Djehngo
@Djehngo@lemmy.world
- Comment on The season of giving 1 day ago:
Ful disclosure; I’m on the autistic spectrum
Same, since this is something I struggled with for a while and this thread is old I will try to give (my) understanding of humour in general and how it applies here.
Okay, as far as I can tell the root of all humour is something unexpected/surprising/confusing.
A lot of wordplay operates by having you understand a sentence one way then
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
The surprise here is that you expect where there is a will there’s a way, and you expect “will” to refer to willpower, the unexpected aspect is that when you get to the end of the sentence it actually means last will and testament.
Comical misunderstandings in comedy fall under this, “edgy” humour is predicated on the idea that people will conform to polite discord then they break it. Cringe comedy is the same but rather than polite it’s “cool” (or whatever the atonym for cringe is.)
In this case the surprise is just that the doll looks like the daughter, you expect the doll to be some random famous character and instead it’s an image of someone you know.
This is mildly amusing but not that funny, what makes it hilarious (I assume) is the feedback loop between father and daughter. If he had been in the shop and seen it by himself there might have been a chuckle but not much more.
He shows her the mildly funny doll, she makes an unimpressed face as seen in the photo; she probably finds it a bit funny, but doesn’t want to give her dad a “win” for something which is vaguely at her expense, so puts on an unimpressed face. Having known her for her whole life Dad understands what is happening intuitively, this is the second layer of funny where the daughter is putting on an act, then it compounds because the contrast between his reaction and hers is amusing and the more he finds the situation funny the more pointed the contrast becomes causing a feedback loop.
The difference in reaction is a classic comedy trope people find funny, thats why most multi person comedy acts have someone play “the straight man”
Sadly I don’t think I can source this since nobody explains any of this so it’s all observation and trial and error
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate 2 months ago:
Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome
Was Simon not enough 😨 I swear I am still getting the phase 2/3 music popping into my head randomly months later.
Jokes aside, definitely playing this on release.
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- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving…
But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 months ago:
The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it’s pretty close to the golden ratio.
Even if you don’t remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 …
So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 months ago:
I think we don’t have enough language to talk about difficulty in a productive way.
You could keep all the boss mechanics the same in a game but add a 1 minute unstoppable cut scene at the start and the game is “more difficult” because it takes you longer to learn boss patterns and experiment with different strategies. But that feels very different to narrowing the windows to react or expanding the move set of a boss which feels different again to changing the values so you need to grind more/fewer levels or resources to pass it.
“Runback too long” and “git gud” sound a lot like people talking past eachother, but maybe thats just an artifact of the journalist reporting rather than the discussion itself
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 months ago:
It’s becoming more common where I am for a couple to move back to somewhere near one of their sets of parents before they have kids so they can rely on them for occasional childcare since both of the new parents usually have jobs
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Because for a lot of people posting snark on the internet is more flattering to their ego than advancing the goals of movements they claim to support.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 6 months ago:
Agreed
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 6 months ago:
You stop the regimen of drugs and the primary effect ceases en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration
I’m not arguing for the policy, I think violating someones bodily authority is inherently evil and should not be on the table even as a result of a criminal conviction.
But I think our objections should follow the science, we should object to the harm caused to the (falsely)convicted while on the drugs rather than the permencance of the sentence.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 6 months ago:
The difference is that chemical castration is typically a course of drugs that alter the body’s hormone production while it’s being taken to reduce sexual desire/function, when the subject stops taking the drugs the body returns to its natural hormone balance.
Physical mutilation is a one off, permenant, irreversible operation.
The problem is that the term chemical castration is wildly misleading in its attempt to describe the process.
- Comment on Anno 117: Pax Romana - Gameplay Showcase Trailer 7 months ago:
The only series I would consider installing ubisofts launcher for.
The trailer looks really good, it seems like they have made modifiers for island beauty localised rather than island wide which makes sense, now we can benefit from building sperate residential and industrial districts.
Land based combat I think is also new, it will be interesting to see how this plays out, but the lack did always seem like a glaring omission in 1800.
Hopefully they have done away with the influence system or at-least heavily modified it, it felt so bad in 1800 having to pick between ships, island defenses and buildings that allowed you to actually use all the cool items you found.
- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 7 months ago:
As much as I dislike the fact that the “flagship” instance for lemmy is an echo chamber that bans for political wrong think, I still think Lemmy on average is a positive and it isn’t funded by ads or vcs so it should be proof against the most common avenues for enshittification.
So I set up a recurring donation despite being someone that would 100% get banned by the people I’m donating to if I were to comment on their instance.
Same way I can’t stand people using one negative within a larger political platform as an excuse to parrot anti-electoralism I feel like I shouldn’t use one unfortunate facet of the fediverse as an excuse not to donate towards its continued development.
Support “better” rather than waiting for “perfect”
- Comment on Hamas files challenge to overturn UK terror designation 8 months ago:
Israel’s war crimes do not excuse Hamas’ terrorist attacks, nor do Hamas’ terror attacks excuse Israel’s war crimes.
Intentionally escalating the conflict and suppressing rival organisations then turning around and saying “we are the only counterbalance to Israel, you must deal with us” is also kinda gross.
That said, it’s weird that they want the UK involved given the history of the conflict and the relatively paltry (and apparently declining?) level of arms exports.
I think the EU also designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation and Germany is a big arms exporter so I would have expected them to focus on getting that designation repealed.
- Comment on How it feels wandering into different bubbles sometimes 9 months ago:
The interesting thing about reading from different bubbles to get the different perspectives on the same event is just how different the set of events covered is.
The right may be furious about something and the left barely cover it and vice versa, it needs to be a huge event to attract comment from both sides.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 9 months ago:
Even if you don’t buy into this logic, you still have to do it in quite a few places because the security auditors have a line in their checklist about being able to extract any internal information from error pages
- Comment on LinkedIn job search sucks. Also, 30 minutes a MONTH?! 11 months ago:
Best of luck with the job search, linkedin is awful, but at-least the need for it passes.