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  • NullPolarity, on 02/29/2008, -131/+21Burying triweekly xkcd spam.
    • chubbstar, on 02/29/2008, -8/+90you must be pretty passionate to go looking for it in the upcoming section.
      • NullPolarity, on 02/29/2008, -42/+9Yes, I am.
        • chubbstar, on 02/29/2008, -9/+44its a shame you dont have something better to be passionate about.
        • RandomGuySteve, on 02/29/2008, -11/+7Internet. Serious Business.

          That being said, screw it. I'm burying this as well. People who post Xkcd are abusing the webcomic to gain free frontpage submissions.
          • BestJaxx, on 03/01/2008, -5/+11Or allowing people who may be new and never heard of it, or simply forgot to check today, to see such an amazing comic.
          • NullPolarity, on 03/01/2008, -11/+2Never heard of it before today == Total newb to Digg == Fail. I think Randall gets enough exposure on the Internet these days, so pardon me if I don't join the fanboy brigade currently burying me into oblivion.
          • 3HackBug77, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2JSUK: there are new people on the internet everyday, just because they haven't heard of something doesn't make them fail.
          • BestJaxx, on 03/01/2008, -2/+2I had not heard of Randall Munroe until about 2 months after I had really started to relied on my computer to spend time, and I found xkcd on Digg. So ***** you, null. Go hate on xkcd on some website were people will agree with you, 'cause I for one, am tired of hearing it.
          • intellimouse, on 03/01/2008, -2/+2Uhmmm, "amazing comic"? Reality Check: They're mildly amusing stick figures, so you might want to see the definition of "amazing".
        • manitoba98xp, on 03/01/2008, -1/+17xkcd has you covered: http://xkcd.com/386/
          • NullPolarity, on 03/01/2008, -0/+6I actually dugg you up because I admittedly did get a chuckle from that one, but that could apply to either side of the little "me vs. Digg" scuffle.
    • BestJaxx, on 02/29/2008, -12/+36Burying triweekly buriers of triweekly xkcd AWESOMENESS
    • Asdfglpwglion, on 03/01/2008, -2/+4NullPolarity Buried it here too: http://digg.com/comics_animation/xkcd_Nightmares
    • Latentsage, on 03/01/2008, -0/+4I mildly agree with you...

      We get the point, xkcd is great and wonderful. Stop whoring every new comic to the front page.
      • chubbstar, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1i have to point out that not every one makes it to the front page, in fact, since the algo change much less actually have.
    • JayKeaton, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2It is like everyone feels the need to digg every single web comic as soon as it comes out. And they are too afraid to NOT digg it, because someone else will digg it.
    • rodbotic, on 03/01/2008, -1/+1it's ironic you have a name like "nullpolarity" when you seem to have a biased opinion!

  • markwilcox, on 02/29/2008, -15/+74I've noticed less and less xkcd getting on the front page now, so it's fine for people to submit them but you don't need to complain any more. Usually 1/3 a week will get to the front page which is better than 3 a week. They still deserve to be on the front page though =)
    • ColinCampbell, on 02/29/2008, -6/+23I don't get this triweekly bury *****. Great content deserves to be on the front-page no matter if the same provider makes it 1 time a year or 1 time a day.
      • ParticleMan420, on 02/29/2008, -17/+4"I don't get this triweekly bury *****."

        stop posting ***** and it wont get burried.
        this lame ass comic makes it to the front page, 3X a week. Coincidentally the site also updates 3 times a week.
        you know you like this stupid comic, why not bookmark its site, and check it three times a week
        • Akaji, on 03/01/2008, -2/+11It's only a lame ass-comic to those who don't get the jokes. Incidentally, those who don't get the jokes are those who really shouldn't have been on Digg in the first place (that is, back when it was actually a technology/computing site).
          • ParticleMan420, on 03/22/2008, -0/+1well, next time i travel back in time to when digg was different, i'll remember that!

