Winter-een-mas celebration on CoX.
NOW.
I stopped reading CAD after Tim Buckley went on a quest to jump over every single shark he could find. If only one had eaten him.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
Thank goodness!
I panicked when I saw "King Ethan" - I thought I'd been coronated when my back was turned!
I suppose I'll just have to stick with plain old me then... 
Happy Winter'een mas everyone!
xxx Ethan xxx
Yes, I'm one of those sad folk on twitter!
"Do not underestimate the power of Shiny�" - Mothers_Love
I stopped reading Ctrl-Alt-Del after Tim Buckley made a continuous effort to ignore any criticism that might help him improve himself. He's content to fire out the same clichéd storylines and game jokes, and occasionally steal an idea from a more popular comic.
Even Wintereenmas feels incredibly forced, to me.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is certainly good at stirring up controversy though. I'll admit I read it through the miscarriage arc just to see how badly Buckley would tank the whole storyline.
Like a grisly car crash, you know it's wrong and horrible. But you just can't look away.
I actually really liked the miscarriage storyline. Shows the comic strip isn't just silly jokes all the time.
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
Well it wasn't good in the first place. You end up there, and every now and then even Tim Buckley can stumble on being funny, and since a webcomic takes all of five seconds to read you just idly go there in the hope he stole a funny joke from someone else.
Then he got the idea not just that he can write, but that he's a dramatist extraordinaire and spent week after week after week after week dumping on my monitor.
Chairman of the Charity of Pain; accepting donations of blood and guts.
Prophet of the Creamy Truth; "If it's empty, fill it with cream."
Wow, you really don't like the strip, do you
I've got it as a bookmarked strip, alongside the likes of PVP, Penny Arcade, Ding, Least I Could Do and others, but I'm always looking out for other good strips, especially they are game/sci fi/genre based!
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
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Well it wasn't good in the first place. You end up there, and every now and then even Tim Buckley can stumble on being funny, and since a webcomic takes all of five seconds to read you just idly go there in the hope he stole a funny joke from someone else.
Then he got the idea not just that he can write, but that he's a dramatist extraordinaire and spent week after week after week after week dumping on my monitor.
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^^^ This.
It doesn't really help that I think that Buckley himself, while a very good artist, is a complete jackass. There are numerous records of incidents where Buckley's ego got the better of him scattered over the internet, and I would encourage anybody who has the time to go looking for them.
As I said, I find Tim Buckley himself far more entertaining than his web comic.
I guess I just hate comics where the main character is a self centred jerk, which I'm somehow meant to find lovable when they treat innocent people like total [censored].
I wouldn't care if it was just a joke, but there's some kind of continuity to it all and he tried to be serious with it. Which just doesn't work, Ghandi wouldn't put up with that kind of jackassery.
But I stray off topic, so i'll leave it at that. I could go on longer, because it's fun to hate.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del is certainly good at stirring up controversy though. I'll admit I read it through the miscarriage arc just to see how badly Buckley would tank the whole storyline.
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I found it mildly amusing at first but things like VGCats were often better at the same jokes. And Wintereenmas I never really got (the principal, not the spirit).
Yahtzee sums it up better.
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I found it mildly amusing at first but things like VGCats were often better at the same jokes. And Wintereenmas I never really got (the principal, not the spirit).
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That's pretty much how I feel about Ctrl+Alt+Delete, although I do still read it.
Like Sirius said before, Winter-een-mas feels really forced now, although the 1st time it didn't seem quite so forced to me (not that I celebrated it or anything like that).
Anyone who uses their own self-insert to declare themselves the king of gaming is a prat, tbh.
The shoddy writing doesn't help, I suppose.
Happy Winter-Een-Mas!!!!
Anyone got any plans on how they are going to celebrate? Personally, i plan on buying more games, I don't play anywhere near as much I'd like to, so more games is a goooood start
We built this city on Rock and Roll!