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padijun » neu 1 years ago
A milestone: the first Roomba Theater to utilize makeup!
mc_white » neu 1 years ago
nah, thats just Teodor lookin constipated. Happens every time he wears a sourdough codpiece.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
It's a yeast infection
pyromancer » pro 1 years ago
Cranberry stuck in his eye
massialot » neu 1 years ago
Man, he must be flexible, then.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
I was thinking that, and then you articulated it. A chubby for you.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
Interesting tidbit about yeast infections, and indeed Candida albicans, the fungus that causes it.

As well as naturally occurring (generally without issue) in your gastrointestinal tract and mouth, it also occurs - due to the mouth/nose connection - in the nasal cavity.

Why is this interesting? Because, apparently, my sinuses are highly allergic to it.

To something that naturally occurs in your motherFUCKING nose.

This has to be the stupidest damned allergy that I know someone having.

The next few, in order:

2. Horribly allergic to bandaids (all-round tough guy and man's man brother-in-law, who has made half the furniture in his house out of steel, hardwood and brawn)
3. Penicillin (other brother-in-law, dock worker, wouldn't have survived WWII if he was a soldier)
4. Sulphur (comically ditzy mother - this one doesn't come up much except when we go to the local springs)


But #1, fucking easily, is taken out by being essentially allergic TO YOURSELF.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
For some reason I can hardly chubby anything any more. And you sir, are the loser in this. vChub.
norrin » neu 1 years ago
Happens to all of us with old age.
cpnglxynchos » neu 7 months ago
Gran Torino: OLD RAGE
c_dizzle » pro 1 years ago
I will refrain from lighting a match at you.
saucy_jack » neu 1 years ago
My cousin was allergic to his own SKIN. It almost killed him but they managed to save him in one of those medical-miracle kind of things. He later OD'd on crystal meth when he was in his early 20s.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It is possible to be allergic to semen. I am not making this up at all. It sounds quite unpleasant to be a lady with this sort of condition.

Sadly I'm allergic to both penicillin and morphine. I really do not desire to get hurt.
mirzabah » pro 1 years ago
Why would you desire to get hurt at all?
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
for morphine
comrade_tom » neu 1 years ago
The only cranberry in this strip is Teodors yarbles.
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
Is something mainly of girls!
maximus » neu 1 years ago
I am so afraid to ask what your avatar is.
lux » neu 1 years ago
It's - HAT-TASTIC!
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
first of all, have v-chub for that observation.
Second of all, it is a portrait of Baron von Beesworthy the beemancer, after one of his beloved bees was brutally murdered.
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
Here it is in high-res glory.
[IMGS OFF]
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
damn it
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
lux » pro 1 years ago
Oh god... Poor Baron von Beesworthy..
mrfedora » neu 1 years ago
it is the face of infinite sadness
thatskotkid » neu 1 years ago
They haven't had anything to do with Roombas for a long time. It's simply the motif used to signify cinematic parody in Achewood.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I hope to catch up the the present soon. I am now at January 2007 in the archives.
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
why won't it let me lame you? i haven't even used any today. you are lame.
tsrts13 » neu 1 years ago
the star wars millenium falcon roomba strip is one of my favorites, and the assassination of abraham lincoln is quality as well. basically, i am saying that you are wrong.
lastlarf » neu 1 years ago
Wrath Of Kahn: Also good.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Wrath of Kahn was the best yet.

"It'll wriggle around and hell of kill me!"
maximus » neu 1 years ago
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG IIIITTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the_voice » pro 1 years ago
"The millennium falcon is hella suckin" is one of my favorite lines ever.
tsrts13 » neu 1 years ago
"Oh, crap, R2! You can't leave grapesicles on the couch! Those covers cost like two hundred credits!"
_cheesekayke » neu 1 years ago
This is actually the only one of the Roomba ones I found funny.
alreadyinuse » neu 1 years ago
people who mark constructive posts as lame are confused.
straw » neu 1 years ago
It takes a whole lot for me to put someone on ignore. Though I am lukewarm at best about blastradius' comments, verily, he has lamed me thoroughly in the past, I ultimately agree with them. The only things I mark as lame are things that make the thought "That was lame" appear in my head as I read them. This was not the case.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
I was with you in the first post, but I find that lames give the forum a little bit of spam control, as well as incentive for forum etiquet.
While living in fear of posting an unpopular opinion may be an unwelcome effect of this, I can't say it is the worst scenario, either. Keeps the snicks in line, and is more welcome than a heaping of flame posts. Also, the moderation in which one must use lames keeps this in check as well.

So, anyway, in conclusion, assetbar sucks.
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
assetbar means too much to you
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
that comment is for 'alreadyinuse'. i hope you can read all this from the google summary, douchebag
semiquaver » con 1 years ago
You're a pathetic little shit with no lifestyle or habits. Now go sit in the corner until someone comes along to show you how we deal with people like you.
sharpdresseddan » neu 1 years ago
Is mainly a thing of women!
clembot » neu 1 years ago
Is mainly a thing of chicks
morelaak » neu 1 years ago
i don't know man, looks to me like he's halfway done up for going to see The Cure.

...man, the cure is silly...
coogs » neu 1 years ago
The Cure are rad so shhhh
possums » neu 1 years ago
Huzzah!
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
it IS from that one game!
obtree » neu 1 years ago
Its not makeup, its a fake eyelash. I don't think those count as makeup, but I'm not an expert.
lux » neu 1 years ago
Droog, friend, not brutha.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
"O my bruthas and only friends". I believe this is in the voice-over narration after he leaves prison.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
You just got neck-bearded!
tourach3 » pro 1 years ago
DUDE
you just CHANGED MY LIFE WITH THAT COMMENT
daidai » neu 1 years ago
If that is true then you have a very flimsy basis for the way you live your life.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
...and mine. NECKBEARD, AWAY!
comrade_tom » neu 1 years ago
Plus a bit of the old in and out, in and out.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
I would disagree by laming, but I've taken up reserving those for comments which irritate but don't anger me. Obviously you do neither by being horribly, incredibly wrong.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
Fair enough. Are you sure you've got those dates right, though? There was only one Kubrick after 1990, and the Barry Lyndon fans I know like it, also.
littlefatdog » pro 1 years ago
Barry Lyndon is a badass movie. Clockwork Orange is as well.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
The only film Kubrick has made which I don't remember being OUTSTANDING is Killer's Kiss, his second feature film. I have not seen Fear & Desire yet but you cannot chastise a man who is learning his craft.

You trying to say KK > ACO ???
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
No.

Full Metal Jacket is pretty much one of the greatest films ever made.

However, I think I shall cease discussing movies on this board because I remember why I stopped posting on messageboards in the first place - once you have come to a certain point, arguing about movies or politics or your favourite colour or whatever is pretty stupid; it's only your own opinion that really counts, and provided that you aren't some moron, this will be evident in the long run through the decisions you make in life.

If you as a person (or any of us) want what you say to have some weight, you have to achieve something or it's all hot air. This is why people care what Warren Buffet has to say about the stock market, but the ramblings of two random douchebags on money.cnn.com are worthless. And even then, what most "experts" have to say on a topic can be worthless too.

If you want to mould peoples' opinions you have to do with through means other than well written internet posts.

Now I have to drive across London in rush hour for 2 hours :)
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
As far as the character's making sense in Full Metal Jacket, speaking as someone currently employed in the armed forces, I have seen enough cases of war related PTSD and people's mind snapping in basic traning to accept the caharacter's as at least an exaggeration of people I know. Staff Sergent Hartman, however, I can accept at face value.

