THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

  • 03 Dec 2024, 06:58
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Why are F5ers so impatient?  (Read 10344 times)

Is it cold in here?

  • Administrator
  • Awakened
  • ******
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 25,163
  • He/him/his pronouns
Why are F5ers so impatient?
« on: 27 Oct 2009, 21:23 »

Take me, for example (except I'm on a Mac so it's splat-R instead of F5).

I like the comic, it's engaging, touching, and funny, but it's not crack cocaine. So why am I camped out waiting for Jeph's Twitter to update? It'll be the same comic whenever it arrives. Why can't I wait?

And why do I start lying in wait at midnight Eastern time, when to the best of my recollection Jeph has *never* promised midnight updates?

There's an obvious answer, of course, which is that I don't have a life. Let's see if I'm still this impatient after I find the download repository for lives.
Logged
Thank you, Dr. Karikó.

syrupykeyboard

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 336
  • These dynamite walls contain us.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #1 on: 27 Oct 2009, 22:03 »

Let's see if I'm still this impatient after I find the download repository for lives.
Let me in on that when you do, please.
Logged
"And I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet..."

Carl-E

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,346
  • The distilled essence of Mr. James Beam himself.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #2 on: 28 Oct 2009, 05:51 »

I actually have a life, somewhere around here. 

I choose to ignore it...
Logged
When people try to speak a gut reaction, they end up talking out their ass.

Dliessmgg

  • Scrabble hacker
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,291
  • Here's looking at you, kid.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #3 on: 28 Oct 2009, 06:17 »

Let's see if I'm still this impatient after I find the download repository for lives.
Let me in on that when you do, please.
Here.
Logged
Quote from: KharBevNor
Please keep your opinions in your opinion-hole.
twittr // bloggr // tumblr

LTK

  • Methuselah's mentor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5,009
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #4 on: 28 Oct 2009, 08:33 »

Yeah that life is sitting around here somewhere, but I still need to decompress the files.
Logged
Quote from: snalin
I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

akbrim

  • Not quite a lurker
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #5 on: 28 Oct 2009, 08:53 »

Let's see if I'm still this impatient after I find the download repository for lives.
Let me in on that when you do, please.
Here.


Best part of that is "Fornicate using your actual genitals!"
Logged

Is it cold in here?

  • Administrator
  • Awakened
  • ******
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 25,163
  • He/him/his pronouns
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #6 on: 28 Oct 2009, 17:28 »

Maybe it's variable-interval variable-ratio conditioning at work.
Logged
Thank you, Dr. Karikó.

kraemandrummer

  • Balloon animal serial killer
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 89
  • the music freaks here make me feel like a loser
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #7 on: 29 Oct 2009, 18:57 »

Let's see if I'm still this impatient after I find the download repository for lives.
Let me in on that when you do, please.
Here.

that post made my day
Logged
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19792.2450.html
(this is the page of the Mediaf!ire thread I was last on :))

bicostp

  • Beyoncé
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 734
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #8 on: 29 Oct 2009, 23:35 »

This thread needs a poll.

When do you read the comic?
- The morning after it's posted
- I start refreshing after I read the current one to catch it THE MOMENT IT'S ON THE SERVER
- Right after Jeph tweets "ok guys comic's up"
- I let them build up for a while and binge-read them all
- There's a comic here?!

splat-R

I've used Macs since the early 90s and that's a new one on me. XD

syrupykeyboard

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 336
  • These dynamite walls contain us.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #9 on: 30 Oct 2009, 00:24 »

Is it ironic that I keep refreshing this thread to look for new posts?
Logged
"And I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet..."

Carl-E

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,346
  • The distilled essence of Mr. James Beam himself.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #10 on: 30 Oct 2009, 05:56 »

Probably.  What's your facial expression when you refresh? 
Logged
When people try to speak a gut reaction, they end up talking out their ass.

syrupykeyboard

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 336
  • These dynamite walls contain us.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #11 on: 30 Oct 2009, 11:53 »

Probably.  What's your facial expression when you refresh? 
After three in the morning, pretty much my avatar's face.
Logged
"And I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet..."

Carl-E

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,346
  • The distilled essence of Mr. James Beam himself.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #12 on: 30 Oct 2009, 22:11 »

No, that's not irony, just sleep madness. 

