Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
by permo-w on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:28PM
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I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD
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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.
the observation is sound, it's the presentation that irks me
Did you read the xkcd? It's not about goatse
goatse isn't cringeworthy
I mean, the subject's face probably did resemble a cringe.
You’re not the only one. It’s an XKCD comic made for LinkedIn and it annoys me every time it’s referenced.
Same but every XKCD
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:49PM
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I guess you're one of those people who thinks that any sincere emotional expression is cringe?
I've never understood that attitude.
you guessed wrongly
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 20, 2023 @07:48PM
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That's what you're doing, though.
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
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So you only sometimes find things cringey just because they're sincere?
That's not a large improvement.