My main concern with that movie is mainly that it was two movies. The first time I saw the thing, I had no clue until half way through that Joker was the main character and narrator. Otherwise, I thought it was an okay film.
tommycrashwreck » neu 1 years ago
I didn't mean the characters weren't realistic people, I just meant that they changed their opinions and attitudes in ways that weren't really tied up in the causality of the on-screen events, and in any case we weren't given enough time with any of the characters to actually develop a sense of why they were acting the way they were, so their actions were either unbelievable or perplexing. Maybe there were just too many characters? I only saw this movie yesterday, so I'm still thinking it through, and I'll probably have to see it a few more times before I'm sold either way, but on my first viewing I saw nothing on par with other Kubrick films except a couple visual parallels and the line, "SIR, I THINK I MEANT TO SUGGEST SOMETHING ABOUT THE DUALITY OF MAN, SIR, YOU KNOW, THE JUNGIAN THING, SIR" or whatever it is. This attitude seems to have earned me something like 11 or 12 lames at press time, but I guess I'll just be a lame martyr for it since I have for some reason been "out of lames" for about a month and a half. I guess that's for the best though.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification, although before I can rebut to this, I require a little elaboration on a few of the instances in which you are speaking of.
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
Everyone is allowed their opinion, and getting lamed for it really isn't that big of a deal. Do you really expect anyone to agree with you? I found years ago that expecting people to agree with your opinions is about the damn dumbest thing one can do in their life. Opinions are the stuff of our insides, colored by our socialization and perception, and no one is going to have the exact same opinion. Frankly, I like being disagreed with. Well, provided the person disagreeing with me can argue their case like a rational human being, and not like a hormonally addled 13-year-old fuck tard with rabies. Though I will chubby you for your fervent defense of your opinion. 'Tis your right, and way to have stones.
hassanoleary » neu 1 years ago
As I understand it, and I may be wrong about this, the reason Full Metal Jacket seems like two movies is because technically it's a literary adaptation of a novel with three discreet parts. Kubrick kept the first part more or less stand-alone, then merged the second and third parts together for the Vietnam section of the film.
The More You Know...
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
Well, hopefully they do, but personally, I am fatigued by this type of thing for reasons outlined in my previous post.
ddgoec » neu 1 years ago
You seem to be saying that 22=4, but I'm okay with that because, hey, maybe in your world, it is!
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Moral relativism begets mathematic relativism.
cpnglxynchos » neu 7 months ago
oh, assetbar..making a fool of ever'one.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
You are implying that a man who has a desmonstrated a mastery over the stock market has done so through manipulation of luck alone. This is not a very valid argument.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
In fairness, monkeys have done well at the stock market. Literal, actual monkeys. They tend to trade about once a year.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
You know, I might end up regretting this, and I have as much reason as anyone to hate lawbot, but he really hasn't been that much of a dick lately. No need to disturb the equilibrium.
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
Are you sure you aren't 13? Or rabid? Or a fuck tard?
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
Fuck, replied to the wrong comment. I am the asshole here. I suck big ones.
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
Fuck, replied to the wrong comment. I am the asshole here. I suck big ones.
ishuta » neu 1 years ago
but that's exactly it. he's proven he knows what he's talking about, and is almost constantly right.

no one can prove they know for a fact which movies are good and which aren't, whether you're some random ass on ACHEWORLD: MESSAGE FORUM or roger ebert himself

there's no such thing as objective appeal - like what you like and don't be elitist
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
While lames may be a precious commodity, I always have one for a Rick Roll. Congradulations for being irritating on the internet.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
I was trying to think of something that was the exact opposite of objective appeal. I noticed that, to my knowledge, assetbar had never been rickrolled. When those two thoughts combined in my head, it seemed that the only possible link for this situation was a rickroll.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
It had occurred to me that this may have been your motivations, none the less; you know the rules, and so do I. I stand by my decision.
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
It had occurred to me, but I try not to be a douche. Way to go douche. Way to go.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Why? Why are you annoyed by the rickroll? Rick Astley is a genius!
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
There is non-sequiter humour, which is annoying enough. Then it gets amplified when it is attatched to a running gag.
straw » con 1 years ago
This may be the first actual occurrence of a vLame.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
NO
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
Without really disagreeing with your point, I'd like to defend Roger Ebert and what he does. Ebert's skill isn't Knowing What's Best, it's neatly summarizing a movie. He doesn't just discuss what appeals to him about a movie, he discusses what might appeal to who about it. He also presents his own opinions in an honest and funny way, but even those who disagree with him can get some use in his work.

--EBERT PATROL: Making the world safe for Roger Ebert.--
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I am sorry that universalism is apparently so widely despised on Assetbar - filthy relativists. I'd give you a chubby if I could - you're quite brilliant when you revert from troll form.

Also, irateturk, I think he/she/it was saying that there is nothing meaningful in itself about being rich and/or influential because those things can also be achieved in ways that depend more on luck than on mastery. Warren Buffet does not fall under this category, but plenty of other influential people do.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
I didn't say that every person who is rich or "successful" should be treated like Solomon, merely that if you want to be taken seriously in life you should attempt to become established in a field of sorts.

Your contribution to human knowledge will be far greater and wide reaching than if you just sat in your underpants posting some fucking brilliant Mark Twain shit on random messageboards.

Interesting Malcolm Gladwell article on this topic
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Hah, shows how much you know! I'm not even wearing underpants!
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
You have my sword
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
And my axe
eileens_wetwipe » neu 1 years ago
Classic, dude, pure genius! I laughed so hard I almost swallowed my roach. Chubbied to hell.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Excellent use of italics. Laughed! I thought I'd die.
tipist » neu 1 years ago
Rush hour for 2 hours? IMPOSSIBLE!
kevh » neu 1 years ago
I just spent like a good minute trying to understand how you got an emoticon in that comment, not realizing it was in the avatar spot, and am going to feel retarded for the rest of today.
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
You sir, fucking rule. This is probably the most well thought-out post I have ever read on assetbar. You get a chubby.
nabeel84 » neu 1 years ago
This is one of the avatars with harder action than Ludovico. It haunts me at night and I sleep restless. I know the eye watches endlessly.
terrainasaur » neu 1 years ago
nice avatar.
rogergs » neu 1 years ago
I like Kubrick all right but can do without his internet fanbase. All the detail in his films inspires the worst kind of paranoiac-critical fallacy, frame-by-frame Da Vinci Code games, and such arguments as "Kubrick is so perfectionistic that all his mistakes must actually be intentional! Ergo the shadow of the camera helicopter in the opening sequence of The Shining is a Brechtian alienation effect that symbolizes the very shadow of death!"
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
This fanbase you mention - both on and offline - is the scourge of all humanity, not just Kubrick.
freelancelove » neu 1 years ago
That is an Uncool Joke.
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
We don't take kindly to lolcats 'round these parts, maximumcans. Even when they're MSPaintified. Move along now, doggies.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I dunno, I think it's pretty awesome. You guys need to stop smelling your own farts and let go of these uptight rules you've made for Assetbar. Obviously such posts are ironic, doubly so because they refer to the lolcat story arc. Maybe take a moment to think about context instead of being all "OMGZ DUN POST DA LOLCATZ IT MAKES ME SO MADZORZ!!!!11" Just saying is all.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
The reason people usually flip out about lolcats is that they are horribly overused, that and the fact that 99.997% of them are incredibly stupid. This is one of the .003% that are actually funny, but many still have difficulty suppressing the "lame the lolcat" instinct. This instinct helps us to survive the rough voyage across this sea of idiocy known as TEH INTARNETZ. While I admit that it is unfair to maximumcans, the anti-lolcat vigilance is necessary to avoid being PWN3D BY A 1337 H4XORZ while enduring taunts of STFU n00b I M IN UR BAS KILLING YOUR MANS and U R TEH SUKZORS OMGWTFROFLMAOBBQBRBTTFN I <3 pr0n

Is this what you really want?
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Okay.... Try this: A cat, dressed as Jimmi Hendrix, with and Impact! font text that reads 'I are standing next ur mountain, chopping it down with the edge of ma hand'. Yes, or no?
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
YES
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
If the mountain were Mt. St. Helens, Krakatoa, or the like, preferably mid-splode, then it could possibly work, but the lolcat would have to be seen before final judgment could be passed.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
Absolutely, yes.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
SI!
mindbnder » neu 1 years ago
i don't know, it made me laugh pretty hard. does that mean that i'm a...terrible person?
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Depends. Is your avatar Darth Vader fighting a unicorn?

