The Tielfling and The Gnome: On the Set of 4th edition

[Midknightsun]

Since it's about written communication, both spelling and grammar count.

Which college do you go to? I'd love to read their Web site. (And ask their English department if they grade based on spelling and grammar.)

Okay, last thread derail, I promise.

1) Did go to: Shippensburg-but I'm an old man now.

2) I hope you're kidding with me. Even non-English majors were and are graded on spelling and grammar, so what's your point? Tell any English major that their degree is about spelling and grammar, and they'll start fuming. Its a very small part of a very broad field.

3)Seriously. My point was that internet posting does NOT require perfect grammar, as it it much less formal-- as a general rule. Which is why I don't go "grammar nazi" on people unless its completely unrecognizable. Again, for work I'm much more careful and proof read my own stuff numerous times- internet posting, not so much.

4)I'm often replying from work while I have multiple papers up. Cut me some slack, man. Sheesh. Anyway, I feel no need to drag this side issue out any further. To each their own.

 

[Mistwell]

Sometimes it seems to me that D&D attracts a higher percentage of people with Asperger's Disorder than most hobbies. That, and a higher percentage of Emo Kids.

 

[Wormwood]

Sometimes it seems to me that D&D attract a higher percentage of people with Asperger's Disorder than most hobbies. That, and a higher percentage of Emo Kids.

Huh. I just thought gamers were haters.

 

[Tewligan]

Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.

(you didn't say it had to be a GOOD joke)

However, the chicken wanted to get to the other side of the road because he was leaving a tragic home life. His chicken wife was a brazen hussy who blatantly cheated on him without even attempting to conceal her misdeeds. Also, every time she laid eggs, they were taken by the farmer for his breakfast. Thus, not only was he initally tormented by seeing the physical results of his wife's infidelity, he would then reconcile himself to raising the children as his own, only to have them snatched away by an uncaring farmer/god figure once he had brought himself to love them. This happened over and over, until the chicken was nearly mad with grief, shame, and frustration. He finally slipped away in the middle of the night to start a new life on the other side of the road. However, as soon as he got to the other side, he was killed by a fox. Incidentally, the fox was killed the next day by a hunter.

See? There's PLENTY of hostility and unpleasantry in that classic joke.

 

[TwinBahamut]

Since it's about written communication, both spelling and grammar count.

Well, sure, but I would like to imagine that ideas and the ability to describe ideas clearly count a lot more than those. Sadly, too many people associate English majors with Grammar Nazis, rather than the ability to examine literature and write interesting stuff.

I'm an English Major too, and I will admit that my spelling is terrible without shame.

Frankly, spelling is more important for disciplines other than English, in which precision in language is more important, such as the sciences, mathematics, linguistics, and history.

As for the root of this, Shakespeare...

Shakespeare loved to let people laugh at the pain of characters. I mean, he created the character of Falstaff, the ridiculous, overweight, perverted knight who gets dumped into a laundry basket full of women's clothes and has the tar beaten out of him several times, all in an attempt to get the (real) Queen Elizabeth to laugh (she loved Falstaff).

Seriously, if you are looking for high, serious drama without such things as sex jokes, buffoonery, and bathroom humor, Shakespeare is not your man. His plays are full of that stuff.

As for the video...

As I said before, I thought it was funny. The best part really is the way the gnome is so excited and gleeful over being a monster and having minions and a lair. It is great. I don't understand how this is mean at all... If anything, it portrays Tieflings in a bad light, for being so humorless, selfish, and short-tempered when compared to the greatness of that gnome.

 

[jester47]

Sometimes it seems to me that D&D attract a higher percentage of people with Asperger's Disorder than most hobbies. That, and a higher percentage of Emo Kids.

I would agree...

 

[The_Gneech]

My question: Now that gnomes are gone as a core race, what race are the haters going to start hating now?

I'm guessing Halflings or Dragonborn. Halflings because they are small, or dragonborn because they are not sexy.

I'm betting Eladrin, for being more elfy than even elves are.

-The Gneech

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

Comedy, by its very nature, is rooted in hostility.

Find me a joke, a funny situation, or humor that is not.

You hear the one about the drum set that fell off a cliff?

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<Rimshot>

 

[hectorse]

I think English majors should not be any more Grammar Nazis than any other major. It's not what a major is about.

To put things in perspective, I'm an electrical engineer, heavy math stuff yet I simply DON'T KNOW how much e^-3.5 is without a calculator. Big deal, it's not as important as how you will USE that information.

I think it's the same as English Majors. What you got to say and how you say it is by far more important than some minor errors.

You've got to take the context also. I will triple check my finals lab reports, yet I will absolutely not double check any post in the FREAKING INTERNET.

I found the cartoon funny, because I would hate to be the badger and get kicked.

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. "

Don't know who said that, but as long as you emphatize with the characters in the joke:
-The happy gnome
-The cute badger
-The innocent interviewer who had nothing to do with the gnome and still got fried.

It's going to be funny.

But then again, I'm here, explaining to you WTH the joke is funny about, which tells me a lot about YOUR sense of humor.

 

[dmccoy1693]

1. I'm waiting for the Dragonborn animation now with a "Boris" accent,

2. The gnome did all gnome(-lover)s proud. "Hey look, they gave me a minion," and

3. The Tiefling was annoying. Mostly the accent, but she was just ... ehhh.