Poll: Do you hate Ctrl-Alt-Del?

[IrrelevantTangent]

I used to read it infrequently before the 'miscarriage incident.' After that...I stopped, never looked back. If it was ever mildly funny at any point, it stopped permanently after the miscarriage arc.

Soon after, I started hearing all these nasty rumors about Tim Buckley- and let's just say the rumors of plagiarism and rampant egoism are the nicer ones- that started to surface after the miscarriage thing, and in retrospect, I'm kind of glad I stopped reading it.

The fact that, looking back, I honestly think it's a poor man's Penny Arcade rip-off didn't help either.

 

[SimuLord]

Oh boy, mod bait. Just the flavor for a Friday on the Escapist.

Bad form aside with the whole "do you hate" thing, it's not the comic I hate ("hate" is too strong a word. I just think it isn't funny), it's that self-absorbed wannabe-cool asswipe Buckley who writes it.

 

[Merteg]

It's not funny.

Though, neither is the one on the Escapist. Actually, the one here is even less funny than the crap that Buckley makes.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

Even if I hated everything about it, I would still respect it. The writing and storytelling is top notch.

Which makes me glad I love it.

 

[Volucer]

I hate the comics now, after the miscarrage storyline I think he just lost the plot completely. Some of the parodies were fun, but like you said, they're too much wall of text. The only thing he's done that I liked was the choose your own adventure style comics.

 

[Sephychu]

Much as I love ol' Croshaw, the idea is to listen to the humour, and decide your opinions for yourself. Otherwise I'd only own one game.

OT: I love CAD. Funny stuff.

 

[A random person]

Considering that I used to read it pretty avidly, no I do not. Granted, I got bored with it and realize that Buckley's quite egotistical (to put it softly), but I feel no real malice against the comic.

Besides, as NeutralDrow said, it gave us the newb vs. noob comic, which is rather helpful.

 

[maninahat]

By default I dislike webcomics. There are a few exceptions, like the brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship, but usually the jokes in most webcomics are just plain bad. CAD is no exception, but it is only fractionally worse than the ever-popular XKCD.

 

[protogenxl]

Personally I hate Command - Option - Escape

 

[weary]

I quite liked it for a while and i still read it because i have free time and it wont kill me but im more entertained by Penny arcade and i get all the plot i need from order of tales

 

[waterhazard]

I can see how the plot can get a bit tedious but it is also that he started that storyline and it just sunk Tim in it. He couldn't have just stopped it in the middle.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

Hate is such a strong word...

I'll say it's not that bad.... yet not that good.

 

[GeekFury]

Yes and no, I like some of his storylines and the art work but alot just seem to trying to keep in the gamer trend, and as such just seem forced humour like 'LOOK WHAT I DREW IS'NT IT A FUNNY COMIC WITH A GREAT JOKE?! HAR HAR HAR!' and it's just not as funny as say Penny Arcade or Console Hopping.

 

[jojoemon]

Oh wow, i just read the post after voteing. I've never read the web comic, i just hate the ctrl-alt-del command. When i use it, i ususally have to log out to get my computer unstuck, and it generaly takes a good while to work. Over all , i think they could design a better version for it to quickly get people unstuck without actually booting them off.

 

[arcstone]

I don't hate it, but I suppose I don't quite love it either.

More flexible options, please.

 

[Dannie]

No, I use to read it.

 

[T'Generalissimo]

I'm guessing it's something like with Halo and how it is cool to hate it?

I think it's much more to do with something you perceive as being bad also being spectacularly popular. I mean, imagine if something like, I don't know, one of the recent Sonic games was the best selling game of all time; it would be understandable to start shouting that people had gone insane. I'm not saying that Halo or CAD are especially deserving of hatred, or that hatred is a particularly advisable reaction to them, but saying that it's only based on what's "cool" is pretty fucking insulting.

Concerning CAD, there's a lot of things I could dislike it for, but I think the only thing I actually care about is that I don't find it funny. As has already been pointed out, it tells jokes badly and that, broadly speaking, is the only thing I'm actually looking for from my webcomics. I don't hate it though.

Edit: Actually, you know what, I guess I do hate it, for those stupid chef ones where he just says random words. But that's more to do with my own personal hang-up of people mistaking nonsense with humour, which in turn is probably caused by The Mighty Boosh series 3 being so shit for the same reason.

 

[RyePunk]

The parodies are worth a chuckle but he is pretty much the Leno of web-comics, plenty popular and funny enough but his choice of material leans toward to the obvious or outright stolen jokes. And he tends to be overly verbose for no real reason. I read it for years, but after seeing his characters lives repeatedly get better and better despite a chronic inability to change and when they do change it is maintained for a single comic before they return to the old ways. The only good thing to ever arise from CAD was, L.H. Franzibald. Someone whose "work is poorly written (comically so), contains many tropes, and steals ideas from popular media." I wonder if that could be applicable.

 

[Amarok]

Don't like any gaming comics, don't even penny arcade. They're just not my bag, baby.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I don't hate it. I just don't find it funny. Like at all.

It had it moments early on, mostly when it didn't star any of the main characters, but it complete fell apart with the infamous dead baby comic.