Levistus's_Leviathan
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Got it!By all means! Just don't look too closely or open any cabinets or drawers.
(I was quoting Welcome to the Internet.)
Got it!By all means! Just don't look too closely or open any cabinets or drawers.
And here I was gonna turn it into a Kralnor joke.Got it!
(I was quoting Welcome to the Internet.)
RedundantAs long as all of us are wearing ourcrankypants today!
The even worse mistake is my habit of thinking "oh, that title didn't seem like something where there was much interesting to say when I first noticed it two days ago, but somehow it now has 300 responses, maybe I should see what all the fuss is about."Hm, this thread title is interesting, let's see what everyone is talkNOPE NEVERMIND BAD IDEA CLOSE BROWSER.
You may go anywhere you wish--except where the doors are locked, where of course you will not wish to go.Should I have a look around?
This is how I try to approach most comments in THIS thread, even when responding to semi-serious comments I make. It is part of the shenanigans we do to keep our heads level and our minds sane (for the most part).Oh wow. Talk about misreading. I totally read @payn s comment as making a joke. Never even considered taking it seriously.
Oh wow. Talk about misreading. I totally read @payn s comment as making a joke. Never even considered taking it seriously.
There is nothing in the text that suggests it is a joke.
This is a problem with snark and sarcasm, folks. If it fails, it looks really bad.
We've ... discussed this--and I have no desire to go through that again--but if the possibility of being misunderstood is the distinguishing feature of your comedy, then maybe you shouldn't complain about being misunderstood.Any bit of comedy that employs satire, irony, or sarcasm in a proper and correct fashion requires that some portion of the audience be confused (or even hurt) by the comedy.
Ambiguity is not a bug, but the central feature of any type comedy that plays with or invokes satire and irony. Simply put, the possibility that a reader can misunderstand the message is necessary to the proper conveyance of the message.
This ambiguity is not a bug - it is the distinguishing feature.
This also covers academic writing and philosophy. The central point of both seems to be intentional inscrutability for the specific purpose of talking down to anyone who's honest enough to admit they don't understand it.Any bit of comedy that employs satire, irony, or sarcasm in a proper and correct fashion requires that some portion of the audience be confused (or even hurt) by the comedy.
Ambiguity is not a bug, but the central feature of any type comedy that plays with or invokes satire and irony. Simply put, the possibility that a reader can misunderstand the message is necessary to the proper conveyance of the message.
This ambiguity is not a bug - it is the distinguishing feature.
We've ... discussed this--and I have no desire to go through that again--but if the possibility of being misunderstood is the distinguishing feature of your comedy, then maybe you shouldn't complain about being misunderstood.
This also covers academic writing and philosophy. The central point of both seems to be intentional inscrutability for the specific purpose of talking down to anyone who's honest enough to admit they don't understand it.
That's all very valid, but it also seems like it all boils down to needing to throw in some qualifiers of "everybody I know" or "in my experience, everybody". It gets tiring to have to police the extent of every statement you make to repetitively acknowledge the limits of your own experience. But of course, when you don't, the reader often has no way of knowing whether you are simply being uncareful in your language, or whether you are actually being uncareful in your thinking, because one of the central bummers of saying anything online is that you are forever making first impressions.Your friends aren't "everybody." You don't know "everybody," you've never even met "everybody." So when you write something like "everyone hates this" or "nobody uses that rule," you are already wrong. You need to backspace over whatever profound insight you just typed, and change it to "people I play with" or "in the games I've run" instead. Because no matter how badly you want it to be otherwise, you are only ever referring to a very small group of people.