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Hey! It's like Marmaduke Explained ( http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/ ), but, in a subversive twist, the commentary is less funny than the comic. Postmodern!
It is definitely inspired by Marmaduke Explained, and we love that blog. As for the rest, we'll let the audience decide.
I'm glad that Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is not alone in the world. (Edit; Also, if you're going to over-explain the joke, at least over-explain the alt text too!)
I think XKCD is sophomoric, but this is largely just of godawful quality. The blonde girl calls megan’s boyfriend and convinces him to make some delicious nachos. However, he doesn’t know that the blonde girl’s real motive was to kill megan’s wifi signal with the microwave he uses because they were playing a first person shooter video game against each other over the internet, and the blonde girl wanted to kill her.…
Would you prefer something more like http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226305334/the-box-on-th... ?
If this were some other kind of writing, like a forum post or a blog entry, no problem, stuff like that wouldn't faze me. But I think you have to clear a high bar in quality if you're writing some sarcastic & condescending criticism of something else... especially when the "something else" is already aiming at a (relatively) highbrow audience. Otherwise it's not credible to me and not funny.
This one is much better (and useful): http://www.explainxkcd.com/
Hey! It's like Marmaduke Explained ( http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/ ), but, in a subversive twist, the commentary is less funny than the comic. Postmodern!
It is definitely inspired by Marmaduke Explained, and we love that blog. As for the rest, we'll let the audience decide.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process. Mark Twain
He also apparently thinks Munroe is a reverse misogynist. There's got to be a proper word for that...
There is also some internal debate about if he is in fact an anti-semite or perhaps just insensitive to cultural issues in general: http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/227070875/a-man-wearing... http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226266899/the-trick-her...
Nicely done, I guess. I figure this one will ping up to 150+ with this crowd.
I think XKCD is sophomoric, but this is largely just of godawful quality. The blonde girl calls megan’s boyfriend and convinces him to make some delicious nachos. However, he doesn’t know that the blonde girl’s real motive was to kill megan’s wifi signal with the microwave he uses because they were playing a first person shooter video game against each other over the internet, and the blonde girl wanted to kill her.…
Hey! It's like Marmaduke Explained ( http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/ ), but, in a subversive twist, the commentary is less funny than the comic. Postmodern!
He also apparently thinks Munroe is a reverse misogynist. There's got to be a proper word for that...
There is also some internal debate about if he is in fact an anti-semite or perhaps just insensitive to cultural issues in general: http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/227070875/a-man-wearing... http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226266899/the-trick-her...
The second explanation has the benefit in that "blackhats" are generally considered bad guys (descending from the old Hollywood western tradition of bad guys wearing black hats and good guys wearing black hats).
You seem to like taking the worst possible interpretation of Randall possible.