Quote from: fearsomepirate;1059665I feel like you've got to be about as dumb as a bag of hammers, or socialize with the most humorous bunch of church ladies this side of Prohibition, if you didn't bust a gut laughing when you first heard the words, "Anal circumference table."

Whereas I feel like anyone who finds that humorous has to be at least somewhat socially maladjusted.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1059679It's long disappeared from the internet, and my copy was about three computers ago, but back in the old days of rpg.net some guy put out "A Man And His Pet Flea Spot" which was not, as you might have expected, an rpg about pets or fleas. Its cover page was a crude line drawing of the back of a guy with his pants down looking at some giant breasts, jerking off and ejaculating all over them. It was about a dozen pages, and all I remember of the rules was the authour saying, "the funniest things in the world are Nazis, midgets, and anal rape, so every adventure must include at least one of those three, ideally in every campaign there'll be at least one scene where the PCs are being anally raped by Nazi midgets."

Basically it was FATAL Lite, though the authour seemed not to be taking himself seriously. I say that if you really have to make your rpg offensive, at least do it with a low page count.

Yeah, see, that's not funny. FATAL is funny because the author was a self-humiliating lolcow who was dead serious about the whole thing. It's not funny as a 12-page joke RPG. It's funny as a >1000-page serious RPG by a clueless goober who can't understand why nobody wants to play it.

If a guy locked himself in his basement for two years to write the most comprehensive work of philosophy of all time, and he came out, bearded, haggard, and half-starved, with a 500-page treatise about his dick, would you be offended that someone wrote 500 pages about his dick? I mean, I guess some people would be. Me, I'd laugh when it happened, and I'd laugh every time I told somebody else about it, and I'd laugh every time I remembered how some idiot locked himself in his basement and actually thought a 500-page book about his dick would solve mankind's problems.

That's what FATAL is.

Edit: Except FATAL is over a thousand pages.

Quote from: fearsomepirate;1059689Yeah, see, that's not funny.

You don't think the "bring out the gimp" scene in Pulp Fiction would be funnier if the gimp were a Nazi midget?

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1059718You don't think the "bring out the gimp" scene in Pulp Fiction would be funnier if the gimp were a Nazi midget?

I thought it was funny anyway.

I'm not a particularly good person though.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1059718You don't think the "bring out the gimp" scene in Pulp Fiction would be funnier if the gimp were a Nazi midget?

Sure. But not funny the way The Room is funny. FATAL is funny the way The Room is funny. Would The Room be funnier with a Nazi midget? Maybe. But only if it was clear that Tommy Wiseau was not trying to be funny by putting one in there.

Quote from: Joey2k;1059681Whereas I feel like anyone who finds that humorous has to be at least somewhat socially maladjusted.

Depends on the society they want to keep.

I didn't find FATAL funny, just... bizarre.  I mean, it's basically a bog-standard hyper-detailed RPG... that also has things like an anal circumference table because detailed rape is important (and omnipresent) in the game.  "Magical kingdom" doesn't begin to describe this puppy.  

But people finding the awkwardly unsettling funny isn't new.  "Shock comedy" thrives on it, and lots of people love (and lots more hate it).  That this was meant to be taken as a serious (or if you prefer, "historically accurate") gaming experience just adds to the shock comedy value.  But since the comedy is unintentional, people are very much laughing "at" and not "with", and that just opens the target for more abuse.

Quote from: Joey2k;1059681Whereas I feel like anyone who finds that humorous has to be at least somewhat socially maladjusted.

As I wear "toxic sociopath" as a badge of honor so I can confirm Joey2k's right! :eek:

Dark comedy (like laughing at FATAL or Anthony Jeselnik jokes) isn't for everyone and it does draw a certain audience.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1059777As I wear "toxic sociopath" as a badge of honor so I can confirm Joey2k's right! :eek:

Dark comedy (like laughing at FATAL or Anthony Jeselnik jokes) isn't for everyone and it does draw a certain audience.

As long as we're on the same page

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;1058958You might want to look at the very next video in his queue. He is using D&D and roleplaying as vessels to promote racist ideas (and not racist in vague sense, but in the Nazi sense). And his game is also an expression of those ideas.

Yeah. Vikernes is an absolute piece of shit. And his game is an openly racist game. And in the old-fashion real sense of what that word used to mean before the SJWs reduced it to meaninglessness.

Quote from: FeloniousMonk;1058969Like when Pundit is so desperately flailing for attention that he attacks a gay DM who teaches at an all girls school who runs an all girls (8-11) game at said school... and the gay DM teacher has had zero communication with Pundit: https://twitter.com/kasimirurbanski/status/1047988621859536897?s=21

Does that qualify?

Don't be an ass. I didn't 'attack' anyone. The first thing I asked was whether he taught at a girl's school, and he refused to answer.

Quote from: Rhedyn;1059012Are you trolling? The chain shows him asking if boys were being excluded not that he was attacking him for being gay.

I think the answer to your first question is totally obvious.