If so, then you are not a terrible person.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
I'll put my money on Vader in that matchup
norrin » neu 1 years ago
I don't know. According to the guy from The Perry Bible Fellowship, "If Superman drove the Death Star into an atomic explosion that was being detonated on a Unicorn...the Unicorn would be standing when the dust cleared. That much is true"
mindbnder » neu 1 years ago
why, of course it is.
If Luke had failed, and Leia, then only the unicorn would survive to stop the empire.
duh.
streever » con 1 years ago
I think it doesn't make you a terrible person. In this case, you just don't have much empathy for the situation, which is unfortunate, because what happened was pretty awful. Maybe it's better for you to not feel sad about it, but I dunno.
sn0wman » neu 1 years ago
I liked ACO, but it is still only my seventh favourite Kubrick film, after Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, and 2001. Which actually says quite a lot for Kubrick.

And no, I'm not even going to try to italicize those names on Assetbar. I've learned this from everyone else's mistakes.
maximus » neu 1 years ago
I agree, though I would probably place Spartacus a little higher on the list. It's interesting that of Kubrick "futuristic" films (2001 and ACO - haven't seen AI) ACO seems so dated and 2001 continues to hold up - even its special effects are watchable.

//thought I'd introduce a new Roomba-inspired avatar
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Nice one. I love how Beef's Roomba moves slower than T's; it's like his depression is just a gravity field, just slowing them all down.
baryonyx » neu 1 years ago
Hey, superb.
caseyb3 » neu 1 years ago
Well, appropriate enough; Anthony Burgess was a self-obsessed right-wing twit - a house-proud part of a British tradition of obsessing over how horrible and numerous your inferiors (usually colonials with a stupid religion without vicars or buggery) are - so 'pubescent pretentiousness' is a pretty good call. The only good thing that can be said for Kubrick doing Clockwork Orange is that the ending made Burgess, who was in every respect the inferior craftsman but good luck convincing him of that, all pissy and dour.
caseyb3 » neu 1 years ago
Okay this is a response to the guy who connected ACO to a pretentious young man, who the hell put it here :(
gmm » pro 1 years ago
Did... did your friend rape anyone?
kombatmedik » pro 1 years ago
that is the saddest thing...
obtree » neu 1 years ago
Lets not forget that A Clockwork Orange was originally a novel. You can't criticize Kubrick for staying true to Anthony Burgess' masterpiece.
caduceo » con 1 years ago
who gives two shits in a biscuit about what some dumbass did at your school. (never mind those 18 people that bulbed you)
mikeronomicon » neu 1 years ago
Ok, I love that movie, but the moronic fuck tard you went to school with just ruined it for me. Your opinion is defended, and I must now destroy the parts of my brain that are associated with the memory of that particular movie. Damn.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Clearly you haven't seen Lolita.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
It wasn't great, but Sellers jabbering at H.H. about how handsome he is makes up for a lot of silly scenes.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
It was an absolute butchery of the book. The casting was atrocious and contradicted every description in the book. The plot was rearranged for no reason. Key character-defining events were left out and a bunch of scenes just completely made up. Rargh, it just makes me so angry.

The 1998 version with Jeremy Irons was far superior. Of course it was a bit melodramatic, but at least it stayed true to the material and preserved the emotional impact, rather than taking the opposite route and just making the whole thing a lighthearted comedy like Kubrick did. The comedic element in the book came mainly from Nabokov's wordplay, and there's just no way to represent that in film, so I think the later movie was the best possible adaptation.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
Alas, better adaptations do not necessarily make for better films -- a death match between Everything Is Illuminated and The Human Stain immediately comes to mind. I'd argue the merits of Lyne's version with you, but despite the sometimes subtly hilarious cinematography, it was too boring to finish. And I've read the novel a dozen times, with Tarkovsky films as coffee breaks.

Alternatively: Stephen King? Is that you?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I haven't seen The Human Stain, but I'll assume you're saying that it was a faithful adaptation and a poor movie, while Everything Is Illuminated was a loose adaptation and a great movie, because the reverse would mean that there was not enough room on this Assetbar for the both of us.

It's a shame you didn't finish the Lyne version. It does drag on (actually in the same way and in the same places that I thought the novel did), but the ending is pretty well done both in its style and the subtle ways in which it hints at Humbert being an unreliable narrator. Oh well, chubby for well-informed disagreement.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
That's what I meant, yeah. The opposite opinion would indeed be punishable by circumcision.
mjfitzge » neu 1 years ago
again?
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
That would be the joke, m'dear.
eatmorekix » neu 1 years ago
Everything Is Illuminated was a cinematic abortion. sorry.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
YOU'RE a cinematic abortion. The video's on YouTube.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
I shouldn't have posted that. Now I regret it. Damn.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
No, no, it was...it was good.
eatmorekix » neu 1 years ago
no, honestly, Eugene Hutz is the only really good part of the movie.
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Death Match! I got $50 on Phil Roth! -- he may be the old champ, but the new kid ain't got the moves yet. Who's takin' the action?
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
Oh, well, sure, for the books. EII just beats the shit out of any Roth movie. Still, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is pretty badass, and Roth, um, wears Depends.
maximus » neu 1 years ago
I have a (so-far) reliable theory about Stephen King movies: the less input King has, the better the movie will be.
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
Yes! Much like George Lucas and dialogue...
yearsinhotclaws » neu 1 years ago
Nabokov himself liked the movie. I know if you're any kind of person that won't change your opinion but I'm just throwing it out there.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Actually I think he was polite about it in the media, but at some point likened it to a scenic ambulance drive from the horizontal passenger's point of view or something of the sort. Not quite sure what that means, but I don't think it's good.
sn0wman » neu 1 years ago
Well, if you're the horizontal passenger in the back of the ambulance, you can't really see the pretty scenery passing by. You cannot enjoy it because it is just out of your line of sight. At least, that's how I always took the comment.
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
Also, you are severely injured.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
========Ambulance Ride 2.0========

You are in an ambulance. From your position you can see the ceiling. It is white. The paramedics are arguing about movies.

Also, you are severely injured.

Possible exits: N, S, E, W

:N

You try to move, but you are severely injured.

=====GAME OVER======

You have achieved 0 out of a possible 0 points.
Play again? (Y/N)
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
everyone knows that Ambulance Ride 1.5 was the last good version...
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
This deserves much more chubb.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
You are on FIRE!
jujubeesforjesus » neu 1 years ago
Big Black! Chubby for you my friend.
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
Chubby for Sifl an Olly.

Lame for me, for probably not being the first person to notice that.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
You say that you are giving jujubeesforjesus a chubby, but the comment has no chubbies. Did you intend to give a chubby and forget, or was that chubby supposed to be virtual and you didn't point that out, or, worst of all, were you lying?
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
No, no. I apparently just have slight to moderate mental retardation. Which caused me to get so excited about those damn socks that I got all confused and befuddled.

