Probably the best intro ive read.

I look forward to you taking the mickey out of anything and everything. So many take so much so seriously, I hope your articles will be a refreshing change and bring a few laughs.

Bring on the first of many articles I think I am going to really enjoy.

Originally posted by elocke

Originally posted by nhavas

 

And that brings us to our final lesson! humor is entirely subjective, and the only thing that is generally universally laughed at is a fart.

Now THAT evoked a chuckle.  Hehe, but yes, very subjective humor is.  Like Yoda I sound.  :D

meh, I didn't laugh as I don't find farts funny.

oh wait, that's the subjective part!

Though I do find South Park funny. hmmmm it's all so deep and yet so transparent.

Let's keep it civil guys.

Finally somebody who can write, unlike the last two new columns that we got.

Looking forward to reading some more from this fellow.

This thread reminds me of Left4Dead2.

@title of topic: I remember doing the same a few times to play "Wizard of Wor".

it says a lot about who you are when you try to explain how to be funny to someone who is already being paid to be funny.

I like your style, and I'm looking forward to reading more of your commentary/articles.

very funny welcome to the freaking family man :D

Welcome...Welcome. I think this is a much needed adition to the site. I would give it two thumbs up but I lost them in a bizzare gardening accident................I made that up, I actually am still in possession of both my thumbs.......I don't know why I said it.........I will just be over here.  Anyway, look forward to reading more. :D

Bonus points for the Boston terrier! The reigning dog champions of stinkiest dog farts/dog size.

Originally posted by Taeamat

I've been in that van, just1opinion, and you have the right of it.

 

Coyote! So glad to have you back. I've been wandering the internets alone and confused for far too long.

 

PS: No one tell my work that this site isn't blocked yet. *shhh*

Thank you for confirming my speculations.

P.S. :  I swear I'll never tell.

Run while you still have time. If you choose to hang around deez pahts, goo'luck to ya and welcome aboard matey.!

Excellent article, sir! Looking forward to more.

Originally posted by Nickwisni

Welcome but like preston326 mentioned you are trying too hard to be funny. I only found one thing funny in the entire article and it was the quarter stealing since I have done it along with many others. There are mistakes in the article for typing. I hate to be a critic, but when you are talking about something being "just write there” it should be spelled "right" instead of "write".

He probably did it on purpose to bring you out of the woodwork

hi

welcome

hi

have fun

Originally posted by nhavas

I might be a shitty MMORPG player, but I'm a fairly experienced humorist, and this was trying to emulate cracked.com's "punchline / captioned photo / segway" a little too hard.

True humor is finding the edge in a conversation when there is none. It's breaking the barrier between normalcy and surreality in a manner that still befits the context. Ragging on AoC because it's brown isn't really a humor point, it's just an observation. A good pun to make with regard to that game could be something as childish as "they marketed this game as having full-on boob nudity. More like age of BONE-an, am I right?" and it would have been funnier.

Also, yes, poop can be funny, but merely observing that poop is funny, however, is not. Everything needs a context. "poop is funny", sure, yes, but WHY is it funny? is it funny because you just made one that smells like tchernobyl? is it funny because you just fed it to an orphan? or is it simply funny because it happens to make the same sound coming out as it's name?

There, that was making poop funny. Hell, without even stretching it, you could have tied in two mediocre jokes for one grander punchline, implying that perhaps AoC's color pallette was "art from within", "true, natural inspiration coming from the inside". Or you could go the lowbrow route and say that the artists used turds instead of Wacom styli.

Either way, I am not trying to tell you how to do your job, since my area of professional expertise actually lies in the development of games, and not in humor (although I sincerely wish it did), and clearly you possess better qualifications than most if not anyone posting here, and as such more than deserve your column. 

I am, however, implying that there is both a science and an art to being funny, and from what I gleaned from this article, the levels of humor here were "my first chemistry set" and a box of turd colored watercolors.

 

Umm...you aren't funny. Leave the jokes to others. I can't believe all the "humor critics" and uptights over some cuss words...lighten up. Not all humor has to be safe or vanilla. I found the whole article quite funny. And observations can be funny, if presented in a funny way. Anything can be funny if it has wit and timing. Sounds like you are trying to make humor logical, which it usually isn't it's absurd.

Originally posted by Jonsus

Originally posted by Mr.Coyote

Originally posted by nhavas

I might be a shitty MMORPG player, but I'm a fairly experienced humorist,

 I have all your albums.

 

Zing.

 

And who calls themselves a humorist.

So MMOrpg.com is going for 'shock jocks' with bad humor now? *shrug* Oh well. Hope the future articles are more controversial and less forced funny.