xkcd now actively smartifying teh interwebs

the_technocratthe_technocrat IC-MotY1Indy Icrontian
edited January 2008 in Science & Tech
<p>Randall Munroe, the author behind the webcomic xkcd, has developed a bot in the official xkcd IRC channel <a href="http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/">that automatically kicks people if they don't say something original</a>.</p>
<p>'Are there any girls in here?' Kick.
'a/s/l?' Kick.
':)' Kick.</p>
<p>In 2008, where the standard intellectualism can pass for a Mad Lib (Think: "The top [number] tips that [insert task of dubious value]", "ZOMGBBQWTFSS#", or "[copy BoingBoing], [paste into blog]") it's great so see someone placing value on <em>valuable</em> personal expression.</p>
<p>That, and how many times can you hear "I'm in ur ________, _______ing ur ________".</p>
<p>via <a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/14/xkcd-bot-enforces-originality-on-irc-channel/">ebiquity</a></p&gt;

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    after reading the xkcd forums, i get the feeling that a lot of the readers are people who are halfway through an engineering/computer science degree that feel that they are significantly superior to everyone, only because they know that e^(I pi) = -1.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    xkcd of 2008 is the slashdot of 1999.

    That's not to say I don't love the comic. I love the comic. But I don't like the attitude that you have to be smart and exactly like them in order to be funny. We're funny and smart, but we'd probably get into a fistfight with a group of guys like that.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    We would crush them.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I think the xkcd life and The Icrontic Life are horrendously different animals :p
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    primesuspect wrote:
    xkcd of 2008 is the slashdot of 1999.

    That's not to say I don't love the comic. I love the comic. But I don't like the attitude that you have to be smart and exactly like them in order to be funny. We're funny and smart, but we'd probably get into a fistfight with a group of guys like that.

    it's not even that they're especially smart. They've taken a few classes in [whatever] and now they feel like they're significantly smarter than the world in everything, but really it's trivial stuff in the big picture, either as far as their life will go, or compared to the scope of what someone else knows.
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