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excel_excel
04:56 PM

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Nerf Now was great! Even the little details like Mario walking away and Luigi looking off in a kind of non chalant way as if to say 'meh. whats changed.' But perhaps thats just me.

CAD's really just awful. The art style, the characters, the incredibly crap storyline. No doubt the brother will be his his grooms man and will say something inappropriate at the altar. Crap.
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(Starman) Starman
02:47 PM

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Goddamn this is NOT the #speakup box!
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Platypus Man
11:54 AM

In reply to Sunday Comics
Is there a reason why Dotgif is the only comment that consistently does not link to the image itself by clicking on it? Every other image, if you click on it, it links to just the image, but every week, Dotgif does nothing. I'd assume there's a reason for this, but I don't know what it is.
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WhiteMåge
12:09 PM

@Platypus Man: The comics are posted at a shrunken size, maximum width of 500px. DotGif is 500px by default, so it doesn't need to be expanded.
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Platypus Man
01:36 PM

@WhiteMåge: Actually, it seems like a lot of them don't get any larger when you click on it. The only reason I care is because I prefer to open them all in tabs, but it's more difficult with Dotgif not doing that.
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WhiteMåge
01:45 PM

@Platypus Man: Then a lot of htem are 500px to begin with. :p

The only reason they open is to expand them so you can see them at proper size, and if it's equal or smaller than the width Kotaku has set for them, there's no reason for them to expand.
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WhiteMåge
11:48 AM

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Once again, I submit a reasonable complaint against CAD:

Kotaku is a gaming site.

CAD is no longer(or very rarely) a gaming comic.

Therefore, it has no place.

You could at least explain why you keep putting it up despite the hatred for it, the irrelevance of it, etc, if you're not going to stop putting it up.
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Cookie
12:30 PM

@WhiteMåge: Well, it's not like every other comic is strictly concerned with gaming. RT isn't today, and often isn't.

That said, most people don't read it and just skip to comments to complain about it.

So maybe they should drop it. That way 1/3 of the threads won't be dedicated to tearing down a comic when everyone already knows it sucks.
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spiderweb1986
12:54 PM

@Cookie: Well, it's not like every other comic is strictly concerned with gaming. RT isn't today, and often isn't.

There's a difference between "not strictly concerned with gaming" and "almost never concerned with gaming."

CAD is the latter, and has been for years. If the strip happens to make a joke or reference that's actually about a video game, it's usually in one of the strips that isn't part of his soap opera storyline.
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amg0D
02:28 PM

@Cookie: I agree with everything this man says. The comments section isn't even worth the read on the Sunday comics post, because you already know what it's going to entail. You all are worse than you claim CAD to be, because although CAD's stories are plain, at least it's not stating the same thing repeatedly every single issue. Just give it up, skip the comic if you hate it.

Maybe Kotaku should just take out the comment section of the comics thread. That would be a better route in my opinion.
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Owen Good
02:55 PM

@amg0D: Believe me, I've thought of it.
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WhiteMåge
03:21 PM

@Owen Good: You'd sooner remove the comments thread for the comic postings than to remove the comic that has absolutely nothing to do with video games and isn't appreciated by most users?

I'll take that as confirmation that there's some sort of paid deal here, because I can't think of a single way that would make sense apart from being contractually obligated to post CAD. :\ At the same time I can't imagine buckley makes the money to pay other websites to promote him...and I am sure Kotaku doesn't do that anyway, so I'm truly baffled.
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Owen Good
03:55 PM

@WhiteMåge: You need to watch it with the allegations of paid content.

We republish these strips with permission and link to their sites. No other considerations are made.

Whether you or anyone like it or not, we're putting together a comics page here that's meant to be as broadly appealing as possible. There are some 3.1 million monthly readers of Kotaku. Less than 1 percent of them comment on this post. Fewer than that take the time to share their hatred with CAD every week.

If there's a strip here that doesn't appeal to you, move along. It's a buffet. When there's an item on a buffet I don't care for, nothing obligates me to eat it. But I also don't march back to the kitchen to bitch out the chef for the choice of that particular item.
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WhiteMåge
03:59 PM

@Owen Good: All I want is an explanation, and not getting one makes it seem suspicious, is all.

I just want to know why non-gaming comics are posted in the comic section of a gaming site. But nobody wants to tell me.
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Rachel Fogg
10:00 AM

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It took a while with the PA comic, I kept reading it and then I lol'd!

It's kinda like when I make fun of my friend who's trying to learn Japanese...

"Toyota? Kikoman Mitsubishi, Sukiyaki su..."

It drives her nuts...
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(Starman) Starman
10:12 AM

@Rachel Fogg: At least they have a DIVERSE number of brands to work with.

Whenever I speak in Vietnamese, my English friends make fun of my bad attempts with the ONLY word they know...

"Oh what dat? You want some phở, man? I give you monay for phở, man!"
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Rachel Fogg
10:15 AM

@(Starman) Starman:

LOL! I wish I still had my Vietnamese friend around, I think we cringed when we went to see Ultraviolet.

