Masochist Mafia II [Game Over]

[Leodanny]

I disagree. Nearly everything, your preferences, personality, your skills, all of it changes. Maybe you can’t teach me, but humor is is not something that you are born with, then forever immutable.

[Ramcius]

Sorry, I don't have degree in humans psychology or anything of that sort, so I can't tell if it's true or not.

Do I really have to write "this is a joke, now laugh" at the end of my messages? Cause I'm really trying not to sound serious while trying not to make my jokes to look really pathetic, but I'm at my limits

[Gamma Emerald]

If you to state it's a joke you're not a very good humorist, now are you /s

[Jingle]

Everyone knows jokes are funnier if you explain them.

[Jingle]

If you to state it's a joke you're not a very good humorist, now are you /s

For example, Gamma here is using sarcasm, which is a method of mockery by which you state an obviously untrue statement dryly, in order to make a point that the joke falling flat is on the shoulders of the person telling the joke. This is funny because Gamma uses the sarcasm tag, /s, which means Gamma thinks that the sarcasm in the joke will be undetected and thus fall flat. The juxtaposition of mocking this need and needing it in the first place is jarring in a humorous fashion. Self aware humor is often of a higher quality than non self aware humor because of this ability to layer jokes.

It's also funny because Gamma is referencing the earlier point when Raucous talked about how good he was at humor and saying that good humorists are capable of making the joking nature of their jokes self evident. Everyone knows that referencing shared experiences, particularly ones with a negative impact like airline food or people who bring up airline food in jokes, is funny. Through this reference, Gamma made his joke a full circle, tying it back to the original conversation, keeping it topical and fresh while also providing a new point of view and ensuring everyone in the conversation has the ability to appreciate it.

[Ramcius]

You, guys, have talent to make leave me speechless after reading your posts

[Leodanny]

Now you’re getting it.

[Jingle]

You, guys, have talent to make leave me speechless after reading your posts

This is funny because Ramcius uses proper grammar, but in a way that vastly changes the intended meaning of his post. In this case, guys is an appositive, meaning that he is directly addressing a specific group of 'You'. Given the contextual clue that You is not 'everyone in the thread', guys likely also isn't 'everyone in the thread' as is the colloquial usage, but rather 'male members of the thread', the more literal interpretation. This means Ramcius is specifically excluding people like Nancy and Ank from his compliment.

Additionally, there's a bit of humor in the misuse of speechless, as this forum doesn't require speech to communicate. Rather we use text, which as most of you are aware can be achieved without even the rudimentary vocal abilities of many animals, let alone the complex vocal abilities required to put together complex thoughts. Even disregarding this, and taking speechless in a more informal "I don't have words to express my thoughts" sense, Ramcius is very clearly misrepresenting reality. And everyone knows that saying something that is clearly untrue is a basic tenet of humor.

[Raskolnikov]

Btw Rask if I'm not mistaken your avatar is a character from Spice and Wolf

Yup!

Gamma is solving, which is a pretty town thing to do. Full towny points to chaos emerald.

[Not_Mafia]

A man approaches a widower at a funeral, he asks her “Can I please say one word?”, “of course” replies the widower. “Plethora”, said the man, “Thanks” said the widower “that means a lot”.

[Jingle]

That's funny because a widower is necessarily a man and you use the word her to refer to him. Also, because "that means a lot" is frequently a response bereaved people give wellwishers, and Plethora literally means a lot.



I can keep enhancing jokes indefinitely.

[Nancy Drew 39]

You, guys, have talent to make leave me speechless after reading your posts

This is funny because Ramcius uses proper grammar, but in a way that vastly changes the intended meaning of his post. In this case, guys is an appositive, meaning that he is directly addressing a specific group of 'You'.

Given the contextual clue that You is not 'everyone in the thread', guys likely also isn't 'everyone in the thread' as is the colloquial usage, but rather 'male members of the thread', the more literal interpretation. This means Ramcius is specifically excluding people like Nancy and Ank from his compliment

.


Okay, no way this isn’t a joke.

[Nancy Drew 39]

A man approaches a widower at a funeral, he asks her “Can I please say one word?”, “of course” replies the widower. “Plethora”, said the man, “Thanks” said the widower “that means a lot”.

Punny.

[Nancy Drew 39]

That's funny because a widower is necessarily a man and you use the word her to refer to him. Also, because "that means a lot" is frequently a response bereaved people give wellwishers, and Plethora literally means a lot.



I can keep enhancing jokes indefinitely.

Yeah thanks, that one 100% required cliff notes.

[Ramcius]

Jingle, every time you repeat same joke, it becomes less and less funny, just FYI

[Gamma Emerald]

Jingle, every time you repeat same joke, it becomes less and less funny, just FYI

Have to agree on this one. I told this one joke in middle school and my friend took it and told it so many times it lost its value.

[0verki11]

Oh on TOS forums? I haven’t been on there in ages. I stopped playing there after I got blacklisted, and moved to MS instead. If you’re curious who I was on TOS forums, I was

STAA

. However, I’m much more mature now, and I wanna play more mafia and just improve my skills, but I have no time.

Also, as a side-note, I got blacklisted in 14F, and then quit the forums altogether. I ended up moving to here instead as basically a fresh start. If that game was after 14F, I wouldn’t have seen it. The last time I went on the forums was to report someone in TOS.

Im pretty sure I knew this but why did this not click in my head.

[0verki11]

Im pretty sure my read on Jingle was tonal

[CheekyTeeky]

Guys I'm still here. Hola.

Um somebody is still scum? I forgot who :/

[CheekyTeeky]

A man approaches a widower at a funeral, he asks her “Can I please say one word?”, “of course” replies the widower. “Plethora”, said the man, “Thanks” said the widower “that means a lot”.

Loool

[CheekyTeeky]

NM is still locktown

[Ankamius]

Apparently we are the same person Cheeky

[CheekyTeeky]

Oh have you replaced me? D:

[Ankamius]

No in general lol

[CheekyTeeky]

Oh cool! I can see it XD