'd a-okay! A corporation could muster huge endless legal and financial hurdles to censor critics and as long as Uncle Sam didn't do it, it'd be kosher.
Taking this beautiful right of man with hundreds of years of precedence and history and boiling it down to the dumbest, most literal sense. It's fucking provincial.
t. Continental European. Yes I'm fucking mad.
>>82627646
It's just that with technology being so advanced right now, I thought more people would know about it.
I heard it some where that Java or Python was on the current year's curriculum or something you know
>>82627596
>javascript
That's SQL Injection all day every day.
>>82627696
I'm nearly 30, I don't know what kids are learning in school these days. Back in my day this shit wasn't standard.
>mfw still on the chan at almost 30
>>82627659
The funny thing is that who is making this argument depends on what's going on politically
Like around the Iraq War kickoff conservatives were boycotting and ostracizing people who didn't support the war and it was all "OH BUT IT'S NOT CENSORSHIP IF THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T DO IT" and liberals were all "OH BUT FREE SPEECH IS SUPPOSED TO BE MORE IN-DEPTH THAN THAT"
Now that it's liberals being heavy-handed and censorious, the arguments have switched
>>82627696
t. computer engineer here and frankly I do way more with C++ than I do with Java
>>82627659
>>82627659
You seem to be missing the part where that's not what this is even about. It's about people deliberately conflating the idea of free speech with a specific implementation of a law that relates to he topic of free speech. Much like you are doing right now, actually.
>>82627758
Shut up faggot I'm almost 30 too and now you made me feel bad
>>82627659
You seem to have a very poor understanding of scope and government. One private citizen or organization acting against another private citizen/organization is not a matter of free speech it's a matter of aggression. The laws which cover this matter are of a completely different nature than the "right of free speech" and I can assure you more countries have laws against the former than the latter. Because private entities imposing private philosophies on others is undermining the authority of the state.
The Church CAN censor whatever they want. But only in their own domain. In their churches, they can choose which is allowed to be said and what isn't. In their schools, they may be subject to some governmental oversight in order to get accreditation, but they still have a degree of right to censorship. Similarly when companies become companies (which are governmental entities) they take on certain obligations of oversight, but still maintain some rights to censorship. But if they tried to use their power to shut down someone else, that's not a violation of free speech, that's practically a declaration of war.
By attributing base things to violations of the spirit of free speech you're undermining what a novel and important concept it was.
>>82627596
>>82627757
Either way, you really only need to understand that it's a computer language insert to get the joke
>>82627659
>Continental European
>Free speech
How can you have an opinion on something you've never had?
>>82627789
Bash, Batch and C, myself. Java is basically cancer, and should be met with fire.
>>82627758
It's muscle memory for me. You people are alright though. /v/ got real weird and /k/ got real stupid somewhere along the way though.
>>82627763
Thank you. This is what I mean. When that comic tried to boil down something so complex into some dumb slogan, it was stripping it of all history and context.
>>82627806
As long as you've touched a vagina (or somebody else's penis, if that's what you're into) you're not 100% pathetic, my fellow fag.
>>82627837
Well ok good I've had a couple, I'm not that pathetic yet
>>82627837
Does my own penis count?
>>82627824
No, you only need to understand "a computer language" (which I seriously doubt you do) to get that there is no joke. It's just Randall Munroe ranting about other people's poor coding habits. If there were a punch line it would be in the first half of panel 3 and it's weak as fuck.
>>82627305
It's making fun of a common physics demonstration that illustrates the principle of energy conservation. Normally, like in pic related, the ball would stop just shy of the person's face, because the kinetic energy of the ball is converted in to the inital potential energy, so it won't go higher than when it started.
In the comic, hat guy is telling an unsuspecting bystander (who probably doesn't know the experiment very well) to stand right at the point where the bowling ball would have the greatest KE and lowest PE...
>>82627904
Only if you are a sexy trap, anon.
>>82627932
Simplistic, yet elegant in its execution. I love this one.
>>82627920
Wow it's almost like I have a stem degree or something
>>82627920
OHHH okay
I wasn't getting the reference to the original demonstration
I mean I took 3 semesters of physics classes and that particular example never came up
>>82627933
I'm not but I still have man boobs
>>82627986
Sorry buddy. Hire a hooker, there's no shame in it.
