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 Palindrome wrote:
Having read some of other other blogs by this guy I can quite safely say that we will never be friends.

By the sounds of it I think he's ok with that.

I read it at lunch and rolled my eyes. Didn't think it was meant to be taken seriously, but neither was it particularly funny. Kind of pointless really.

While I found the piece to be funny, its amusement factor is easily eclipsed by the butthurt that it seems to generate.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

That was kinda funny.

The best part is, even with his PhD, he still doesn't get any girls. Hate the player, not the game, Doctor.

From the comments on the site

I'm amazed anyone questions whether its a spoof.

Eh, it was a crappily-written spoof. The author seemed to be having difficulties deciding what tone he was going for. I read this author's other stuff and wasn't that impressed. Low marks all around.

~Tim?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I'm amazed anyone questions whether its a spoof.

Even though I clearly recognized it as a spoof, I can't fault people for not recognizing it as such because sadly, there are really crazy people out there who says crazy things. I present to you... Jack Chick:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

I find that doing satire is tricky because, well, crazy people.

I really can't belive people think he is serious, should read my sig and do what bob dose. Not that it was funny in the first place, but that besides the point.

 ceorron wrote:

 Palindrome wrote:
Having read some of other other blogs by this guy I can quite safely say that we will never be friends.

By the sounds of it I think he's ok with that.

Yeah, If he reads this forum I bet he is fething gutted about that.

 Monster Rain wrote:
While I found the piece to be funny, its amusement factor is easily eclipsed by the butthurt that it seems to generate.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Indeed, truly it is a work of singular genius!

 heartserenade wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I'm amazed anyone questions whether its a spoof.

Even though I clearly recognized it as a spoof, I can't fault people for not recognizing it as such because sadly, there are really crazy people out there who says crazy things. I present to you... Jack Chick:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

I find that doing satire is tricky because, well, crazy people.

Oh man, oh man, why didn't I get powers?! My DMs never introduced me to a Witch's coven!

My DM forgot to ostracize me when my character died. Strange.

 fullheadofhair wrote:

 Senden wrote:

 Deadshot wrote:

 Senden wrote:
This is the Daily Mail, its entire purpose is to inspire new heights of rage, indignant protects and blood pressure


In the UK, the Upper class reader the Telegraph, the Middle class read the Mail, The Working class read the Sun, and the illiterates read the Star

I find this quite offensive. Both myself and my dad read the Star. We used to read the Sun untill they started printing lies about the Hillsborough tradgedy and Liverpool Footabll Club supporters, which we are. And we are quite literate thanks.

Wait, you're literate and you STILL read the Star?

No, someone read the post to him and someone else typed it. Everyone knows all Star "readers" are just pretentious Sunday Sport readers. Sun readers lips move when they read each word v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y..

I'm not amused in the slightest. I read it because the only other British paper around is The Sun which, for the reasons specified, I will not read period. All the other papers arounf are local Northern Ireland papaers. The Shankill Mirror and Belfast Telegraph for example.

Again. Not amused.

 mattyrm wrote:
It's clearly written entirely humorously. Its also very funny.

The fact that most people don't see the fact is probably the reason another good humored writer (me) gets needlessly banned so often.

I'm actually stunned by the amount of gak people are writing in response on his blog, and here as well.

Are people do desperate to get offended they can see the funny side of absolutely nothing but the most dull In your face humour?

It was a good, and entirely amusing article.

Is it? I think it's a pretty stock "har dee har, look at me, I'm part of a subculture but I can't bear to think of myself as nerdy, so I make jokes at the expense of said subculture using stereotypes popular among those outside it to cover up my own insecurities" pile of dung myself, and the writer comes off as a bit of a sad sack, particularly if that "I threw away my Warhammer so I'd get laid in college, arf arf" bit has a basis in reality.

This writer, and perhaps some others, always seem to blame everyone else for not "getting" their jokes, it never seems to occur to them that they're just not that funny at all.

