I think what they mean is that music has a wider range where it’s still “functional” for most people. Basically, more liberties can be taken with music than with storytelling mediums without people rejecting it.
I think what they mean is that music has a wider range where it’s still “functional” for most people. Basically, more liberties can be taken with music than with storytelling mediums without people rejecting it.
Here’s a joke for you: A man is ROWING down a RIVER. He gets to the waterfall, and when the goes over the edge he yells “RADIO!!!”
So did I just disrespect you and waste your time, or do I get a pass because it’s so random and it subverts your expectations of how a joke could be structured?
Being weird, or quirky, or SuBveRtInG eXpEcTatiONs doesn’t give anybody a pass for their creations not working on a basic level.
Yeah, and there would have been a bunch of punchlines throughout.
Storytelling of any kind is about setups and payoffs. The comic has two actual, decent setups and zero payoffs. In fact all of the praise for the comic comes from people (including you) who explicitly said what made them laugh was what they "imagined*.
It’s the creator’s job to actually provide a good payoff at the end. Yes, threads can be left hanging. Yes, things can be left to the imagination. But in this case specifically both of those strategies are abused to the point that the only way this comic is even passable is if readers are extremely charitable and provide their own ending.
Yeah, I’ve seen all of Flying Circus and all of their movies.
Monty Python did absurdist stuff, but they didn’t violate core principles of timing and surprise. Jokes recurred or dragged at times without overstaying their welcome.
A piece of absurdist humor still needs to be humorous. Being weird doesn’t absolve something from being boring or pointless.
Yep, it’s definitely that and not the fact that this is a dogshit comic.
Nosiree.
The core of humor is doing something unexpected. “Willy Wonka makes turnips” is unexpected. The same is true with “Charlie doesn’t like what Willy Wonka makes”.
The problem is that both of those things are telegraphed really early, thus defusing any surprise they could have delivered. By the last frame we expect Charlie to have a bad time at Willy Wonka’s factory, and he does.
This comic is making animal noises into a microphone and Chuck Berry wants to slap the shit out of it.
“Subverting expectations” is like jazz.
A good jazz musician knows the rules of music. They choose which ones to bend and which ones to break. When a couple of rules are broken here and there it’s pleasurable and exciting.
When too many rules are broken, it’s Yoko Ono.
Hot on the heels of this one, I’d imagine.
I was told that ooh heaven is a place on Earth.
Patents expire. In the long run your inventions would be used for evil.
That’s a funny way to spell “watch dipshits take a joke seriously”.
Why not? Because this is a shitpost community.
Inb4 people start taking a Lemmy shitpost seriously and argue with it.
That’s Grenyarnia, the country that only rich people know about.
Wait until you hear about media contagion!
This shit is par for the course.
Down in front!
Whatever you have to tell yourself.
Cones of Dunshire.