Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

Intent is important in reading if someone is being a jerk or not, and that is important to how one looks at people in general, either in a negative, or positive way. It is often the only separation between good or bad, if the outcome is similar; what was the intent.

To discern someone’s intent requires a level of telepathy I’ve yet to encounter or extremely long and involved conversations that most people are simply not interested in having with randos on the net. It sure as hell is not discernible from text on social media or forums.

Even where things are more well defined, the article mentions low context cultures such as physics people, the amount of over explaining, and arguing is pretty bad. For us though here, yeah, things like the forge definitions, they are like a verbal hand grenade.

Absolutely. At least they can agree what the word means. We can’t even agree on what RPGs are.

 

[dragoner]

It sure as hell is not discernible from text on social media or forums.

Yes, it is very subjective.

 

[Umbran]

No one mixes whiskey and rye in the same drink.

Well, of course not. Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, singin', "This'll be the day that I die. This'll be the day that I die."

Clearly, the potion admixture tables say that having them together results in a poison as efficacious as iocane powder.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Well, of course not. Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, singin', "This'll be the day that I die. This'll be the day that I die."

Clearly, the potion admixture tables say that having them together results in a poison as efficacious as iocane powder.

I thought it was a play on "that'll be the day" because it is the day that Buddy Holly died

 

[Umbran]

I thought it was a play on "that'll be the day" because it is the day that Buddy Holly died

And I thought I was making a play on words for comedic effect.

Where's Foghorn Leghorn when I need him?

 

[Old Fezziwig]

And I thought I was making a play on words for comedic effect.

Where's Foghorn Leghorn when I need him?

 

[Deset Gled]

I thought it was a play on "that'll be the day" because it is the day that Buddy Holly died

Funny tangential story. I've got kids. We listen to classic rock. We sing American Pie when its on the radio. One weekend, this song played, and one my kids (probably around 8 at the time) said "This song doesn't make any sense. What is it about? What does it mean?"

So I started explaining as best I could. I got as far as "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter, the birds flew off of the fallout shelter". We covered roller coasters, the Beatles, a kid-friendly version of the Manson murders, and a brief discussion of the zeitgeist of nuclear fear following WWII. I was about to get into Bob Dylan and the Byrds ("eight miles high and falling fast") when my kid decided he had enough of a history lesson, and wandered off to do other 8-year-old things. To be fair, that was probably about 20 minutes in, and absolutely much more of an investment into the story than the kid even thought possible at the time. So it goes, so it goes.

 

[trappedslider]

So I started explaining as best I could. I got as far as "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter, the birds flew off of the fallout shelter". We covered roller coasters, the Beatles, a kid-friendly version of the Manson murders, and a brief discussion of the zeitgeist of nuclear fear following WWII. I was about to get into Bob Dylan and the Byrds ("eight miles high and falling fast") when my kid decided he had enough of a history lesson, and wandered off to do other 8-year-old things. To be fair, that was probably about 20 minutes in, and absolutely much more of an investment into the story than the kid even thought possible at the time. So it goes, so it goes.

IT will be real fun when they ask about "We didn't start the fire"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

IT will be real fun when they ask about "We didn't start the fire"

Original or the cover…

 

[Staffan]

Original or the cover…