            i get the jokes, they're just not funny.
        • NullPolarity, on 03/01/2008, -8/+1I can get the jokes and still not particularly find them to be amusing. I suppose you laugh about poo jokes as well because you can relate to the experience of passing solid excretory matter?
      • NullPolarity, on 03/01/2008, -8/+4I used to enjoy this comic, actually, and sometimes I still do, but lately the quality has been slipping. Too much trite emo rubbish, and even though that isn't the case 100% of the time, the sheer volume of Digg submissions of every single new comic only serves to magnify its banality.
        • nbcaffeine, on 03/01/2008, -4/+3My friends and I have dubbed the lame ones he does between the geeky jokes as "EmoKCD"

          make with the science and the math
        • chubbstar, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1"romance, sarcasm, math, and language"
          so romance = emo? perhaps. but at least there was no ulterior motives about what the comic would be about so ragging on it for being what it already claimed to me seems strange.
      • wolferz, on 03/01/2008, -2/+3look at it on a larger scale, and from the perspective of an editor, like that of a magazine. Would viewers rather go some where that has lots stories about the same exact thing from the same exact source over and over and over or would they prefer to go some where where they can see new stuff constantly?

        Now the way this translates to digg is that stories of interest are voted to the front page and stories lacking in interest are ether buried to oblivion or end up in limbo some where between. Unfortunately when enough people who like the same thing get together on a digg they tend to dig the same stories to the front page over and over and over. Sure... if the site is producing content worthy of interest it should receive props for that. However getting front page on digg repeatedly isn't the right way to do that (in the case of something like a comic, or the changelog of a OSS project who's content is generally in the same topic over and over). The end result is a gradual lowering of the digg's over all quality and an eventual lessoning of digg it self's worth. People who are tired of seeing the same stuff over and over, or seeing old stories, etc will eventualy lose interest in digg.

        Perhaps that doesn't matter to you, after all you aren't making any money off of these advertisements any way... but if you want to know why some people have an issue with seeing the same thing on the front page constantly, this is why. Not that they should go as over board or be as offensive about it as they tend to.
    • Jedravent, on 02/29/2008, -10/+01/3 a week? Do you mean once every three weeks, or one a week?
  • rivalius13, on 02/29/2008, -10/+45Alt title: Well *I* think I'm real. Look at me. Look at my face. Cut me an I'll bleed. What more do you want? Please don't go.
    • Videlicet, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1Man, that sounds so familiar. Does anyone know if this line is from a movie or something? It's going to drive me crazy.
      • Aidje, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2Part of it is a loose quote from The Merchant of Venice.
    • gute123, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2I was just going to ask if anyone else knew about those extra lines that are in every xkcd comic. sometimes the extra line joke is better than the actual comic
  • jacekpoplawski, on 02/29/2008, -9/+1This is really sweet, imagine this person, in your dream...
  • OneLess, on 02/29/2008, -9/+1Is that the lady classhole?
  • JustJoe4Life, on 02/29/2008, -11/+2So he subconsciously has hair?
  • jd33, on 02/29/2008, -11/+165There's a function in your browser where you can actually bookmark the entire xkcd site.
    • anagoge, on 02/29/2008, -1/+81Whoa, steady there with those crazy ideas of the future.
    • Vapor17, on 02/29/2008, -3/+17BLASPHEMY!
    • NeoCortex, on 02/29/2008, -0/+22Next you'll be telling me that I could even bookmark all of Cracked if I wanted to. You're loony.
    • macweirdo42, on 03/01/2008, -1/+27Or I could just bookmark digg - that's like bookmarking the entire Internet with one link.
    • mithrasinvictus, on 03/01/2008, -0/+8Next some other sci-fi nut will claim there's some kind of xkcd feed i could subscribe to and somehow magically merge its contents with a similar feed from digg.

      nice comic though, but i can find them on my own.
    • kingvik, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8You can't put bookmark's into a computer, they go into books.
    • Netrilix, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1I have the two of them on iGoogle. I seldom visit the Digg homepage directly.
  • CrudeDarkness, on 02/29/2008, -33/+5I never understood any of the xkcd comics. maybe I have a higher IQ or something.
    • haveacigar, on 02/29/2008, -4/+25Maby if you keep telling yourself that.... it will actually come true.....
      • SeekerDarksteel, on 02/29/2008, -8/+5Although ironically it wouldn't if he understood xkcd, because it turns out wanting something doesn't make it real.

