[2012-Mar-01] Kids These Days

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Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by sotic » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:52 am

Apocalyptus wrote:It's a true classic. Indeed, if there was anything wrong with it why did Microsoft make absolutely zero changes to it for nigh on ten years?
I'll answer my own question, it was already perfect.
It's unfortunate that they added all this MS Ribbon and anti-aliasing shit in Windows Vista and onward. I miss old MSPaint.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Spinalcold » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:43 am

Apocalyptus wrote:It's a true classic. Indeed, if there was anything wrong with it why did Microsoft make absolutely zero changes to it for nigh on ten years?
I'll answer my own question, it was already perfect.
its the same reason they kept the blue screen on death!

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Apocalyptus » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:34 am

It's a true classic. Indeed, if there was anything wrong with it why did Microsoft make absolutely zero changes to it for nigh on ten years?
I'll answer my own question, it was already perfect.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Dindong » Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:01 pm

You draw that with the old MS Paint? I miss that program.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by dauntless » Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:21 pm

Dane Raider wrote:
Lethal Interjection wrote:Not surprisingly, I'm disappointed.
Well, yeah. After all that effort, you got to read a modern SMBC.
You said that wrong. Here's a better representation.

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Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Dane Raider » Sat Mar 03, 2012 6:51 am

Lethal Interjection wrote:Not surprisingly, I'm disappointed.
Well, yeah. After all that effort, you got to read a modern SMBC.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Lethal Interjection » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:44 am

Dane Raider wrote:Gonna have to suggest you try clearing your cache or switching browsers, 'cos I've got it through no trouble.

I've got a bunch of different browsers on this machine (I won't bore you with why) and none of them are having any trouble -- the same is not true of other webcomics, some of which have the occasional comic that just doesn't like one of the older or less compliant browsers.

Edit: Oooh, does your ISP make use of proxies? Or are you utilising one yourself? If the proxy got hold of a corrupt image, it'll hold onto that until something persuades it to flush it and request a new version.
I don't know, and I don't care.
I figured it had to do with my browser. Based on the fact that it doesn't seem to have happened to anyone else. Plus I had a page crash yesterday on SMBC, for whatever reason. So I just assumed it had something to do with that.
I saw it now, as I'm on my laptop. Not surprisingly, I'm disappointed.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Dane Raider » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:24 pm

Gonna have to suggest you try clearing your cache or switching browsers, 'cos I've got it through no trouble.

I've got a bunch of different browsers on this machine (I won't bore you with why) and none of them are having any trouble -- the same is not true of other webcomics, some of which have the occasional comic that just doesn't like one of the older or less compliant browsers.

Edit: Oooh, does your ISP make use of proxies? Or are you utilising one yourself? If the proxy got hold of a corrupt image, it'll hold onto that until something persuades it to flush it and request a new version.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Lethal Interjection » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:28 pm

Is anyone else having problems with this comic? It only loaded the first half inch of the comic (up to her eye), and that's all I got. That's the way it was yesterday, and that's how it is today.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Kaharz » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:14 am

Apocalyptus wrote:That does seem rather cruel, as I'm imagining some of those students are depending on certain grade averages to get into post-graduate programs or some such thing.
Yea, well he was a polisci professor, so just about everyone the class but me was pre-law. I was there because a lot of poli-sci classes counted towards my useless sociology degree and I'd already taken all the interesting sociology classes. He was a really hard grader, but he was fair. The students who were smart and really applied themselves to the few Aes, but he would sometimes screw with them to show them that the shouldn't take everything so seriously.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Apocalyptus » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:01 am

That does seem rather cruel, as I'm imagining some of those students are depending on certain grade averages to get into post-graduate programs or some such thing.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Kaharz » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:05 am

I had a college professor who would screw with the hyper grade obsessed, never got less than an A students. He would actually return a 20 page paper they slaved over with a C on it and let them stew until they really got worked up over it. He would then reveal that they actually got a higher grade and he was just being a jerk for a laugh at their expense. He usually only gave out one or two As for final grade a semester though and his reputation as a hard grader was well known, so it was an especially effective and cruel prank.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by Dane Raider » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:40 pm

dauntless wrote:At least it wasn't a goddamn graph joke.
Those are done solely to spite me, some people observe.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by dauntless » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:12 pm

The social commentary would be much more biting if the punchline was funny.

At least it wasn't a goddamn graph joke.

Re: [2012-Mar-1] Kids These Days

by PoetsHead » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:11 pm

I am a teacher and find this hilarious. These types of parents are known as "helicopter" parents, and their children seriously cannot deal with less than an A and expect others to go out of their way to give them what they think they "deserve." I used to back down all the time last year, but this year I'm standing my ground -- mainly because these future "leaders" need to learn right now how to EARN their grades, and I will no longer feed into a system of creating useless humans for the job market. It is also why I don't believe in "gifted & talented" programs, because it's the parents pushing for their children to be G&T, not so much the student being either of those things. Bah, education politics.

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