Penny Arcade - Comic - Take On Me

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Take On Me

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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Jean-Luc

The online "grift speech" industry is nauseating. That is all.

Lttlefoot

To be contrarian, you have to defend your bad opinions

Johnny17

Babies are overrated. On the other hand, there are clues Gabe might not be sincere with his contrarianism...
I'm confused on which level I'm supposed to rage!

Overkillengine

Lttlefoot wrote: »

To be contrarian, you have to defend your bad opinions

Nuh-uh!

Djiem

Lttlefoot wrote: »

To be contrarian, you have to defend your bad opinions

Poorly, at best.

dennis

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't like contrarians. Downvote me all you want.

V1m

Lttlefoot wrote: »

To be contrarian, you have to defend your bad opinions

Are you sure? Because it seems like just shamelessly repeating them is sufficient.

Sewblon

This just isn't accurate. You don't need to be contrarian for the algorithm to favor you. The most popular Youtuber right now is Mr. Beast. He does silly stunts that involve large expenses. His politics are completely inscrutable. https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast

Rhesus Positive

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

V1m

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

Exactly the point they're making? Why put in a lot of work and money to get rewarded for being neutral, or even more for being good, when you can do almost nothing to get rewarded for being evil?

Rhesus Positive

A more benign version is that trend of making horrific-looking food on TikTok

Why make effort coming up with recipes that work when you can pour canned chili over pringles, add too much cheese, maybe some cut up kielbasa, and let outrage shares do the rest of the work

dennis

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

A more benign version is that trend of making horrific-looking food on TikTok

Why make effort coming up with recipes that work when you can pour canned chili over pringles, add too much cheese, maybe some cut up kielbasa, and let outrage shares do the rest of the work

That almost seems preferable to the previous trend of those recipe videos that don't actually work.

Rhesus Positive

You are also a man of culture, I see

Her poor husband / microwave

dennis

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

You are also a man of culture, I see

Her poor husband / microwave

You want real cooking-based outrage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpVvaCyNPw

Sewblon

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

Pyrian

Sewblon wrote: »

But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

If we look up such a video and then all go view the link and maybe post outraged replies to it, what would we have accomplished? (That's a rhetorical question.)

Sewblon

Pyrian wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

If we look up such a video and then all go view the link and maybe post outraged replies to it, what would we have accomplished? (That's a rhetorical question.)

We will be able to see how popular it is and how many upvotes it has, (assuming that you have installed the Return Youtube Dislike Extension). So then we will have some information that we can use to evaluate the truth or falsehood of the comic strip's premise.

Lttlefoot

Sewblon wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

The dad in Calvin & Hobbes

jberry

contrarianism is shallow and boring we all know someone whose first answer to everything is no

youre walking into quicksand
no im not im glub glub

it sure is dark do you need a light
no i dont need any crash thud

according to world bank data mexico had the 15th largest gdp in 2017
no it did not

although take in contexts such as a hot take may seem to make that usage very contemporary the use of take as a noun in the sense of "an opinion" dates back to at least the 1920s in american english

Sewblon

Lttlefoot wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

The dad in Calvin & Hobbes

Is there a webpage where I can see that?

dennis

Sewblon wrote: »

Lttlefoot wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

The dad in Calvin & Hobbes

Is there a webpage where I can see that?

https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Building_character

Sewblon

dennis wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Lttlefoot wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

The dad in Calvin & Hobbes

Is there a webpage where I can see that?

https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Building_character

But how do we know that that translates into success on social media? I have never seen that on social media before.

Bursar

Well, I found this image on social media:

Is that success? I remembered it enough to look for it as a snappy answer*.

*RIP Al Jaffee

dennis

Sewblon wrote: »

dennis wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Lttlefoot wrote: »

Sewblon wrote: »

Rhesus Positive wrote: »

If the options are spending a lot of money and effort on charity or just saying that child labour in the acid mines builds character, I know what most people looking for the algorithm's favour would prefer to do

I see the logic in that. Being contrarian is easier than actually doing good things in the real world. But is there anyone who got the algorithm's favor by saying that child labor builds character?

The dad in Calvin & Hobbes

Is there a webpage where I can see that?

https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Building_character

But how do we know that that translates into success on social media? I have never seen that on social media before.

I think you missed that it was mainly a joke by Lttlefoot.