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Blue Screen of Death

Started by Off · 8 months ago

11-03-08 ... Continue reading »

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  • kevin

    8 months ago

    this is brilliant.
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  • FFBBTTT

    8 months ago

    I DONT GET IT!
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  • KyleZ

    8 months ago

    Death from the Seventh Seal. Makes bets on people's lives that they can't beat him at chess. He's more or less undefeatable.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M3AQMHRufY

    Deep Blue, chess computer that beat the world chess champion.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Deep_Blue
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  • Arsenia

    8 months ago

    great work
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  • alexio

    8 months ago

    genius.
    (go look up deep blue)
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  • KyleZ

    8 months ago

    Took me a little while to get the death reference, but that's good. ha.

    Does deep blue have a soul?

    CAN RO-BOT FEEL E-MO-TION??
    CAN RO-BOT FEEL.... LOVE?
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  • Bob

    8 months ago

    Great rendition of Deep Blue!
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  • Bob

    8 months ago

    Great rendition of Deep Blue!
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  • Matt

    8 months ago

    Which color is Death and which is Deep Blue?
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  • Flashback81

    8 months ago

    Ironically, I just saw Ian McKellan's rendition of Death from Seventh Seal, in "Last Action Hero" last night. Much more personable than Bengt Ekerot.
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  • Nathaniel

    8 months ago

    why in god's name would you need to see Seventh Seal?! I have never heard of it, but the Game (normally chess) For Your Life is very old, and shows up in a large amount of other things. Two I can think of off the top of my head are Animaniacs did an episode, as well as the movie Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Death may not look the same, but with the title Blue Screen of Death and how it looks in general I got it immediately. That said...AWESOME!
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  • Oso Borracho

    8 months ago

    The game vs. death scene in Bill and Ted and a lot of films/shows are references to Seventh Seal. One of my favorite homages to it is the ending of Monty Python's Meaning of Life with the bickering about the salmon mousse. :D
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  • Dead Robot

    8 months ago

    I think it would have been more funnier if you had a pile of networked Mac Pros. They're cheaper.

    Juuuust kidding.
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  • JimJimBinks

    8 months ago

    People keep talking about The Seventh Seal. I've never seen it, but I got the joke after seeing Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. What I want to know is if Death asked for best two out of three and challenged Deep Blue to Connect Four.
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  • Ravn

    8 months ago

    Thank you for this, Det Sjunde Inseglet is my favorite movie, and this is funny as hell.
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  • Tiny Tommy

    8 months ago

    As always, incredible art. Well done.
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  • René

    8 months ago

    Hm. Kinda weak.
    The art is gorgeous, don't get me wrong. But I would've wanted a bigger twist or something.
    I understood that that was Death versus Deep Blue. But I would've had Death battling for his "life".
    Since he lost, DB could say "Come with me" and take him away to the Robot Underworld or something.
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  • Darkorical

    8 months ago

    At first I was thinking about how in the old days of windows it was a sore looser when it came to chess if you won the game it would crash consistantly until you rebooted.

    My mind was then taken back to Bill and Teds Bogus Journey when they were playing against death,

    and when the two thoughts came together my interpatation was this

    Death beat Big Blue. BB BSOD'ed (ie died) and required a reboot (resurection) before anything could be done with it and thusly loosingthe chess battle but wining the war for life
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  • richard

    8 months ago

    What made you come to that conclusion? You can see by Death's face that he lost.
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  • idunno

    8 months ago

    the computer beat death in chess, so death took his life. thats what it means right?
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  • Rich

    8 months ago

    It's a reference to the common theme in a lot of stories that when you're going to die, you get to play a game against Death, and if you win, you live. Death always wins, but apparently even Death can't beat Deep Blue.

    I love it, it's definitely among my favorites of all time.
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  • Oso Borracho

    8 months ago

    Yessssssss Seventh Seal! I much recommend seeing it to those who haven't.
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  • sid

    8 months ago

    except that kasparov beat deep blue, so why wouldn't death be able to?
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  • Burley

    8 months ago

    Because Bill & Ted beat Death multiple times at multiple games.

