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John S
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Member # 5814
 written Saturday, June 16 2007 14:18 Profile #50
quote:
Originally written by Thralni:

Najosz: Seconded. It's nice to see I'm not the only one here thinking that the humor here is particularly bad, or even non-existant (or my sense of humor is so radically different from the rest of the community's, that I either can't identify it, don't get it, or simply don't think it's funny). [/QB]
Chicken gods. :rolleyes:

And Najosz is Alec, in case you didn't remember.

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Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Saturday, June 16 2007 21:04 Profile Homepage #51
quote:
Originally written by Calphrexo:

And Najosz is Alec, in case you didn't remember.
Ah, thanks. I had missed that particular memo.

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Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
Lifecrafter
Member # 6388
 written Sunday, June 17 2007 02:19 Profile #52
quote:
Originally written by Thoughts in Chaos:

Well, Nalyd, who has never seen a Foamy the Squirrel cartoon
Milady doth protest too much.

quote:
You can still hate him for it if you want.
Well, didn't someone become incredibly important in a huge hurry.
Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00
Najosz Thjsza Kjras
Lifecrafter
Member # 6388
 written Sunday, June 17 2007 02:23 Profile #53
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Ideas are not the limiting factor in episode production. Time and motivation are. And you can't give me more time or give me more motivation, so please stop talking about it. I know you and Nalyd really want to see Episode 4, but I'm afraid that's just not going to happen.

Oh, and Nikki, what's the point of changing your PDN if you never post for people to see it, you sorry excuse for a cucumber? :P

Dikiyoba.
Please make it clearer you're not angling for beefcake, Diki. :(
Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00
Nikki.
Shaper
Member # 3442
 written Sunday, June 17 2007 03:53 Profile Homepage #54
quote:
Originally written by Thoughts in Chaos:

Well, Nalyd, who has never seen a Foamy the Squirrel cartoon...
Philistine.

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Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Thralni
Master
Member # 5977
 written Sunday, June 17 2007 08:45 Profile Homepage #55
quote:
Originally written by Calphrexo:

Chicken gods. :rolleyes:

And Najosz is Alec, in case you didn't remember.
What's wrong with chicken gods?

And it's not a case of not remebering, just not knowing that Alec is Najosz.

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Goldenking
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Member # 4574
 written Monday, June 18 2007 13:26 Profile #56
The boards are acting up again. Hopefully purging the RWG forum and the SubTerra forum will get the constant errors over with.

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Posts: 1186 | Registered: Friday, June 18 2004 07:00
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Monday, June 18 2007 15:40 Profile Homepage #57
quote:
Originally written by Najosz Thjsza Kjras:

quote:
Originally written by jg.faust:

Also, Nalyd and IFM are kind of funny.
I do find it kind of amusing that the average age of the board is steadily climbing and yet the average post just keeps on getting dumber and dumber.

It's amusing in the way that, say, Halliburton actually getting away with what they do is amusing.

This is part of why I don't like SW. I have a highly active sense of humor and apparently have some of the sharpest comic timing a lot of people have seen, but what I do is actually absurdist instead of "random" - which is to say, not nice big fat softballs lobbed at single-digit speeds, i.e. 'jokes' everyone's already heard twelve times and which don't actually bother to take a swing at anything.

So I have a choice to make. I can go for broke and get banned. I'd piss a lot of humorless people off, but I never cared much about them. I can join the rocket-tard brigade and knee-slappingly quote Foamy cartoons or whatever the hell passes for 'quirky' nowadays - no.

The only thing that leaves me, and the choice I wind up taking most of the time, is to swat you people down as hard and as mean as I possibly can. The hope is that if I do it for long enough, some of you might learn and become productive members of society.

Start joking, god damn it! Quit with the freaking references and grow a God-damn sense of humor! I'm too young to be a cranky old man and it's only a matter of time before I have to go with #1 and go out in a TM-style blaze of glory.
"The one who seeks shall always find."

