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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:28PM (#37917606)
I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by feoren on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917651)
Cringeworthy? This is one of the more oft-linked XKCDs, I think because it makes a valid observation: everyone has a few things that "everyone knows" that they've randomly missed, and it's more fun to enjoy the discovery than to ridicule them for something that happens to all of us randomly.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:33PM (#37917675)
the observation is sound, it's the presentation that irks me
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by n40487171 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917639)
Did you read the xkcd? It's not about goatse
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:32PM (#37917661)
goatse isn't cringeworthy
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by HeckFeck on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:55PM (#37917979)
I mean, the subject's face probably did resemble a cringe.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by civilitty on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:31PM (#37917654)
You’re not the only one. It’s an XKCD comic made for LinkedIn and it annoys me every time it’s referenced.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by floren on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:50PM (#37917916)
Same but every XKCD
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:49PM (#37918821)
I guess you're one of those people who thinks that any sincere emotional expression is cringe?

I've never understood that attitude.

Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:03PM (#37919065)
you guessed wrongly
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:48PM (#37962749)
That's what you're doing, though.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by permo-w on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:49PM (#37963114)
it's the "any" that makes it wrong. I reserve the right to pick and choose what expressions I find cringeworthy
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:08AM (#37973449)
So you only sometimes find things cringey just because they're sincere?

That's not a large improvement.