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[Lagslayer]

So xkcd's Time comic ended.

...
Anybody still have that link where you could scroll through all the pages?

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

Anyone else wanna bet on a sequel?

[Putnam]

So xkcd's Time comic ended.

it's not over until the fat lady sings

or he hasn't posted a newpix in 24 hours

which he hasn't

[Pnx]

Or you know, you have something like this.

The title text even says, "the end" now instead of "wait for it".

EDIT: So I read around and I've managed to piece together the whole story of what "time" is all about, if anyone wants to hear it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So it seems the story is set somewhere in the distant future. Apparently in this future an Atlantropa has been built, which is a hydro-electric dam that covers the strait of Gibraltar, this causes the sea levels in the mediterrainian to fall hundreds of meters, and as a side-effect makes the sea much saltier, which of course explains why the characters are unable to swim in the river, but perfectly willing to swim in the sea.

At some point the dam starts breaking, and the sea level starts to rise, causing the characters to make their journey.

The towers they encounter I thought were some kind of machine gun tower at first, but now I'm pretty sure they were actually being used to mount a leveling instrument, the people they ran into seem to have been some kind of survey team, they were probably trying to figure out what areas were going to be flooded.

[Steelmagic]

For some reason heavy metal music makes me tired.

[werty892]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLhyIPyDei4

[GlyphGryph]

For some reason heavy metal music makes me tired.

Does so for me as well. Thought I was alone.

[Frumple]

That... that sensation. When you've read through about half of a pretty decently constructed piece of literature, run head first into a full chapter smut scene, and realize, "Oh. I'm... I'm reading romance fiction, aren't I?"

... and then you keep reading, because hey, it's a pretty decently constructed piece of romance fiction. *vague, confused mutterances*

[Flying Dice]

Roll with the punches, Frumple. Or the kisses, as the case may be. It's rare enough to find decent writing that I almost never stop reading just because the genre, setting, etc. were things I didn't expect them to be.

[Yoink]

I'm gonna ramble about this here, since I'm not really sure where else to put it.

Occasionally a piece of fiction will immerse me in it so much, pull my heartstrings to such a degree, that I'll be in a weird, numb sort of mood for days afterwards. I'm not really sure what to call it, but the real world will feel dull and unimportant, I'll be detached from it(more-so than usual), my mind will fill with pondering about said fiction whenever possible, and I'll have sort of 'aftershocks' of the emotions it inspired in me.

I've had this from a few different works in the past that I can remember: Movie-wise, The Hunger Games, which was a major example where I moped around for days after seeing it, as well as AVATAR to a lesser degree.
Some great books can cause it too, like While Angels Dance by Ralph Cotton, Crime and Punishment, and especially Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. (Not to be confused with 50 Shades of Grey, ugh.)

There are doubtless more examples that I'm forgetting, I don't have my entire book collection on hand after all.
As you may have guessed, The Last of Us is having the same effect on me. It's different, though, in that as a videogame it lasts for far longer than any movie or book, and this weird feeling has persisted since I started playing through the story a couple of days ago.

Even as I write this I just have this sort of... I don't know, it sounds cliché, but a sort of 'tightness' in my chest.
Maybe that sounds incredibly sappy, but whatever. I had the same feeling after watching The Hunger Games-- oh, and I just remembered, L.A Noire did it too, to some extent. I remember watching the credits all the way through, just listening numbly to the beautiful, oh-so-beautiful soundtrack with tears in my eyes. (Do I sound like a headcase yet?)

I did the same thing just before at the menu screen for TLoU. Just lay back on my couch after completing a chapter, just savouring the title music with this enjoyable feeling of happy exhaustion.
Anyway, uh. Yeah. I did say ramble, right? If nothing else my weirdness should give you a WTF.

[Furtuka]

The kitchenbots have begun spreading to other forums ._.

[LordSlowpoke]

The kitchenbots have begun spreading to other forums ._.

kitchenistan strong britain we furnish yu

[quinnr]

The kitchenbots have begun spreading to other forums ._.

A quick search reveals that they are everywhere. (That last link is absolutely beautiful.)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Beautifully avoided by my antivirus, at least.

[GlyphGryph]

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en
https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingcontentremoval&ct=eformts&scrx=1

Guys, report the kitchen bots here, and post that link to every forum you go to that talks about them. They're trying to spam search results, so that's the only way to fight back.

[Bauglir]

I wonder if there's any way to automatically prevent threads from being created with the word "kitchen" in the title.