Thanks for catching that so I could give the man the chubby he deserved!


chuvak » neu 1 years ago
I bet you also like the made for TV Dune better than the original Lynch/NotLynch moviefilm. You are a literalist sir! A LITERALIST!
straw » pro 1 years ago
I personally find literalist line-by-line interpretations of books to be incredibly boring. "The Tin Drum" is an exception though (even if the early scenes are somewhat distracting in how faithful they are to the book.)
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
The Tin Drum? They made a BOOK out of that?!
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
I personally find Lynch's Dune to be a film that fails to rise above the level of mediocre. Mostly because it was a pretty literal adaption with half the material cut out.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
I knew someone was going to mention that eventually.
I would have liked that movie a lot better if they had cut out a lot more matierial, and left the 'Put your hand inside the box' bit in.
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
It would have been a lot better had they taken the money used to make the film, and spent all of it on coke and hookers, instead of most of it.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
YES
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Well, perhaps. My point is not that I missed those bits because it was a departure from the book, but that it was long, and didn't really make sense, because half of it was just missing, rather than written out.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
IT BURNS.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
Oh, I dunno. Dune has some moments of excellence. Also it's visually awesome in two ways. The set design is exquisite in parts - the Geidi Prime scenes are insane. And it's way way 80s. I mean it looks like Tron but evil.
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Yeah, it was sad day when they had to remake Kubrick to get the book right. Of course, Stephen King despisde Kubrick's THE SHINING and arranged to have that movie remade. The remake was OK; it did too much backfilling to explain things From Long Ago; I thought that took too much time. The last thing a horror movie can be is S . . . L . . . O . . . W . . .
gumbercules » neu 1 years ago
I'm making my first post ever (after months of lurking) to tell you how much I agree. Lolita is one of my favorite novels, and I have just never been able to watch the film without comparing it to the novel and grumbling to myself (and occasionally ranting to the poor soul who agreed to watch with me) the entire time.
slanger » neu 1 years ago
Wow, that Death avitar takes me back to the 90s! Loved that comic so hard.
To your point: there's the old saying that a bad book makes a great movie and vice versa. Of course, there are a few notable exceptions. Just one of those things, I guess.
jbushnell » neu 1 years ago
I can't believe that the question of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch has not yet arisen in this thread
cromar » neu 1 years ago
That movie is sheer brilliance.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
Lolita is brilliant...
maximus » neu 1 years ago
I think just making a movie based on Lolita was Kubrick's "statement" - the particulars of the movie were taboo and virtually unfilmable in 1962, which his why he relies on extra-literary stuff like Seller's burlesques to take up screen time.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
What? I can't think of any part of the book that would be unfilmable.
lux » neu 1 years ago
The couch scene where they sing and he orgasms with a little girl innocently sitting beside him; the initial sex scene in the hotel; her girlfriend Mona talking in a "sexy" voice trying to seduce Humbert... There's quite a few racy scenes. And the concept of an older man keeping a thirteen year old as his little concubine was racy enough to begin with in 1962.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
I don't think that keeping a thirteen year old as a "concubine" is racy - it's generally considered criminal.

As to the couch scene, I think that could be done tastefully. The "initial sex scene" could probably be done without showing the sex, plus that would help bring out the ambiguity of whether or not it was consensual. The Mona scene doesn't actually have to be filmed with Mona being deliberately sexy, or it could just be filmed that way, because it's not obscene (in the censorship sense).
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Did you see how they did it in the '98 film? There's a sort of slow montage scene where it shows their home life. At one point it shows her sitting on his lap reading a book and you're supposed to think they're sharing an innocent father/daughter moment. Then as the camera pans down you realize that her hips are moving.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Well, I saw that film many years ago, so I can't remember. Unfortunately, my memory is so bad that I can't remember if I thought that she was doing it deliberately in the book. Of course, part of the problem is that HH is an unreliable witness. One thing that I don't remember taking from the film at all was that it was entirely his recollection.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
This was a pretty far-fetched excuse for Teodor to be naked. I'm pretty sure I remember Alex wearing underwear in the movie.
terebikun » neu 1 years ago
I'm going to side with Achewood, I've seen the movie my fair share and I'm almost positive he wakes up naked and THEN puts on underwear. His nudity made his guidance counselor's "interest" in him all the more creepy.
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Did you actually SEE Barry Lyndon? Cuz that was worse. A Clockwork Orange at least had a social role to play in the violent 60s. Barry Lyndon was just muddy. Every outdoor scene took place in the mud.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
So did the entire seventeenth century, so it was higlhy appropriate
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Bravissimo
rogergs » neu 1 years ago
To be fair, Burgess and Kubrick envisioned the Ludovico Technique in a world before goatse.
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
[img] Photoshopped version of this strip. The tit is replaced with goatse. [/i do not have the time, skills or software to do this]
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
I would do it, but:

1) I am working.
2) I do not have the intestinal fortitude.
3) Your description (paired with an Asseteer's imagination) ends up better than I could probably do it...
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
I want to set a Guinness World record for looking at goatse for longer than anyone has done before.
cromar » neu 1 years ago
That is horrible! Please do it.
abendsonnen » neu 1 years ago
Oh...oh my god. I had no idea what a goatse was. Damn it.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I'm still not sure I know what a goatse is. Should it be used as a term to refer to any picture or example of a similar activity?

"Hey man, come look at this goatse!"
"Man, why did you change my desktop to a goatse?"
"I made you a goatse. I hope you like it."
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Refers to a fad that gained a bit of ubiquity where people would try to trick others into opening a pic of a man openning his irregularily stretched rectum.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
*clap clap clap*

...lost a brother that way...
loneal » neu 1 years ago
When you put it that way, it sounds kinda cute.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
i made you a goatse...

but i eated it
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
my goatse's breath smells like goatse food.
scraggg » pro 1 years ago
Balkan hitting-porn normally consists of people just going at each it like powder kegs on the verge of explosion.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
Completely devoid of facial expression, rising from the unconscious form of the combatant with no more care than from the potato field to which he'll return tomorrow.
1000hz » neu 1 years ago
Let's everybody give a nice round of applause for the Return of the Roomba.
theargentinian » neu 1 years ago
my mom just bought one of these... and I stood on it. It couldn't hold my weight. I'll leave the Roomba Cinema to the Acheworld. my mom is still pissed and the floor is still dirty.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
You should've put your cat on it. I assume you weigh considerably more than your cat. If you have one.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
You are not a cat.
synapse » neu 1 years ago
are you a cat? are you stuffed? cats aren't stuffed. if you're a cat, you're not stuffed. QED.
doc_rostov » pro 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
arbys » neu 1 years ago
Roast Beef is not a stuffed animal, he's a live honest-to-goodness cat.
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
and Teodor is a stuffed bear. what is your point?
theargentinian » neu 1 years ago
Thanks Doc. For some reason I feel like I've won some Achewood Award in having my screen name be part of the title of an Assetbar-worthy picture comment. I would like to thank my mom for always being there, my Roomba for being at the right place at the right time, my stuffed cat collection for always making me feel like less of a pussy, Chris Onstad for making this all possible... (queue orchestra music)
tommycrashwreck » neu 1 years ago
... to be accompanied by an explicit threesome at double speed!
obtree » neu 1 years ago
Please change your avatar. It makes me want to vomit.
synnah » neu 1 years ago
Harder action than the Ludovico Technique.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Good work, but I would have replaced "Direct Roomba films!" with "So stand on it, Agnes!"
coldfrog » neu 1 years ago
you have combined two of my favorite things here, and for that, I commend you.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
argentinians and slumber?
coldfrog » neu 1 years ago
I was thinking film clapboards and unpickable options, but that's a pleasant alternative as well.
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
I'M SO JEALOUS I WANT ONE SO BAD
spectre » pro 1 years ago
Go to Best Buy.
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
No such thing over here. As far as I know, anyway.
retinarow » neu 1 years ago
doyouliveinspace
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
(239,000 miles away from the Cure and also Roombas)
eatmorekix » neu 1 years ago
therearealotofcountriesbesidesamerica
chachibenji » neu 1 years ago
theyareallinspace
sncether » neu 1 years ago
no, space is part of America. sorry.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Yes, we bought it in 1986.
retinarow » neu 1 years ago
take that, gorbachev.
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
My boyfriend, who works at Best Buy, tells me that although you don't have those there (and by there, I mean England, because I think that's where you said you live), you might have the Geek Squad? Which is owned by Best Buy.

