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Friday, July 13, 2012

1081: If you're arguing over the Internet, you've already lost.


Alt-text: Really, the comforting side in most conspiracy theory arguments is the one claiming that anyone who's in power has any plan at all.

Oh, those wacky conspiracy theorists. Aren't they all just so dumb? I mean, they believe some weird pages with inconsistent text style more than our beloved Wikipedia and then they call everybody who doesn't agree with them "sheep".What is wrong with them?

In all seriousness, this is just another instance of Randall's "intellectual elitism" - anybody who believes something that I know isn't true is wrong and therefore stupid - and this is only aplified by a Randall stand-in being the one who "wins" the argument against a hairy loser. This actually makes me wonder how different this strip would be if the two stickmen's hairstyles were swapped. After all, since hair is only used in xkcd to differentiate between characters, it shouldn't matter who has what hairstyle. Right?

I feel confident in marking this review with the "no joke" tag, since the waterslide gag reads like Chris-chan's patented Random Access Humor (if you don't know what I'm talking about here, consider yourself lucky and don't, I repeat, don't search for any of that). When is Randall finally going to understand that non sequiturs are not funny on their own? Also, doesn't the hair in Panel 2 remind you of Doug from Scrubs?

Now that I think about it, there are many xkcd comics, in which the characters are doing this, which makes me wonder if it's a common thing to do for Randall. I believe that if you argue with every idiot you meet online, you probably aren't as smart as you think you are.

4 comments:

  1. Also, why is the sliding character *saying* "Sploosh!"?

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  2. I do believe that that line coming from the character is supposed to go BEHIND the "SPLOOSH!" and only apply to the "EEEE!"

    But it doen't look that way at all. It looks like shit.

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  3. "If I rode on waterslides instead of arguing over the internet, I would be a much happier person. HA HA HA! Walk away from an online idiot? HA HA! Like I could ever do that! Hey, that could be my next comic!"

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  4. "I can't believe you're so wrong" is the smuggest thing I've read in a while.

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