>>82627828
But Java is like the only thing I kinda know
>>82627998
But I'm naturally curvy
>>82627789
>>82627828
Java's a poor, unfortunate language abused, misunderstood, and tormented by managers tired of idiots' memory leaks and annoyed with C++'s feature bloat, not realizing that Java had at its outset more esoteric and hidden-away features than C++ ever grew into. A language full of high-level abstractions to make code intrinsically object-oriented, modular, and portable, it is most commonly used to write sequential tasks wrapped in UI and tied closely and linearly to APIs such that it only works in an extremely specific context.
>>82628004
>tfw this situation actually occurred with one of my friends
fuck i wanted to suck his dick
we laughed it off but it still hurts
>>82628079
>tfw just finished CS1 and i have no idea what the fuck you just said
Am I boned?
>>82628085
Is...is your name Matthew
>>82628031
You're fat, buddy. Stop shrouding it in euphemisms. It's ok, I am a fat fuck too, there are still girls who are willing to touch my dick even without being paid.
>>82628113
no, but it does start with an M
>>82628100
You gotta learn to walk before you learn how the muscle proteins metabolize amino acids. Focus on getting a computer to do things first.
>>82628100
Nah
Frankly the good CS classes go out of their way to not make their material language-dependent
You'll learn this sort of stuff from coding and getting more and more into projects
The weird little hidden-away aspects of the different languages will slowly reveal themselves to you the more you work with them
Eventually, you'll begin to say, "Oh, THAT'S what they were going for when they added this feature"
Then, like in the comic, you'll begin to understand how much they're abused and misused
>>82628132
Mathias?
>>82628153
>>82628156
Ah, alright. Thanks for the help anons.
>>82628126
But I'm gay
>>82628156
HEY KID IMMA COMPUTER
STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADIN
>>82628203
My gay friend at work assures me there are plenty of guys willing to touch fat guys' dicks too. Just stop shaving.
i still have a hard time wrapping my head around the "nobody actually likes beer" one
like wow how does someone get so far up their own ass
>>82628225
But I'm also a pedo
I really am
>>82628242
>>82628233
honestly that one's probably based on personal experience
whenever i drink with friends everyone bitches just a little bit about the taste
>>82628254
I'm not that much of a peso, I like boys 14 to 16
>>82628273
>>82628259
Most people who don't like beer are not used to the taste of alcohol, I also don't like beer when I spend too much time not drinking it.
Just add a litro bit of cola, do half and half if you are that much of a bitch and it will taste good for you
>>82628300
If I'm going to drink a mixed drink I'm going to use vodka or fuck right off, because doing half and half alcohol and soda seems like as many empty calories as it's physically possible to consume in one drink. It's not unpalatable, but it's not exactly pleasant, either.
>>82628290
>even the dog is mad
I never noticed it before
Anyways most country's in the world and even most country's in Europe let's you have sex with a 16 year old, Sweden goes as low as 15 so you aren't in a position to judge
>>82628233
It's strange. When I read that one I didn't even think to interpret it as the author taking that guy's side.
>>82628312
Well ideally you would do half and half only the first glass and then drastically lower the amount. Not everyone drinking wants to get wasted ivan some people just want a beer
>tfw too stupid to enjoy XKCD
>>82628330
Alright didn't see this one coming
>>82626875
YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH, I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW DUMB YOU ARE. JESUS, YOU ARE THE DUMBEST, MOTHERF
>>82628330
wait I don't actually get this one
Am I dumb?
>>82628403
He tries acne cream on half his face, making him look like Two-Face.
>>82628403
Half of his face was covered with acne and half was relatively clean. The visuals don't portray it very well.
>>82628418
>>82628421
Oh, that's pretty good. Thanks.
>>82628403
The true origin of 2 face
>>82627950
I like this one
>>82626803
xkcd is shit, but tjat one is an edit mocking qc
>>82628344
>dude offering the beer: dude if you don't like it don't drink it
>randall's stand-in: NUH-HUH GOTTA PROVE MY RETARDED POINT
it was like a reverse strawman
>>82627812
This is a pretty good post.
>>82630218
He gives that guy obviously dumb opinions all the time.