If you don't have Geek Squads, then please disregard.
synnah » neu 1 years ago
I have never heard of such a thing. It is a strange name for a store.
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
Well, it's a company based on computer repair.

So it's fitting?
synnah » neu 1 years ago
I guess!
pogo » con 1 years ago
You mom should stand on you, dolt!
baryonyx » neu 1 years ago
In Soviet Russia...
lux » neu 1 years ago
...terrible jokes tell you?
cantilever » neu 1 years ago
I really don't like it when Teodor shows his teeth like that! With his puffy little bear mouth, so menacing.
rustmouth » pro 1 years ago
Looks like John McCain after taking a slap to the eye.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
YES
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
he looks like he opened a beer bottle with his eye and it got stuck there.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
If he had glasses, it would look like Cheney trying to smile.
phy » neu 1 years ago
Oh god, he's tried that? I thought he sold every facial muscle except those that produce a scowl, in exchange for power over the unsuspecting.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
This was terrifying. Teodor has real menace.
andrewofdoom » neu 1 years ago
Dang. I was totally hoping the Boffin arc would end with "Cornelius? Cornelius, I am a prostitute."
neonaoneo » neu 1 years ago
v-chub
maximus » neu 1 years ago
"I remember the first night. We lived...opposite a dress shop, in the door of which a shop-girl used to stand...we came to an understanding by sign language...but when I came down in the evening someone else was already there - well this didn't make any differance...she...signed to me that I should follow them...we walked, I following slowly, to the girl's apartment...there the man said goodbye, the girl ran into the house, I waited a while untill she came out again, and then we went to a hotel...Even before we got to the hotel all this was charming, exciting, and horrible, in the hotel it wasn't different."

Kafka - Letter to Milena
cynara » pro 1 years ago
My god, is that a Kafka letter to Penthouse?
qingofchina » neu 1 years ago
Roast Beef's internet wins.
perilon » pro 1 years ago
Did A Clockwork Orange inspire anybody else to open a milk bar. Because I've been entranced with the idea since age 14. Yes, that's right, the legacy of the literary and filmic masterwork to my mind has been that milk bars are a wonderful idea.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Epinepherine laced drinks and large men in leotards? Count me in!
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
There used to be a place in the East Village called the Korova Milkbar. The front looked pretty much like the bar in the movie, but beyond that it was just a regular hipster bar - no milk or drugs, unfortunately. On the plus side, there were huge comfy round chairs, they were always showing weird Japanese movies on the TV screens, and their Blueberry Cosmos were excellent. It closed a couple of years ago :-(
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
there was a club in Moscow called Trish that actually had the mannequin bodies coming out of the wall and you could drink cold milk out of their tits - they even had little plastic slip cover dispensers all over so you wouldn't have to put your mouth on plastic tit infected with the diseases of the moscow club-going public (TB). It was pretty cool though. There were no drugs in the milk but everyone there was already on drugs anyway.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
I should clarify - as opposed to the Clockwork Orange milk bar, where the nips and other things were like... taps that you held a glass under, at this club you were expected to suckle fake teat.
cantilever » neu 1 years ago
I...didn't think anyone would want to do that? I don't think I could do that.
rabbidpanda » neu 1 years ago
The Fry avatar really makes that comment awesome.

... Re: Moscow Milk Nipples, I am disgusted as a human being, but as an engineer I am fascinated .
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
Dammit!! I can't find any pictures online of MST3K and the "Fridge Udders"...

"It has three teats, that dispense whole milk, skim, and crushed ice..."
(ow, damn!)

heh. teat.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Wow. Good memory; I'd long forgotten that one.
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
For anyone unaware of the genius of MST3K, here's a screenshot from "Alien From L.A....
[IMGS OFF]
(I forgot that the third one dispenses chocolate milk...)
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
I was impressed not so much by the ingenuity as with the dedication to a design idea it showed. This meant that they installed some sort of refillable milk reservoir in the wall. Moscow is not known for caring that much about ANYTHING.
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
Yes, that is the perfect expression for that comment. Yes.
cantilever » neu 1 years ago
You would be surprised how versatile it is.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
You could, and you WILL.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
You must really be a krutoi chuvak, because I was under the impression that it was like impossible to get into any of the Moscow clubs what with the face control and all. Then again, I've been in America for 16 years and my only source for this notion is The Exile.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
Trish had a relatively liberal door policy. They would filter out the obvious yahoos that were looking for drunken fightsings, and give favor to nerdy drugged up kids. And quiet Americans.
kombatmedik » pro 1 years ago
it closed??? I went there once, they actually specialized in milk drinks, like White Russians, etc. It was a cool place, and those chairs were pretty money.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, they also had VIP rooms in the back with couches and big TVs that played porn. I do believe it closed though.
lucidloon » neu 1 years ago
Wait, didn't they have cocktails that involved milk? That's what I was always led to believe...
lucidloon » neu 1 years ago
And now that I scroll down I see this was already covered. Hurray for being observant!
cyberia » pro 1 years ago
There's a club in Bendigo (small Australian town) called the Korova Lounge but, unfortunately, it shares only its name with the bar from ACO.

Also, there's a bar in Melbourne (large Australian city) based on the Korova Lounge from ACO. It has lots of 1950s 'futuristic' decor and crazy cocktails. It's actually a pretty good place to end up at 4.00 on a Saturday morning when you're already drunk.
cantilever » neu 1 years ago
Sympathy v-chub for living in Bendigo. It is a lovely place to visit for a day
octafish » neu 8 months ago
I spent a week in Bendigo one night.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
A song on Bjork's debut album Debut was recorded "at the Milk Bar toilets," according the to CD liner notes. I'm not sure what Milk Bar or where, or if this was a joke, or what, though.
bigtom » neu 1 years ago
Is it just me or is Teodor naked at some point in the majority of the strips he appears in?
synnah » neu 1 years ago
techiebabe » neu 1 years ago
Well, Téodor IS the Anthony Kiedis of hiding in the hallway.
techiebabe » neu 1 years ago
Oh, dammitall.
Assetbar is a harsh mistress.
synnah » neu 1 years ago
I'm being attacked by two cute, sweetcorn-eating kittens! Blargghhhhh!
keir » neu 1 years ago
Teodor looks more like Oliver Hardy than Beef looks like Stan Laurel.
Now I'm imagining Laurel and Hardy hell of rampaging through black and white London all made up with stuffed packages raping wives but Stan somehow bumbling it up and Ollie acting all exasperated and then Stan crying and whining, %u201CWell I couldn%u2019t help it dogg%u201D
keir » pro 1 years ago
What on Earth happened to my effing quotes goddammit
rogergs » neu 1 years ago
Makes more sense than Nadsat, droogg.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Another fine mess you got me into!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Welcome to BBcode. Importing quotes from any word processing program is verboten. You must type your quote marks here.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
(Forbidden.)
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
a virtual chubby to you
tellumo » pro 1 years ago
RAP MUSIC, MY DROOGS!

horrorshow.
opalleye » pro 1 years ago
This is one of the most over-linked strips on Assetbar, and for good reason.
moissanite » neu 1 years ago
Teodor and Roast Beef schedule these meetings through email. They lower all the blinds and make sure no one else is around during the performance.

