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What you call indecent, I call Kirk.

Shit, you need help. Read this and pretend to be the little bot that's about to get crushed by a larger bot. Everything that the larger bot says about the little bot applies to you, creimertard.

I'd like to point out that a considerable number of on-line graphic stories (and sometimes they are also very comical) have been published by their authors as dead-tree editions. Therefore those stories, at least, can be enjoyed either way. Some of them have been getting produced for enough years that multiple volumes are available, while the complete archive is usually also accessible on-line.
Since personal tastes differ, I'm not going to especially recommend particular comics. However, here are a few that I personally have enjoyed (in no particular order):
SchlockMercenary
Questionable Content
Sluggy Freelance (you might want to turn off Javascript for this archive)
A Girl And Her Fed
Girl Genius (has won multiple Hugo awards)
Freefall
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
The Monster Under The Bed
Grrl Power
General Protection Fault
Be warned, some are not particularly safe for work, and some have archives large enough to keep you busy reading for months.

That's funny. It's actually in the "noscript" section

I was already wondering if you would notice it. :-)

But it does not matter, as the script part directly above it does the same (and probably more), just using another domain. In other words: You're fucked either way.

meaning the jackasses intentionally put it there to track people with scripts disabled.

No. Those jackasses want to track you, period.

If you have script enabled than they go that way, if you do not they use the spypixel as a fallback.

Thanks, now I have a good reason to go and block the entire LinkedIn domain.

Do yourself a favour, and take a look at a FF plugin like RequestPolicy. It will block any-and-all third-party resource requests by default, but can very easily (a few mouse clicks) be configured to whitelist certain requests (globally, or just for the current domain. Even just for the current session).

Anyway, LinkedIn isn't Facebook :)

You don't say ... :-p

I think both are comparable in regard to intention. You are the product, not the customer. Never forget it.

And by the way, while browsing thru my stash of on-line strips I found exactly what you wanted/demanded to see:

http://www.questionablecontent...

<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none"
src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=560616780737475&ev=PageView&noscript=1" />

If you look around you'll see that Facebook primarily tracks people through their stupid social media plugins for websites

I suggest you look again. Although I've found a number of sites where FB stuff is crammed into an IFrame, I have also encountered as many which only sport the facebook "icon" - most always retrieved from their domain, and as such causing the same effect as the invisible pixel: just visiting the page will let FB know you where there.

Is it possible to track people without JavaScript?

Absolutily, and without a problem. Even if you do not accept cookies, the HTTP protocol has got enough crap on board to replace it - like a special, website-supplied(!) "timestamp", which your browser provides the next time you request the same resource. As that "timestamp" can be any value, it can easily be used as a replacement for (a value stored in) a cookie.

And since the previous dingus was claiming they don't use JavaScript, I asked him for an example of them using something else

And I think I provided it. Both as an explanation of how simple tracking actually can be, as well as, in this post, a life usage of it.

And by the way: The only reason JS is prefered is that such a scripting language allows tracker websites to (try to) do gather/steal much more info about the user than just "X visited site Y". Fingerprinting, mouse tracking, form spying, etc.

They just slid the knofe in between the ribs of Jeph Jacques, the cartoonist who does "Questionable Content", http://questionablecontent.net...

See his article at https://www.patreon.com/posts/...
Assuming it stays up!

I'll bet that Pintsize has no problem with people touching robot butts, or any other butts for that matter

I suspect other robots don't feel all that great about it, either.

I suspect other robots don't feel all that great about it, either.

Oh yeah, here.

Or worse, if it's resourceful enough.

Is there anything more arbitrary than the line drawn between "human" and "animal"?

Almost everything, though dolphins are really human-like as the racism, raping, violence for fun etc. goes.
http://questionablecontent.net...

But I love that webcomic!

The poker rule says that when you sit down at the table, you look for the sucker. If you can't find them, it's probably you.*

If Carreon's a con man, he's spectacularly bad at it, failed the poker rule from the beginning, and deserves any education he's gotten, which unfortunately seems to be "not much".

(* The Questionable Content version of the sucker rule is to look for the drunkest person at the party, and if you can't tell, it's you, and you should stop for now.)

