More on the "geek humor" thing.
Feb. 2nd, 2007 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
OK, look:
Your Super Mario ringtone is stupid because it's you waving your default cultural nerdier-than-thou penis around for everyone to admire.
My monster-encounter-music-from-Dragon-Warrior ringtone is way better not just because it is significantly more obscure, but it actually makes sense in the context of an incoming phone call. It is a reasonable attempt at cleverness that makes me smile once in a while, versus me standing up and shouting HEY GUYS I LIKE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND PAC-MAN every time someone calls me. Which yours is.
Maybe what I really have a problem with is the overuse of empty tribal markers with no attempt to get under them. Mm.
Your Super Mario ringtone is stupid because it's you waving your default cultural nerdier-than-thou penis around for everyone to admire.
My monster-encounter-music-from-Dragon-Warrior ringtone is way better not just because it is significantly more obscure, but it actually makes sense in the context of an incoming phone call. It is a reasonable attempt at cleverness that makes me smile once in a while, versus me standing up and shouting HEY GUYS I LIKE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND PAC-MAN every time someone calls me. Which yours is.
Maybe what I really have a problem with is the overuse of empty tribal markers with no attempt to get under them. Mm.
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Date: 2007-02-02 07:21 am (UTC)You have to admit
Date: 2007-02-02 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-02 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-02 02:40 pm (UTC)Which means every other Treo owner uses it, too. Anytime someone near me with a Treo gets a call I start checking my pocket.
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Date: 2007-02-03 12:56 pm (UTC)(Granted, it makes about as much sense as the 110 Baud teletype noise we hear whenever a computer screen on TV updates, or the 1960's electromechanical pinball noises always dubbed over a visual of somebody playing a current pin, but it's hard to unprogram cultural norms.)
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Date: 2007-02-03 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-02 03:37 pm (UTC)What I really want is a RINGtone. You know, like a phone ringing? Or chimes, or a subdued trilling. Why is that so hard to get?
I like the idea of ominous music playing as a ringtone, though. Yes. That's appropriate.
And "empty tribal markers" - hmm. I think that maybe expresses something I find intolerable about the so-called geek crowd, but haven't been able to fully figure out.
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Date: 2007-02-03 04:26 pm (UTC)His girlfriend, though, rang in with "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", which I found more than a little cloying...
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Date: 2007-02-02 04:56 pm (UTC)My ringtone is Nokia's "Nostalgia.mp3" which actually does sound like a ringing phone.
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Date: 2007-02-02 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-02 05:49 pm (UTC)But... I dunno, now I want a ringtone that consists of you screaming "HEY GUYS I LIKE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND PAC-MAN". :)