This is sort of what it's like to still play GI Joes at twenty-three and doing everything in your power to hide it from your friends.
tekende » pro 8 months ago
I played with Batman action figures until I was almost 17.
mikeleffel2 » pro 1 years ago
Chris could illustrate a poop giving birth but as long as he mentions Stan Laurel he gets a five from me!!!!!!
aaa » neu 1 years ago
i was most certainly hoping for some hardcore thumbnail avatars, but alas, there is none of the old ultra violence to be found here. (sigh) who shall rise to this challenge?
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
I'm sure that Onstad must have been referencing his own forum in some way. He must. MUFT.
chachibenji » neu 1 years ago
mult sizzle
howl » neu 1 years ago
Nooo you guys I was so happy when I made that joke and earned 32 chubbies on my first post

I was like, 32 Achewood readers thought something I said was funny

Now I see it may have only been because it was high up on the comments.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Capitol S is still an "S".

Only lowercase becomes an "f".

I'm going to chubby you for your mistake, I'm not really sure why. Please don't take it as patronizing.
aperson » neu 1 years ago
It's because you're besotted, you transparent, sweating sex maniac.
abj » pro 1 years ago
Me too, but I think all the hardcore thumbnail avatars must be taking some time to cook up. I expect we'll find some when we check these comments again, or in a few days in the comments of other strips.
abj » neu 1 years ago
Also, though there are already many worthy posts in the comments for "Roomba Cinema - A Clockwork Orange", I resolve to save my chubbies for said avatars.
abendsonnen » neu 1 years ago
Where's fattybeaver with the avatar of the tit punch? Not that I particularly care to see that again, but I think it's an adequate equivalent. He's probably got worse in queue.
loneal » neu 1 years ago
I was thinking the same thing, but I've already commented on that tit punch twice, and I didn't want to become a one-trick pony. I guess it is too late now.
lastlarf » neu 1 years ago
You don't want to be known as the chick who is always talking about the tit punch. I understand that.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I wish people would stop calling icons "avatars."
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
Ha! Onstad totally disagrees with your views on this matter!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Well, he is god, so I guess I should give up my defense of meaning and defiinitions and such and just bend over for the avatarinization of icons, hallelujah fellujah USA USA.
cromar » neu 1 years ago
Let's compromise and call them avataricons.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
Avataricon, the new novel by Neal Stephenson. 2008 Farrar Strauss and Giroux.
octafish » pro 1 years ago
You get a chubby for making me aware of a new Stephenson Novel, even if you did by fibbing about the title.
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
YES! And a chubby for you for mentioning it, thereby making me aware!
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
and i chubbied cromar for his involvement just because nobody else did
loneal » neu 1 years ago
Sometimes you gotta!
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
Neil Stephenson circle-jerk!!! It's like the college experience I never had!!!

...I did not want this.
loneal » neu 1 years ago
My username is actually short for, "Lo! Neal Stephenson!" This circle-jerk was bound to happen sooner or later.
pogo » pro 1 years ago
Thanks, punks, for making me look up Stephenson. Looks like a writer I'd like.
hamscout » pro 1 years ago
Start with Snow Crash (This is the most action-packed and film-ready, IMHO.) Dirty Bladerunner-esque future with cyber punk interweb hacking mindfucks.
The Diamond Age is slow, but fascinatingly set in the far-far-distant future.
Cryptonomicon mixes modern day with WWII, code breaking and intrigue.
The 'Baroque Cycle' books are VERY dense, and therefore somewhat difficult for short-attention-span (and slightly dense) individuals such as myself.

Fuck. Now I'm gushing in my own little "Book Corner"...

Dammit! Where the hell is Lyle with that gut-punch?!?
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Thanks for the tips, and Lyle can go punch himself in the sack. It ain't gushing if it's true (to bend a phrase).

Looks like the next novel is Anathem in September.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
If you like that stuff, look up Greg Egan
pogo » pro 1 years ago
Thanks, looks interesting. Didn't know any Aussies could write.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
a) It's Neal
b) It's wank.
pogo » pro 1 years ago
The unknown Fellinni flick, Avataricon
rabbidpanda » neu 1 years ago
I wanted to comment on it earlier, but I was already accused of being pedantic that day, and didn't want to be that guy. I don't know how well versed in the internet you are, but calling these pictures avatars is nothing new. I'm pretty sure every forum or BBS that I've been a member of refers to these as avatars.

To be a dick about terms: an icon is a picture that represents or illustrates a concept or message sans words. Avatar has an etymology that eludes me at the moment, but it goes back to some hindu belief about reincarnation (I think), and this is usually used when an icon represents a living thing.
cromar » neu 1 years ago
Avatar is "from Sanskrit avat%u0101ra %u2018descent,%u2019 from ava %u2018down%u2019 tar- %u2018to cross.%u2019" (OAD)

It is a divine being made incarnate on the physical plane (in Hinduism).
cromar » neu 1 years ago
Man assetbar is ca-ra-zy sometimes. avatara - descent; ava - down; tar - to cross.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Usually a word to describe a deity taking human form.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
"Usually?"

Perhaps in the last two or three years, on the internet, as a result of literary coining of the term for such purpose, in relation to virtual reality representations.
rabbidpanda » neu 1 years ago
The first time I saw avatar used in the context of an icon paired with a post on a forum was about 8 years ago. I think it was some flavor of those phBB things. It was by no means cutting eqdge, allowing users to choose from a wide array of stock Fat Albert pictures and some old Space Ghost-ish monsters. I'm pretty surprised that not many people have encountered similar usage.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Great. I can find ancient pictures of flying saucers, but it doesn't mean that they had them.
rabbidpanda » neu 1 years ago
Right, but language and physical objects are different. Words gain currency in the language as meaning a certain thing through using said word to mean said thing. That's the reason you run from cops, and delete spam from your inbox that is phishing for your bank info.

I could use your same logic to argue that these aren't icons because they don't depict something sacred, like a saint.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Well, no. Because the term "icon" has been in use in computing for a long, long time, and gained currency with huge numbers of people. By contrast, "avatar" in the sense you propose, although you may have been using it when animal skins were still in fashion, did not go much beyond your circle for a long, long time (i.e. just now).
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Just because a "huge number of people" use a word incorrectly doesn't mean the actual meaning will change, at least not right away. Especially if these people are mostly young and poorly educated and come to realize they have been misusing terms.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
NO
rabbidpanda » neu 1 years ago
Well, icon certainly wasn't being used to refer to little computer pictures long before there were operating systems with GUIs. I'd imagine the use of the word 'avatar' to describe pictures like this was not too far on its heels, in terms of the expanses of time it takes for a word to be generally accepted as meaning something new.

I propose we officially kill off the discussion of avataricons and instead cuss out people who say 'irregardless'. fuck them
pogo » pro 1 years ago
Agreed. And how about those who say, "I could care less." It's couldn't bitches!
cromar » neu 1 years ago
It was used in to describe your personification in The Palace chat program back in 1995... it's was around before that for a while... I hope that is... interesting...
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
Hmm. *Rushes forwards and squirts ink*
cromar » neu 1 years ago
MAN WHY YOU EVEN GOT TO DO A THING?!
pogo » pro 1 years ago
Yeah, I don't mind being that guy who wonders about work use and meanings. And I thank you for the help. Perhaps a compromise would be to call these postage stamp things icons that can also depict an avatar, leaving avatar for the truly 3-D things that walk around in virtual worlds and have bodies. Icons are little pictures and symbols for things.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
NECKBEARD MOUNT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rogergs » neu 1 years ago
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about Achewood Assetbar is its language. The posters think and talk in the "asschat" (Achewood fandom) vocabulary of the future. A doctor in the strip explains it. "Odd bits of black urban slang," he says. "A bit of Internets talk, too. But most of the roots are self-referential. Wanking. Navel-gazing."

