CAD Rule

The scientifically-proven fact that all (or most) Ctrl+Alt+Del strips are improved by removing the second and third panels. It's customary to also remove the dialogue from the fourth panel, but in rare cases it can be left in.

This works because your typical four-panel CAD strip follows a basic formula:
-Panel 1: The setup. Note how instead of spreading it across the first three panels, he crams the entire thing into this first panel.
-Panel 2: Buckley excitedly blurts out the punchline (assuming he didn't already do so in Panel 1), and spends an inordinate amount of time explaining it. Commonly referred to as "Buckleybox A".
Panel 3: Completely redundant panel that exists only because Buckley refuses to abandon three four-panel format. Full of stifling walls of text that either drag along the joke from the first two panels, or are full of "plot" that nobody cares about. Commonly referred to as "Buckleybox B".
Panel 4: Buckley continues dragging along the joke until he finally kills it. More notably, however, there is usually some sort of a visual gag here, and it's typically better than the actual punchline.

As we can see from that, the biggest problem with CAD is the pacing, as by the time the reader get to the visual gag - the funny part - he or she has had to sit through the two Buckleyboxes and the Panel 4 dialogue, which completely destroys any comedic timing. As such, removing the offending panels results in a significantly improved comic.

The CAD Rule actually makes the comic readable.

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Industrial Metal

A hybrid genre created by combining - wait for it - Industrial and Heavy Metal. The genre is characterized by electronics-heavy production, including looped, distorted guitar riffs, distorted vocals, drum machines, and relatively heavy use of keyboards and sampling. The genre was pioneered in the late 1980s by Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM, and rose to prominence in the 1990s with massive successes like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, White Zombie, and Marilyn Manson. Essentially died after that, with most modern bands in the genre (having no interest in electronic music) attempting to imitate the "death metal" sound found in Godflesh's Streetcleaner and Fear Factory's Demanufacture without understanding what makes those albums great, and failing spectacularly. One is extremely hard-pressed to name any good industrial metal bands formed after the '90s.

Industrial metal is often the source of endless online arguments about the definitions of "industrial" and "metal", usually instigated by people who only listen to one (or neither) of those genres but want to appear more knowledgeable about music than they actually are.

Not to be confused with Industrial Rock.

KMFDM, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Handzul und Gretel, Fear Factory, and Rammstein are industrial metal bands.

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