calling it "pretty good" is far fetched
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Nicodemus
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· Score: 3
It seems like it was made by a 12 year old with a bit too much time on their hands. I don't think the incessant jokes about snot and penis's are funny, and I'm a normally light guy when it comes to parodies and jokes. This is just childish. Not worth a post.
Nicodemus
absolute garbage
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3
if this is all it takes to get on slashdot (which used to be a cutting-edge highly-respected underground news site), then there is serious problem. and i don't mean for rob or hemos.
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
Parody?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3
A parody of this site needs 1) a nanotechnology story posted by Hemos, 2) a NASA story posted by CmdrTaco, 3) a Katz story that includes multiple usage of the word geek, 4) a dual posting of the same story, and 5) three *grins* and two *drools*
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France;-), spam, and finally Star Wars.
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
I took the challenge, here's my parody
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brennanw
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· Score: 5
I took Sun Tzu's challenge and decided to do my own Slashdot Parody (for the record, I thought HashSnot was pretty amusing -- especially the concept of the Amish having web sites -- but I can't resist challenges like this.
It would be one thing if there was some trace of wit behind the jokes, but all the guy did was take a static page and change the words and pictures. I don't mind bathroom humor, as long as there is real wit behind it ("hehehe, he said 'Penis'" won't cut it). Any idiot with a text and graphics editor and some spare time could make something at least that good.
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Just my $0.000002
-- Vidi, Vici, Veni
Ok, I accept the challenge
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brennanw
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· Score: 5
I don't know about a contest, but take a look at Apostrophecolon
-- Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
A couple more things to add
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grappler
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· Score: 3
The thing I said about jokes about reloading is just an example. I wasn't saying that adding that would automatically make it funny - you would have to do it with the right flair, which is something the onion is very good at. If you haven't been there, it's a must. www.theonion.com
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good/. parody:
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
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It seems like it was made by a 12 year old with a bit too much time on their hands. I don't think the incessant jokes about snot and penis's are funny, and I'm a normally light guy when it comes to parodies and jokes. This is just childish. Not worth a post.
Nicodemus
if this is all it takes to get on slashdot (which used to be a cutting-edge highly-respected underground news site), then there is serious problem. and i don't mean for rob or hemos.
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
Hey all,
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
A parody of this site needs 1) a nanotechnology story posted by Hemos, 2) a NASA story posted by CmdrTaco, 3) a Katz story that includes multiple usage of the word geek, 4) a dual posting of the same story, and 5) three *grins* and two *drools*
;-), spam, and finally Star Wars.
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
The result is Apostrophecolon . Hope you enjoy it.
After you view that, take a look at my comic strip on the rest of the Ubersoft.net website.
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
It would be one thing if there was some trace of wit behind the jokes, but all the guy did was take a static page and change the words and pictures. I don't mind bathroom humor, as long as there is real wit behind it ("hehehe, he said 'Penis'" won't cut it). Any idiot with a text and graphics editor and some spare time could make something at least that good.
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Just my $0.000002
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
The thing I said about jokes about reloading is just an example. I wasn't saying that adding that would automatically make it funny - you would have to do it with the right flair, which is something the onion is very good at. If you haven't been there, it's a must. www.theonion.com
/. parody:
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Vidi, Vici, Veni