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2017-04-20

by shaenon on April 20, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Marisa Mockery
    April 20, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I’m honestly curious how this is going to go. Maybe an onslaught of memes?

    • mjkorson
      April 20, 2017, 1:25 am | # | Reply

      Backhoe

    • Kanta
      April 20, 2017, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Unplug the router?

    • reynard61
      April 20, 2017, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

      Flame war! With real flames!

  2. Miyaa
    April 20, 2017, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    It occurred to me, perhaps porn is the only thing that will keep AIs from taking over the earth in the future.

    • Pygar
      April 20, 2017, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      Then we’re safe- YouTube “The Internet is for Porn”… Trust me, and do…

      • Cloudster
        April 20, 2017, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

        I got to see a local production of Avenue Q. SOOOOO worth it!

      • Kitirena
        April 20, 2017, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

        You mean like this?

        • Pygar
          April 21, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

          I can *never* see these things, just the yellow background, but thanks!

    • The Crimson F*cker
      April 20, 2017, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

      I mean, it’s certainly helped with Pintsize.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    April 20, 2017, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I always did feel that there was an element of technophobia in the sneers against the Internet. Sad to see such sneers still passing for humor even after 20 years of it. Even allowing for the fact that some people do use message boards and the occasional site to propagate lies and rumors I would still match the Net’s overall accuracy against that of TV, newspapers and books. The Net’s main weakness perversely enough lies in one of it’s strengths. Ease of editing means that it is way too easy to send something “down the memory hole while hard copy is harder to suppress. But I would say that’s a censorship issue in some ways rather than an accuracy issue. @_@

    • John Smith
      April 20, 2017, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Anybody who thinks technophobia is the cause of these kinds of jokes hasn’t spent any time interacting with online communities. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory exists for a reason, and the internet provides the perfect avenue for people to heap abuse on others.

      • Towering Barbarian
        April 20, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

        Eh, it was the Net’s accuracy rather than it’s online communities I was defending but in my experience not every online community is the Yahoo News Message boards. In fact most of the ones I’ve been in have been mostly better then that. Perhaps I’ve been hanging out with the wrong crowds. ^_^

        • VillageWizard
          April 20, 2017, 6:51 am | # | Reply

          Well, at least all the reader comment sections of every online news site *I* read is proof that the above comic is true.

          • Towering Barbarian
            April 20, 2017, 6:59 am | #

            But that’s the people themselves when they argue politics rather than the Net, I would say. You’d get the same effect in any medium where politics is being discussed freely just because there are always soreheads and hotheads. That is not the Internet being inaccurate, that’s just the people who are talking politics being people who are talking politics. ^_^

          • DarkStarling
            April 20, 2017, 9:46 am | #

            It’s much worse on the internet though, because people can be anonymous and it’s easier to be mean to people you’ve never seen in your life.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        April 20, 2017, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        Speaking of which, I’m genuinely puzzled how this comments section ended up plugged into Mr. Rogers’ Internet instead of the normal one.

        • davidbreslin101
          April 20, 2017, 7:56 am | # | Reply

          You know, you make a good argument there. I have to admit, I never thought of it that way before. Thanks for changing my mind!

          • DarkStarling
            April 20, 2017, 9:45 am | #

            …IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!

            Really though, I think the good parts of the internet are a mix of self-selected and properly moderated.

          • Pygar
            April 20, 2017, 5:08 pm | #

            “There’s not a human being left in Santa Mira! You’re next! You’re next!”
            But in a much smurfier way…

          • Andy4Hire
            April 20, 2017, 6:54 pm | #

            Well played, davidbreslin101, well played. I applaud thee.

        • Kitirena
          April 20, 2017, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

          That’s where you’re wrong–it isn’t plugged into Mr. Roger’s Internet at all. How this discussion group REALLY works is that anyone trolling gets handed over to Dr. Lee to experiment on. It’s surprisingly effective at keeping everyone but me on their best behavior. (Me they just threaten with a spray bottle and a rolled-up newspaper, nyao.)

        • equisetophyta
          April 21, 2017, 2:28 am | # | Reply

          There are mysteries in this world.

          Like, look at Monster Pulse: the strip itself might be someone bashing a guy’s head in with a rock, but if you pull out the f-word about it in the comments section someone will politely remind you not to swear. And over at Stand Still Stay Silent, there are like six billion Cronenberg-level monsters that beg for the release of death from their endless torment, but if you’re new in the comments people will offer you imaginary cookies. And an imaginary glass of milk to go with them.

          It’s a strange world out there.

      • BRGR
        April 20, 2017, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

        Holkin’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is demonstrably wrong.

        • Jon
          April 20, 2017, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

          How so?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 20, 2017, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

        Why is it called Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory? Is there a Lesser Internet Fuckwad Theory?

    • Dr. Steve
      April 20, 2017, 10:20 am | # | Reply

      Remember also that internet groups are mostly self-selecting. Some groups form based on mutual interest (for example, this one) but some form for more, “psychological” reasons. That is, a group might coalesce because they all like to hear each other say the same things…. or because they like to fight and argue. Or… just because they like to hear themselves talk…. oops…

    • Katrika
      April 20, 2017, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      I mean, Baron is a jerk and not particularly creative. Sounds like exactly the kind of joke he’d make.