    • skatastrophy, on 02/29/2008, -0/+10If that was sarcasm: Well played! I lol'd :)

      A couple of the comics I had to go digging through my old Calculus & Differential Equations books to figure out how exactly they were funny :P
    • CATSCEO, on 02/29/2008, -4/+5Other way.
  • monkeyshines, on 02/29/2008, -6/+50I love that feeling you get when you start to realize that you're dreaming. Most of the time, I will start to wake up soon after I have the realization but, once in a blue moon, I'll remain asleep and can subtly alter everything that happens for a short while.

    Dreaming rules.
    • megamod, on 02/29/2008, -0/+16IDK why you guys are picking on monkeyshines and digging him down. I can TOTALLY relate to it. Those are my favorite dreams ever, I feel like freaking Neo "bending the rules of physics". If you're going to digg him down at least give him a freaking comment explaining yourself.
      • makkaveli19, on 02/29/2008, -8/+2***** neo! i get laid, over and over and over again. till even my dream penis becomes useless. :|
    • jibii, on 02/29/2008, -0/+28It's called Lucid Dreaming. It's pretty awesome.
      • krytz86, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1Yeah its cool. It happens to me when I see something in the dream that I know isn't there in reality, and it clicks. Like once I was walking past my old school and there was a big ***** hole in the wall, and I realised. Its pretty difficult to control the dream though, but you do have free will to a certain extent.
      • xptoast, on 03/01/2008, -5/+2Lucid dream eh? I know this is weird but it's something I have somewhat come to terms with, but....everyday is a lucid dream to me in that I can't tell if what I am doing is completely real or not. Here's a good picture for that feeling...
        http://www.geocities.com/shadoworkgaming/3LucidDre ...
    • Ataxia2008, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Apparently you can plan to have a lucid dream and actually control what you dream about. ie "live" out your desires.
    • daRoach, on 03/01/2008, -1/+10"I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord."
      --Mitch Hedberg
      • ePuck, on 03/01/2008, -3/+1The key is to 'practice' remaining calm when you reach the 'lucid' state. Stay calm so you don't wake up right away.. The rest is up to you.
  • EntangledPhysx, on 02/29/2008, -17/+55PEOPLE OF DIGG: Just bookmark XKCD and be done with it.
    • vinecrawler, on 03/01/2008, -2/+9we are bookmarking it.... socially.
      • gameforge, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1I like xkcd and don't mind it being on Digg because I always forget to check it. But really, "we" are "socially" bookmarking every page on xkcd - not just the site.

        I can see why some are aggravated. Reddit has an xkcd section because of this very issue. Of course they have a section for all kinds of stuff, and they're not very good about using them, and I don't think Digg should have a whole xkcd section... just saying.
        • dulymachine, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1The only reason I first found XKCD is because of Digg so I personally have to keep promoting it for that reason.
  • theright, on 02/29/2008, -6/+6Well I'm never going to sleep again...
  • dualityim, on 02/29/2008, -18/+13This is just not funny or thoughtful anymore.

    Time to find a new webcomic fascination methinks.
  • Charklii, on 02/29/2008, -12/+6I fail so badly with these comics :( I NEVER get them.
    • alexforcefive, on 02/29/2008, -8/+11He's dreaming about a sexy girl and she's making him feel guilty about waking up. It's not a good comic* at all, I don't know why it got submitted

      *in general I love xkcd. I mean THIS one isn't good
      • dball48, on 02/29/2008, -6/+2why would a dream about a sexy girl be considered a nightmare?
        • adooga, on 03/01/2008, -0/+9She will die if he wakes up.
        • MacEnvy, on 03/01/2008, -3/+3I'm guessing it's the ex-girlfriend he seems to be still in love with in many of the strips. It's supposed to be heart-wrenching.
        • chubbstar, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1which technically would make him a dream murderer.
      • drtyfrnk, on 02/29/2008, -5/+3I'm with you

        Usually xkcd is good but this one?

        Not that good.
      • zzzpoohzzz, on 03/01/2008, -3/+1a stick figure with long hair is a sexy girl? i could understand a girl... but the sexy part? where did that come from?
  • hyankov, on 02/29/2008, -19/+11Worse comic ever. This stuff stinks.
    • hiplibrarian, on 02/29/2008, -3/+7worse than what?

