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[PA Comic] Friday, May 1, 2015 - Post Traumatic

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  • Soul SanctumSoul Sanctum Registered User regular
    Post Traumatic Success Disorder?

  • biohazardbiohazard Registered User new member
    As some one who bought not one but two zunes I found this especially funny.

  • belligerentbelligerent Registered User regular
    Man I loved my fucking zunes. The brown shit brick, then the pink one?

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    I loved my Zune too and even more the way the music service worked. Really sad none of the current subscription services don't also offer a few freebies to keep every month.

    Also that comic is very pink.

  • LRichLRich Registered User regular
    i still own an 80 gb zune that i use all of the time.

    on a side-note, that first panel looks very doonsbury, especially the profile of the character on the left.

  • wormspeakerwormspeaker Objectively Terrible Registered User regular
    I'm digging the female MS employee. I've got a thing for frumpy girls with glasses. I also have a thing for Asian women. God help me if I meet a frumpy Asian girl with glasses.

  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    I also still own and use a zune.

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  • DaimarDaimar A Million Feet Tall of Awesome Registered User regular
    Don't worry, the haters will be along shortly.

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    Zunes suck, my iriver H320 is where it's at.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I... had not heard of the Hololens before reading this comic, and now I want one.

  • LinktmLinktm Registered User regular
    edited May 2015
    REAL TALK: Maybe it was Tycho's influence, but I own a Zune, and I still prefer it (and its user interface) to that of iTunes/iPod.

    EDIT: Here I am saying "real talk" like I'm blowing minds, but it seems as if every other comment is here to talk about how good the Zune is. How did Microsoft fuck that up?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    I still use the Zune software on my laptop as a music player.

    RIP, Zune 80gig.

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  • ArtereisArtereis Registered User regular
    ZuneHD best MP3 player.

  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    Linktm wrote: »
    REAL TALK: Maybe it was Tycho's influence, but I own a Zune, and I still prefer it (and its user interface) to that of iTunes/iPod.

    EDIT: Here I am saying "real talk" like I'm blowing minds, but it seems as if every other comment is here to talk about how good the Zune is. How did Microsoft fuck that up?

    By the time Microsoft got it "right", most people had stopped caring about stand-alone MP3 players in favor of just putting it on their phones.

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  • SolventSolvent Econ-artist กรุงเทพมหานครRegistered User regular
    More than HoloLens, what the hell was Kin?

    I don't know where he got the scorpions, or how he got them into my mattress.

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  • ChiselphaneChiselphane Registered User regular
    I would have liked that HoloLens video better if the humans had been less robotic than Z15.

  • RehabRehab Registered User regular
    Linktm wrote: »
    REAL TALK: Maybe it was Tycho's influence, but I own a Zune, and I still prefer it (and its user interface) to that of iTunes/iPod.

    EDIT: Here I am saying "real talk" like I'm blowing minds, but it seems as if every other comment is here to talk about how good the Zune is. How did Microsoft fuck that up?

    The same way that they fuck everything up. Apple releases some product that sells millions of units in days and shows no signs of slowing down and sees continued success through its next iterations. Smash cut to . . . about 2-3 years later, and Microsoft now has their own version of the Apple thing, which they have improved upon (usually in the user interface department by way of adding buttons), and release it with excitement and hope for the future.

    It does not do well. By the time Microsoft launches their product the iThing has become so hammered into peoples minds to the point where they wouldn't take a second glance at anything else. Their iThing is also a coveted status symbol whereas Microsoft's product, not so much.

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  • RottonappleRottonapple Registered User regular
    Solvent wrote: »
    More than HoloLens, what the hell was Kin?

    It was an MS attempt at a crackberry style phone. The fact that it came and went without you hearing about it says all you need to know about it. With the exception of the Xbox
    , MS has pretty much had shit luck with hardware i guess.

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    I assumed she was cutting "Kinect" short to not set Jim off, but apparently it was a real thing.

  • LinktmLinktm Registered User regular
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    ...in favor of just putting it on their phones.

    Ew. That's gross. I need my phone's precious battery life for checking Facebook 24/7, and space for all the useless apps I have just in case I need them but never actually do.

  • DrainDrain [E] Tabletop Manager SeattleRegistered User regular
    Holy crap, since when do comic posts have a comment section?

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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Couple years, dude!

    Oh brilliant
  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Hahaha and I've been leaving the comic strip to specifically come to the subforum and seek out the title every time.
    Brb laughing at myself.

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  • geevensinghgeevensingh Registered User new member
    For myself - and all the HoloLens people I work with - thanks for this comic. We were already having a pretty good week. You made it better. :)

  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    As a QA person in games this comic speaks to me. Sometimes you get so used to being expendable that when a good job comes along you don't know how to handle it.

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  • ziddersroofurryziddersroofurry Registered User regular
    LRich wrote: »
    i still own an 80 gb zune that i use all of the time.

    on a side-note, that first panel looks very doonsbury, especially the profile of the character on the left.
    I was thinking Bloom County, myself.

  • TimeLordPandaTimeLordPanda Registered User new member
    Dear god, Kin...That thing was worse than shit. I got one as a gift as a second phone when my first phone's screen crapped out. There was a reason the person who gave it to me got it for very cheap. The battery was fucking terrible, everything about it sucked.

  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    Morninglord wrote: »
    Hahaha and I've been leaving the comic strip to specifically come to the subforum and seek out the title every time.
    Brb laughing at myself.

    I do the same thing. But I always knew.

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