Comments on: Whoa

By: pronoiac

pronoiac — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:46:20 +0000

The rest of the thread is mostly people just flapping their lips in bilious internet outrage.

I’m there a lot, & Metafilter’s generally pretty civil. That thread’s on the Metatalk subsite, which is a vicious & tongue-in-cheek place. While this is a serious matter, some of the anger isn’t serious.

By: ps238principal

ps238principal — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:05:55 +0000

And Illiad has joined the thread:

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/17390/Wha-Wha-Wibble#618056

By: ps238principal

ps238principal — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:02:48 +0000

“User Friendly” is one of those comics that amazes me for the simple reason that no matter how often the author draws it, the art never seems to improve.

Then there’s the way it creates a vortex of un-funny, but that’s another issue entirely.

By: CandidGamera

CandidGamera — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:38:38 +0000

You’d think a plagiarist would be funnier.

By: Odd King

Odd King — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:48:25 +0000

Near the beginning of that epic pitchforks and torches thread, Iliad (the nom de plume of the UF guy as well as the name of his mefi account) first tried to blame an over-zealous fan, then slowly inched toward an admission of guilt over several comments as people kept on bringing up more evidence, and as someone pointed out that Iliad’s account had favourited one of the comments that he used in a strip.

The rest of the thread is mostly people just flapping their lips in bilious internet outrage.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:05:56 +0000

I’m amazed that he took the comics down, instead of just going like “Yeah I stole ‘em, choke on it.”

By: BSD

BSD — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:40:57 +0000

I think you mean “can only end well”, at least to the extent that this might finally kill UF.

By: mhoye

mhoye — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:30:59 +0000

Your eyes made it from one side of a User Friendly strip to the other, and you have some doubt left about how well it will end?

By: MarvinAndroid

MarvinAndroid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:21:12 +0000

Wait. I’m confused. People read User Friendly?

By: nickshogun

nickshogun — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:09:06 +0000

Yeah, I gotta see this strip now. To make so many people outraged, it must be worse than that Mohammad thing!

By: Kit Silva

Kit Silva — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:44:48 +0000

So he removed all the comics with swiped punchlines?

Surely someone must have a copy somewhere. This is the internet!

By: TA

TA — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:25:52 +0000

Shame all the comics have been purged. Would’ve been nice to see them.

By: EndOfTheWorld

EndOfTheWorld — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:37:49 +0000

No! Not User Friendly! Now where will I go for shitty jokes about Linux?