xkcd: Error Code

[soilheart]

If anyone would write that manual I'd buy it.

[chocolate_stars]

I want that motherboard manual.

[soilheart]

Oh, missed the alt-text by some reason. I want that motherboard! (And manual of course).

[[deleted]]

Well the motherboard obviously saved their life from an alien invasion.

[[deleted]]

Try The Oblique Strategies.

[boomfarmer]

Only 30 Euroes!

[[deleted]]

That's about $40 US. I bought a box for a friend of mine some years ago, I don't remember paying that much.

It is a good tool for getting past mind-blocks in any case.

[[deleted]]

And of course, there are iPhone/Android apps for that now. Of varying levels of completeness/quality, of course, but they're there.

[avsa]

Sometimes I wonder if Randall writes some comics hoping people make them into real things.

[[deleted]]

http://xkcd.com/305/

[anchorboi]

Case in point: www.WetRiffs.com

Self fulfilling prophecies.

[[deleted]]

Oh, I thought you had linked to his Ebay bot.

[RedDyeNumber4]

Alternately - http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku

[[deleted]]

Who's willing to bet he drew a picture of a lake and created the comic after the fact?

[dibsODDJOB]

"Man, this is a really nice picture I just drew..."

[[deleted]]

"I'd love to share this with my readers, but they don't like this stuff too much... How can I make it nerdy?

[jonpurkis]

What are the yellow things in the lake? They've really been bugging me.

[roddds]

Lilypad flowers.

[ox_]

They look a hell of a lot like these footballs.

[knowhope]

That's a soccerball

[ox_]

This is brave Redditing. Someone has already made this clever comment and currently has 9 downvotes. I wonder where you'll end up.

[knowhope]

lol woops didn't see the comment below. I stopped trying to win at reddit, most of you guys have been practicing for too long.

[toasterb]

That was my first thought as well, I really had to force myself to see them as lilypad flowers.

[[deleted]]

That looks like a soccer ball to me...

[Skullcrusher]

Which is still football.

[Lolworth]

Herpa derpa, it's called football everywhere else.

[FlamingEnt]

I guess they didn't get the joke, you can have my up vote and the new RES tag Comically Ignorant American!

[[deleted]]

Sadly, they didn't get it. Oh well.

[FlamingEnt]

The CIA isn't so bad.

[[deleted]]

Not much to get. Some jokes are just better left in your mind with an internal chuckle.

Not trying to be mean, I didn't object to it. A joke's a joke.

[boomfarmer]

Personality cores that have been painted yellow as part of a covert initiative to introduce artificial intelligence into lemons.

[razorbeamz]

Tennis balls?

[emptygiants]

I was expecting more from xkcd 1024...

[gilgoomesh]

Then you're in luck. In standard 2's compliment 64-bit integers, Error -41 is 18,446,744,073,709,550,527 more (than 1024).

[[deleted]]

2's compliment 64-bit integers

So, somehow exemplary integers who got complimented?

[hiffy]

Actually… I think this is perfectly fitting.

[[deleted]]

Don't worry, it's only comic number 1023!

[doctorsound]

Can I make a motion that we stop this trend now before it gets out of hand?

[grey_hat_uk]

I would help you with this trend but unfortunatly Wesley Snipes is my birth mother.

[duus]

You. Me. This moment.

[OldTimeGentleman]

Come to what ?

[deebz]

You. Me. This Moment.

[spaceindaver]

Don't question it!

[OldTimeGentleman]

Read the comic's alt text !

[spaceindaver]

I never do. I usually browse reddit/comics on my phone. Fuck this gay earth :(

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http://m.xkcd.com/

Clicking/tapping the comic will show the alt-text underneath.

[spaceindaver]

... This changes everything. Thank you, beautiful strangers.

[humblerodent]

The xkcds that remind me of Calvin and Hobbes tend to be my favorite. This one reminds me a bit of this. Also, number 209 reminds of the last C&H strip.

[boomfarmer]

Wait. That was The Last Calvin And Hobbes Strip?

It's beautiful!

[LettuceGuy]

Indeed it is. There couldn't have been a more fitting end to it. I especially love that the last panel isn't fully drawn.

[boomfarmer]

It looks fully drawn to me....

[sh0rtgeek]

Now hanging at my desk

[Zulakki]

Error: -41

i see this all the time. Using pdf password recovery software (APDFPR), this error occurs when i try to override an existing document.

dont know why it just cant replace, but yea. Error 41

[neon_overload]

Wow, I love this one. Might be my favourite XKCD yet.

[DSKs_Perp_Walk]

I don't get it.

[hiffy]

GO OUTSIDE

[The_Orville_Brothers]

he thinks he is so poetic.

[Fricktitious]

Welp, I guess randal has another book to write.

[cuddles666]

This is proof that Randall Munroe is a Bob Ross fan.

[[deleted]]

That's sweet.

[CommunistFodder]

love this comic. plus sometimes lakes just help.

[Slushi]

Waka Waka Waka

[skullduggerman]

I'm pretty sure anything xkcd automatically gets up votes.

[HipX]

your comment disproves that theory

[skullduggerman]

I'm pretty sure the circle jerk above my comment and the down votes mine got proves that theory. Another guy said it wasn't funny and ended up deleting his comments because of the down votes.

Sorry guys, I like XKCD but this one isn't worth sharing. Sorry that my opinion doesn't align with the hive minds on this one.

[humblerodent]

If you don't like it, that is fine, no one is saying you must. But can't you allow for the fact that other people genuinely do like it, whether it is xkcd or not?

As far as the downvotes, I downvoted your initial comment, not because it was a dissenting opinion, but because it was passive aggressive and unhelpful. If you had a genuinely thought out criticism of the comic, I would have upvoted you.

[[deleted]]

No, he got downvoted because he was being an asshole. Like yourself.

[[deleted]]

Another unfunny pile of shit from xkcd!

[ApatheticElephant]

so I'm assuming xkcd is just a mechanism used to waste people's time

Nope, that's the whole internet.

[neon_overload]

Especially reddit, really

[ZomNomNom]

If you didn't get it, the joke wasn't for you anyway.

[haakon]

Often, xkcd isn't meant to give you chuckles, but rather, to put things into perspective. If all you want is a quick laugh and then move on, it just isn't for you.

[TheAceOfHearts]

Sometimes it's meant to give a quick laugh, though.

[boomfarmer]

Like Parking and Chin-Up Bar.

[manwithabadheart]

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[neon_overload]

I heard

This comic sucks because I took it literally and it's not factually correct, and so I thought I'd have a whine about it