Asschat is not quite so hard to decipher as Cretan Linear B, and the posters translate it. I found that I could not read the board without compiling a glossary; I reprint it here, although it is entirely unauthorized, and some of it is guesswork.

all - Adverbial intensifier, from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). "All givin hella chubbies and lames."

[i}%312DAssetbarf%215C[/i] Tourettes-like outbursts of ASCII characters and question-mark icons that occur without warning and are quickly apologized for or bemoaned. Origin never satisfactorily explained.

chubby - Good. Also, a unit of attentional currency.

dogg - One's friend, from AAVE. Use is multiply ironic in that the Achewood characters and presumably all Assetbar posters are cats, humans and other non-canine animals who likely grew up not speaking AAVE.

doubleplusgood - Double chubby.

hella - Adverbial intensifier, from AAVE (West Coast).

lame - Bad. Also, a unit of controversy.

lame-out - To disappear down the memory hole by incurring multiple lames.

Stad - The author of the strip. Asschat is so constructed that one literally cannot create a sentence critical of Stad or his works without committing thoughtcrime.
dzieger » pro 1 years ago
Out of chubbies, dammit! Nice work.
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
Already? I guess it has been five hours... Still, though! Hold onto the chubbies. The great comments will still be there later when you've had time to assess the ones that are yet to come.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
I swear I only gave out about two chubbies before now. I feel wronged. "Unit of controversy" on its own pretty much warranted one.
pogo » pro 1 years ago
"Hold onto the chubbies" ... how I wish more young women had your insight. Bless you.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
You did not make explicit that the etymology of doubleplusgood is 1984 by George Orwell, but it is clear you are aware of it by your later reference to thoughtcrime. Just thought I'd clarify.
phy » neu 1 years ago
Assetbarf is needed terminology and I thank you for putting a name to the concept.
bixschmix » neu 1 years ago
I would posit that it is not Onstad-specific criticism that earns one the shame of thoughtcrime; rather, true fans are apt to auto-lame anyone using the sobriquet "'Stad."
tekende » pro 1 years ago
This is wonderful and caused me to giggle more than once.
straw » neu 1 years ago
You have left out mention of the virtual chubby - when one sees something that, had one not already used one's paltry allotment of chubbies, one would have given a chubby.
rogergs » neu 1 years ago
Ah yes, the "dry chubby."
numberkillinger » pro 1 years ago
drubby for this comment.
mrobin604 » neu 1 years ago
Is there a term for a spurious chubby, given when you meant to click 'lame' or 'reply'?

There should be.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
I think that term is "dumbass"
mrobin604 » neu 1 years ago
clearly you meant to click "lame" there.
pogo » pro 1 years ago
I really love "asschat." Good name for this stuff we type back and forth.

Next you should list some of the catch phrases, such as CHING CHONG WING WONG, which I actually used in conversation with my IT lady yesterday, commenting on her earlier instructions at a meeting.
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
Oh dogg I'm so sorry dogg. So sorry I spent my chubbies so promiscuously. Please know that I will always love this post. Please.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
I'd have chubbied, but I won't have the abbreviation to 'Stad' validated by your glossary. Stamp it out!
dkittels » pro 1 years ago
It's hommes, not holmes...

IT'S HOMMES NOT HOLMESSSSSSSSSSSS

srsly though in love with this strip, wanted a clockwork orange Roomba since they did Eraserhead.
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
Ohh, hahaha, oh it's so funny how you're trolling the boards and acting like someone who can't type in an effort to get a rise out of everyone! Honestly, that's just cold hilarious! Well done!, Seriously, bravo!


(I assume that's what you're doing and not actually typing like that. It is ridiculous to expect anyone to believe that someone who has looked at this message board more than once think that typing like this is acceptable.)
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Dude come on, you're not even trying anymore. You're just summarizing the strip, which is maybe stupid but not INTERNET stupid. And no one says 'deh'. You have to start like sending shout-outs to your peeps or something.
numberkillinger » con 1 years ago
You are off your game mr lame drain.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
I still think he's funny.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
You are wrong
thesyndicate88 » pro 1 years ago
I saw Teodor in a bowler and codpiece, and I cheered.

I was not dissapointed.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
But were you disappointed?
howl » neu 1 years ago
Oh, dis
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
way to make pogo's annoying wannabe spellcheck post into something hilarious
pogo » con 1 years ago
You're drunk, boy, if you think Pogo wannabe anything but himself.
thesyndicate88 » pro 1 years ago
Nah I wasn't that either.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Touche.
quartzblade » neu 1 years ago
I believe in some past interview Onstad mentioned something about each character representing a part of himself. Clearly, Teodor represents the part that thrives on shameless nudity.
perilon » neu 1 years ago
This episode of Great Moments in Cinema features perhaps the least involvement of Roomba than any previous installment. Roomba must be gradually making the move from actor to director to executive producer. Sure, it's still used for transport, but it is very backgrounded. I was intrigued by the dialogue of this strip to such an extent that I forgot that Roomba was even a presence, until I reread it and wondered what the cylinder was doing on Teodor's bed.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
The "A Few Good Men" episode had even LESS Roomba action, with the only movement being the long move from one side of the room to the other.

Also Star Trek II I don't think anyone even moved.
hassanoleary » pro 1 years ago
After the second day of procrastinating, this strip may finally bring me to look my Clockwork Orange essay in its theatrically-lashed eye.
... And that's how the course of my life was determined by a comic strip.
quantumcasaba » neu 1 years ago
The synchronicity can't be denied.
biztsar » neu 1 years ago
there's got to be some headz on this board with hard action thumbnail avatars. Bring it.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
In all fairness, their roles should really be reversed.
sn0wman » neu 1 years ago
Well, I can't really see Beef successfully pulling off any character in the movie.
Except maybe the old widower. His final scene with his grandmother might have been a little reminiscent of the widower hearing Alex doing Singin' in the Rain in the bath.
cyberia » pro 1 years ago
The wrrrr of the Roomba makes me giggle like a small child. Also, the close-up of Teodor in full makeup will surely haunt my dreams (nightmares?) tonight.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
THUMBNAIL AVATARS WITH HARDER ACTION THAN THE LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE. I like to think he's talking about the neckbeard.
abendsonnen » neu 1 years ago
so you know the pain it's caused. Oh, terrible.
chuvak » neu 1 years ago
i do it cause the world owes me.
duskbringer » pro 1 years ago
It's not lactating if it comes out of a penis statue.
You don't make that mistake twice.
ragtagop » neu 1 years ago
Please note that Roast Beef cannot speak in anything but his own patois, leaving him critically handicapped as an actor.
jalhalla42 » pro 1 years ago
That didn't stop Edward Norton
ravindra108 » neu 1 years ago
ZING!
eatmorekix » neu 1 years ago
your avatar terrifies me for some reason
daidai » neu 1 years ago
That's not even remotely true, but it was funny enough that I chubbied it.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
If you think Edward Norton is a bad actor, then you have not seen The Illusionist.

(Not that I'm claiming he's a great actor. But he's definitely not bad.)
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
His performance was all right. I wish some of the magic had been left at the end, though. They didn't need to explain every trick. Certainly not in a five-minute montage cutting back and forth between a bunch of shit we'd already seen and Paul Giamatti with his mouth hanging open like a dumbass.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
His performance in The Painted Veil was fantastic.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
That was a very Family Guy-style joke - a completely unwarranted and unexplained attack on a neutrally regarded celebrity, and you move on immediately instead of dwelling on it for a whole episode like South Park does. This is a good thing in my opinion.

