Roast Beef Achewood Oh My God That Is the Worst Answer
Permit'south all say it together: it's not the worst "hell" comic he'due south e'er done.
Before I get to what I want to say, a existence named Doomerang sent me some complaints about this comic, which i've edited down hither:
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The trouble all lies in the title. It gives away the joke. The thing about a joke is that you are supposed to give a set-up, and so a dial-line. Compare the following:
"A horse walks into the bar. The barman sees him and asks 'Why the long confront?'"
And
"'Why the long face?' said the barman to the person who had just walked in and was a horse."
The latest comic is basically the latter. Imagine, if you will, reading the comic without having seen the championship. You see a pic of a Tetris game, y'all gyre down and what is this? The bottom is curved, it is all wrong! Then you encounter the caption "HELL." And y'all realize that Randall is saying a nerd's definition of Hell is an unbeatable game. It sounds crap written out like that I know, only come up on work with me here. Kind of funny.
What you lot really get with this comic is you come across the word Hell, then encounter Tetris and think why is Tetris hell? Then you scroll down and run into oh okay the bottom is curved. Huh. And it says Hell over again. OK.
This travesty of composition could and then easily have been avoided! He could have merely chosen the comic 'Tetris' or 'Blocks' or something like that. Irksome, I know, merely the purpose of the title is surely just so people tin discover the comic when they are looking through the archives? They say "I want to run into the comic where Tetris is unbeatable… ah this one is chosen 'Tetris', that'll be it". You don't demand to put the joke there. Seriously.
I approximate this is why you lot guys are e'er going on about Randall getting himself an editor!
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It'due south true! Having the title and the explanation exist the aforementioned only looks airheaded. Go rid of the title! Information technology's been a long, long time since an xkcd title was worth anything and wasn't only ultra-banal.
Really, the problem is that jokes almost tetris are laaaame. First off, there already exist variants of tetris which try to fuck you up, much like this proposal. In terms of sheer frustration expressed purely as a screenshot of a tetris game, in that location is always this shirt. [incidentally, Randall, when your joke is already basically the aforementioned as a shirt on busted tees, you have failed so hard.] There's fifty-fifty Roast Beef'due south depression+anxiety represented through horrifying tetris pieces.
In fact, on the Achewood thing, 1 comment on the latter strip wrote: "Nobody else in the universe would think to correspond a man'due south thoughts by using an overly complex, never-gonna-fit Tetris shape dropping inexorably into an area where it will screw everything up." Well, what that guy didn't count on was Randall Munroe! Who, as we know, has never read Achewood.
But the best fucked-up-tetris comedy out there has GOT to exist this video, from the magical fantasy land known equally "Nippon." Not only is it basically the same crazy frustration related to tetris (I mean, the spirit of this video is exactly the same as that of the comic), but it includes the lines "so many bathrooms!" and "why soybean??" How could y'all go incorrect with that, I ask? Seriously you should watch that video, it's then dumb and dizzy however it makes me laugh so hard.
Lastly, the alt-text is clearly designed to pander to every bit broad an audition equally possible (mario) while still making nerds remember he is referencing their "obscure" game (katamari).
well, that was obvious Update: Equally expected, someone's made a playable version of this comic. (cheers to Dragon2041 for the link, and sorry that i did non post the guest writing you sent me!) Go play the game. It's fabricated wonderfully; the physics for the about part feel exactly right and I actually laughed playing information technology, which is not something I did when reading the original comic. There's something nearly seeing the futility of the whole pursuit, that no matter what you cannot brand any progress and however the game keeps giving you more than shit to bargain with. If i were an overworked factory person i might consider it a skillful metaphor for my life. Anyhow - especially when my screen was totally total of mishmashed pieces, i kept thinking to myself "why did Randall just describe two pieces? This screencap is style funnier than his comic." Anyhow, play information technology out, run across what you lot recollect. To me information technology but confirms that this is a funny idea (if not that new) simply poorly executed as a comic.
Source: http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/2010/04/comic-724-hell-no.html
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