The Adventures of Hodgkin-Chan

[Olas]

IE has a cute mascot?
I haven't checked for a loooong time, but I somehow doubt IE is usable, yet. Or did they rebuild it from scratch?

Well IE was always "usable", however it has also been rebuilt essentially from scratch, and them improved upon several times. I would argue it's better than Firefox and probably tied with Chrome, which I used to use.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I've been screened for just about every possible cancer thanks to a bunch of health problems. You get over it.

[HEADING=1]BAKA![/HEADING]

Goddamn, tsundere cancer ward is best cancer ward.

Does your legend date back to the 12th century?

People still use Internet Explorer. I learned something today.

How else am I going to download Firefox or Chrome?

I use IE when I can't use anything else as a murder weapon.

 

[Gigano]

...the whole "I'm going to eat your body and kill you if you don't treat me right" thing seems rather Yandere though.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Kawai ssu

(high pitched internal screaming vaguely resembling the screams from satan's bowels)

But seriously, what was the discussion?

Executive: So... Internet Explorer is failing.
Creative Designer: Sir, we could make a better inter-
Executive: Shut up, Andy.. how about, those... big eyed things that keep killing the people they love?
Producer: ...Moe?
Executive: That. Get those.
CD: But sir, that's-
Executive: Shutup,Andy.
Executive: Oh, and make them say... "baka" or whatever they do.

Oh, Japan, even when it's not you, you're still a cancerous lump on the face of Earth that refuses to die.

 

[vallorn]

Funny thing is, Firefox has had this for years thanks to its animal mascot... Guess they need a better and cuter response, which shouldn't be hard to come by.

How about this?

Still this is at once both adorable and kind of freakishly disturbing... Seriously an anime mascot for cancer? my brain... what are you dong to my brain!?

 

[Nouw]

IE has a cute mascot?
I haven't checked for a loooong time, but I somehow doubt IE is usable, yet. Or did they rebuild it from scratch?

I suppose they kinda did rebuild it from scratch. Right now it's pretty damn good, on par with Chrome bar the extensions.

 

[Tanis]

I like anime and manga, but this is just getting retarded.

I'm actually wondering if Japan doesn't already have something like this.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

 

[Arawn]

Kawai ssu

(high pitched internal screaming vaguely resembling the screams from satan's bowels)

But seriously, what was the discussion?

Executive: So... Internet Explorer is failing.
Creative Designer: Sir, we could make a better inter-
Executive: Shut up, Andy.. how about, those... big eyed things that keep killing the people they love?
Producer: ...Moe?
Executive: That. Get those.
CD: But sir, that's-
Executive: Shutup,Andy.
Executive: Oh, and make them say... "baka" or whatever they do.

Oh, Japan, even when it's not you, you're still a cancerous lump on the face of Earth that refuses to die.

I have a feeling that is exactly what happened in that meeting. Still you can't deny the results.Seems that people like the icon/mascot. At least it's better than those "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" commercials.

OT: If all diseases were that cute I'm sure more people would be happy with things like sinus infections and allergies.

 

[Darth_Payn]

SO, there's a cute anime mascot for IE for Windows 8 and now I've seen one for Firefox. What about Google Chrome and Apple Safari?

 

[Aptspire]

I wasn't even aware this was a thing for IE until this strip. It's paying off, really? People are accepting it and not mocking them even more ruthlessly than before? Wow.

Actually, I don't know about other people. However, since it has a 'Magical Girl transformation', it's very easy for me to abuse.

"You can be the most popular browser, if you make a contract with me!"

 

[ace_of_something]

Too lazy to delve through all the references. What does Kawaii mean?

 

[VanQ]

俺の病気がこんなに可愛いわけがない！
It's the cancer killing anime. And I love it so, so much.

Too lazy to delve through all the references. What does Kawaii mean?

It means cute. I'm genuinely surprised a denizen of the internet doesn't know this. It's even been entered into the English dictionary, since so many people know what it means it's considered a loan word.

 

[Eggsnham]

This is so disturbing because of what I use Internet Explorer for. Basically, I've restricted access to all scriplets, active X and even Java. Nothing runs unless I let it and it's basically to restrict nigh every application that uses IE as a base for online components. I also use it to visit new websites to test which scripts and popups might be loading.

The analogy, then, would be that I have Aizawa chained up to a wall, bound feet and hands and I'm just making her read webcomics and taste potential food for poison.

You sick genius of a bastard. I approve.

OT: I remember IE having a bunch of "Hey, I don't suck anymore, really!" ads a while back, guess they've just started scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Something Amyss]

Bummer. But I doubted anyway that you could have made spelunking in my bunghole into a nice prospect.

Well, I HAVE had a camera shoved up my urethra.

And the anesthetic didn't really help.

Maybe that will make it seem better, but only by comparison.

I use IE when I can't use anything else as a murder weapon.

So you're like Jigsaw?

 

[Evil Smurf]

Bummer. But I doubted anyway that you could have made spelunking in my bunghole into a nice prospect.

Well, I HAVE had a camera shoved up my urethra.

And the anesthetic didn't really help.

Maybe that will make it seem better, but only by comparison.

I use IE when I can't use anything else as a murder weapon.

So you're like Jigsaw?

I'm more attractive.

 

[RoonMian]

Well, I HAVE had a camera shoved up my urethra.

And the anesthetic didn't really help.

Maybe that will make it seem better, but only by comparison.

A little. Though that is another big fear of mine. My father had kidney stones once so I might have a genetical disposition towards them so I try to avoid eating too much salt or proteins. Because when you get one of those you might get a tube shoves through your weewee into the plumming (sorry, I don't know all the proper terms in English). And if you have kidney stones in both kidneys, you get two. And if by any chance one of the tubes get clogged by the kidney stones then there's still room for a third there... D':

 

[Groverfield]

Thanks for giving armstrong cancer.

 

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I like anime and manga, but this is just getting retarded.

I'm actually wondering if Japan doesn't already have something like this.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

I don't particularly like anime, and I just find this kind of endearing. Not that it makes me want to use IE, mind you.

Edit: Yes, I realize that sounds a bit weird when I have an anime character as my portrait. I can like one individual show in a category I otherwise don't, alright?

 

[tstorm823]

Sometime soon, people will realize firefox sucks. Internet explorer is doing a better impression of chrome these days. To get the same experience out of firefox, you have to put in at least twice the effort. It's only real advantage is a more attractive desktop icon.