WoW shaman, this at us

[Zseth]

Making the webcomics again

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php

[Shaitan256]

Lolz, that's sooo offensive :)

[Frojax]

It made me chuckle, but yes, offensive as hell.

To be honest, I'm getting tired of listedning to the abuse that gets hurled my way for boxing, I tend to just ignore all whispers and chat now. I'm pretty sure that if I said some of the stuff that I have had said to me, the reports would be flying in. Jealous little gits :D

[Mono]

I was coming to make this exact post.

Tim B^Uckley calling anyone a douchebag is just laughable really.

[Ellay]

That's some pretty good stuff, I laughed but thought it was some pretty big haterade.

[Yamio]

Hell, I laughed and then got offended at the last frame. I kinda laughed while thinking I'd like to wrap my hands around his neck and slowly wrench the shit out of it.

Overall, I'd give it a 9/10. That last frame thou....2/10.

[Gnies]

i loled pretty hard. the question is are they making more fun of the idiot who sells that stuff on tv, the people who buy it, or shamans?

ps. i just noticed alot of you who posted where from countries other than USA. the guy in the comic sells junky stuff on tv here in the states.

[Vicker]

I never liked ctrl+alt+del. It's just... not funny. The fact that it can be kind of offensive doesn't bother me. The just just aren't funny.

xkcd definitely wins (www.xkcd.com). Then again, xkcd is written by a physics grad student, I'm a physics grad student, and the humor in it has a lot to do with more abstract ideas within physics, so I might be a little bit biased on that one...

[zanthor]

Making Yahoo's front page news was one thing, making it into a a webcomic is even better IMO.

[Frosty]

I thought it was pretty funny. They could have changed up the ending to be less offensive though, and still kept it funny.

[Vicker]

I thought it was pretty funny. They could have changed up the ending to be less offensive though, and still kept it funny.

They could have. But they didn't.

[Mono]

Wow, what a peculiar place to shift the thread to.

[Bigfish]

Someone summarize. Outside of the walls of text and the B^U.

[Taliesin]

The second box was downright hilarious. The 4th box lost me. I've never been to the site before, so I'm not sure that's a direct stab at that raid-boxer shaman out there (name escapes me at the moment).

If it was a stab at him, then that was just really bad taste on the writer's part.

[Tonuss]

The second box was downright hilarious. The 4th box lost me.That was my reaction as well. Without some form of commentary, I figure that a lot of people will read that comic and not understand what he is talking about.

I'm not offended by it, though. There are a lot of people out there who think poorly of anyone who multiboxes, but there are way more people who think poorly of anyone who plays MMORPGs. When someone who plays MMORPGs looks down at someone who multiboxes, how can I possibly be offended? It's like some fat overweight slob pointing at a bodybuilder and laughing at him because "he looks like a freak." Which would you rather be?

[moosejaw]

Compared to the other stuff he has opined about, this comic is quite mild. He really takes this one personal though so he must be playing wow again.

I would really like a Tauren miniature like the one in his comic flipping the bird. That would be awesome.

[Bigfish]

Ok, got home and read it. Fuckley is still a moron without a shred of artistic talent. At least prepared isn't a pedophile. (As far as I know)

[Hachoo]

Personally I thought it was hilarious, but I admit it would be less funny if you hadn't seen the Sham-wow commercials on TV.

[Basilikos]

I have a harder time than others being upset by that. Honestly, this is one of the things that got me started in multiboxing (after finding out that there is not anything evil about it). I know I'm a little sick, but I genuinely derive pleasure from people getting upset at me for no reason. I got to the end of it and just thought, "I just won and got you to break down!" Maybe I'm more than a little sick...

[Suvega]

I thought it was funny and non-offensive. Srsly its a comic.

[Valdemarick]

I thought it was immensely better than the garbage he usually writes comics about, dealing with the drama in his RL.

IMO, directly applying his real-life experiences to a comic and putting some kind of punch line on it does not make a good comic. In fact, I think it degrades the real-life experience in a way. And the ones without a punch line... the ones that seem to just be a cathartic endeavor... those should just never have been uploaded.

I wasn't offended by this particular comic, either. Mostly because I don't 32-box with shamans. I just 2-box :P

[Zaelar]

The people who say that they're offended by the comic remind me of the scientologists that get mad at anyone who says anything remotely close to bad about them/scientology

[Yamio]

Oh hell! Grow up man. Just because someone said they were offended by something doesn't mean they're upset or about to kick open a door and start shooting. Please don't attempt to place more emphasis on throw away comments.

Yes, we were offended because the comic took a stab at one of us, but not nearly as much as you think. Some folks happen to like Prepared. He seems to be pretty cool and level headed. He doesn't fuck with anybody. If that comic referred to Sam Deathwalker however then so what? Comics in general are designed to get a reaction whether it be a laugh or a chuckle, or anger or disgust. We came, we saw, and some of us didn't like PART of it. No biggie. That doesn't mean we were jumping around and screaming like Tom Cruise after we read it. It got some kind of a reaction which more than the usual indifference the bad strips at CTRL+ALT+DEL receive.

[Shaitan256]

The people who say that they're offended by the comic remind me of the scientologists that get mad at anyone who says anything remotely close to bad about them/scientology

Hey, I'm not upset or something. I really can laugh about things I do or if someones making jokes about what I say, or if I make a stupid mistake and someones calling it up again. I see there no Problem.

