I’ve been on the internet for awhile, I even remember the ctrlaltdelete comic coming out. I can honestly say I don’t ever remember seeing this meme before, or even the blowback from the comic itself. Weird how I can be on the net almost daily for years and still see new (old?) memes.
I used to read Ctrl Alt delete and penny arcade all the time. Just stopped reading web comics at some point. Completely missed this meme for a decade on the Internet as well. Was very confused first time I came across it a few years ago.
Meanwhile I was in Something Awful megathreads following Buckley’s desperate need for an editor, week by week, and I can hardly believe this one almost-good comic is the only thing he’s mocked for. Dude wrote a single comic that’s not words-words-words, and now it’s a shorthand for how CAD is a bad webcomic. His abject failure to recreate PAX has been overshadowed entirely by DashCon. Nobody remembers the time travel arc where the sentient Xbox murdered his wife-insert, or the abysmal sci-fi AU that briefly followed. His entire legacy is reduced to sight gags about his one sincere-yet-awful left turn.
I’ve been on the internet for awhile, I even remember the ctrlaltdelete comic coming out. I can honestly say I don’t ever remember seeing this meme before, or even the blowback from the comic itself. Weird how I can be on the net almost daily for years and still see new (old?) memes.
I used to read Ctrl Alt delete and penny arcade all the time. Just stopped reading web comics at some point. Completely missed this meme for a decade on the Internet as well. Was very confused first time I came across it a few years ago.
Meanwhile I was in Something Awful megathreads following Buckley’s desperate need for an editor, week by week, and I can hardly believe this one almost-good comic is the only thing he’s mocked for. Dude wrote a single comic that’s not words-words-words, and now it’s a shorthand for how CAD is a bad webcomic. His abject failure to recreate PAX has been overshadowed entirely by DashCon. Nobody remembers the time travel arc where the sentient Xbox murdered his wife-insert, or the abysmal sci-fi AU that briefly followed. His entire legacy is reduced to sight gags about his one sincere-yet-awful left turn.