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I have hidden the names for the safety of the people involved. These are transcripts from a brainstorming meeting at GW HQ a few years back.

guy 1 - Brochacho wtf bro, is that the iphone 5. Thats weak you can't pull chicks with an iphone 5 bro.

guy 2 - Dog I'm not sure why you are giving me gak the Iphone 5 does everything I need it to do.

Guy 1 - Listen son, I can put all my music, all my midget porn bro, and all my chicks that are DTF and I got plenty of room for D picks brah. It's just way better (motions the stone cold steve austin suck it gesture)

Guy 2 - That gaks wack kid. It's literally the same thing basically just yours is a little bigger and a bit shinier why the hell do all you beta nerds who prob don't even do legs, buy that every time they update it.

Guy 1 - My bro I understand that you grew up in a socioeconomically stiffled neighborhood bro but you just don't get it bro.

Head guy 1 - Yo can you chill the feth out? I'm trying to figure out why all these beta nerds don't buy space marines as much as they should. Space marines can bench like 1,000lbs whats goin on bros. We need ideas.

Head guy 2 - Ye and these little virgins won't stop complaining about the finecast chaos space marines and eldar aspect warriors. This is what happens when you can't get any puss

Guy 1 - Bros look I can't give these nerds puss but this brody over here gave me an idea.

Everyone - What idea bro?

Guy 1 - Hear me out brosferatus. You know how we have tons of old sculpts and finecast models?

Eeveryone - Yeh?

Guy 1 - And you know how apply keeps making the same products over and over and they are rich as hell?

Everyone - Yah?

Guy 1 - Why don't we just tell these other virgins who can't get puss to suck it (stone cold steve austin motion) and we make marines like apple bro

Head guy 1 - Dog are you low on protein or somethin bro? We already have marines bro

Guy 1 - Yeh but what if we just made them....... (everyone waits with baited breath) slightly bigger bros.......

(entire room is aghast)

Head guy 2 - Thats amazing, feth everything else that needs an update, what really needs to be done is to make marines "slightly bigger" but how are we gonna do it?

Guy 1 - It's easy bro.
(then they all blew the ghost of steve jobs and spit the goo on normal marines who magically grow into primaris marines)

Is this supposed to be funny?

 alleus wrote:
Is this supposed to be funny?

if it is it failed utterly.

this feel like it is written by a 12yr old

oh man the sense of humor is lost here i guess.

ive portrayed obvious nerds/educated men as frat boys. The antithesis of what they most likely sound like especially since they are british. Randomly one of them says something "smart" just once

I also likened the primaris marines to how apple releases products, the same thing just bigger

also blowing the ghost of steve jobs is just funny.

obviously if you are explaining a joke its not being understood and a lost cause but what can ya do. its clever im not worried lol

'clever' I don't think that word means what you think it means.

How amusing. You are clearly a comic genius en par with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider.

Man, Amy Schumers "Leather Special" is Funnier than This

Even if it is 50% Stolen Jokes

eosgreen wrote:
oh man the sense of humor is lost here i guess.

ive portrayed obvious nerds/educated men as frat boys. The antithesis of what they most likely sound like especially since they are british. Randomly one of them says something "smart" just once

I also likened the primaris marines to how apple releases products, the same thing just bigger

also blowing the ghost of steve jobs is just funny.

obviously if you are explaining a joke its not being understood and a lost cause but what can ya do. its clever im not worried lol

Yeah, no I think we all got the.. "joke".. but it just didn't land man. Neither funny or clever.

If you have to explain a joke then it wasn't good in the first place. Humour is about understanding the audience and timing not only about how many memes you can stuff into it.

This is a lot of things.

But clever is not one of them.


It did, however, compel me to post. So I suppose that's...mission accomplished? Now, the thing is, I'm trying to figure out if it's deliberately terrible (and not at all in the 'so bad it's good' vein) or if this is actually an honest attempt at humour.

Oh no, I cringed so hard, my mind opened a portal to the Immaterium

 Rippy wrote:
Oh no, I cringed so hard, my mind opened a portal to the Immaterium

I know.... Stone Cold never had a "Suck It" gesture!...

Awful.

"Guys, guys... I know we have space marines, but..."

"Yes Matt?"

"What if they're SPACE MARINE space marines?"

*gasp* "MY GOD! Matt Ward, you've done it again!"

"And they're totally invented by Roboute Girlyman, because he's the bestest primarch!"

"Guys, this is why we rehired him, he's singlehandedly saved GW from irrelevancy" *single tear*

 commander dante wrote:
Man, Amy Schumers "Leather Special" is Funnier than This

Even if it is 50% Stolen Jokes

THAT HURTS jesus christ that hurts

It ... might be funny. I can't tell, because half the words aren't English, and the other half appear to be in the wrong order.

Anyway, this is how to do it right:

 AndrewGPaul wrote:


Anyway, this is how to it right:

Now that was funny, can't believe I've never seen that before.

Uh.. k, that was not worth a read.

Delet this.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
It ... might be funny. I can't tell, because half the words aren't English, and the other half appear to be in the wrong order.

Anyway, this is how to do it right:

Have an exalt, you just made this thread worth while.

MrPyro wrote:
Delet this.

nah, I beive this post should be preserved for posterity

I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it is an abomination of forced faux-comedy, capable of perhaps making a 12-year-old high on five hour energy laugh, but not more than once, however, on the other, this would serve as an excellent cautionary tale on how not to write anything that's supposed to reside on the same planet as anything funny.

In summation:

..uh huh.


Thanks.