How to Lose at Scrabble With Dignity [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 Understand a Baffling Ad Campaign and How to Tell If She's Into You Or High On Cough Syrup.
your bald man lacks balls, he needs to stand up to his woman.
ReplyI like it when the winner tells the loser what they did wrong so they play better next time.
ReplyI won't be hyperbolic and say this is the worst comic ever or anything, but it is just not funny. I can't even tell that this is supposed to be funny. post more "subnormality", these "basic instructions" are not funny, they're just boring
ReplyLast panel had me loling xD
ReplyI never liked this guy's comics cause he seems to do what a lot of cartoonists do which is use the same drawing of people over and over. Even if he is drawing them anew each time, it doesn't feel like it. Like you can just have the letters X and Y talking back and forth and it would make no difference here. In other words, this ain't no Space Avalanche.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesHe actually says he doesn't redraw for the comic. He traces over photos and uses the same pics so he doesn't have to redraw for every comic, which would probably be a pain in the ass.
The drawings aren't really important, the text is.
Also, #$@$ you in the tits :D
Drawings aren't important in comics? Interesting. So why does he have any drawings at all? Why not just have text. And no, f**k yourrrrrr tits. Your fat hairy lactating thinga-maboobs.
Did you not see any facial expressions? No? That's what comics are for. The concept and idea of what the characters are doing is there - and pretty clear, may I add - and that's what's important.
This one was actually pretty funny.
Replythese comics are w.e, spaceavalanche is definitely better
ReplyThere's a dirty spot on my screen that makes it look just like the lesbian chicks nipple is poking through her shirt.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesYou are such a lucky person.
You're not going to believe this... but me too. I had to double check by rubbing the screen and then I got carried away and had to rub something else. But seriously. I need to clean my screen.
It kinda sounds like you just did... Unless that was, of course, code for pleasuring yourself. In which case... It kinda sounds like you just did.
Lets close our eyes and pretend it's something else?
HA, me too. Wait, I don't care for that at all. Ew. Ew. I have to clean the screen.
Scott Meyer, just because you frequently lose games of words with friends against your openly lesbian partner doesn't mean you have to continue making s**tty comics.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesUsedGoods, nobody cares about your opinion. May you never become DamagedGoods.
I agree. f**k off UsedGoods.
iFink, that was funnier that the comic.
I agree with soasertus. These comics are just flat-out stupid.
you have a retarded ass sense of humor then.
That was actually hilarious... probably the best of these comics I've seen
ReplyGreat comic, but the situation described in panel 3 is impossible because, with the exception of the central square, there are no double word scores on the same rows or columns as any of the triple word scores.
Reply Hide All See All 9 RepliesExcept it's "definitely not Scrabble."
...HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT!?! WITCH!!!!
But 'definitely not Scrabble' has the same board layout as Scrabble.
Actually, it is possible in the upper left hand corner, two squares to the right and three down. You wouldn't be incorporating the entire 'and', but it's better to just use the 'a', because now you've got a Bingo as well as your nice 'Quandary' score.
You..... you people scare me.....
Yes, good point Drassixe. I shouldn't have assumed that the whole 'and' was being incorporated.
Though, the strip seemed to imply that she DID use the entire "and" ("you made it into..." is the line.) Of course, he doesn't actually say the whole word was incorporated, so fair game.
SIDE NOTE: Is it sad that we...
A.) spend enough time playing not-scrabble to actually notice such a possible error?
AND
B.) that we cared enough to discuss said possible error and then worked together to find a reasonable solution?
My imaginary girlfriend said it's totally cool, but I have the sneaking sus**cion that it's not.
In not-Scrabble, there's an option to pick a "random" board. YOUR DOUBLES AND TRIPLES COULD BE ANYWHEREEEE
Holly s**t-basket full of titty-f**k cakes, NOT-SCRABBLE NEEEERDS!!!
Love Scrabble- f**king HATE this comic series.
ReplyYet you keep reading them...?
These are so much better when you read them without the supertitles.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesSupertitties! WHERE?!?
WHERE THE f**kDITTY ARE THE SUPERTITTIES?! I WANNA SEE SUPERTITTIES!!!
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Good call, Trumpt. It really does make the dialog flow a lot better, though I still enjoyed the strip as a whole. I think a good compromise would be to only include the first supertitle, and then let the dialog imply the rest.
Also, Nnoitra, beware: When you stare into the supertitties, the supertitties stare back.
What the hell happened to Missy's nose?
ReplyIt's a bit more like her actual nose, now she's recognizable.
The end was funny, but I liked the first panel best.
Replylol'd at the end.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesI'm a fan of these
Yeah, thats becuase you're like me and you like your humourlike you like your vaginas; dry.
No, I'm pretty sure your sense of humor is as dead as the vaginas you try to f**k.
I like penis.
c**ks n' balls, gentlemen. c**ks n' balls.
Dickpenises and Vaginapussies.
ooo RiffTrax ad
ReplyOh, and good comic.
Weird, I just started playing that with my friends on my smartphone. It's awesome.
Replyit is awesome. and you can play against awsmmlly too. which is triple the awesome.
Why on Earth do you always change the titles of these comics? Do you not think they are funny enough as written?
Replyseriously
The reason I don't play scrabble with my parents anymore is Panel 4.
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