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Originally Posted by storymilo
dj chameleon: I've always thought he was a pretty nice guy, just not one I talk to much. Lately, though, I keep seeing him putting any criticism whatsoever (and there's been a decent amount) down to people "not getting" his sense of humor. I guess I'm one of those people, because his posts have never struck me as any more witty than most of the members on this site. I don't think every single complaint leveled toward him is really a fault of the person not getting a joke.
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I don't claim that my humor is witty, you either get it or you don't.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
1. Your brand of humor seems to be largely ignorant of the fact that this is the internet, and you're representing yourself with text. I don't think you're dumb enough to not realize that it's quite difficult to appreciate the context of jokes when you not only leave no indicators that they're jokes, but construct them very poorly and randomly.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'm stuck between wondering whether you just have a really bad sense of humor, or you call things you say, "a joke" when you realize that people regard them as idiotic...
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My brand of humor is based solely on people that I have been around for ages knowing me regardless of the fact that you can't tell tones on the internet. I don't expect people that have no clue about me or don't speak to me outside of MB to get my brand of humor.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
2. If you actually think people are "slower" because they don't know what you're on about when you make moronic "jokes" that, in every sense of the definition, do not qualify as jokes, then I believe you have misplaced the blame... If you would rather say that you have a completely different way of thinking from normal people, that would be more accurate, although I don't think I'd venture to say that it's a step up.
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I say that people are "slower" because for as long as I have been using the same type of humor for them to not pick up on the fact that everything I say isn't 100% true then I don't know what to tell you.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
3. You obviously do care, to an extent, otherwise you would not have come here to "set the record straight". I don't believe for one minute that you're unaffected by what people here think about you. I also don't believe that any other intelligent person on these boards would disagree. What you have to understand is we ALL care to an extent. It's not a negative thing. You don't have to put up an air of nonchalance. If you didn't care about this place or the opinions of the members populating it, you wouldn't be here... nor would you have been here for as long as you have. You're hiding behind a glass wall, bro.
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Yes, I care because I feel the need to respond to every little thing that is said about me on the internet and I go to bed crying over everything that is said because it hurts me oh so deepily.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
4. If I'm completely off, and know absolutely nothing about your character, then why are you trying to be someone else on the internet? Because all I see is what you give me.
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It's not so much that I'm trying to be someone else on the internet, you can go ahead and believe whatever you want about me but what you think you know isn't who I am.
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