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You are such a nice person Aranna, I hope everybody uses you as an example of how to treat others and responds to you in kind.But I was unprepared for roughly 50% of the viewers to treat it as such -- that still boggles my mind and causes no small amount of annoyanceYou know what boggles my mind? People who make up statistics from pure fantasy.
To be fair, television show zealotry is one of the main freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. It's not like we're talking about something trivial and insignificant - we're talking about TELEVISION SITCOMS! If someone can complain about BBT, what's next? Complaints about Everybody Loves Raymond? About Who's the Boss? About LEAVE IT TO F*@*ING BEAVER!!! Society will unravel, cats will lie with dogs, and Jay Leno will no longer be acknowledged as the greatest thing in comedy!!! This cannot - no, this WILL NOT happen. Not here. Not now. Not ever.
I say fight on. Fight with every ounce of your being against the oppressive ranks of quality television lest lowest common denomniator television be forever destroyed and we have to, I dunno, read a damn book or something. Or play a game involving reading books. What a stupid hobby that must be.
Idle curiosity, perhaps, but I've always wondered why sitcom writers think the GM has to roll all dice for everybody. I mean, c'mon, you have a copy of the rulebook right there.
Maybe they are not allowed to read the props.
Well, to be fair, though it happens rarely it DOES happen. You see it on these boards even where GMs roll everything for the players to avoid metagaming through "reverse engineering" enemy bonuses.
Well, to be fair, though it happens rarely it DOES happen. You see it on these boards even where GMs roll everything for the players to avoid metagaming through "reverse engineering" enemy bonuses.
No, I don't think that's fair at all. I'm sure you can find a gaming group somewhere to fit any kind of deviation, but the 100% of all instances of RPG in sitcoms that I can think of (Aranna: no that's not a made up statistics :p), even if that's only two right now, seems to grossly over represent that particular behaviour. Especially if it's suggested, in the show, that "that's the rule."
I can accept the 'roll d20 to do everything' behaviour that you'll also see, as just avoiding getting bugged down in RPG rule details for the audience. But the 'GM rolls everything' doesn't seem to save anything.
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There's an episode of Freaks & Geeks (set in the 1980s) where James Franco's "cool guy" character plays Dungeons & Dragons with some "nerds". All the players seem to have sets of dice they use.
As there is always something to nit-pick, someone has of course pointed out that the castle in the scene is from Warhammer in 1998.
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You are such a nice person Aranna, I hope everybody uses you as an example of how to treat others and responds to you in kind.But I was unprepared for roughly 50% of the viewers to treat it as such -- that still boggles my mind and causes no small amount of annoyanceYou know what boggles my mind? People who make up statistics from pure fantasy.
To be fair, television show zealotry is one of the main freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. It's not like we're talking about something trivial and insignificant - we're talking about TELEVISION SITCOMS! If someone can complain about BBT, what's next? Complaints about Everybody Loves Raymond? About Who's the Boss? About LEAVE IT TO F&+*ING BEAVER!!! Society will unravel, cats will lie with dogs, and Jay Leno will no longer be acknowledged as the greatest thing in comedy!!! This cannot - no, this WILL NOT happen. Not here. Not now. Not ever.
I say fight on. Fight with every ounce of your being against the oppressive ranks of quality television lest lowest common denomniator television be forever destroyed and we have to, I dunno, read a damn book or something. Or play a game involving reading books. What a stupid hobby that must be.
Ha!!!!!
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About LEAVE IT TO F$~#ING BEAVER!!!
The last person who insulted that show now serves as "the gimp" in my basement dungeon.
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....
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I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....
TBBT Is about as ironic and sophisticated as my arse after a vindaloo chaser following a cabbage and chilli eating competion.....
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....TBBT Is about as ironic and sophisticated as my arse after a vindaloo chaser following a cabbage and chilli eating competion.....
Oh, the irony of this post...
Oh, the irony of this post...I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....TBBT Is about as ironic and sophisticated as my arse after a vindaloo chaser following a cabbage and chilli eating competion.....
Sarcasm, rudeness, and toilet humour is not irony, what would be ironic would be TBBT having a scene where they have a vindaloo after a chilli and cabbage eating competition and make it both sophisticated and funny just after I made my post.
Sarcasm, rudeness, and toilet humour is not irony, what would be ironic would be TBBT having a scene where they have a vindaloo after a chilli and cabbage eating competition and make it both sophisticated and funny just after I made my post.Oh, the irony of this post...I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....TBBT Is about as ironic and sophisticated as my arse after a vindaloo chaser following a cabbage and chilli eating competion.....
Lack of appreciation for, or recognition of, irony is not lack of irony. Ironically enough...
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Wow. The thread devolved into an Alanis Morissette song.
Wow. The thread devolved into an Alanis Morissette song.
Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking.
I'd like to point out that when people think a show is not clever or funny, you cannot necessarily conclude that the person simply does not understand the joke or the cleverness.
Hey, maybe someone is smart enough to fully understand the joke, and maybe they just don't think it's funny.
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....
Irony is for hipsters, and I hate hipsters. Those guys are so cliche...
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....Irony is for hipsters, and I hate hipsters. Those guys are so cliche...
And again the irony just drips...
Do you have any idea how cliche it is to call hipsters cliche?
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....Irony is for hipsters, and I hate hipsters. Those guys are so cliche...And again the irony just drips...
Do you have any idea how cliche it is to call hipsters cliche?
It's so cliché it makes up 50% of the jokes of "Two Broke Girls".
Kat Dennings is yummy and hipsters are coolie-oolio.
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....Irony is for hipsters, and I hate hipsters. Those guys are so cliche...And again the irony just drips...
Do you have any idea how cliche it is to call hipsters cliche?
So cliche even the mainstream rejects it... making it... hipster? :)
Someone should stop before super-triple-twisted meta-irony gets out of control!
I wonder if the same people who don't catch the irony in these comments are the ones who don't catch the irony in TBBT....Irony is for hipsters, and I hate hipsters. Those guys are so cliche...And again the irony just drips...
Do you have any idea how cliche it is to call hipsters cliche?
So cliche even the mainstream rejects it... making it... hipster? :)
Someone should stop before super-triple-twisted meta-irony gets out of control!
Too late, we hit that point a couple dozen comments ago...
Wow. The thread devolved into an Alanis Morissette song.
The interesting thing about Alanis Morissette's songs about irony is that Alanis Morissette doesn't know what irony actually is.
Isn't that ironic?
Isn't that ironic?
Naw... just ignorant.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Your Visa to exit the planet and relocate has been approved and expedited.
Have a nice trip.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
You want to live on the planet where BBT is real life, don't you?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.You want to live on the planet where BBT is real life, don't you?Yes, but all the characters (and other inhabitants) look like Kat Dennings.
And no, you can't come visit.
I find this ironic.
Wow. The thread devolved into an Alanis Morissette song.The interesting thing about Alanis Morissette's songs about irony is that Alanis Morissette doesn't know what irony actually is.
Isn't that ironic?
Don't you think? A little tooOOO ironic. Yeah, I really do think!