The couple of Foamy fans had been banned pretty quickly, as was everybody else who had exhibited the same level of noobishness. So the fact that those kids represent Spidweb boards for you says far more about your expectations than about the boards themselves.

Our current generation of 13-year olds is acting no worse than the 13-year olds of five years ago did back then. The only difference is that some of those who were 13 back then are now horrified at that behavior and think that "We were never this bad. What's up with the youth these days?!"

PS On a related note:
quote:
Originally written by Thralni:

quote:
Originally written by Calphrexo:

Chicken gods. :rolleyes:

And Najosz is Alec, in case you didn't remember.
What's wrong with chicken gods?
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The thing wrong with chicken gods is the same thing that is wrong with Demon Muffins, hordes of undead followers, and other such gimmicks. The amusement value of these things, if there was any to begin with, is lost long before the gimmick user realizes it. So as the person who was putting references to chicken gods into every other post long after they've stopped being funny, you really shouldn't feel superior to those who do the same thing with references to Demon Muffins.

[ Monday, June 18, 2007 15:55: Message edited by: Zeviz ]

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Iffy
Canned
Member # 8014
 written Tuesday, June 19 2007 11:22 Profile #58
Why are you talking about demon muffins?
They were erraticated several centuries ago.

All that is left of the evil muffin horde is the constant repawning muffins.

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Posts: 1799 | Registered: Sunday, February 4 2007 08:00
Or else o'erleap.
Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, June 19 2007 13:42 Profile Homepage #59
You know what? It may not be true for everyone, but many people weren't that bad at thirteen. They may have improved with age, but they weren't as bad as some are to begin with. Most of the 20-ish Spidweb oldbies fall into that category, really. And to be fair, there are plenty of very youngsters around now who don't act like the stereotypical 13 year old blight upon the internet.

And that is why I generally don't like to talk about age online when it's not relevant, and in fact why I'm not so keen on it even when it is relevant. Judge people by actions, not age. Age is neither a good excuse nor an achievement.

—Alorael, who will candidly admit to being exactly what Alec loathes. As an insider he really can't tell what's so objectionable about fuzzy, cuddly, cloying, saccharine humor and what makes acidity so wonderful in comparison. Originality is always nice, but you don't have to make someone cry to be original. (Maybe people should grow thicker eSkin, but that's another problem.)
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Thralni
Master
Member # 5977
 written Tuesday, June 19 2007 22:46 Profile Homepage #60
Zeviz: To be honest, chickens are still something my friends can laugh about, right from the start. That means approximately 4 years. The fact that you don't think it's funny, well...

I'm afraid you don't put reference to the right sort of joke, too, Zeviz. I'm not referring to things like "demon muffins" (I always sort of liked those, purely because it's so absurd and harmless), but, for example, to Thuryl's never ending puns.

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Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 00:07 Profile Homepage #61
Thralni, I'm with Zeviz on this. Why has your sense of humor fixated on poultry? :confused:

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Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Thralni
Master
Member # 5977
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 01:32 Profile Homepage #62
quote:
Originally written by jg.faust:

Thralni, I'm with Zeviz on this. Why has your sense of humor fixated on poultry? :confused:
What a grand example of you not knowing me. Come to know me first, before you start making such statements.

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Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Drakefyre
Triad Mage
Member # 7
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 02:42 Profile Homepage #63
Just because your friends laugh at chicken jokes doesn't mean that spidweb fans around the world will too. Tailor the humor to the audience.

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Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 02:59 Profile #64
Also, consider how much time you spend where. Your friends see many sides of you, and the amount of time they spend listening to chicken/muffin/undead/whatever jokes is a tiny fraction of their time with you. Here, that fraction may be larger, conveying an impression you may not realize.

And the impression can last longer than you realize, too. I don't think Thralni has actually posted much about chickens or their gods for a long time; most of his posts seem to be serious ones about BoA. But a lot of people here still think of him as chicken-obsessed.

