Simulated Comic Product - Latest Comments in Do While

Re: Do While

Sneaker — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:34:41 -0000

Jokes that need to be explained are never funny... unless they're explained in code in not one, but *three* languages. Thanks guys :)

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Kermaleivos — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:50:48 -0000

Took me long to understand. (Aka. 10minutes of re-reading, and then reading Hef's comment)

Poor robot fellow.

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michael — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:43:47 -0000

This was pretty lame. when is the next update?

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speearr — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:19:33 -0000

Aahahaha.... programmer's joke...... ;)

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Nes — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:55:28 -0000

If you go with 4xis.black's interpretation of the loop, but in C++ (with a pointer)

Robot* robot;
do {
robot = new Robot(getNextColor());
} while (!(robot->lovesMe()));

you end up with a memory leak, which adds a whole new layer of potential meanings... ;-)

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Shou — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:32:37 -0000

Poor thing, just like me. Good at MAKING friends (wink), but terrible at KEEPING them! So sad, so sad indeed! (After 'do while' was explained in comments [just not nerdy enough today], it suddnely had a less-deep meaning, but at the same time, it's all the same meaning. I like this one. Sad robots are really growing on me.)

Re: Do While

gotchan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:39:47 -0000

I didn't even notice the title and i got the joke right off. Yes, it's a sad joke, but that doesn't mean it's not funny—as long as it's happening to someone else.

Getting the joke doesn't mean i'm smarter than those who didn't get it. It just means i'm twisted the same direction as Kevin.

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Nick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:14:03 -0000

I like this strip a lot. One of my favorites lately. Don't get why it's not rated as high as most of other SCP comics, I mean who doesn't love sad robots?

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Rev. Pee Kitty — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:51:58 -0000

Not bad, but it's not just reminiscent of 2.0, it's basically the same comic. It's a solid theme, but Do While doesn't really say anything that you didn't already say with 2.0.

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Scythemantis — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:51:26 -0000

Why does everyone keep saying you have to understand the title to get it? I didn't know what "do while" meant until reading the comments and I understood the comic perfectly. It's obvious that he's stuck in a cycle, and knowing the programming terminology for it doesn't add anything to that.

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Eric — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:31:32 -0000

Actually, you would need to have class Robot have a producer class method, which when called, creates a new Robot, then returns a reference to the new Robot. Otherwise, you're simply automatically destroying the one you just made when you create the new one -- which clearly is not occurring here, as the "old" robots still exist when he creates the new ones (they just wander away).

Maybe he could have a doubly-linked list of Robots?

robots.add(new Robot(getNextColor());

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ollie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:40:35 -0000

I got it, but didn't find it funny. I found it 'Really Really Sad'. Which is also good. So, good comic, even though it is not funny???

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Clint — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:18:17 -0000

Great work.

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Peter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:18:22 -0000

This may be the best comic you've done! I didn't even realize the robot changed color until after the fact.

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wrecklessgirl — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:48 -0000

i just...love this.

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Michael — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:06:39 -0000

It was clear to me without seeing the title. For that matter it would also have been clear without the third iteration at the bottom. But I've been reading this strip for a while...

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Ogreman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:17:50 -0000

Oh man, that's brilliant and really depressing. I think maybe if there was a similar cutoff part at the top, like there is at the bottom, it would've been clearer.

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Tim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:37:30 -0000

Oh, also I love the builder robot's body language. It makes it very clear what emotions are going on here in a charmingly simple way.

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Tim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:34:18 -0000

It's pretty clever, I realize now that I've had the title explained to me. Unfortunately, the joke doesn't really come together unless you know what "do while" means.

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Tomical — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:17:52 -0000

I remember when I used to laugh at Simulated Comic Product.

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ethana2 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:47:59 -0000

Then, after he runs himself clean out of parts, his leg breaks, and there's no spare /anywhere/. He lies on the ground, immobile, watching his creations pass him by without a glance, and eventually he just runs out of power.

Years later he is but a pile of rust, who died alone and unloved.
...like Captain Hook, except not.

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Kelson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:45:57 -0000

For some reason I'm reminded of the droid workshop in the line for Star Tours at Disneyland.

"I've been working on the same droid
All the live-long daaaay!"

Re: Do While

Gem — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:57:26 -0000

I think the cut off could be illustrated better, even though I like the idea of this strip. As most comments here show - and my own experience wasn't far off, opened the comic in an extra-tab to proof it wasn't broken and then read the title and got the punchline - this way it isn't obvious that you meant it to iterate on and on. Maybe scaling would have helped. The sub-strip stepwise getting smaller, but that would imply a loss of relevance.

I'm also having a problem with reading-directions again: down, right, right, down, major down, down, right, right, down, major down... Especially the "major down" was quite a problem. At least I was confused with the directions. The similarity of the pictures in the first column made me believe I had to read downwards only, in columns. Indicating directions with arrows or something like that anyways seems like an unsatisfactory solution to me. There must be a way to point the direction more subtle. Scaling again would have helped maybe, because it would have distinguished the sub-strips from each other.

I just gave two stars as it is now, but I feel it would have gotten far more if your idea would have had a better optical equivalent.

Re: Do While

MattaU — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:27:00 -0000

4xis.black:
Or in C#

temprobot = new Robot(NextColor)
while(!temprobot.LovesMe)
{
temprobot = new Robot(NextColor)
}

Re: Do While

All Your Base Are Belong To Us — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:59:03 -0000

Okay. Yeah. Waaaaay over my head.

Cute artwork though!

Is it really supposed to cut off at the bottom?