I've seen this somewhere before i know i have and i can't for the life of me think where ( it may have been on Warseer a few years ago) but its practically word for word except the title

 Yodhrin wrote:


Is it? I think it's a pretty stock "har dee har, look at me, I'm part of a subculture but I can't bear to think of myself as nerdy, so I make jokes at the expense of said subculture using stereotypes popular among those outside it to cover up my own insecurities" pile of dung myself, and the writer comes off as a bit of a sad sack, particularly if that "I threw away my Warhammer so I'd get laid in college, arf arf" bit has a basis in reality.

This writer, and perhaps some others, always seem to blame everyone else for not "getting" their jokes, it never seems to occur to them that they're just not that funny at all.

In your opinion they aren't. It certainly wasn't poorly written, and why is he a sad sack? He no doubt doesn't actually mean any of it, and he clearly made most of the stories up, are you the type of bloke who gets offneded when a stand up comedian appears to be making things up as well? Its about trying to get a laugh, not telling the truth.

Humor is entirely subjective. It was written in a similar manner as something out of the Viz, and I found it funny. I didn't find it offensive.

Some people find The Three Stooges funny, some people find Religious comedians who never cuss or swear funny, some people even like Saved By the Bell.

I don't much care what you find funny, I was simply giving my opinion, the article seems to have entirely divided opinion, which basically tells me that about half of the users on the forum I would happily go for a pint with, and the other half... well, I would rather spend a day painting my mother in laws spare room than socialize with them.

Sounds about right, if onlf half of the world suck in my eyes, that means I can rub along with 3 and a half billion people, I'll take that.

A few days later, unshaven and sleepless, I found myself sitting amid a pile of skeleton warriors – looking on at the ruination of my life. A little while later, I threw it all in a dustbin and tried to get my stuff together. I’ve been clean ever since.

This is my favorite line. I fear he is setting himself up for a even bigger fall. I see a Dwarf army in his future....

 mattyrm wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:


Is it? I think it's a pretty stock "har dee har, look at me, I'm part of a subculture but I can't bear to think of myself as nerdy, so I make jokes at the expense of said subculture using stereotypes popular among those outside it to cover up my own insecurities" pile of dung myself, and the writer comes off as a bit of a sad sack, particularly if that "I threw away my Warhammer so I'd get laid in college, arf arf" bit has a basis in reality.

This writer, and perhaps some others, always seem to blame everyone else for not "getting" their jokes, it never seems to occur to them that they're just not that funny at all.

In your opinion they aren't. It certainly wasn't poorly written, and why is he a sad sack? He no doubt doesn't actually mean any of it, and he clearly made most of the stories up, are you the type of bloke who gets offneded when a stand up comedian appears to be making things up as well? Its about trying to get a laugh, not telling the truth.

Humor is entirely subjective. It was written in a similar manner as something out of the Viz, and I found it funny. I didn't find it offensive.

Some people find The Three Stooges funny, some people find Religious comedians who never cuss or swear funny, some people even like Saved By the Bell.

I don't much care what you find funny, I was simply giving my opinion, the article seems to have entirely divided opinion, which basically tells me that about half of the users on the forum I would happily go for a pint with, and the other half... well, I would rather spend a day painting my mother in laws spare room than socialize with them.

Sounds about right, if onlf half of the world suck in my eyes, that means I can rub along with 3 and a half billion people, I'll take that.

Actually, I don't find the article offensive, just an awful attempt at humour.

What I do find, while not offensive, at least quite irritating, is the way you have consistently attempted to paint anyone who disagrees with your opinion of how hilarious the article is as some kind of dour, humourless plod, or simply complete morons incapable of grasping basic concepts like satire. Robin Ince is a satirist, Jon Stewart is a satirist; this guy just comes off as someone who uses his stumbling attempts at humour to ingratiate himself with "the cool kids", and yes I do find that rather sad, always have.

What amuses me isn't the fact that people don't find it funny, but that some posters can't seem to help themselves from being total spankers about it.