      ...oh, i get it! you're an idiot.
      • hyankov, on 03/01/2008, -5/+1No, you still don't get it. I am sick of the same ***** hitting the front page again and again. Actually, websites like this providing only slight variations of the same stinking ***** should be prohibited to have more than 1 entry on digg.com front page per month.
    • RBrenner14, on 02/29/2008, -4/+9Worse comment ever.
  • unfinite, on 02/29/2008, -9/+4I don't get it, is that supposed to be in his dream or is he sleeping standing up? I don't think this joke made the jump from brain to paper very well. What's supposed to be funny? Someone please explain it for me and the thousands of other confused people.
    • addysonclark, on 02/29/2008, -4/+11They aren't all supposed to be funny....

      Xkcd : " A comic of romance, sarcasm, math, language"
      • xptoast, on 03/01/2008, -0/+5Thank you for being more intellegent that the fools that are currently burrying your comment.
      • rivalius13, on 03/01/2008, -1/+2I laughed.....is there something wrong with me?
        • xptoast, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1No. You are fine. I understood the joke too. Not everyone can like the same things. We are human right?
    • hunkster2010, on 03/01/2008, -0/+6In his dream he knows that it's a dream. The other person is telling him not to wake up or they will die which give a sense of reality to the person and maybe they did die because he woke up. Not very funny, really, but kind of thought provoking
      • unfinite, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1Ah, alright. I get it now. I thought at first that his brain was trying to trick him somehow into not waking up. I know mine does that. I'll have the strangest dreams sometimes which try to make me think that it is going to be really difficult to get out of bed. For example, before I am able to get out of bed, I have to finish making something or solve a problem.
        Waking up after a long night of working in 3ds max, my dream is usually something along the lines of: I have to eliminate triangles from a mesh or get proper edge flow or tweak something so it will stop passing through other object when it animates. I should see a therapist haha!
  • sittered, on 02/29/2008, -6/+1I'm trying to play that music. It's hard and it doesn't sound like anything I know.
  • MidgetMadness, on 02/29/2008, -5/+4First thing that came to my mind was the movie Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
  • Entheoddity, on 02/29/2008, -16/+13[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Lame]
  • JadedDeath, on 02/29/2008, -6/+1i used to be subscribed to xkcd, but thanks to digg i get all their comics in that feed anyway.
  • neiltc13, on 02/29/2008, -11/+3This comic is rubbish. I wish I could bury it a million times, it appears on here practically every day and is absolutely rubbish every single time.
  • useless1111, on 02/29/2008, -13/+0That comic is a *****!
    http://www.spymac.com/details/?2346186
    • evfinkelstein, on 02/29/2008, -1/+2 Your name speaks the truth, you really are useless. ***** spammer.
  • lordenlil, on 02/29/2008, -2/+20That was pretty creepy for xkcd.
    • Kohaxx, on 03/01/2008, -1/+3They occasionally have bouts of emo.
      • sg1fan, on 03/02/2008, -0/+1Occasionally? :) But you're right. There are quite a few xkcd site members who think they are too smart for everyone else, and too smart for things like relationships and having families, then they whine about how their parents messed them up... it's quite sad
  • NinjaPirateDude, on 02/29/2008, -9/+2seen it
  • sonofabeast, on 02/29/2008, -11/+5In Soviet Russia, xkcd, Obama, Hillary, iPhone, Ubuntu, KDE, Top 10 lists, theconsumerist, and police brutality digg you to the front page.
    oh wait.........
    FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD:
    It's a trap!
    FAIL




    • overkilpro, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1you forgot
      1. xxxxxxxx
      2. xxxxxxxx
      3. ?
      4. Profit!
  • Dkittels, on 02/29/2008, -1/+5I've actually had this dream.
  • booboolean, on 02/29/2008, -6/+2Huh? I'm guessing that this is part of a larger storyline and it makes sense in context, but on it's own it doesn't do anything... Some xkcd comics are very amusing on their own and are suitable for submission, but apparently NOT ALL OF THEM. Please use brain.
  • Trollmaster, on 03/01/2008, -8/+5OK, This is Lame
  • TnTBass, on 03/01/2008, -3/+1This seems akin to the Garfield comic where Garfield wakes up to an empty house.
    Not sure if it's supposed to be funny or just stating ones fear of being alone.
  • merper, on 03/01/2008, -2/+12I liked it. For people who aren't getting his meaning, imagine that every time you dream, you create a real world.

