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Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending
CaptSlaq writes "According to the current imagery, it looks like Randal Munroe has finished the story he was telling with the Time series. The long running series that has spanned over 3000 images and spawned multiple methods of viewing and comment appears to have come to an end."
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
http://xkcd.com/1190/
It's about time.
Just because the comic titled "Time" may have reached its final panel doesn't mean that xkcd itself is ending any time soon. We'll see on Monday whether there's a #1244.
so....it has come to this...
I'm waiting for the sequel: More time.
(before anybody flames, I follow it every couple of days via http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/).
bash$
it just falls into the category of one of those things it seems like geeks spill way too much jizz over.
Like when people say "turn in your geek card" when someone fails to get an inside joke related to an uncited quotation from some science fiction movie like Blade Runner or WarGames.
You must mean this sign: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/?frame=3094
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Did anyone figure out how to read the Oracle's words?
It was the frame labelled "The End" that gave you this idea?
Because you quoted a character name, I could Google that it came from Blade Runner. But a lot of these allusions change a line's nouns, pronouns, and verb tense to fit the context, making it harder to search by exact phrase to figure out what people are talking about when they speak this Tamarian language of movie quotes. So yes, I'm for real. I'm trying to figure out what specific films, video games, webcomics, etc. I'd need to catch up on to keep a geek card current.
Aka Geek Hubris.
It's a frigging web comic, not Tolstoy. Who, other than obsessive-compulsive fanboys would bother to check it for updates more than once a week or so?
It just goes to show; too much success can turn just about anyone into a diva who thinks that the world hangs on their every word (even a supposedly down-to-earth science guy).
Kinda reminds me of megatokyo or penny arcade - good web comics in their own right, but suddenly the author(s) get to thinking they're some kind of genius / saint / high-artiste.
The teaser margin caught my eye with a circuit strip (teaser margin = (WU- (pi/4))*XGA on most web sites these days, excluding content viewed through a dancing thumb while traversing Steiner diagrams in a busy urban core with the permanent postural stoop of Vermilingo Erectus).
Props for the big solder blob. No circuit is complete without one. The end.
For a moment I thought that XKCD would finally die, that we'd at last be free from the damned "lol obligatory XKCD XD" posts. Way to let me down, /..
Geez, what a manipulative waste of time. Randal is a smart guy; maybe that was the point of the exercise: To see just how many morons out there (including myself) followed this banal story to its bitter and anticlimactic end.
For those just dying to poke sharp sticks in their eyes, I recommend this link instead.
Have gnu, will travel.
Where is the obligatory xkcd link?
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Time was http://xkcd.com/1190/.
The most recent is http://xkcd.com/1243/.
Randal is slower to stop than an aircraft carrier.
Time Waste.
Randall wasted it; while no individual viewer wasted as much in sum even more time was wasted
Londo Molari: "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn 't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance."
Well, you could avoid having to admit you're a huge closeted fan with a portrait of Munroe in every room of your house, for one.
It's a comic, guys. I don't read Cathy, but I don't feel obliged to mustard all over Cathy Guisewite because her comic doesn't amuse me. Why do people dump so hard on xkcd and Randall Munroe? If you don't like the comic, don't read it, and don't read Slashdot articles about it—and shut the chirp up and let the rest of us enjoy it in peace.
I found it fun. That's all. It was fun. It was original, and intriguing, and a little challenging, and a nice change of mood when I got home from work (or when I needed a break at work).
And it was something I don't believe any webcomic had ever done before. When I submitted the original Slashdot story about "Time", I thought that aspect might interest people. Instead, the story got the same sort of molpy-chirping geek-elitist hate posts that this one is gathering.
For the record: "Time" was followed by college students and septuagenarians (I'm in my 50s, and xkcd regularly makes me laugh). Musicians, math teachers, writers, and astronomers contributed to the forum thread. The last figure we saw was that over 2 million words of original material had been posted to the thread. We weren't doing it for geek cred; we were doing it because we enjoyed ourselves.
Grow up a little, guys, OK?
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
Don't forget Antares was missing from the night sky; I cling to my theory that it going supernova damaged to ozone layer sufficiently to precipitate an ice-age that dropped the ocean levels, closing Gibraltar.
Slashdot has really gone downhill since they were bought and paid for.
http://xkcd.com/tme
Although I'm sure most of us have been trained to memorize 1190 by now.
The Mouseover of the image says "The end."
All you slashgeniuses: is this a hint perhaps?
Man, this was epic. And I know that term is abused. But this is an epic in the true sense, and the first webcomic in 20 years that has had me spellbound. 'Come to bed!' 'No.. I can't. Actually, come here, let's watch this from the start.'
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I don't click on stories that don't interest me. That'd be an utterly stupid waste of time. Moreso to take the time to comment on them.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
http://www.iiiiiiii.com/?
I thought xkcd's been slipping for awhile now. The clever ones seem to be getting fewer and farther between.
Dude are you knocking Blade Runner?
No, I'm just knocking the amount of time that one is expected to have invested in tracking down science fiction DVDs at a public library in order to participate in discussions without being ridiculed, if Mathinker's post is anything to go by.
You mean misleading title
I realized that about two minutes after I had submitted. Unlike xkcd forums, Slashdot lacks editing, and at the time, I didn't feel like posting a CORRECTION reply to my own post. Even preview is unavailable in the mobile version.
It took me a moment to catch on to this. It would have been more obvious if the entire title hadn't be using intercaps, so that "Time" (as opposed to "time") would have been shown as a noun.
That said, using quotes might have also disambiguated it, but it probably would have gotten less hits too so I won't discount the title being intentionally leading...
I have to second the thought -- thanks so much for sharing this.
As a casual writer myself, I think it is well-written and certainly succeeds in giving us a glimpse into the life of someone who obviously was very special. Some stories simply insist on being told, even if noone else ever reads them. But I'm glad you chose to share it with us.
go fuck yourself
Good. I prefer to be represented by someone who can read. You know, subtle cues like the new paragraph after the list of actual geek films, and the phrase "every geek should watch".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hmm yeah moderators doing a great good. Really... CPM model ahy?