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Observational Humour fails on Newgrounds

Posted by Deaththe14th - February 5th, 2009


It is sad, but true.

Mentioning a name of another flash inside of your flash description or blurb will nearly never give people the incentive they need to go over and see the flash for themselves.

That being said, I have made a few flashes as jokes to other flashes and they have been recieved very poorly... but I mean, I thought they were at least grin worthy.

But it seems that some people prefer to ignore all suggestions and warnings of "this is a parody, if you haven't seen the original, you won't get it" and stuff.

A guy called "sidorio" makes a fair bunch of spam flashes. I have grown accustomed to his work, and now find myself laughing with him (if he's even laughing... if he's a he)

Anyway, he decided to make Muffin Dating Sim. I found it pretty humourus (after getting over being called gay when I lost)

So I worked hard for a while, and made A Muffin's Story

After I came (hehehe) out of that one, I decided to see what would happen if I went with spams and observational humour a bit more

Two nights later I decided to spam Newgrounds with two little monstrousities.

There is a parody video made in flash, "Zig take photo of himself", it is a flash parody of the man who took a photo of himself in the same place at the same time every day. His hair would grow etc.
He did it for three years. It's quite an achievement for someone to have made to do that ritualistically like that.

So yeah, that's that flash.

I decided to go with a good ol' cock joke, with "Zig takes photos, eh?"

I'm pretty sure the joke explains itself.

Afterwards, someone decided to upload le parkour (short).
After watching it, I decided to respond with The Parker.

I decided that I had destroyed the respectability of Newgrounds enough for that night (despite that I found them humourous) and called it quits.

Since then, I had decided that I didn't really want to create spam flashes, or even observational humour flashes, because people won't get them.

This, I believe, is because of the lack of links in the description page.

I mean, I said what the other flashes were... I suppose I could have put in the full addresses of the other flashes. But oh well, what's done is done.

If you read all this, hopefully you, sir, will understand the humour behind some of my works.

Oh, and I have a plan to make a "The Parker - REDUX" in the near future. STAY TUNED FOR THAT ONE!1!11!!

And Ninja'd 2 is probably never coming out, unless in game form.
And even then...


Comments

Eh, if people on Newgrounds don't find your submissions who cares... I got over it, and realized most of Newgrounds has a very sucky level of humor... Just look at some sprite Flashes... That's some of the shittiest humor I've ever seen in my life! Heh, I just make Flashes to entertain myself, and if just one person likes it, even better.

If people don't find your submissions *funny* is what I meant to say...

God I gotta proofread my stuff.

it's cool, I understood.
I'm used to reading English from people who have it as their second language, missing a single word isn't so bad, heh.

Apart from that... yeah, I try to make flashes to entertain myself. Thanks for your thoughts.

Pretty much what Emby said except most humor is lost to them not just observational. Sarcasm and satire especially. Don't try to change to meet any ones expectations cause it will get worse. They get is video game references and that's about it.

Aside from adding a laugh track that tells them when to laugh there's no way around it. They don't really like thinking. The sad thing is the laugh track probably would work ...

maybe I'll make a completely sarcastic, horrible flash with some video game references thrown in there.
I could drawl out the voices and have little to no animation in there.

Let's see how that goes!
(and of course, I'll have to add in a laugh track)

UR name strikes me familiar

Hmmm, cool.
I wonder if we've met on some other forum or something.

damn it, i forgot what it says! >:O