The Cyanide & Happiness appreciation thread
Discussion
Vaud said:
boxst said:
To be fair though, Cyanide and Happiness is not really for anyone that is remotely sensitive to somewhat dark humour.
It is very very dark. And funny. And quite a good observation that "smart" systems often miss context.
The very nature of C&H is super dark.
I am fairly hard to offend but sometimes they do one that makes me recoil a bit. Oh well, click on, I'd rather see one thing that i didn't appreciate than miss out on the 100's that have me grinning.
glenrobbo said:
It's not funny if you are planning on your next miscarriage. 
Is the robodocs response a direct answer to the woman’s question - or is it stating that it has itself suffered an internal error due to not understanding the question (with the woman clearly misconstruing that response as being in relation to her baby).
Rude-boy said:
Vaud said:
boxst said:
To be fair though, Cyanide and Happiness is not really for anyone that is remotely sensitive to somewhat dark humour.
It is very very dark. And funny. And quite a good observation that "smart" systems often miss context.The very nature of C&H is super dark.
I am fairly hard to offend but sometimes they do one that makes me recoil a bit. Oh well, click on, I'd rather see one thing that i didn't appreciate than miss out on the 100's that have me grinning.
Moonhawk said:
As often with many of these cartoons - the meaning is ambiguous and open to your own interpretation.
Is the robodocs response a direct answer to the woman’s question - or is it stating that it has itself suffered an internal error due to not understanding the question (with the woman clearly misconstruing that response as being in relation to her baby).
Indeed. It's in the ambiguity that the humour lies.Is the robodocs response a direct answer to the woman’s question - or is it stating that it has itself suffered an internal error due to not understanding the question (with the woman clearly misconstruing that response as being in relation to her baby).
If the robot simply said "your foetus is dead" then it wouldn't be funny. But it didn't - it gave a generic error code that we have seen from computers for decades, and the humour is in applying it in an ambiguous context.
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