Truck Bearing Kibble - Latest Comments in Blue Screen of Death

Re: Blue Screen of Death

SHO! — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:35:58 -0000

Sometimes when people suggest how you guys can improve a particular comic I read their "better" idea and wonder if they have recently suffered a head injury....

..except for in the comments for "Pancake Dragon"
>_< --heh

Re: Blue Screen of Death

nsac136 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:37:23 -0000

thanks!

Re: Blue Screen of Death

John — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:15:49 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

death — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:14:27 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

stucky — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:35:52 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Igor Santos — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:29:51 -0000

Does it matter?

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Rick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:58 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

TPOD — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:20:20 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

nick — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:41:51 -0000

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%...

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Fox — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:03:56 -0000

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.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

TPOD — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:26:22 -0000

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 :)

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Leth — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:37:52 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Ren — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:55:57 -0000

Why is the board 8x7?

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Globo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:15:50 -0000

The second version of Deep Blue beat Kasparov.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Globo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:14:52 -0000

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.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Globo — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:13:08 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

KyleZ — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:41:38 -0000

Deep blue is rather phallic.

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Cock — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:05:52 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Belairaphon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:27:47 -0000

Nate, you're an idiot.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

merck — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:17:47 -0000

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.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Peter Ebel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:45:43 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Nate — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:09:49 -0000

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.

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Scott — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:17:24 -0000

Amazing!!

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Pedro — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:37:17 -0000

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

Re: Blue Screen of Death

Nina — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:00:01 -0000

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