Safesearch on! Safesearch on!

Same. It's not like solo artists can't make long-running webcomics (just look at Jeph Jacques' Questionable Content) but it's fairly inevitable when a comic starts as a decent balance between two creative individuals that it's going to lose something when one of them moves on---especially if it's because of overreach from the other partner.

And lose something it did; I own physical copies of the first two books, and it's already clear by the end of the second book that it's losing its way. I really, really enjoyed it until around then, however. Then I somewhat enjoyed it for a bit. Then one day I noticed I had long since stopped checking for updates.

Lasers.

Oblig questionablecontent: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2428

Who cares? Let's just post big lists of web comics so we can all click and read and woohooooo!

Beyond the obvious (XKCD, Penny Arcade, Dilbert, The Oatmeal) there are at least these:

http://amultiverse.com/
http://www.virtualshackles.com/
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss.latest
http://chainsawsuit.com/
http://dresdencodak.com/archives/
http://www.happletea.com/
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2347

best online only

1. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
2. http://questionablecontent.net/
3 http://www.smbc-comics.com/
4. http://xkcd.com/

and these two are the best of the newspaper comics

1. http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/nq/ nonsequitur
2. http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/db/ doonesbury

http://www.questionablecontent.net/

the most impressive 1) character development 2) character psychic over time.
and over 2 thousands strips...

Best overall webcomic series of 2012: Questionable Content http://www.questionablecontent.net/

I'm not sure I'd want to give all robots rights ... until they earn them!

Hey, Questionable Content is pseudo-blacked out.

So is xkcd.

Here are some blacked-out webcomics:

• Questionable Content
• Ctrl+Alt+Del
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• The Oatmeal (this one will be hard to take a screenshot of, as it's an animation)
• Dinosaur Comics
• Something Positive
• Nedroid

Incidentally, half of these I hadn't even heard of before today; I only know of them now because they chose to protest SOPA! Also, Penny Arcade isn't blacked out but has an anti-SOPA banner, and XKCD hasn't updated yet.

Hey, Questionable Content is pseudo-blacked out.

I know you're trolling, but for the sake of anyone else asking: who is Slashdot going to clue in? We've all been hearing about it for months, we know it's bad and (more or less) why, and we're not going to enlighten the trolls or the irrational authoritarian dickbags who think it's right because it's USGov doing it...

So really, why would slashdot need to black out.

I'm more curious how "The Escapist" is going to respond to the "Call to Arms" that the Extra Credits/LRR and Firefall guys put out at 3AM (EST)...

http://www.dominic-deegan.com/ http://www.egscomics.com/ http://www.questionablecontent.net/

Macromedia/Adobe got/gets designers, and too many people don't realise that.

Even assuming this is entirely correct, Adobe is planning to produce authoring tools for HTML5 directly. As for existing content...

You may not be interested in it, but there are some gems buried in NewGrounds along with all the crap.

NewGrounds is hardly the reason Flash won't die. If it was just Newgrounds, well, hey, there are some gems buried in platform-specific native game binaries -- and not all of these are Windows, mind you, there are some real gems which ran on Mac OS 9. It's an issue, but it's not a point against moving forward to a viable replacement -- especially something like HTML, which is going to be a hello f a lot more future-proof than Flash.

Flash will die, and this kind of creative content will die with it until a new challenger appears; or more likely, Flash will just refuse to dies, and the geek elite just won't understand why.

So, of this, option one is a lot more likely. Flash refuses to die right now largely because of video, and it's being steadily replaced there. There are a few niche places where Flash can still do things HTML5 can't -- right now, audio strikes me as most likely, and even that is being addressed -- but it will eventually die.

In the mean time...

None of the other solutions are accessible to designer types the way Flash is.

If you're more than a one-man Newgrounds operation, it doesn't actually matter that much. You know what designers are good at? Designing. There's a reason Flash has a reputation for being slow and buggy as hell, a constant CPU drain, etc. Some of this is Flash's own fault, I'm sure, and I can back this up by comparing YouTube's performance with Flash versus any native player on the same video file. Most of it is enabling designers to attempt to program, with similar results to enabling executives to attempt to program in Excel.

