@morbiuswilters said:
@toon said:@morbiuswilters said:@toon said:@pkmnfrk said:void updateInputMethodSelectionWithRandom(InputMethodManager imm) {
int rand = 4; //chosen by fair dice roll
//guaranteed to be random
imm.updateSelection(rand, rand);
}
Wow, thank you! Not only did we get an obvious, unfunny joke from a shitty webcomic, but now we get someone linking to the original! Why, this feels like my birthday!
Look, I'm sorry if I've annoyed you, but would you please just stay easy on the sarcasm? I'm not annoying people on purpose (well, except in this case maybe pkmnfrk) so I'd ask you to be a little more polite, if you can manage that. I've gotten the message by now: you think I'm an idiot. Thanks for repeatedly sharing that info but I'd like to ask you to please consider your point gotten across, if that's ok.
It's nothing personal, I just despise xkcd. Let's step outside our little aspie corner of the Internet and consider: if there was a comic by an accountant and every strip was some hackneyed, unfunny joke about the obscure technicalities of tax law, we'd hate those people, right? We'd correctly identify them as social retards. We'd realize their "humor" was nothing but a defense mechanism against their social ineptitude; a desperate cry for help from people who had never touched a vagina.
And it's not just the fact that xkcd is painfully unfunny garbage. For example, I really like Seinfeld but have you ever met someone who insists on drawing parallels between everything that happens to them and some episode of the show? "OMG, it was just like the time George..." Imagine what kind of monster would do something like that. That's what you are doing when you desperately cram xkcd down our throats at every opportunity. "Oh goodie, a post where somebody used the word 'random'; time for me to whip out old #221!" "SQL injection? Why, I bet these fair chaps have never been introduced to the comic stylings of Randall Munroe and his fabulous Bobby Tables character!"
Worst of all, even if xkcd was funny (and I assure you, it's not) it doesn't make you funny to bring it up. Only in very rare, rare circumstances is it actually as funny or charming as you think it is to reference somebody else's joke; and then only because your new joke gave a different twist to the original. Humor is about the unexpected, not the banal. Repeating the same joke over and over again isn't unexpected, it's annoying.
In real life you can stab the wayward Seinfeld fan in the eye with a fork (similar to Season 8, Episode 10 The Andrea Dorea where Elaine is dating the guy who keeps getting stabbed by women because he's a "bad breaker upper"). Unfortunately I am unable to stab you in the eye with a fork so I must rely on verbal attacks. I know it hurts but it's the only way the Internet will be cleansed. I know you understand.
Oh, I understand, all right. I've been posting on forums for quite a while. Just not this one. So I had no idea there was this thing about being against xkcd here. How was I supposed to know you guys hate it so much? Why not just go: "dude, FFS stop it, we hate xkcd around here". You've actually been at this before:
@morbiuswilters said:
Wow, did you just learn how to read or something? Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
I just want to say, if you think I'm beneath you, that's fine, but you don't have to be such an asshole about it. Again, you've made that perfectly clear and the point has gotten across fine. Do you talk that way to strangers IRL? Coworkers? Are you even remotely this dickish IRL? I'm willing to bet that you're a real nice guy but you're sure not acting the part, although I like the Brave Sir Robin reference in that last post.
@blakeyrat said:
We made it fucking unacceptable to do that. And it worked, people don't do that anymore.
Actually, they often have mods on other sites that will simply delete any annoying comments. Like "first post", for instance. What they do is put up house rules that say: no FiPos, no Monty Python, no xkcd. And bam, just edit or delete the posts that break the rules. You do have to keep at it but it sure helps deter the trolls.