And it's Saturday.  Happy Halloween, all you monsters! 
Logged
When people try to speak a gut reaction, they end up talking out their ass.

syrupykeyboard

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 336
  • These dynamite walls contain us.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #13 on: 30 Oct 2009, 22:21 »

Happy Halloween, all you monsters! 
Hells yeah, love Halloween.
Thought about using a Ouija board about an hour and a half ago, chickened out.
Shouldn't have gone to see Paranormal Activity the other day.
Logged
"And I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet..."

Carl-E

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,346
  • The distilled essence of Mr. James Beam himself.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #14 on: 30 Oct 2009, 22:28 »

Great time of year.  Ouija boards suck, though. 

I'm now seriously considering your avatar for my pumpkin.  Just the right amount of contrast, and those eyes are petty spooky!
Logged
When people try to speak a gut reaction, they end up talking out their ass.

syrupykeyboard

  • Pneumatic ratchet pants
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 336
  • These dynamite walls contain us.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #15 on: 30 Oct 2009, 22:41 »

Great time of year.  Ouija boards suck, though. 

I'm now seriously considering your avatar for my pumpkin.  Just the right amount of contrast, and those eyes are petty spooky!
If you could pull it off it'd probably be the most Epic Jack O' Lantern ever.
I wish you luck in your endeavor.
Logged
"And I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's somewhere quite a ways from here I'll bet..."

Delirium

  • FIGHT YOU
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 396
  • WE CLEANSE OUR DESTINY
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #16 on: 31 Oct 2009, 02:11 »

Is it ironic that I keep refreshing this thread to look for new posts?
WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THE PROPER MEANING OF IRONY????
Logged

Dliessmgg

  • Scrabble hacker
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,291
  • Here's looking at you, kid.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #17 on: 31 Oct 2009, 02:22 »

They do it ironically.
Logged
Quote from: KharBevNor
Please keep your opinions in your opinion-hole.
twittr // bloggr // tumblr

Delirium

  • FIGHT YOU
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 396
  • WE CLEANSE OUR DESTINY
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #18 on: 31 Oct 2009, 02:26 »

They do it ironically.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Logged

akronnick

  • Only pretending to work
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,188
  • I'm freakin' out, man!!!!
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #19 on: 03 Nov 2009, 23:10 »

Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly.
QC junkie gotta hits F5!
Logged
Akronnick, I can think of no more appropriate steed for a Knight Of The Dickbroom than a foul-mouthed, perpetually shouting, lust-crazed bird with a scrotum hanging from its chin and a distinctive cry of "Gobble gobble gobble".   --Tergon

Is it cold in here?

  • Administrator
  • Awakened
  • ******
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 25,163
  • He/him/his pronouns
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #20 on: 03 Nov 2009, 23:42 »

Whose turn is it to stand outside Jeph's door repeating over and over in a whiny voice "Are we there yet?"?
Logged
Thank you, Dr. Karikó.

Llewellian

  • Furry furrier
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 169
  • Kraut ;o)
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #21 on: 04 Nov 2009, 02:34 »

*pout*... You have problems...

I live many thousand kilometres east of Jeph, means, living practically in "his future". Timezones and such. You people are nearly always about to get your morning fix... for me, it is every morning waiting until midday - even when he is punctual. ;o). That makes you accustomed to "wait".

Logged
9 out of 10 voices in my head tell me that i am not mad. The 10th hums the Tetris Tune.

Carl-E

  • Awakened
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 10,346
  • The distilled essence of Mr. James Beam himself.
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #22 on: 04 Nov 2009, 06:18 »

But wait, doesn't that put you many thousands of km west of Jeph too, in his past?  Then you can just check it every morning, get yesterday's comic, and be good for the day...

Oh, wait.  Then you'd be a day behind on the forum. 

Nevermind...
Logged
When people try to speak a gut reaction, they end up talking out their ass.

Mr_Rose

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,822
  • Head Canon arms dealer
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #23 on: 04 Nov 2009, 10:11 »

Lucky me; I live at exactly the right distance from Jeph that the comic updates just as I sit down at my desk at work in the morning, thus distracting me from doing anything so uncouth as productive effort for another few minutes.
Logged
"I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

Surgoshan

  • Duck attack survivor
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,801
Re: Why are F5ers so impatient?
« Reply #24 on: 04 Nov 2009, 10:32 »

I'm lucky in that I can wait until I wake up and the comic's been up for several hours and I don't have to combat impatient F5ers for server time.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up