    And every time you wake up everyone in that world dies. So you're conducting genocide every night and there's no way you can stop it from happening.
    • rivalius13, on 03/01/2008, -3/+1We all get to play Hitler in our sleep! Only instead of the jews I'm killing Scarlett Johansson.
      • mooseofshadows, on 03/01/2008, -1/+2In the John Donne sense?
        Anyone who has studied John Donne's "The Flea" will laugh at this.
  • Link459, on 03/01/2008, -10/+4This isn't even funny...
  • Spyder2k, on 03/01/2008, -1/+8She isn't real...I can't make her real.
    The nightmare is in waking up.
  • zephc, on 03/01/2008, -6/+2It seems like half his comics are moody and about his girlfriend being on the brink of leaving him, and the other half are funny and insightful. Get that man some Zoloft.
  • Enochyang, on 03/01/2008, -1/+16A long time ago, I once had an incredibly vivid dream in which I met a girl, had a relationship and fell in love with her. The dream felt like it spanned across several years and when I suddenly woke up, I was deeply affected. This was the only time I've ever felt heart broken from a dream. I'll never forget that dream...
    • MadOtaku, on 03/01/2008, -0/+4Though not romantic in nature, I've had a dream that spanned years. It's the worst feeling ever when you wake up; imaging if everyone you met and the memories you made for the last 3-4 years (all of which were pretty good) suddenly dissolved and you found yourself in bed in the "past".
      • arjie, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2I can totally relate to that. Totally. It's almost like you've been cheated out of your life.
      • Netrilix, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1Intentionally or not, you bordered on a good quote from Donnie Darko, while the therapist is talking to Donnie. "If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories… the choices you’ve made, and the people you’ve touched."
  • TBBucs, on 03/01/2008, -7/+2Anyone else think Digg should get an XKCD section?
    • Netrilix, on 03/01/2008, -1/+1Anyone else think Digg should get an "Anyone else think Digg should get an XKCD section" section?
  • underdog82, on 03/01/2008, -5/+0Does anyone else think this has something to with this comic (http://xkcd.com/383/)? When I first read it I got the feeling he wasn't trying to be funny. Something about having nightmares about his friend. Or maybe I'm just not getting some joke.
  • influenceuh, on 03/01/2008, -4/+4man XKCD is really on digg too much. why?
    • chubbstar, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1because people who like it digg it up. weird eh?
  • cap11235, on 03/01/2008, -3/+1Hmm, my nightmares always involve me becoming homicidal. Well, off to see my therapist.
  • bliz, on 03/01/2008, -3/+2Guess what? xkcd's not even valid xhtml1.1 as it claims to be in its doctype:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxkc ...
    urgh.. so much for being geeky..
    • SSUK, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2That checker is pedantic, it lists every other " and "&" for no good reason.
    • bliz, on 03/01/2008, -0/+1I wonder if you've actually seen the errors stated by the validator. In any case, w3 developed the standards for xml (xhtml) and if you claim to be following the standard you have to.

      In fact, you don't even need to be pedantic to find an error in the source. With an additional </table> there it's not even well-formed xml to begin with.
  • MaxMWood, on 03/01/2008, -2/+2Am I the only one who finds quite alot of the XKCD comics.. Not funny atall?
    • 265358979323846, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0that's because your probably the same kind of idiot who doesnt find my username funny at all...
  • AngryAngryBrian, on 03/01/2008, -0/+4More and more of his comics lately have been kind of depressing. To be honest I am a little concerned.
  • 265358979323846, on 03/03/2008, -0/+0I don't know how many comics in total are on that page but it's freakin awesome. I've been reading through them for the past hour or so and i don't think I'm done yet.
  • cuntmate99, on 03/03/2008, -0/+1alternate mirror: http://www.babepie.com/twg/index.php?twg_album=pic ...
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