• Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    i have 4 hours on my steam account. not a single chuckle. that’s enough time for a laugh.

    also, i have seen more of the game via youtube than i have played. the game is not a comedy, just stop it.

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      21 days ago

      Hey, it’s cool if you didn’t like it. I just think there’s tons of hilarious things going on. The whole setting appears very bleak and surreal, but there’s some really funny things in the game. I think it’s a good balance to be honest.

      4 hours really doesn’t get you far. You don’t even get a feeling for the world in that little time. But you’ve watched YouTube videos on the game, so I guess it’s just not for you.

      I grew up with British humor, so it’s kind of weird to hear that dark humor isn’t mainstream, lol.

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      20 days ago

      If it were me, and I had that reaction to a interactive story that so many other people got so many other different experiences from, I would explore that dissonance because it reveals something.

      Not saying “go play the game again” if you don’t like it you don’t like it, but I would consider thinking about how and why a dark but quirky and sometimes bleak-toned reading experience left so many other people feeling one way, and you another. I found it hilarious but also you have the choice in the story to view the bleak world as either a tragedy or a comedy and everything in between… do you feel that kind of agency in life or are you stuck in some way?

      Not asking for an answer, just queuing rhetorical questions I would ask myself in that position.

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        20 days ago

        dude. i am 36 years old. i have experienced and enjoyed tons of dark humo. johnny the homicidal maniac was my bread and butter when i was 16. please don’t assume just because a stranger doesn’t like something you do it’s because they are uncultured or have narrow horizons. it comes across incredibly pretentiously