The point is that no-one ever comes to know anyone else on a message board; we only see whatever comes across in posts. As far as the boards are concerned, we are our posts. It's worth bearing this in mind. For one thing, if you don't make people write you off by overdoing some schtick, there's a better chance they'll play along with your other gags, which can be fun.

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Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Thralni
Master
Member # 5977
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 03:25 Profile Homepage #65
"Just because your friends laugh at chicken jokes doesn't mean that spidweb fans around the world will too. Tailor the humor to the audience."

Which I did, didn't I? I haven't made a joke around here for quite some time, as Student of Trinity pointed out already. I can't really remember the last time I posted about it.

Look, you really don't have to start lecturing me about being funny. I know it's probably meant in a positive way, but right now, you are acting like my parents: they, too, are constantly telling me things I already know. I think I know well enough how people think of me in certain places. It would be hypocritical to say I don't do it, as I, of course, too, have very unrealistic images of people that make me like them or hate them. However saying that all of my humor is fixated on poultry is ludicrous.

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Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00
Ceylon
Warrior
Member # 4638
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 05:26 Profile #66
This is a great argument. Poultry is always funny.

This is what I love about this forum. You can be self-righteous and obnoxious and nobody can really stand in your way.

Demon muffins, how great.

-I hope I get lectured by someone as if they are my mom.

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Jumpin Salmon
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Member # 5755
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 06:28 Profile #67
Three pages, and the conversation still fits the topic.

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Bob.
Lifecrafter
Member # 6700
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 07:38 Profile Homepage #68
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Sarcasmon:

Three pages, and the conversation still fits the topic.
Now that's irony.

EDIT: Chickens can be quite funny.
EDIT2: My Copyright ethics shoulder angel says that I need to cite that excerpt. It's from Frank Peretti's "A man, a microphone, and a chair."

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[ Wednesday, June 20, 2007 08:26: Message edited by: Lenar ]

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Posts: 735 | Registered: Monday, January 16 2006 08:00
Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 08:32 Profile Homepage #69
quote:
Originally written by Thralni:

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Look, you really don't have to start lecturing me about being funny.
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Actually, the point of my post was not to lecture you on being funny, but to show you the hypocricy of your agreement with Alec when he said that:
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I do find it kind of amusing that the average age of the board is steadily climbing and yet the average post just keeps on getting dumber and dumber.
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This is part of why I don't like SW. I have a highly active sense of humor and apparently have some of the sharpest comic timing a lot of people have seen, but what I do is actually absurdist instead of "random" - which is to say, not nice big fat softballs lobbed at single-digit speeds, i.e. 'jokes' everyone's already heard twelve times and which don't actually bother to take a swing at anything.
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If you want to call everybody here an immature idiot, be ready for people to return the favor.

As the saying goes, people living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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Thralni
Master
Member # 5977
 written Wednesday, June 20 2007 11:15 Profile Homepage #70
Zeviz: I agreed with Zeviz on the humor part, nothing else. I also didn't specifically state that I agreed with anything other than the humor bit. Also, the lecturing complaint was actually meant more for Student of Trinity than it was meant for you, Zeviz...

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Iffy
Canned
Member # 8014
 written Friday, June 22 2007 08:01 Profile #71
There is that "Internal Error" thing again.
It was bugging the hell out of me when I tryed to edit one post.

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Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, June 22 2007 09:22 Profile Homepage #72
If you get one error, refresh the page. If you get two errors, try another thread and come back to the one that gave you the error later. If you get a bunch of errors, close out of Spiderweb entirely and come back later. Pretty simple, and much less frustrating.

Dikiyoba.
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Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Friday, July 20 2007 16:12 Profile Homepage #73
(topic revive)

Another good one, from my second-to-last day of work. And now (today), I'm done. Yay!

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Dintiradan
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Member # 6670
 written Friday, July 20 2007 17:03 Profile Homepage #74
Heh. I'd submit that to Worse Than Failure, if I were you.

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