video games

oh boooy here wee gooooo

>Sheldon walks onto the stage
>Audience are sniggering, a sound of suspense is lingering in the air
>'So Sheldon, what did you do today?' Penny asks
>Sheldon turns his head to face hers
>Audience chuckle heartily
>'Oh nothing much... I just...'
>Complete silence and suspense
>'Played some video games.'
>The audience burst into hysterics, the sound of slapping knees and chairs creaking under the rolling of hundreds of writhing bodies is almost unearthly. Sheldon and Penny keep their neutral positions, and wait for the audience to calm down
>10 minutes later, the laughter hasn't stopped
>an old man had to be taken out in an ambulance due to a laughter related heart attack, and this only caused another huge ripple of mind numbing laughter
>the audience finally dies down son Sheldon can finish his line.
>'... on my Xbox 360.'
>The audience erupt into a demonic shriek, the blood vessels in their eyes and throat have ruptured, causing blood to come streaming out all over the the room. Eventually a few of them start to lose control of their bowels, and a combination of shit and blood are swirling around the room, covering the disgusting writhing mass completely in a foul red smelling paste
>Penny and Sheldon keep their smiles plastered to their faces like pristine models, as the faeces sprays all over the stage and massive chunks of bloody shit him them in the face
>The audience are virtually all dead now, the horrifying sound of air leaving the throat is the last thing that can be heard in the room, a loud guffaw sometimes slipping it's way past the shredded vocal chords

mmmmmmmmmkay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeCdIox_rM

>>126807272

>>126807272
the imagery in my head is just perfect

>>126807285
>The sound of laughter replaces the air on the room
>everyone dies of asphyxiation

>come home from med school last fall
>find out that my mom has become a fan of BBT
How do you cure someone you care about of such an illness, /v/?

>>126807272
Stuff like this is the only humorous thing that has ever come from this show.

>>126807996
>How do you get people to stop liking what you don't like, /v/?

>>126807996
that feel when my dad watches it

Wait, /v/ HATES bbt? But this show is, like, right up your alley!

Bazinga is lols

Let's hear a complaint that doesn't involve:
>laugh track
>you being offended because you're a "real" nerd

>>126808310
>mfw your trolling sounds just like my roommate that watches TruTV constantly

>XXX parody is actually funnier and knows more about the culture

How did this happen?

>he said something I don't understand
>better laugh, I don't want to look dumb

that is the whole basis of the show

>The Big Bang Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeCdIox_rM

this show sucks and my friends agree

>>126808426

The show is a one-trick pony that recycles the same joke over and over again.

>>126808426

It's not funny.

>>126808426
Easy enough. It's not funny.

>>126808752
Valid, if debatable.
>>126808772
Just a thinly veiled variation of the "I'm a *REAL* nerd and this show offends my delicate sensibilities"

>>126808426

>awkward, stiff & forced acting, dialogue, & pacing
>humour derived from anti-intellectualism (and no you dont have to be a nerd to be smart)
>objectively not humourous
>predicable punchlines

>>126808923
You realize those are either opinions or subjective assessments right?

>>126808901

The fact that the show misrepresents a subculture is a problem though.

It showcases nerds, but the show isn't made for nerds. It's made for old people or other folks that don't know what nerds are actually like. It's a show that bases its humor on stereotype and intentionally dumbs itself down to be more accessible.

Nerds feel about Big Bang Theory the way forensic scientists feel about CSI.

>>126809074
Why the fuck are you asking for people's complaints then?

>>126807272

Is it wrong I was reminded of parasite eve the entire time I was reading this?

>>126809074
>request complaints
>receive complaints

i can't into sense

>>126808901

How about go and watch a few episodes of the IT Crowd to see how it should be done, because that shit is hilarious.

Being a nerd or not has nothing to do with it.

I fuckin hate this shit and my woman was all like, "hey! you'll love this watch it with me!" Nope fuck that noise shit sux.

>>126809154
I approached it as parody, or satire on nerd culture, not a sincere attempt to make a faithful reproduction of it in sitcom form. When you look at it that way there's really nothing to get so worked up over.

I'm still laughing at the fact that /v/ is upset that they're making fun of nerds.

A BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO

I like the BBT and video games and comics...haters gonna hate. Sheldon is really cute.

>>126809319
I'm a fan of both.

>>126809349
>satire
inigo_montoya.jpg

>nerd
>married a bit of a ditz

>both of us enjoy the fuck out of BBT

Haters...they usually do something...

>>126809349

Except there really isn't much satirical about it. A show is not immediately a parody simply because the characters are stereotypes.

The show doesn't parody or satirize anything, it just spreads misinformation.

The Colbert Report is legitimate satire. This isn't.

Was this not getting enough attention on /co/?

>>126809353

That's the thing. They aren't making fun of nerds.

They're just using nerds as a way to entertain people who aren't nerds.

They are making nerds 'hip'.

