[General Battuta]

Also, the dispositional error was you assuming that the author was flawed because the layout of the content was flawed. Dispositional errors involve misattributing situational problems as diagnostic of personal problems! (One might of course argue that this is a necessity when analyzing content, but it has to hold as a trend, I think, to be excepted.)

[karajorma]

But as we've just seen, humor is subjective!

Yes, but they are trying to claim you can objectively grade it in their FAQ. So they're wrong?

[General Battuta]

But as we've just seen, humor is subjective!

Yes, but they are trying to claim you can objectively grade it in their FAQ. So they're wrong?

(there is a great comeback here)

JUST AS I FORESAW

I think I've made my stance on xkcdsucks.com clear by now.

[redsniper]

TRAP CARD ZOMG

wait what

I don't understand this post. Were you a double agent? You think they're both bad? Different people have different opinions? (No, it can't be true!)

[General Battuta]

No, I just totally knew someone was going to bring up that entry in the FAQ as soon as I made the 'humor is subjective' crack.

[Thaeris]

[karajorma]

JUST AS I FORESAW

So you foresaw your entire argument was flawed and decided to make it anyway?

What was I supposed to do, not call you on the fact that you made no sense?

[General Battuta]

No, you just missed the point.

I think I've made my stance on xkcdsucks.com clear by now.

You can read back if you're interested.

[MR_T3D]

No, you just missed the point.

I think I've made my stance on xkcdsucks.com clear by now.

You can read back if you're interested.

you mean this:

Personally, when something hits a critical mass of being recognized and cited, I like to have a countervailing opinion on it so I can dissect it, look smart, and get babes. (And semikidding aside, I really do think it's fairly weak, I'm just not all that passionate about it either way.)

understandable, coo, but in my experience, guys like that get less babes than I.

[General Battuta]

Ah look, a cleverly veiled personal attack! Unfortunately the mighty Battuta is so successful in all domains of life that the armor of his ego cannot be breached.

I actually bet that you and almost everyone you know feels the same way about something, whether it's Twilight, some tween card game, Avatar, or some other bit of dubious cultural desiderata.

And unfortunately for you, MEIN TEDLING, what I meant was this:

Anyway I've said more than once now that I don't necessarily disagree with points re: that site (referencing the fact that it's probably taken things a bit too far), so not sure why it keeps coming up. It's useful to me because it has a great URL that makes a point many people in the groupthink haven't considered. Useful for dorm listhosts, for one.

by 'great' i think we can safely read 'inflammatory'

[iamzack]

I actually bet that you and almost everyone you know feels the same way about something, whether it's Twilight, some tween card game, Avatar, or some other bit of dubious cultural desiderata.

Yes, but it takes a special kind of No Life to dedicate one's time and energy to a blog about it.

[General Battuta]

I actually bet that you and almost everyone you know feels the same way about something, whether it's Twilight, some tween card game, Avatar, or some other bit of dubious cultural desiderata.

Yes, but it takes a special kind of No Life to dedicate one's time and energy to a blog about it.

A stance which is addressed in my last post.

[NGTM-1R]

Yes, but it takes a special kind of No Life to dedicate one's time and energy to a blog about it.

So basically, you can't spare one, possibly two hours a day on a leisure activity, without being accused of "no life"?

Damn. I guess all that FS or reading or using the hexbox that nearly every living American does means they have no life.

[iamzack]

If your leisure activity is going out of your way to find something wrong with a particular webcomic strip, then you have problems. His criticisms aren't even funny, they're mostly really boring. There are few hobbies more retarded than this guy's.

[General Battuta]

So, again, it's a whole bunch of guys/girls, like a community.

Also again, you wouldn't be saying that if the target was something you dislike. You can argue that's not true but I really won't believe you.

[NGTM-1R]

If your leisure activity is going out of your way to find something wrong with a particular webcomic strip, then you have problems.

Ah, I see the issue here. You're scared of people who like to do things requiring above-average intelligence for leisure. Like analysis.

Nerd hate is the last respectable prejudice, etc. (Word of warning, this is the internet.)

[iamzack]

Analysis? He bends over backwards to find something to criticize. People like that are annoying and wastes of space.

[General Battuta]

Yeah I agree some of them often go overboard (why the ****ing 'he', this is like the ninth time I've pointed out it's a community), but that doesn't mean they're wrong, just that they go too far.

[iamzack]

I didn't say they were wrong. I said they were wastes of space.

[karajorma]

Also again, you wouldn't be saying that if the target was something you dislike. You can argue that's not true but I really won't believe you.

I've told people off for going too far when having a go at Derek Smart.

So not only are you wrong, I've got proof you're talking bollocks.

So basically, you can't spare one, possibly two hours a day on a leisure activity, without being accused of "no life"?

Trainspotting automatically qualifies you as having no life. This is in the same category.