    The premise is Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, where, if you die, you may challenge Death to a game. If you win, you get to command death. If you lose, he gets your soul.
    Also, Station.
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  • Globo

    7 months ago

    The second version of Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
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  • Izzy

    8 months ago

    Wow, this is an awesome comic!
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  • Andrew

    8 months ago

    Alternate title: The 111th seal
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  • Woody

    8 months ago

    Swedish, as I am, I think this is hilarious :P, What colour is death? Black of course, that suits him the best, as he says in the movie! Though as some have pointed out, Kasparov beat Deep Blue so death if anybody would certainly beat him too, but that wouldn't make a funny comic! SO keep it up!
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  • AnmanIndustries

    8 months ago

    Yeah, but Kasparov claimed it "cheated". Or THEY cheated, they being the team.

    Regardless, I love this one.
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  • Globo

    7 months ago

    There were two Kasparov - Deep Blue matches.

    Kasparov beat Deep Blue v1.0

    Then, one year later, Kasparov lost to Deep Blue v2.0

    After his loss, Kasparov claimed IBM cheated and demanded a rematch. The rematch was not granted and Deep Blue was dismantled.
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  • Lucas

    8 months ago

    Isn't tha a bishop?
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  • Leth

    7 months ago

    Hardly; it has a cross on top, the signature feature of the King piece.
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  • Nina

    8 months ago

    Damn, I needed to read the comments to get it... I guess I'm not used to Death having a face, what with the heavy-hooded "grim reaper" look being so standard. I guess I should watch more foreign films. :-P
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  • Pedro

    8 months ago

    I'm the only one thinking about science beating religion?
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  • death

    5 months ago

    the comic is a reference to a movie, the seventh seal
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  • Scott

    8 months ago

    Amazing!!
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  • Nate

    8 months ago

    First time posting, but not the first time I've been baffled by some comments.

    It's a humorous look at what happens when a computer gets a Blue Screen of Death. In order to reboot, it needs to beat death in a game of chess. I think some people try to put way too much effort into finding subtle allusions in them that they ignore the big clues (case in point: the title). Death might be good at chess, but he can't make 2 billion calculations per second, and each time a computer reboots, he has to get his ass handed to him again.
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  • Globo

    7 months ago

    I'm baffled by YOUR comments, Nate. You're the one who's missing the point. How ironic.
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  • nick

    7 months ago

    you can even read the words "Deep Blue" at the top...

    ...and if you need further evidence then:

    http://www.reardonww.com/DC05/0751-Deep%20Blue%...
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  • Belairaphon

    8 months ago

    Nate, you're an idiot.
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  • Peter Ebel

    8 months ago

    I lovingly raised and shook my fist in anger at this comic.
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  • merck

    8 months ago

    Nate, I think you're the one reading too much into it. That's very clearly a picture of Deep Blue, a computer that's famous for playing chess and not just any desktop PC that needs rebooting. This is a comic about Deep Blue beating Death. The title is just a pun on Deep Blue's name.
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  • Cock

    8 months ago

    this looks like it was drawn by a one armed flipper handed homosexual.
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  • KyleZ

    7 months ago

    Deep blue is rather phallic.

    -10 points for forgetting to throw in something racist, though. For shame, Cock.
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  • Ren

    7 months ago

    Why is the board 8x7?
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  • TPOD

    7 months ago

    I'm nitpicking here, but why's the bottom right tile of the board black? (see layout of a chess board)

    Nice issue by the way, even though it took me longer to get than the other ones :)
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  • Fox

    7 months ago

    Rotate the board 90 degrees in either direction, the shape is still the same but the position of the black and white corners is inverted.
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  • TPOD

    7 months ago

    'cept that as Ren stated, that board is also 7x8 for some reason :p
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  • Rick

    7 months ago

    Has anyone noticed yet that Deep Blue doesn't have a soul to bet in the first place?
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  • Igor Santos

    7 months ago

    Does it matter?
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  • John

    5 months ago

    How do you know? It has a brain, doesn't it...
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  • stucky

    7 months ago

    Is there a strategy in chess called a 'screen' ? If so, do you think blue used it on death?
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  • sex toys

    4 months ago

    thanks!
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  • Ingmar

    8 months ago

    Great comic, though I bet the ignoramuses won't have seen the seventh seal and won't "get" it
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  • scythemantis

    8 months ago

    I don't think the media you have or haven't gotten around to seeing really determines being an ignoramus.

    I get it, but I've never been fond of jokes that require you to be familiar with some specific work of fiction.
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  • doroakarwb

    8 months ago

    just because someone hasn't seen it you gotta insult them, huh.
    and yeah i haven't seen it and don't get it.
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  • mjgorman

    8 months ago

    Great comic though I bet the condescending assholes who "get" will insult everyone else because they haven't seen the same movies as them.
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