      • The Crimson F*cker
        April 20, 2017, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

        You! What is the name of that comic your icon is from? I remember reading it about a year ago but lost the bookmark and the name.

        Help a vampire out?

        • porterleete
          April 20, 2017, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

          It’s called “Prequel”, and it’s found here:

          http://www.prequeladventure.com/about-prequel/

    • Tomn
      April 20, 2017, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      It’s not the accuracy of Wikipedia or whatnot she’s talking about here. It’s the accuracy of YouTube comments, Yahoo answers, Facebook clickbait, etc. The Internet gives everyone a platform to regurgitate “What some bloke in the pub told me” and then get offended when informed that the bloke in the pub might have been drunk.

      If you genuinely believe this isn’t a major part of the Internet, read the YouTube comments for, say, any highly watched YouTube video mentioning Nazis or the Confederate States of America and observe history twisted into an arsenic-laced pretzel.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 20, 2017, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

        Plus you don’t even have to go to the pub to talk to that bloke anymore

  4. John Campbell
    April 20, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    DDoS the Antisphinx’s DNS?

    • emusam
      April 20, 2017, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      So, just ask questions faster than it can say “My answer is” until it loses count and leaves one unanswered?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 20, 2017, 1:30 am | # | Reply

        I was thinking more along the lines of a zap-gun DDoS attack

    • ldyerzsie
      April 20, 2017, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      That was what I was going to say.

  5. Ogden Wernstrom
    April 20, 2017, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Huh, I was hoping the trick was to ask, “How can I get to the tower unhurt?”

    Also, *daily* porn trawl? I never took the Baron for an ascetic.

    • D. Walker
      April 20, 2017, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      Again, it doesn’t matter if an answer is wrong.

      “How can I get to the tower unhurt?” can be answered with pretty much any nonsense you care to spout, “Take a taxi”, “Eat a chicken salad”, and “Thirty Four” are all wrong answers, but they’re still answers.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 20, 2017, 2:12 am | # | Reply

      The Tower Unhurt? Is that similar to the Castle Aaargh?

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      April 20, 2017, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      He just has that many porn sites.

  6. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    April 20, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    We know the game and we’re gonna play it

  7. codebracker
    April 20, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Show it cute cat pictures?

    • casimir
      April 20, 2017, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Oh yes. Please.

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 20, 2017, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    Aren’t sphinxes supposed to be girls?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      April 20, 2017, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      Not all of ’em, otherwise no new sphinxes.

      The Great Sphinx of Giza is a guy.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 20, 2017, 9:37 am | # | Reply

        Haven’t seen any new ones lately…well, there’s Phix over at “Wapsi Square,” but she’s been around awhile…

    • Eddurd
      April 20, 2017, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      If the female version of “aviator” is “aviatrix”, then maybe the male version of “sphinx” is “sphincter”?

      If you thought THIS one was an a**hole, wait’ll you meet …

      • Robert Nowall
        April 20, 2017, 9:35 am | # | Reply

        Maybe Lovelace and Nick should ask the Antisphinx *that* question.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 20, 2017, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, but this isn’t a sphinx, it’s an antisphinx

    • Trivena
      April 20, 2017, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

      Does landscape have a gender?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 20, 2017, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

        What do you think the difference is between a fort and a fortress?

        • reynard61
          April 20, 2017, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

          A fortress has breastworks?

          • Treesong
            April 21, 2017, 1:13 am | #

            +1

  9. SVGeezer
    April 20, 2017, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    Panel FOUR! Panel FOUR!

    • SVGeezer
      April 20, 2017, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      And wasn’t that Kim Kardashian pic the last thing to take down the internet?

  10. evilmidnightlurker
    April 20, 2017, 11:34 am | # | Reply

    I think the solution here is to just walk past it, ignoring it as you would any other troll. The zaps just do cartoony superficial damage, as far as we know.

  11. WarpZone
    April 20, 2017, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Huh. Guess I was right about the buffer overflow exploit.

    • davidmikesimon
      April 20, 2017, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      There’s no fail like memcpy fail.

  12. Clifton
    April 20, 2017, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    Nick, a spokesperson for moderation? Who’d have thought it?

    My guess at the strategy is to just bombard it with too many ridiculously dumb questions for it to give any answer to all of them, so that it gives up in confusion. Either that, or unending mockery until it does a troll flounce.

  13. Chrisn
    April 20, 2017, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

    I’m kind of ignorant here, but would it overwhelm the Antisphynx to start producing endless quanitities of Nick’s to all ask questions at the same time? Unfortunate side effect of thoroughly overwhelming Nick though.

    • Chrisn
      April 20, 2017, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      Good gravy, I used “Nick’s.” Grammar police, where are you?

      • Sasha Honeypalm
        April 20, 2017, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t worry, I noticed.

  14. Jon
    April 20, 2017, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    … Kim Kardashian’s butt?

  15. thedoctor55
    April 20, 2017, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

    Ask it endless multiple questions and crash it’s server.

  16. wykstrad
    April 21, 2017, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    I’m sensing a Blaine the Train solution forthcoming…

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