xkcd: As Usual, 100% Right About Everything

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Jeff Fecke

If you’ve ever been to TVTropes.org, you know that Randall Munroe is absolutely right about this. I once inadvertently spent seven hours surfing there. Indeed, I defy anyone to go there and get out without reading, at minimum, ten articles. It can’t be done.

Consider this an open thread. 

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15 Responses to xkcd: As Usual, 100% Right About Everything

  1. 1
    Daniel Koffler says:
    July 12, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Oh I’ve spent much longer than 7 hours at TV tropes

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    sylphhead says:
    July 12, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    Yep, I get stuck on tvtropes for hours some times, and cracked.com is a guilty pleasure.

  3. 3
    Robert says:
    July 13, 2009 at 5:19 am

    Same here.

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    Nick Kiddle says:
    July 13, 2009 at 6:33 am

    That is so reassuring, because I thought it was just my weak will.

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    PG says:
    July 13, 2009 at 8:09 am

    Sort of the reverse: I was already thinking exactly this, was about to say something about it, and then found that someone had said it already.

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    Sam L says:
    July 13, 2009 at 9:23 am

    I have killed DAYS of potential productivity on TVtropes. It’s worse than wikipedia and the Onion AVclub combined.

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    Marta says:
    July 13, 2009 at 9:53 am

    I have started from Doctor Who (the FetishFuel almost made me fall from the chair). You don’t want to know where I ended.

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    Simple Truth says:
    July 13, 2009 at 10:15 am

    I end up on week-long binges – I just close my laptop and keep my tabs up and read them the next day…and the next…

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    Kyra says:
    July 13, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Uh, yeah.

    I avoid going insane by right-clicking every link I fancy and opening it in a new tab, and then when I finish that article, moving to the next tab, and of course that one has several interesting articles to add to the queue, and the next thing I know two hours have passed and I have sixty tabs open on my Firefox window.

    But it’s interesting.

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    Hershele Ostropoler says:
    July 13, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    The first thing I did when I saw the cartoon was go to TV Tropes to see if there was a reaction. I actually have a separate browser window open just for TV Tropes tabs.

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    Eggs Maledict says:
    July 14, 2009 at 2:45 am

    My name is Eggs Maledict, and I’m a link-a-holic.

    I’m comforted by the knowledge that I’m not the only one.

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    Doug S. says:
    July 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Here’s something interesting.

    Welcome to the tale of Alice and Kev.

    This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

    I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.

    Go read.

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    Jessica says:
    July 14, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    I guess I win– I read 3 pages there and none of them made any sense to me. Maybe this means I don’t watch enough TV?

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    grendelkhan says:
    July 14, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    I’ve gotten to the point where when I read something particularly pithy, I’ll go add it to the relevant page on the quotes section.

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    Lene says:
    July 17, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    I just discovered it and am about to lose my weekend. Was supposed to be working, dillegently slaving away at the computer but somehow, I don’t think that’s going to happen…