Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!”
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is this strange belief that humor is exempt from consequences.
In the book “Jam” by “Yahtzee Croshaw” there is a post-apocalyptic sect formed by a group of people from an internet forum. They are not stupid of course; they form a sect ironically. Then they worship a rambling drunk old man called Bob ironically and have ironic sermons and ironically imprison nonbelievers at the ironic orders of the High Priest.
If you point out that this is stupid and evil, they will roll their eyes and go “Duh!”, then ironically execute you for heresy.
artificialfish@programming.dev 1 month ago
lol that sounds great. Is it a comedy?
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s the guy who did the Zero Punctuation game reviews for The Escapist so probably.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Note he still does hose kind of videos under a different name for Second Wind.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And also is still writing books! I think it came before Jam, but Mogworld is a great one.
An interesting but largely unrelated aside: he’s also the one who climbed the term “PC Master Race,” apparently.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good to know. Thank you!