playpen posts

• at 12:24 on 31-01-2010

  I like the idea, but I can't help but think the actual comic is a bit... not very funny? I read all of it and had this gradual realisation that I wasn't really making me laugh that much.

• at 11:47 on 27-01-2010

  I can't speak for Arthur, but I think I might be a bit oversensitive to this kind of thing after years of *annoying wankers* making the same kind of trite observation.  Mentally I file...

• at 13:45 on 26-01-2010

  That just means that if it was the intended joke, then it's obvious and not very funny  What Arthur said.  Broadly speaking, I find any commentary on fantasy - particula...

• at 09:33 on 25-01-2010

  I know XKCD can be hit and miss, but this really takes the cake. A spectacular example of missing the point.  Geek in pedantic, overliteral refusal to accept metaphor shock?<br/...

• at 13:38 on 16-12-2009

  The Onion had an old article entitled "Dolphins Develop Opposable Thumbs: Oh Shit, Says Humanity". I'm not sure I don't feel the same way about tool-using octopuses. It starts with coconut she...