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(220 votes, average: 3.84 out of 5)
August 26th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Very cute art in this one, but I wouldn’t have gotten what the joke was without the comic title
August 26th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Awesome Artwork, However This One Seems To Have Gone Over My Head
August 26th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Does it intentionally drift off like that at the bottom?
August 26th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Ooooh, now this one I like.
It’s a simulacrum for the human condition, ever trying to manufacture love, but never achieving anything lasting or truly satisfying.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:45 am
aw damn. The comic stops, can you email me a copy or something, I really wanted to se this, I thought it was my reader that was mesed up.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:55 am
In theme it’s reminiscent of “Two Point Oh”.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Yeah, is that intentional? The third scene is cut off on my screen.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:13 am
The new robot has a ominous “new” glow to it.
Probably smells like New Robot. Could be a new air freshener
That sort of smell in my truck day in and day out would be an everlasting joy that builder bot would never have. For all those who are busy building android girlfriends, they will do the same as all the others…SCP illustrates it nicely.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Ehhhh its on porpuse?
Poor little man… its just like us!
August 26th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Well…Do while is a C++ command that makes things repeat until a certain variable has changed. So I took away a computer joke from this one…
August 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Guys, guys. The comic *does* intentionally cut off at the bottom. It’s to give the impression that this scene continues over and over again. (First the new robot’s head is green, then blue, and you can see it’s brown in the next iteration.) “do while” is a command in many many programming languages — it means to execute a series of steps as long as some condition is true — and you *should* be taking away a computer joke / analogy.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I am very surprised that anyone thinks the cut-off is not intentional. I understood this comic right away*, but the title really makes it. Insta-fave!
*This makes me sound like a pretentious jerk, but that’s not how I meant it! Honest! Darn you, interwebs.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Yeah, I admit this one was totally lost on me, including the cut-off at the end. Not knowing a lick about computer coding, ‘Do while’ had to be explained to me before I got the gag. Sometimes you’re too nerdy, sometimes you’re not nerdy enough.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I see. I never got into programming, I know some HTML, Java and
small windows scripting stuff, but no c++. I know similar code.
Nice. Its sad I had to have that explained though.
Thanks for clearning it up.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
In Java:
do {
Robot robot = new Robot(getNextColor());
} while (!robot.lovesMe());
August 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Or actually
Robot robot;
do {
robot = new Robot(getNextColor());
} while (!robot.lovesMe());
August 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Okay. Yeah. Waaaaay over my head.
Cute artwork though!
Is it really supposed to cut off at the bottom?
August 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
4xis.black:
Or in C#
temprobot = new Robot(NextColor)
while(!temprobot.LovesMe)
{
temprobot = new Robot(NextColor)
}
August 26th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I think the cut off could be illustrated better, even though I like the idea of this strip. As most comments here show – and my own experience wasn’t far off, opened the comic in an extra-tab to proof it wasn’t broken and then read the title and got the punchline – this way it isn’t obvious that you meant it to iterate on and on. Maybe scaling would have helped. The sub-strip stepwise getting smaller, but that would imply a loss of relevance.
I’m also having a problem with reading-directions again: down, right, right, down, major down, down, right, right, down, major down… Especially the “major down” was quite a problem. At least I was confused with the directions. The similarity of the pictures in the first column made me believe I had to read downwards only, in columns. Indicating directions with arrows or something like that anyways seems like an unsatisfactory solution to me. There must be a way to point the direction more subtle. Scaling again would have helped maybe, because it would have distinguished the sub-strips from each other.
I just gave two stars as it is now, but I feel it would have gotten far more if your idea would have had a better optical equivalent.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
For some reason I’m reminded of the droid workshop in the line for Star Tours at Disneyland.
“I’ve been working on the same droid
All the live-long daaaay!”
August 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Then, after he runs himself clean out of parts, his leg breaks, and there’s no spare /anywhere/. He lies on the ground, immobile, watching his creations pass him by without a glance, and eventually he just runs out of power.
Years later he is but a pile of rust, who died alone and unloved.
…like Captain Hook, except not.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I remember when I used to laugh at Simulated Comic Product.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
It’s pretty clever, I realize now that I’ve had the title explained to me. Unfortunately, the joke doesn’t really come together unless you know what “do while” means.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Oh, also I love the builder robot’s body language. It makes it very clear what emotions are going on here in a charmingly simple way.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Oh man, that’s brilliant and really depressing. I think maybe if there was a similar cutoff part at the top, like there is at the bottom, it would’ve been clearer.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am
It was clear to me without seeing the title. For that matter it would also have been clear without the third iteration at the bottom. But I’ve been reading this strip for a while…
August 27th, 2008 at 11:17 am
i just…love this.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
This may be the best comic you’ve done! I didn’t even realize the robot changed color until after the fact.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Great work.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I got it, but didn’t find it funny. I found it ‘Really Really Sad’. Which is also good. So, good comic, even though it is not funny???
August 28th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Actually, you would need to have class Robot have a producer class method, which when called, creates a new Robot, then returns a reference to the new Robot. Otherwise, you’re simply automatically destroying the one you just made when you create the new one — which clearly is not occurring here, as the “old” robots still exist when he creates the new ones (they just wander away).
Maybe he could have a doubly-linked list of Robots?
robots.add(new Robot(getNextColor());
August 28th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Why does everyone keep saying you have to understand the title to get it? I didn’t know what “do while” meant until reading the comments and I understood the comic perfectly. It’s obvious that he’s stuck in a cycle, and knowing the programming terminology for it doesn’t add anything to that.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Not bad, but it’s not just reminiscent of 2.0, it’s basically the same comic. It’s a solid theme, but Do While doesn’t really say anything that you didn’t already say with 2.0.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I like this strip a lot. One of my favorites lately. Don’t get why it’s not rated as high as most of other SCP comics, I mean who doesn’t love sad robots?
August 30th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I didn’t even notice the title and i got the joke right off. Yes, it’s a sad joke, but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny—as long as it’s happening to someone else.
Getting the joke doesn’t mean i’m smarter than those who didn’t get it. It just means i’m twisted the same direction as Kevin.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Poor thing, just like me. Good at MAKING friends (wink), but terrible at KEEPING them! So sad, so sad indeed! (After ‘do while’ was explained in comments [just not nerdy enough today], it suddnely had a less-deep meaning, but at the same time, it’s all the same meaning. I like this one. Sad robots are really growing on me.)
September 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
If you go with 4xis.black’s interpretation of the loop, but in C++ (with a pointer)
Robot* robot;
do {
robot = new Robot(getNextColor());
} while (!(robot->lovesMe()));
you end up with a memory leak, which adds a whole new layer of potential meanings…
September 8th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Aahahaha…. programmer’s joke……
September 8th, 2008 at 11:43 am
This was pretty lame. when is the next update?
September 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Took me long to understand. (Aka. 10minutes of re-reading, and then reading Hef’s comment)
Poor robot fellow.
October 18th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Jokes that need to be explained are never funny… unless they’re explained in code in not one, but *three* languages. Thanks guys
May 9th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Wow people are idiots. How can you not just look at it and see “Oh golly gee whiz poor lil’ robot dude, they keep leaving him but he keeps on keeping on”? Jesus Horatio Christ…