How to Answer the Question 'What's Bothering You?' [COMIC]
Basic Instructions is a twice weekly updating web comic that offers absurd advice on how to live your life. Some of those updates will be happening here on Cracked.
Previously Scott has taught us How To Retroactively Ruin a Joke and How to Argue Like and American.
Oh boy... This one nearly killed me, this has got to happen to me ten times a week... awesome job Scott Meyer, you are hilarious XD
ReplyI really related to this comic. And, I'm not going to lie, a laughed out load, very loudly in fact, at the first panel. Mostly because of how many times it's happened to me.
ReplySo I will feeling fine, but then I saw all these haters, and now i'm insulting them (s**theads), and they won't get it.
ReplyChew your words 32 times before spitting them back onto the screen.
Okay, just a few tips here:
Reply Hide All See All 5 Replies1) Don't ignore the haters: just don't take what they say personally, 'cause they may just have a point sometimes;
2) Please, PLEASE stop constantly rehashing old art. Not that it's ugly, but it prohibits the characters from having truly adequate gestures according to what they're saying, and the audience eventually starts to find it mundane. If it's too hard to draw it again looking the same, then maybe you should simplify your characters;
3) I read a little lower that it's actually a photo-comic. Know that there are a number of successful photo-comics out there who don't rehash their 'art'. Note the sarcastic apostrophes;
4) If you can't draw for s**t and are too lazy to not recycle your pictures, then please stop making these, as a comic is a VISUAL medium.
~GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS COMIC~
1) Writing and humour is actually pretty good;
2) Didn't try to insert a douchy dramatic story to follow from week to week. Yet.
3) Not furry.
Smug douchebag. Don't listen to him, Scott.
I think those who dislike the comment because it re-uses the same images are really missing the point. This is stand-up or skit type humor here.
Frankly I find it amusing when I go through the strips and see the same expression or posture fit well to so many widely varying contexts.
I had a teacher once who said you didn't have to be able to draw well or anything because it's the story that's important and how you tell it.
Although, I never read a comic with what I consider to be bad art. (Unless it is a very special and intentional type of ''bad'')
Still, if the jokes are good and the expressions fit, then what does it matter? At least he's not using one picture only.
I went through his site and read like 30 comics in a row and didn't notice he was re-using art...
same here, until this dude mentioned it and i took a closer look o.O
The harsh cracked audience seems to have been good for Scott; These have been getting progressively better and better.
ReplyCracked-Comments therapy is a cure all for most things. It fixed my compulsive masturbation. No, wait, s**t... it *amplified* it. Oh, well, lemonade from lemons then: It made be a much better one-hand typist.
Is there a mistake in the fourth panel; "My face is on the side of my head." Does this make sense to you guys? The third panel is funny.
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesFirst, hold your hands up in front of you, with your thumbs and forefingers ("pointer fingers") extended, like you were making a gun shape. The hand that appears to form a correctly-positioned capital L (you can use the example given immediately before this parenthetical note as a model for a proper capital L) is your LEFT hand. That's important, so remember that. The other hand, by process of elimination, is your RIGHT hand. You probably write with this hand. Take your RIGHT hand and lift it up to touch your cheek, temple, and ear. This is the RIGHT side of your head. The character in the comic is claiming (sarcastically) that THIS is where his face was positioned when he was born. "Face" in this context being eyes, nose, and mouth. It would follow that his left and right ears are positioned, respectively, on the front and back of his head. If you get lost, follow these instructions again, carefully. It may take a few tries.
eh? right?? he said he's been looking to the left; wow as sarcastic as your whole rant was it was wrong T_T poor you
@LickFlame No, he was correct, the character has been looking to his left his whole life so that the face (which is on the right side of his head) would be pointing in a forwards direction. Maybe you need to follow Moviemans directions again as he suggested.
I'm actively losing faith in humanity thanks to the efforts of fufi and flame
I'm sorry, I understand what a side of a face is, but I meant it's as funny as a dead grandmother. I was a little sleepy and didn't fully explain myself. Thanks for taking the time to not be funny.
...I thought it was pretty funny...
Loud minority working in the comments.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesThey forgot to put up their construction signs! I am incensed!
What is this, a variation on the "Black people can't be quite in movie theaters" joke?
No, because jokes are actually funny.
Nice!
"Loud minority" has nothing to do with ethnicity Butt. It's just that the guys who don't hate or love a particular thing (in this case the comic) won't actually bother commenting the thing. Ofcourse in teh internets it's usually the few people who hate thing X that are the loudest (see some Fallout 3 rewievs from back when it was released).
I sooo wanna use the 3rd panel trick when I have the chance.
ReplyIgnore the haters. I always enjoy this comic. :) (Seriously, these people 1. click the link, knowing it's to a comic they dislike, 2. read the comic and then 3. comment to complain that the comic was posted in the first place. I mean, I know if you're on Cracked you probably don't actually have anything "better" to do, but maybe you could take a hobby, like learning esperanto or something?)
ReplyAlso: LOL at the "stop recycling the art!" comments. I wonder if Dinosaur Comics gets the same complaints..?
I don't think these comics would be any funnier in Esperanto, really.
Just sayin'.
I agree. Honestly, I've just been coming here just to read the comments.
I don't get it, why is this series being posted so often? Do people actually like/care about it?
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesAs a matter of fact, they do.
Oh! Only those with a sense of humor that goes a wee bit past dick jokes... so don't worry, just ignore these.
On a site for dickjokes and "alternative" history?
I must frequently be making a face that makes it seem like something is bothering me, because people ask me if I'm alright way too much...perhaps I have some inner turmoil my subconscious isn't telling me about.
ReplyIt's a strange thing how the fact that we are designed to recognize emotion or meaning in people's faces leads to thinking we see it in someone's face that is more or less that way by default rather than because of emotions.
I use to have that problem with people constantly assuming I was in a really good mood until I started killing them indiscriminately when they did so. Now they generally don't know what to think and I believe I like that situation better. It helps to have a herald, though.
When I first read the comments on some of these, I was surprised at how much negative commentary I found on some of them (although not this one in particular), as I've found all of these quite witty and funny. I just wait for a chance to wedge some of these lines into converation so I can seem far quicker than I am.
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesMy one critique, though, is that the author might want to draw some more pictures of the characters so it's not so obvious that they're being recycled. The worst one is the picture of the guy with hair that's used in both the left panels. That's a very specific "wait a MINUTE!" look on his face that's definitely funny, but only with dialogue that facilitates such an expression.
I think it's deliberate, he's incorporated lazy into his personal style. Which I, for one, admire.
If the internet has a style, it's creatively recycling the same art. The guy who's published the same strip for years only changing the words is a webcomics hero.
His pictures are actually just outlines of real photographs; it's part of his artstyle, as it is, to use a few very expressive poses for each character. Also, he can't really draw.
You mean the creator of CAD?
I think he means dinosaur comics.
I'm too lazy to admire anything.
You've got to admire me for that.
These are so great! I love how you can hear the sarcasm in his voice when you read it :]
Replythird frame kicks ass
ReplyThis cartoon makes me want to fake my own death.
ReplyThat can be arranged.
This happens to me more often than I'd like. Or worse, I'll be totally happy, not a care in the world, and someone will go "Cheer up!" Wait, what?
ReplyHee! Nice one.
ReplyI only wish my wife still had her terrible old coworkers so that she could pass this around to them.
ReplyThese just get better and better :)
ReplyThat is what I was going to say verbatim! I think he upped the sarcasm or something throughout the course of these last several posts.
agreed
This one is good
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