As someone who practically does this for a living, I'd like it on record that we're not all over-analysing wankers who use pretentious verbosity to sound unnecessarily intellectual and thus distract the audience from the fact that the point being made is about as tenuous as they come. When you meet a really intelligent academic who doesn't speak in postmodernist garble, it's actually really inspiring to learn what writers may have been attempting to convey on a subconscious level. That's why I stuck with it.Lizardon said:Very good job sir. I hate those people who try to deconstruct everything to try and find the symbolism.
Except his article was far more amusing and far less baffling than Rebecaa Mayes video, which even Yahtzee (atleast this is the impression I got from his twitters and blog comments) didn't seem to understand.CitySquirrel said:After the Rebecca Mayes video, I expect everyone to say he only invoked Yahtze's name in order to get page views.
This might be framed as a joke, but it is not entirely without merit. Deconstructing "to try and find the symbolism" is really just a way to look at peoples underlying assumptions.
I would say technical writing in university, the article reads like a technical document, which makes sense as that appeared to be the author's intention.rileyrulesu said:ugh, where did this person learn to write? The transitions are so boring. (The first rhetorical approach..., The second rhetorical approach..., The third rhetorical approach...) Cmon, that's third grade stuff!.
I concur.my_ledge_ends said:I'll save you time, marioman - it's a joke article. He's basically saying that Yatzhee accuses Dragon Age of encouraging genocide while simultaneously critiquing the male ego as insecure and homophobic. It's a load of hogwash obfuscated by turgid dialogue intended to infuse the reading with a certain sense of highminded sophistication befitting the cultural descent into the ascending integration of highmindedness befitting the proper age we are now entering as demonstrated by said article (c wut i did thar?).
I actually thought it was probably serious until I read the last part about working with Sokal... I actually rewatched the Dragon Age review and looked up Max Steele on wikipedia... though. lol =)tautologico said:The collaboration with Alan Sokal in the bio was a nice touch
By that reasoning everything is always funny. I mean, you haven't asked every person on earth, right?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.)
You, sir, get an Internet for referencing Miskatonic University.The Random One said:Ha, great 'article'. Is Max Steele a real person? If so, he should have a showdown with Andrew Hussie [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003752] over the most nebulous text that is still readable. Or maybe just actually beat each other to death.
If he is a real person he should also get me a Miskatonic University hoodie.
It's too bad he didn't do this on the entire ZP body of work, who knows what we'd find once we analyze all that at once.