The same tools will eventually come to HTML5, and I'm alright with that. Please don't take this as an elitist stance of, "Leave programming to the professionals." All I'm saying is that if the existing stuff isn't accessible to you, some of that is because it's overly complex, but a lot of it is because you aren't a programmer. There's no reason you couldn't be, and many designers do make that leap (or simply team up with a programmer). But you do have to invest some time in learning something about how computers actually think.

To put it another way, I don't think I would be taken seriously if I attempted to do serious design work with MS Paint. There are tools which let me easily throw together a comic, but I don't think this compares with this or this. These aren't the best examples of either, but honestly, if the ragecomics went up in smoke, I really couldn't care. That's kind of how I feel about Flash, especially when it's used by designers.

If you're neither willing to learn some real programming or work with a real programmer, then I'm not sure I will miss the loss of your content. If you are willing to do either, then I have to imagine that Flash vs HTML5 isn't a huge issue.

It's supposed to be easier to remember because you remember the composite image, and not the words themselves. You can choose images that are easy to remember (something based on goatse perhaps) and construct a phrase from there -- at the same time you meet the suggestion of a password that is so foul you would never tell another person what it is, thus preventing that whole password sharing problem. Double win. Except you have to remember goatse every time you log in. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829

Some weeks ago, the comic Questionable Content had a plotline involving a new and very humanoid "chassis" for one of the characters.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1998

And now this news --- well to paraphrase Mark Twain: Reality does not replicate fiction, but it rhymes.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/random/winfail.png pretty much covers it.

1997

Here is a comic strip commemorating his passing (nearly two years ago).

Baking is wonderful! It's like science for hungry people!

Holy Shit!

Enter the submacopter: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1294

Things like this: Questionable Content. (Should be SFW - only the text is questionable in this one).

No way! Birds are evil. They don't feel empathy. Haven't you ever heard of Yelling Bird

I knew some smartass was gonna say that =D. The joke's on you pal. There's probably already a fetish site with chicks in latex suits driving fast and going left. Rawr!

Baking is like science for hungry people!

i think you'd appreciate this.

I bet they'd be more impressed with a top hat than a Children of Bodom t-shirt.

Or a bowler.

The best use case for twitter to me really sounded like machine updates. Mostly because its the only application that seemed sustainable.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

A person twittering sounds great and all, until that person suddenly is too busy to update and then its worthless to any followers.

I think you just missed my point, though -- take the imaginary cocktail party again. Some people will have to go to the bathroom, some will get sick or tired and go home. That doesn't mean the conversation ends, unless you have such a sad social life that you're only talking to that one person.

Again, think of it not as microblogging, but as a slightly slower but MUCH bigger IRC.

Technologically, I actually despise Twitter. There have got to be a dozen different ways it could be done better, relying on existing standards and properly distributed. Socially, I despise the fact that people seem to have picked up on it as the Next Big Thing, much like Facebook, Myspace, blogging, or the Internet itself. Think about it -- "ExecTweets" is a real thing, and it's completely missing the point.

Oddly enough, the best demonstration of Twitter I have seen is fictional. Just remember, it's not a blog, it's a conversation -- you have to actually pick apart the threads to get some of the humor.

The obvious stickfigure comic that has to be included here: this.

But...but... they aren't artists.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1529

It's very moving to see objects like this underwater

Compared to those damn flying submarines...

Of course, you mean those damn submacopters?

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=176

Depending on the amount of pr0n in its harddrive, the outcome could be pretty sticky.

Penalty! Bad joke, two minutes in the box. :-)

Well, hanneloreEC already existed - she's a character in Questionable Content.

But, Jeph made the tweet after Randall posted XKCD, I think.

Source

Faye: "It's a little known fact that every Canadian citizen is born with a sharp, serrated edge somewhere on their body as protection from polar bears and enraged Quebecois."

Marten: "Every night they quietly hone their blades, biding their time until the Great Curling, when they will cleanse the earth of all other nations. That's why they're all so polite- they know we're all doomed eventually."

Questionable Content!

so i cant link to http://questionablecontent.net/ anymore?