>>126809768
>oh no our secret club hobbies are now mainstream

>>126809154
I had an anthropology professor, she also worked as a forensic anthropologist for the sheriff's department. She enjoys the show Bones despite its inaccuracis because she doesn't take herself so seriously to be offended by hollywood portrails of real life. You're right that it's similar, but unlike crime scene investigators, nerds can't seem to just take the joke for what it's intended and move on. You have to make a big deal out of it, and it's that same pedantic attitude bordering on autistic that makes everyone laugh all the harder.

I think they're implyin' the only people who hate it are nobodies.

>>126809353

That has nothing to do with it.

The IT Crowd also makes fun of nerds, but does it hilariously. And I love that show.

>>126809856

But there is no joke there in shows like CSI. They are inaccuracies without the intention of humor. They do it because they don't think normal people will understand what they're talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tenm8ByNSTY

>>126809856

The jokes still have to be funny, my friend. That's kind of a prerequisite for this stuff.

>>126809829

It's about misinterpretation.

We've gotten to a point where a person plays a videogame for thirty minutes and then posts on Facebook about how much of a nerd they are.

It's a misuse of language.

>>126809768
They are, though. In the show, nerds are intentionally portrayed as a strange being no one can really relate to. The humor doesn't come from people relating to the show. The humor comes from watching strange people do strange things. It's like watching a dog chase its own tail.

>>126810087
Now we're into a matter of taste. You can't say what is funny or not funny to you is true for everyone, or is somehow better.

>>126807272
that was awesome

>watching any TV show
Fucking disgusting casuals on my /v/.
Be a man and read some fucking books instead.

I get the same loathing feeling that you fags get watching BBT when I try to watch any sitcom.

TV was discarded the last time I moved. Fuck television.

>>126809319
And the references to nerd/geek culture in the IT Crowd are fantastic in comparison.
It's not "HALO 3 IS AN ADVANCED WAR SIMULATOR WITH MANY DIFFERENT VIABLE TACTICS, BLAH BLAH BLAH, MOLECULAR INTEGRETY" like that asswipe Sheldon spouts.

I remember seeing some Moe figurines on Miku in the background on the desk in IT Crowd, I'm not even a fan of girl cartoons but that made my day.

>>126810151
Languages change, meanings of words change. You'll need to learn to deal with it or learn Latin.

>>126810331
>he thinks it's bad to watch shows like Seinfeld, Breaking Bad and The Simpsons

>>126810182

>In the show, nerds are intentionally portrayed as a strange being no one can really relate to.

Exactly. They have to dumb it down enough for people to understand while still making 'nerds' into massive stereotypes that are made to be laughed at.

>>126810381
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY
>MOLECULAR INTEGRETY

EVERY. FUCKING. EPISODE.

>>126810405
Yes, it is bad. Those shows are utter dogshit.

>>126810196

Yes I can.

I just did.

Do you want to claim that Sanic fanfiction is War and Peace in the eyes of the beholder? And this is, like, a perfectly legitimate stance because let's all be friends ^_^

Suck a fuck, bitch

>>126810482
<--- you

wait, they actually say shit like this? i think i might literally die if i watch this show

>>126810399

In this case, it's for the worse. We are now left with no word to accurately describe what a 'nerd' is without it being misinterpreted as something else.

>>126810438
When they're writing formulas on the whiteboards and shit during BBT, they're told by the directors to make it a lot more complex looking than it actually has to be by adding in more useless shit to the formula, so it looks more LOL SO NERDY XD

What's it like knowing reddit also hates this show?

rage thread?
such a nerd xDDDD raeg thread?

I'm sure this show really is funny to the average pleb, but to me it's nerd blackface.

>>126810703
It means even idiots know the show is garbage.

>>126810703

Too busy thinking about how fucking awesome Amanojaku is.

The Big Bang Theory isn't satire. Satire involves an understanding of the object being criticized/made fun of. This show doesn't do that. It puts long words in the mouths of awkward people and that is its punchline. That's it. That's the entire thing.

>>126810703
I'm pretty sure reddit likes BBT. Neil Tyson mentioned BBT and reddit started masturbating all over for it.

>>126809319
Oh come on. It can't be that fun-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ

Huh... I giggled and laughed.

>Part of its charm is offering jokes about work, romance, sex and geekdom, without falling back on stereotypes.
>without falling back on stereotypes.

>>126810399
This isn't a situation of the word changing though, it is just people using it because they think being a 'nerd' is hip and cool, due to this show.

My reason for disliking it is because it keeps up the stigma that if you play video games you're a loser, and is single handedly making sure video games are viewed as nothing more than children's toys for borderline crazy people one death away from shooting up their school.

>>126810703
Pretty ok.
People give Reddit too harsh of a title.. sort of.
They share the same perspective of those on 4chan, except they're all fucking blindsighted by memespouting up the ass, and they don't have the privilege to the title of anonymity.

