[2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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scudwuzzle wrote:They are the same exact thing with "happiness" swapped out for "intelligence." They are the same exact comic.
Except for the red button punchline, which is hilarious.

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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Guest wrote:That is not a joke.

You can't just have two characters relating facts, even fictional made up facts, and call it a joke. Yes, you could make a joke with that concept, but the delivery of the dialogue is so far from being fashioned in anyway proximate to any acceptable form of what could be called a "joke," that it simply can't qualify. I'll assume that's why you posted it in mockery. Regardless, I weep for the sad sack who wrote that actually believing it to qualify as a joke.
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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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That's utter nonsense and it's still a far better joke than what I was referring to.

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fucking sjws, right?

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Good forum poster: hey I like jokes, I am one of the many people who enjoys a good 'joke'

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inhole.sendhelp wrote: Dada forum poster: HOW LONG COULD YOU LIVE WITHOUT TREES
OCD Off-topic Poster: For the rest of your life.

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

Post by hmm »

Maybe this is off topic, but looks like another comic just stole from Zach:

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/106
(which was posted today)

see:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3911

(which was posted on an earlier date)

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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They did, yeah.
Also it interesting that, despite the claim at the end, the comic does not reference The Violinist (it does have a violinist), unlike Zach's comic, which actually does (but ironically, he's a baker, not a violinist.) Implying they don't even understand the joke they stole.

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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dinosaur comics also made a joke about the trolley problem like last week

someone call the joke police

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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The joke is not exactly the same. It differs a bit in the punchline area. That said, the setup is similar enough that you could reasonably assume copying. The dinosaur comics joke isn't really close at all. It's just a separate trolley problem joke. At most you could say Ryan got the idea of doing a trolley problem comic from Zach's, which probably isn't even true.

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Re: [2014-1-21] Wherein Zach steals jokes from other comics

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Hi, guys. Guest here. In the way of an anonymous reporter, I'd like to ask a facetious question that is actually making a point. Since this is not a 100% serious forum, I expect to get multiple "no" answers.

Isn't it possible that multiple people, whose job it is to think of funny things, who tend to focus on satirizing society in one way or another, and who are seem to be part of said society's hip intelligentsia—think similar hot topics are funny and thus write comics about them?

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I don't understand how this thread is still active.
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smiley_cow wrote:I don't understand how this forum still exists.
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Edminster wrote:
smiley_cow wrote:I don't understand how this forum still exists.
To be fair, I've wondered about that too.
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smiley_cow wrote:
Edminster wrote:
smiley_cow wrote:I don't understand how this forum still exists.
To be fair, I've wondered about that too.
Many, many times.

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