Good times.

 Monster Rain wrote:
What amuses me isn't the fact that people don't find it funny, but that some posters can't seem to help themselves from being total spankers about it.

Good times.

Yes, ok it was ironic/joke insult, but as is pointed out many hundreds of times, not everyone can discern everyone else's tone on the internet.

Some people will laugh
Some people will shrug
Some people will want to lynch the bastard

 Yodhrin wrote:


What I do find, while not offensive, at least quite irritating, is the way you have consistently attempted to paint anyone who disagrees with your opinion of how hilarious the article is as some kind of dour, humourless plod, or simply complete morons incapable of grasping basic concepts like satire. Robin Ince is a satirist, Jon Stewart is a satirist; this guy just comes off as someone who uses his stumbling attempts at humour to ingratiate himself with "the cool kids", and yes I do find that rather sad, always have.

I don't find it hilarious, I simply said it was pretty funny. I also don't think people that don't find it funny are humorless clods, I think people that don't find it funny, but feel the urge to come in here and incessantly drip their tits off about it rather sad, always have.

Laugh at it, don't laugh at it, I dont give a gak, I didnt write the fething thing did I!

Its the incessant complaining and the modern, consistent desperate desire to be offended that pisses me off in life in general, not simply disliking something I rather like.

Why not just ignore it if you dislike it? If you spent all day dripping about things you DON'T find funny instead of praising things you do, then we would never get anything done. In the same way that people who write letters to television stations disgust me, so too does the massive amount of dripping in this thread, its got nothing at all to do with people being incapable of grasping satire, and everything to do with my loathing of people who are fething pansies.

So yes, I don't mind you not finding the sometimes puerile things that I find amusing, not at all, I just hate seeing grown men get their knickers in a twist over things, as per some people in this thread.

Deadshot wrote:
I'm not amused in the slightest. I read it because the only other British paper around is The Sun which, for the reasons specified, I will not read period. All the other papers arounf are local Northern Ireland papaers. The Shankill Mirror and Belfast Telegraph for example.

Again. Not amused.

IIRC, the Sun has a reading age of eight years old. That may be why you tend to find it gets slammed a little.

 Monster Rain wrote:
While I found the piece to be funny, its amusement factor is easily eclipsed by the butthurt that it seems to generate.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Never doubt the ability of grown, allegedly rational humans who play with plastic army men to take it too seriously.

I seem to remember that there was a large scale study involving "factual errors and misrepresentations in the major newspapers."

The Sun had the highest percentage of correctness in its news.

Although, I suppose it may have had the lowest number of news items...

Find that hard to belive I know Tina 22 from Romford in reality is non of those things.

 Monster Rain wrote:
While I found the piece to be funny, its amusement factor is easily eclipsed by the butthurt that it seems to generate.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

This.

The comments section is pure gold.

 Grot 6 wrote:

 Monster Rain wrote:
While I found the piece to be funny, its amusement factor is easily eclipsed by the butthurt that it seems to generate.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

This.

The comments section is pure gold.

I love seeing the rage in the comments. A great and satisfying way to start the day at work with a cup of tea and a smoke. It gets better whilst considering that most of these "ragey" posters if they heard him saying that in person would not say anything.

Internets you are d bests.

*I'd also like to point out that child molesters much like gamers are also likely to play a "game" with someone who is under age at one stage or another. PROTECT THE CHILDREN!

Haha Quality

This is probably my favorite comment I've found so far:

Wow. Do people really see this as a genuine attempt to get Warhammer banned. Really?

But there is a serious point here. Middle aged men should not have pony tails.

Brevity really is the soul of wit.

My faourite so far has been these two :

Have you seen bus loads of Games Workshop players get off buses at the NEC, raise their banners and march into the arena, now thats a bit scary.

Valten78
Today 10:04 AM
That is a good point. I remember going to Games Day as a teen. All those banners and all that cheering, It was practicaly Nuremberg!

humour is good, outrage over nothing is silly.