I didn't say it wasn't funny or something (hey I lol'ed^^). For me the comic was in the end result of reading it completely just too offensive. I mean 50% of it is just offensive stuff, ok sometimes I like something like that, but there's a border for me, that's been slightly overcome (hope that makes sense).

@Yamio
100% sign, coudln't say it better^^

[Mono]

I don't find the comic offensive in any way. I just think that referring to Prepared as a douchebag is like the pot calling the kettle black. Except that instead of a kettle, its a nice new white plastic electric jug.

Or in much simpler terms: "Douchebag? NO U LOL"

[RobinGBrown]

Maybe I don't get it but in what way did he refer to Prepared? I don't see it as anything to do with multiboxing, I think you're reading too much into it and the only way to be offended would be if you're so vain that you assume it's about you.

Prepared doesn't seem to be the sort to have such a big ego - maybe it was actually a dig at Sam Deathtalker



See what I did there? I had a dig at everyone and turned it into a IhateSam thread! Leet skillz or what!

[Ken]

Prepared should be flattered for being mentioned in that web comic :)

[Yamio]

Right on the mark Ken!!

[Frosty]

Maybe I don't get it but in what way did he refer to Prepared? I don't see it as anything to do with multiboxing, I think you're reading too much into it and the only way to be offended would be if you're so vain that you assume it's about you.


The last frame where it says. "You're going to get not one, not two, but thirty-six wow shamans, just like that other d******."

Keys from that are: 36 and "that other" meaning one single person who has 36 shaman.

If he would have left off the very last part "just like that other d*****" I don't think anyone would care, and it would have been more funny because it's like the real commercial.

[Bigfish]

I find it silly to be offended by the fact that someone took a stab at Prepared. I'm more concerned with his crummy art and hackneyed writing. Sad thing is his comics are invariably better when someone applies the CAD rule or edits them in to 3 panels.

[valkry]

I found it hilarious. If he had said 26 instead of 36, I bet not one person would have raised a finger to type out "oh, I'm so offended."

[Bigfish]

I would think Sam would have enjoyed the plug.

[Talamarr]

Offensive? Really?

[Tonuss]

I don't think there's a question that it can be considered offensive (ie, referring to someone else as a douchebag). The question is whether we should be offended or not. I consider this a case of "consider the source." I don't know the Ctrl-Alt-Del guy and don't follow his strips, though I've read them in the past, so I have no idea whether he was just kidding or genuinely angry and trying to be insulting. And I don't care. So I wasn't offended. I was amused at the idea of a geek calling out another geek for being geeky, though.

[Hachoo]

Hmm, after going back and reading like the 4 comics prior to the one posted here, I am now offended. I'm offended by how unfunny the rest of his comics are. So out of the 5 or 6 I read, the only one that actually is funny is this one. Honestly I still can't see how anyone here would be even mildly offended by the comic - you'd really have to be quite uptight to be offended by it, even if you are prepared.

[Dorffo]

Hmm, after going back and reading like the 4 comics prior to the one posted here, I am now offended. I'm offended by how unfunny the rest of his comics are. So out of the 5 or 6 I read, the only one that actually is funny is this one. Honestly I still can't see how anyone here would be even mildly offended by the comic - you'd really have to be quite uptight to be offended by it, even if you are prepared.^ this

[Sajuuk]

I could be an unintentional plug at both of them.

Sam DeathWalker going to 36 Box WoW (from current 26), and 24 Box EQ! ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=14895&highlight=upgrade')

(How did that end up, anyways?)

[Xar]

I just read that comic... Why do some of you find it delicious when QQ's are posted in text on customer service forums and yet find this graphical QQ offensive? The only difference is that it's his own outlet so the Belfaire's can't smack him down and lock it up. I LOL'd at it, too funny. It in no way makes me want to multibox less.

[Frosty]

Why do some of you find it delicious when QQ's are posted in text on customer service forums and yet find this graphical QQ offensive?
I think what is happening in this thread is all the people who weren't offended are making a big deal out of the people who simply asked:

"Should we be offended?" (most of us agree we shouldn't be offended ;) )

I have yet to see one post where someone is truly angry/upset about this comic.

[5fingersofdoom]

Not funny,or amusing.
I'd settle for some good old fashioned sarcasm,but this is just bitchy.
0/10 :(

[Xar]

Ah, thanks Frosty. I thought it was a pretty funny comic, I'm not familiar with his other comics. It's another QQ that someone devoted an entire comic to. It's probably just their way of dealing with either not being able to multibox or not understanding it. Anyone who doesn't understand this comic needs to look up "shamwow" infomercial, it's probably on youtube. The Tauren flipping him off was so damn funny.

[Taliesin]

I don't consider it offensive, but I think he killed the joke at the end by trying to finish the whole generalization of shamans with a particular stab at a single person. Doesn't really matter if it was about multiboxers or not. I guess its what other people here have been suggesting, that it seems like the rest of the comic was just a set-up to get one of his pet peeves out to everyone. Unfortunately, the rest of the comic was what was really funny. :)

[Kaelika]

Personally, I'm laughing at how disgruntled some of you have become over the fact that some people said they were offended to some degree. It's like bitching about how you can't endure anyone else's bitching...

I'm apathetic towards the entire comic -- I found it to be neither amusing nor offensive, but I'm not going to have an aneurysm over what someone else thinks about it.

[5fingersofdoom]

Not for me,3 boxes of of garbage topped off with a snide comment about a RL player isn't amusing for me.
Not funny or entertaining in the least.

[elsegundo]

i went through some of his comics. its... aiiite, i guess. dont care to come back though.