Dear Kris Straub,

[mcity]

And chainsawsuit's "parody".

Nice job, Straub. You only managed to completely miss the point of the strip. The original specifies a particular IRC channel, at a particular time. Given that Black Hat often represents Randall's wish-fulfilment dark side, strawmanning it out to "girls on the Internet at some unspecified point in time" is kinda cheap. You have to completely misrepresent the comic to make a Take That. And the type of guys who make "make me a sandwich" jokes on Youtube videos? If they had the self-awareness to argue like that, they likely wouldn't be making the joke in the first place. Don't you talk about "white-knighting". There are perfectly valid reasons to call someone on the internet out on being a dick, and the primary one is the fact that they're being a dick.

Sincerely,
Jonn

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[mcity.livejournal.com]

Here's the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ov1DDjHt8c). The icon is taken from 2:32, I think.

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[mcity.livejournal.com]

http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7ov1DDjHt8c&start=2m33s&end=2m34s