But what we end up hating, they end up hating too.
They're just a shitty little brother. The one thing we should be hating on more is 9gag, and our faggy scene-kid 'sister' Tumblr.

>>126809319
The IT crowd is amazing it's too bad that when they attempted to do an American version it failed miserably yet shows like the Big Bang Theory do well.

>>126810874
English dub Ghost Stories is the superior comedy show.

>>126810600
Nothing cool about me. My eyes twitch when I try to watch TV. Like my brain is causing my eyes to malfunction. I can't stomach it.

Fuck TV and the marketers they rode in on.

>>126810703

I'm sure reddit doesn't like getting surprise anal evacuations too

we are so similar

>>126810331
Video games > Comic books > TV > Novels

>>126810703
Divine. It would mean whatever episode this was from made them endlessly furious.

BUT IT'S TERRIBLE
EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS SO FUCKING FORCED, ESPECIALLY SHELDONGS

>>126810713
A painful read.

>>126810703
They also hate Bastion, who the fuck knows what they're about.

>>126810696
When pyrotechnicians are told to make a grenade explode on a movie set they use massive amounts of flammable liquid, like petrol, to create a huge unrealistic fireable so it looks more FUCK YEAH SO ACTION PACKED! XD

Hollywood exaggerates things! How old are you not to know this already?

>>126810713
>question 6, Xbox vs. Wii
>no option for Xbox
>an option for spider solitaire (???)
>"Wii. I'm a sucker for the party games like Guitar Hero"
>Guitar Hero
>On wii/only on wii


I hate what I'm reading.

>>126810713
>Pass your digital camera around in homeroom.
>Homeroom

The fuck kind of teenager has a god damn magazine subscription?

Who the fuck reads magazines?

Why do you have that image?

>>126811237
I find /v/'s (and 4chan's at large) tastes to be far more baffling. Actually, it's not hard to understand; /v/ hates everything.

>>126810713
>stream it to speaker system

>>126810713
what the fuck

I CAN'T..HANDLE..THIS....RAGE

The show disgusts me. I hate people like that and they fucking exist in real life. None of you are like that if that's what you're thinking when you watch that show.

>>126810713
>X-Box

>>126807272

>>126811008
>Not liking surprise anal evacuations.

It's just like a surprise visit from an old friend.

>Big Bang Theory gets renewed again
>Community floats in limbo

>just as planned

Your body isn't ready for rage of this caliber.

>>126810940
>
My reason for disliking it is because it keeps up the stigma that if you play video games you're a loser, and is single handedly making sure video games are viewed as nothing more than children's toys for borderline crazy people one death away from shooting up their school.
But... but that's good. The less interest in mainstream video games, the sooner the current industry can fail and die, and the sooner they can start making good games again.

>>126811363

I find posts like this to be annoying and contribute nothing.

What are you trying to accomplish here

>>126807272
I love how this has basically become a highly topical version of The Aristocrats.

>>126811617
Make a thread about literally anything, even something generally considered to be a wholly good part of the human experience, and someone on 4chan will argue vehemently against it as if you insulted them personally.

>>126811551
>always sunny and louie c.k. under BBT

All of my rage.

>>126811551
>only 1%

The damned goyims didn't even put Larry Jewvid up there

>>126808606
This is common.

>>126810713
>you will never be a Gizmo Goddess

Why hasn't this been posted yet

/v/ hates fun so it's only logical /v/ hates TBBT too.

I have always found this fact funny, /v/ is just like Sheldon, they can't understand why it's fun because they act like that in real life themselves and don't get sarcasm or jokes. Instead people here just bitch about the technological flaws like the scene where they wear headsets and yet the sounds come through their speakers.

You all so cute because you are no longer in this universe mentally.

>>126810909
Not bad.

>>126811668
I never thought of it that way. I like to think we're a little classier about it though.

And Big Bang Theory doesn't make video games uncool, it makes them hip because those funny nerdy guys on TV do it, let's find out what they're talking about so we can get all those nerdy jokes, ha ha ha.

>>126811551
>childrens hospital
>0 percent

I love that show and im not surprised at all.

>>126810713
>Download a torrent
>Stream it to my speaker system

>>126811551
>0% for Children's Hospital
Okay, it's not so ba-
>4% for 30 Rock
Fuck the world and the faggots that live on it.

>>126811857
my sides

You guys have to realize that there is indeed such a thing as the normalfag geek/nerd. It's a fairly recent phenomenon but it's VERY real and VERY prevalent. Just hang out at your local university for a while and you'll come across one.

This is THE show for the normalfag geek/nerd.

>>126811363

Astute and original observation

>>126811878

>people can only base their enjoymewnt of something on aesthetics and not content

jesus. TBBT, like most mainstream network sitcoms these days, is simply not funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_t3g4RhpY

This show is funnier than most modern "comedies"
Prove me wrong

>>126811767
That's what you get for trying new and experimental things and punctuating dark comedy with moments of raw humanity and melancholy undertones. It can't be helped.