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09-06-2008, 05:30 PM
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Why Ctrl+Alt+Del is not funny.
I should warn you that this link contains gratuitous violence and strong language.
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09-06-2008, 10:51 PM
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Would people please stop the CAD bashing? Everything has some brilliant moments and some clunkers. Heck, look no further than my own OOT fiver to see a clunker.
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#463
09-07-2008, 11:38 AM
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Your fivers are not.
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#464
09-09-2008, 12:09 AM
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I've read the whole CAD archive, though it took me several tries; a couple of times I got as far as this blatant Simpsons ripoff and then decided I had better things to do. But if the comic were totally meritless, I wouldn't have kept coming back. It's not a bad comic; it's just average, almost aggressively so. (Of course, it still has the occasional really good one.)
CAD wouldn't be taking so much fire if it weren't on top of the heap. I don't know how it got there, but it is there, and I respect that. Unfortunately, success has gone to Tim Buckley's head, so he keeps drawing even more fire on himself. Of course, smug and/or defensive webcomic creators are nothing unusual. It's that plus the popularity plus the middling quality that get CAD such disproportionate abuse. (Same reason I used to resent Sev Trek, actually. Popular is one thing; popular and lame is another.) All that said, some of the mockery of CAD is spot-on.
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FiveMinute.net: because stuff is long and life is short [03:17] FiveMinZeke: Galactica clearly needs the advanced technology of scissors, which get around the whole "yanking on your follicles" problem. [03:17] IJD: cylons can hack any blades working in conjunction Last edited by Zeke; 09-09-2008 at 06:41 AM.
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09-09-2008, 04:26 AM
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In odder news, it seems my ENT parodies came to the attention of some Indonesians a while back. The comments are mostly about the episodes themselves rather than the fivers, but if you want to read any of them, this site does Indonesian. "Lucu-lucuan" is something to the effect of "funny". (And no, as far as I can tell this guy never credited me or the site.)
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FiveMinute.net: because stuff is long and life is short [03:17] FiveMinZeke: Galactica clearly needs the advanced technology of scissors, which get around the whole "yanking on your follicles" problem. [03:17] IJD: cylons can hack any blades working in conjunction Last edited by Zeke; 09-09-2008 at 04:31 AM.
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09-09-2008, 03:02 PM
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09-09-2008, 10:41 PM
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People who hate CAD tend to use controversial aspects of a small portion to taint the rest. People can and have made the same arguments about other webcomics (A Modest Destiny comes to mind), but there's no reason you can't like them either.
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09-20-2008, 09:22 PM
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A really good article about narcissism from a psychiatry blog. Be warned: if you're anything like me, some of it will sound worryingly familiar.
[ETA: I see upon further inspecting the blog that narcissism is very much this guy's pet disorder, so bear that in mind. Nothing necessarily wrong with having one, of course; lots of doctors do. It just tends to make them see their favourite malady a bit too readily. The shrink I visited intermittently at UW kept trying to fit me into his favourites.]
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09-21-2008, 02:24 AM
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Fables of Forgotten Things
Children's TV pilot of a very Doctor Who-esque programme with a strong fantasy element, starring Paul McGann, who played the Eighth Doctor in the TV Movie and various audio dramas. Great direction and some nice writing, if a little short. Enjoy. 
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09-22-2008, 02:04 AM
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09-22-2008, 06:06 PM
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09-25-2008, 03:21 AM
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I've seen "for" but "evidence" made me laugh.
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09-25-2008, 05:28 AM
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10-16-2008, 03:03 AM
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As for webcomics, I've gotten hooked on Savage Chickens. 
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10-17-2008, 05:36 AM
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Plus, if he only had to do one frame, we might get updates more often. Any Order of the Stick fans in here? Or, while we're talking about webcomics, Zero Punctuation?
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10-20-2008, 05:39 PM
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Hell yes on ZP. I'm a video game nerd who likes snarky humour; how could I not like it?
By the way, don't click this link if you're easily distracted.
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10-20-2008, 10:31 PM
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http://www.retrothing.com/2006/04/izek_sewing_mac.html
A sewing machine that interfaces with a Gameboy? Huh...
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10-25-2008, 10:35 PM
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Well... maybe just for five minutes... *is sucked in*
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10-30-2008, 07:46 AM
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10-30-2008, 03:06 PM
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Heh, that was fun.
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