Really, you're just going to offer up that post so maybe you'll get quoted in Extra Punctuation? DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!ssgt splatter said:One paragraph in and I'm already bored. Too many big words.
Well...that wasn't my intention but ok let's go with that.ark123 said:Really, you're just going to offer up that post so maybe you'll get quoted in Extra Punctuation? DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!ssgt splatter said:One paragraph in and I'm already bored. Too many big words.
This. I was about to say much of the same but I'm glad I read ahead to see if anyone else got to it first.Scrumpmonkey said:For those who didn't 'get' the article, it's meant to be dense.
This is not a serious article.
It's a pardoy of over-intellectualising something that is not very intelectual i.e. a hat wearing angry sweary man who hates stuff. The language is meant to say very little but in very big overinfated words. I also detect a slight amount of self mockery of the escapist who tend to do very in depth analysis which can easily (but usually dosen't here at the Escapist, it's been very well done) stray into pointless chin stroking and posturing.
Judging by the fact that some of us actually got the joke without needing it explained (and enjoyed it), maybe the failure is on some of the audience?ark123 said:He just wrote an article with a lot of unnecessary intellectualism so you guys would theorize on how this is funny.
But it's just not. When you have to explain the joke, you've failed as a comedian (Louis C.K.)
When you have to have the joke explained the joke was not meant for you.ark123 said:He just wrote an article with a lot of unnecessary intellectualism so you guys would theorize on how this is funny.
But it's just not. When you have to explain the joke, you've failed as a comedian (Louis C.K.)
I'm fairly sure that it's not. I recognized the name instantly at the end of the article because I'd been playing Arkham Horror today.gallaetha_matt said:It was a funny article. I used to see stuff like this all the time in my English Lit classes. People overanalysing books and using a MS Thesaurus fed vocabulary to stuff their own ideas into it. I know because I used to do it myself.
This article gave me a good laugh - cheers!
Also Miskatonic University is a university that features heavily in H.P Lovecrafts stories. I don't know if it's a real university or not but I'm going to guess that it isn't.
Yeah if it existed I would be already applying to attend the place. Sure you're likely to get carried off by walking corpses, or driven mad by a nameless horror from beyond - but you gotta die of something, right?Stackle said:I'm fairly sure that it's not. I recognized the name instantly at the end of the article because I'd been playing Arkham Horror today.gallaetha_matt said:It was a funny article. I used to see stuff like this all the time in my English Lit classes. People overanalysing books and using a MS Thesaurus fed vocabulary to stuff their own ideas into it. I know because I used to do it myself.
This article gave me a good laugh - cheers!
Also Miskatonic University is a university that features heavily in H.P Lovecrafts stories. I don't know if it's a real university or not but I'm going to guess that it isn't.
Yup. I'm of the opinion that this was aimed squarely at those who've been reading the Escapist since it's early issues, because it hit home for me and made itself obvious almost immediately in what exactly it was parodying.JeppeH said:When you have to have the joke explained the joke was not meant for you.ark123 said:He just wrote an article with a lot of unnecessary intellectualism so you guys would theorize on how this is funny.
But it's just not. When you have to explain the joke, you've failed as a comedian (Louis C.K.)