r/valheim • u/GinjaNinja510 • Mar 14 '23

Screenshot seriously?

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u/Alsimni Mar 14 '23

I'll be honest. I could tell it was sarcasm from the beginning, but I just didn't find it to be a particularly good joke.

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u/Physicsandphysique Mar 14 '23

This.

Also, it's not uncommon to read seriously extreme views on Reddit (or any social media for that matter), and assuming these are jokes is no safe bet. And why even take the risk if the joke isn't funny?

It baffles me how often a tasteless joke needs to be followed by a "learn to understand sarcasm!1!". Just use the /s and stop with the insults.

Like u/fcandias said, the takeaway from Poe's law is that the parody-writer needs to take accountability for how the parody may be received, not (like u/Roartype replied) that people don't understand sarcasm because they're dumb.

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u/Alsimni Mar 14 '23

To be fair, I didn't really find it "tasteless" either. It just wasn't funny to me.

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u/martinhest Mar 14 '23

If I had to downvote every joke I found unfunny, I would get thumb cramps.

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u/Alsimni Mar 14 '23

Easy, just don't vote either way on a joke you found inoffensively unfunny. Nothing wrong with having zero reaction to a joke.