I believe it was because it was such a weird and dramatic shift in tone from the regular CAD content, which was not all that great to begin with. You probably had to be there (I wasn’t).
Xkcd did something similar but afaik nobody made a big deal about it, only that Randall kept the depressed tone for quite a long time, after which people started to complain
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Sooooo, I’m guessing the authors wife had a miscarriage, he made a strip about it and got mocked to hell and back? Wut?
I believe it was because it was such a weird and dramatic shift in tone from the regular CAD content, which was not all that great to begin with. You probably had to be there (I wasn’t).
Hbomberguy did a video on it that explains it well I think: https://youtu.be/TebCHHCw9rY
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Xkcd did something similar but afaik nobody made a big deal about it, only that Randall kept the depressed tone for quite a long time, after which people started to complain