Chris: Mom, where's the toilet?!
Lois: Chris, first of all it's called a loo, and second, everyone here just uses Elizabeth Hurley.
fineoakstructure » neu 1 years ago
Uh huh, and then this happens:

[IMGS OFF]

(This is not a good thing in my opinion.)
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
A good show for those with attention deficit disorder, or those who believe they do. That joke stank, whoops, here comes another.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
OH YEAH.
tekende » neu 8 months ago
Yeah, only lame comedy shows have more than one joke in them.
stevepants » neu 1 years ago
Nice underwear.
norrin » neu 1 years ago
Is panel 3 a new level of detail not seen before in Achewood? To me it seemed like the old Ren and Stimpy cartoons, where everything is drawn fairly simple and then they focus in on something and it's all drawn in super high detail and shaded.
catgrl131 » neu 1 years ago
Those used to always creep me out. I mean, seriously. When I closed my eyes at night, that was the sort of thing I saw. Needless to say, I never really got a full night's sleep.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
I often picture in my mind's eye the depiction of Ren removing his own dental nerves.
ethelthefrog » neu 1 years ago
That image still haunts me as well. The raw little nerves all wiggling in Ren's empty tooth-sockets. *shudder*
dapooka » neu 1 years ago
Yeah that one definitely gave me the creeps. That and some of the agony Stimpy went through burning out his hairball gland.
hassanoleary » neu 1 years ago
Anybody else pining for a Great Moments in Cinema treatment of Videodrome?
paperboy_2000 » pro 1 years ago
Yes! I think Roast Beef would have the same opinion:

Dogg, is this the scariest stuff we could think of? Cause PBS pretty much uses mutants with televisions in their stomachs as light entertainment for toddlers these days.
lawbot » neu 1 years ago
No. No I am not.
quantumcasaba » neu 1 years ago
Oh damn and hell yes.
hassanoleary » neu 1 years ago
Furthermore, I believe Teodor would make an excellent James Woods.
dasilodavi » neu 1 years ago
It sort of sounds like Onstad isn't a fan of A Clockwork Orange
paperboy_2000 » pro 1 years ago
I'll bet that this comic is born out of sincere affection. A Clockwork Orange is one of those films that can inspire some overboard devotion when one first discovers it, like juanclaudius describes above. So it's pretty funny to see the movie tweaked even if you love it, recognizing that the film and a person's devotion to it were both products of their times.
nickgranger » neu 1 years ago
I bet they get around by springingspringing, too.
nickgranger » neu 1 years ago
fuck me
catgrl131 » neu 1 years ago
Woah, at least buy me a drink first, nickgranger!
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Is that all it takes?

Listen, can we hang out sometime?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
But tekende, she's old!
dr_strangeglove » neu 1 years ago
and a catgrl!
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
That's a plus for many people actually. Uh...so I hear.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Good points all.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
Everything they said, plus, if memory serves me correctly, she has mentioned that she is in high school on multiple occasions, but don't quote me on this because I may have her confused with another poster.
loneal » neu 1 years ago
I believe she is also, and I quote, "saving it for marriage, bitches!" That is one of my favorite catgrl lines, after our conversation in Hebrew-in-the-wrong-alphabet, of course.
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
all girls are 'saving it for marriage' until you steal it after the concert
paperboy_2000 » neu 1 years ago
No time for the old in-out, luv, I'm just here to read the meter
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
DirtyKate:You sound sexy.. I bet you want me in the back of your car..
Bloodninja:Maybe some other time. You should call up Papa John's and make an order
DirtyKate: Haha! OK
DirtyKate:Hello! I'd like an extra-EXTRA large pizza just dripping with sauce.
Bloodninja:Well, first they would say, "Hello, this is Papa John's, how may I help you", then they tell you the specials, and then you would make your order. So that's an X-Large. What toppings do you want?
tekende » neu 1 years ago
What is that from? That's pretty funny.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
http://www.chrudat.com/the_best_cyber_sex.html
paperboy_2000 » pro 1 years ago
I had no idea what it was either, but just google Bloodninja and you'll find various copies of it. (potentially NSFW, just text). It's transcripts of some guy just destroying cybersexxors.

Hilarious! Thanks, achilleselbow.
falseprophet » pro 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]

Guys we've been through this ...
voloshg » neu 1 years ago
I have been waiting on this day for so long!
neonfreon2 » neu 1 years ago
pure homosex
deusoma » neu 1 years ago
I do indeed feel neutral about Mr. Stanley Kubrick, I prefer judging movies individually rather than grouping them by director. However, I am quite amused that Onstad brought back Roomba Cinema after two years without.
ddgoec » neu 1 years ago
If only Kurosawa had made some porn, we wouldn't need any other directors...
comrade_tom » neu 1 years ago
He did, it's mostly Toshiro Mifune shouting at a breast for a few hours with lots of screen-wipes.

At the end Mifune's character has to sell his shoe-repair business and he walks off into a snowstorm.
ddgoec » neu 1 years ago
Six diffent versions on how how a geisha got an STD - Rashymons
nickgranger » neu 1 years ago
and then made into a western with clint eastwood
redmange » pro 1 years ago
After hearing all the hate I am giving this a 5. Keep on rocking the Roomba Onstad.
saraphonic » pro 1 years ago
Better to look like Stan Laurel than Oliver Hardy
decagon » pro 1 years ago
A Clockwork Orange: not a movie you should watch with a 103.5° fever.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
Watching a movie: not an activity anyone should partake in with a 103.5(?) fever.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
Activities to partake in while expieriencing a 103.5f fever:
1. Balancing your chin on the end of a toilet bowl
2. Watching the cieling lights tantrically shrink and expand
3. The 'Gin and NyQuil Martini'
4. Debate for forty minutes whethor or not it is worth the effort to adjust your body ever so slightly into a more comfortable position.
5. Trying to decide whethor or not the phone is ringing, or if it is just the cieling lights humming.
6. Simultaneously weeping and dry heaving.
7. Refreshing Assetbar continuously.
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
i before e except after c!
dapooka » neu 1 years ago
I'm finally friendly enough to have you be the recipient of my first v-chub.
killerlimpet » neu 1 years ago
Don't forget playing chess on the ceiling tiles!
baryonyx » neu 1 years ago
Oh, definitely not. It was in Celsius.
andrewofdoom » pro 1 years ago
Nobody uses Celsius anymore.

It is silly to use Celsius.
davey-boy » neu 1 years ago
It is silly to use a system that based zero degrees on the freezing point of tainted water and 100 degrees on the body temperature of the creator's feverish wife.
jbushnell » neu 1 years ago
But the part where they stick your head in the tub of water must surely be vicariously soothing?
coldfrog » pro 1 years ago
Roast Beefs knowledge of the internet prevents him from appreciating the classics. He is the only person to not laugh at all during Dr. Strangelove.
cousinted » neu 1 years ago
That third panel is gonna be stuck in me gulliver for days to come
hamhock » pro 1 years ago
Now I have a ten-second resource to point my friends to who ask what Clockwork Orange is all about
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
That was REALLY hard to read.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
What? Why?
numberkillinger » neu 1 years ago
He sold his eyes
jollysaintpete » neu 1 years ago
ahahaha, usually i hate it when you put words here but that was good
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
It is clunky as chuckle-bot sex. I had to read it three times to pace out the "friends to who ask what" bit so it made sense.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
I believe that what hamhock was trying to say is "Now, when my friends ask what A Clockwork Orange is about, I have a ten-second resource to point them to"
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
"Bork, you're a federal agent! You represent the United States Government! Never end a sentence with a preposition!"