Then again...anyone would cringe at Ultraviolet.
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Ice_man
11:23 AM

@(Starman) Starman: At least they can pronounce phở properly. I hate it when my friends say pho, with a hard "o", when I'm around just to piss me off.
Sadly my vietnamese has gone to hell from lack of use :'(
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Koztah
12:35 PM

@Rachel Fogg: HEY.

Do not use Kikkoman's name in vain.

[www.albinoblacksheep.com]
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(Starman) Starman
12:57 PM

@Ice_man: At least you once KNEW Vietnamese in the first place! (T~T)
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(Starman) Starman
09:53 AM

In reply to Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade and 2PStart! literally made me fall off my chair in laughter today. Congrats to that achievement.

But come on d00d, I hate Jonas Brothers too, but at this point, making fun of them is too "cheap of a joke."

Also, here is today's GG Guys.
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Rachel Fogg
10:00 AM

@(Starman) Starman:

I agree, going after the Jonas Brothers is right up there with anything related to Kayne West...

But I lol'd anyway.
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Kobun
09:48 AM

In reply to Sunday Comics
I really have come to love Nerf Now and believe I'd seek it out if it ever stopped getting posted here. I really enjoy the art style, and while the strip may not be outright hilarious, it's always entertaining. Great to see a fresh take on a franchise that's a magnet for tired jokes.
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VenomIreland
09:16 AM

In reply to Sunday Comics
I love the PA and DA ones, rest are crappy, some of them aren't even gaming related.

I hate Ctr-Alt-Delete.
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Gravidos
09:43 AM

@VenomIreland: Ctrl-Alt-Delete seems to get a lot of hate for being a comic with a Story...
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VenomIreland
09:45 AM

@Gravidos: Go re-read it, is there anything about Videogames there?
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
09:53 AM

@VenomIreland: Dunno if those comics are sponsored or what, but I seriously think we should have a vote (if possible) to select the best Sunday Comics.

The obvious objective is to remove CAD and put something better instead.

But since I don't really know how the selection process happens for Sunday Comics, presenting this as a suggestion.
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Gravidos
10:03 AM

@VenomIreland: yes, not in the dialogue, but it's about the life of a gamer
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Raymayne
10:19 AM

@VenomIreland: PvPonline, Extralife, and Rooster Teeth had nothing to do with videogames either. If you're gonna criticise, at least be fair about it.
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Willows
10:20 AM

@Gravidos: My main issue with it is that it seems to try too hard to be funny, and it fails. I can appreciate trying to go for an extended story, but I just don't think Tim Buckley is that great of a writer.
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Gravidos
10:25 AM

@Willows: he can be funny at times, but i read it more for the story than a laugh
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VenomIreland
11:12 AM

@Raymayne: Fine, remove them as well.
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spiderweb1986
11:26 AM

@Raymayne: Rooster Teeth, Extralife, and PvP all have something in common: they're actually about gaming once in a while, whereas CAD...well, hasn't been for about five years, unless you count the strips he's specifically set aside from his "main" plot. I'll take "occasionally" over "never."

Another plus: none of those strips require you to read three years of old strips to understand a convoluted, wannabe-soap-opera-style plot to even begin to understand the "jokes."
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Willows
12:56 PM

@Gravidos: I used to read it a lot, and at first I thought it was amusing. But at some point (I'm not really sure when) I just kind of got sick of his attempts at a serious and dramatic story. And I really can't get over the writing. Some of it (like the wedding scene) is just downright terrible.
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Gravidos
01:31 PM

@Willows: yeah, i'd agree with you there, but i'm still curious as to where the story will go, mostly because i got the start of the story and i don't like leaving stories unfinished :P but every writer has their bad times, most just don't post them frequently
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excel_excel
11/23/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
Man CAD really sucks. Maybe if it actually had an artstyle that matched the 'story' element of the strip it'd be okay. I mean it'd still suck but....er...
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
11/22/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
PVP doesn't really make sense unless you read the three or four strips preceding it.
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DigiMish
11/22/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
CAD is not even a gaming comic anymore, why is it even here?
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ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
11/22/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
Wow, I didn't get most of the comics. Am I dense or were they just not funny?
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bean
11/22/09

@ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness: I feel the same way.
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Karlott
11/22/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
I can't stop laughing at Rooster Teeth.
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Covert_Knight
11/22/09

In reply to Sunday Comics
Ok I admit, sometimes I don't get certain jokes or comics, but I know when there is supposed to be one and I'm just not getting it.

But I'm pretty damn sure there is absolutely no punchline to Ctrl Alt Del. Does this guy even know how to write? I'm serious, not trying to be incredibly insulting, (but I guess I am) but this guy really doesn't seem to get it. It's unnecessarily wordy, and it's trying to have a plot, which is stupid for a short web comic. And does it even have anything to do with gaming any more? Jeez.
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WhiteMåge
11/22/09

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Also (freaking broken edit button D: ) here's a great one.
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