-35 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
Everybody knows the pick-up artist shit is made-up crap. It only attracts misguided individuals who are so socially inept that they view relationships to be a contest. Their numbers are small as well, and their significance laughable.
To repeatedly devote a popular webcomic to attack such an insignificant group shows the author's misguided magnification of this group's importance, as if, ironically in usual pick-up artist fashion, the comic author is engaging in the same sort of "proving how beta the other person is" dance, whilst being socially inept himself.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 16:58 UTC
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I feel like the title-text is relevant here.
Comment by Random832 at 04/02/2014 at 15:02 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
There are 1324 xkcd comics. There are, like, three about pick-up artist types.
Here are the other two, by the way: http://xkcd.com/513/[1] http://xkcd.com/1027/[2]
That is not a disproportionate amount of attention. There are more comics about a kid floating in a barrel.
Comment by DarrenGrey at 04/02/2014 at 00:26 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think in geek spheres the pick-up artist shit attracts a higher than average number of individuals.
I wouldn't say he "repeatedly devotes" his webcomic to it. We're talking less than 1% of strips. There's certainly more velociraptor-related comics, and we all know how significant they are.
But yeah, there is a little element of "smugness that I'm not like that". We all get a bit of that at times.
Comment by Jess_than_three at 04/02/2014 at 06:31 UTC
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Oh wow. If only this was true.