Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

[littlequietguy]

I sincerely hope no one already made a thread for this one. I checked! No thread. But secretly I fear that it is right in front of my face and I am missing it!

Updates 7 times a week. Color comics with drawings. Captions at the bottom. Alt-Text can be viewed by mousing over a red button at the bottom for an extra drawing. That's right, a visual alt-text. Sketch comedy once a week. SMBC theater (the sketch comedy troupe of the webcomic) used to be a bit funnier, I hate to be "that guy". It's still decent, and it'll probably boomerang around again. What's not to like? Nothing I bet. Not all of the jokes are winners, but at 7 jokes a week I'd be pretty surprised if they were. And when SMBC is good, it gets pretty damn good. I met Zach Weiner and the gang at WonderCon a couple of times and they are good folks. I got two pieces of artwork and a high five for $1.51. Gave one to a friend. Enough about me! Let's talk about why we're here and why I created this thread.

Zach Weiner says he's going to announce something tomorrow. I want to speculate while naked from the comfort of my home, and then send those words out over the internet. It's the perfect crime. Could it be a TV show? A videogame? Another instance of webcomics invading everyday life? Those cross-over instances are just going to be more popular. So cool. Psyched, I am.

[Homewinggamer]

I made a thread a little while back on this, but i think it got removed, I don't know why.
But go ahead with this thread!

[kaoticAntagonist]

I am pretty sure that as far as comedy goes this is the best webcomic i have ever seen.

Some comics have story, some have amazing drawings, but this one is just funny.

Also Smbc theater is one of my favorite things.

[littlequietguy]

Yeah. The thing about SMBC is that there is something there for everyone, and that something is always well executed. The strawmen and women he uses in political arguments are sorta tiresome though in my opinion. Of course they can't defend themselves against your arguments! They're comic book characters.

I also really like the choose-your-own adventure book he does in the margin of his books. Great concept and he even had the vigor to follow through with it.

[Wesley Foxx]

When he's on, he's excellent. When he's off it still usually gets a smirk.

[nostalgebraist]

What I like about SMBC is that even when I don't actually find it funny, I at least usually find it enjoyable to read in a "whoa, that is a weird concept I never would have come up with on my own" way. It's basically a gag comic about ridiculous thought experiments, and the thought experiments are enjoyably far-out even when they aren't funny.

[mysteriousOutsider]

I know there was a thread for this before because I remember posting in it but whatever

Yes I find SMBC to be a highly enjoyable comic on average. That garfield one about a week ago was... I really liked that one?

[littlequietguy]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
New CYOA book! YES! I love CYOAs so very very much. I'm crying now. The tears are on the keyboard. Zach Weiner, you are everything I want to be and more. I am a weak ass nerd.

[TheWhiteTextGuy]

I love Zach. He is a comedy genius.

One of my favorites-http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1279#comic

[User 18]

SMBC involves some thinking sometimes, but it's almost always funny.

...why is this thread not more active?

[Wesley Foxx]

Why do I relate to this comic so much

My experience was college was be top 10% of my class in highschool, go to high tier school, test into classes at what I thought was my level, and then get my mental ass kicked in half the subjects while the other half were nothing but eye-roll inducing bullshit pseudo-philosophy classes that involved reading material that had literally NO actual content. Seriously, me, my mom AND my dad (the guy who took four years of post-grad philosophical classes) went over one of the books line by line, and it was comprised entirely of buzzwords and flowery often redundant descriptions, with class discussion consisting of the same damn thing.

Apparently this is how I feel like I SHOULD have gone to college. And probably will whenever I get around to going into accounting or another job where I can work with numbers in an office at a computer because that is the kind of job that appeals to me.

[nostalgebraist]

In the U.S. at least, the number of people going to college has increased vastly over the course of the last 60 years or so. It used to be a thing you'd do if you were a scholarly sort of person who wanted to get academic knowledge. Now, although it has a lot of the trappings left over from those days, it's largely a credentialing process for white-collar jobs, something that shows a basic ability to be organized and comprehend written material (or something like that). So it's a weird mixture of classes that are intended for serious scholars and classes that are intended for all those people who don't really care about scholarship but want a college degree because it shows they have habits that are conducive to cubicle work. At this point, I think grad school is a lot like what undergrad school used to be.

(Also, I think a lot of the subjects that seem like "fluffy subjects" in undergrad school do have substance and can be taught rigorously. It's just that they're often pressed into service as easy classes for undergrads because it's relatively easy to teach them non-rigorously.)

[Drillgorg]

I'm only going to college as job training, and I know full well that only a handful of skills I learn here are even going to be useful to me in the job world. Basically an engineering degree is a piece of paper that says "this person is competent, capable of doing a lot of work, and doesn't totally suck."

[Descriptor]

I'm only going to college as job training, and I know full well that only a handful of skills I learn here are even going to be useful to me in the job world. Basically an engineering degree is a piece of paper that says "this person is competent, capable of doing a lot of work, and doesn't totally suck."

To be fair, in engineering, this approach does make a lot of sense.
Simply put, any real practical knowledge you learn in college for engineering will be completely out of date in the next 5 years. As such, instead, they just teach you basic, ever consistent background, so you can at least understand the new stuff when it comes around. Basically, it helps you know how to do the math and science so you can understand the technology you work with whenever you get a job. A job is where the real learning begins, weirdly enough.

[Drillgorg]

Yes I agree! I mean you can ascend into engineering teaching and academic research, but I really dislike the engineering academia. In my opinion a successful tech demo beats a published paper any day.

[Descriptor]

Yes I agree! I mean you can ascend into engineering teaching and academic research, but I really dislike the engineering academia. In my opinion a successful tech demo beats a published paper any day.

Hmmm, while that's certainly true, a lot of engineering research and academia is still somewhat focused on the tech demo side of things as well, at least compared to most other majors. Well, from what I've seen anyway, as I've only done a little research work so far. While you still do definitely have to do papers, it becomes less data analysis, and more function analysis. It's easy to build something that works once, but hard to build something that works consistently, which a simple tech demo doesn't show. That said, I'm afraid I will be going to grad school either way, as the job I want pretty much requires it. Thankfully, it's only gunna be for a Master's, so it shouldn't be too awful...