More on the "geek humor" thing.

[prog]

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.

Comments

[katre50.livejournal.com]

My ringtone is the one sound on the Treo that actually sounds like a ringing phone and not chirping insects in a rainforest playing a mandolin.

Which means every other Treo owner uses it, too. Anytime someone near me with a Treo gets a call I start checking my pocket.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

I'm with you! A mechanical bell is what phone ringers are supposed to sound like!

(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.)

[prog.livejournal.com]

The standard foley for "someone is playing a video game" is still a sample of either Donkey Kong or Pac-man playing on an Atari 2600, circa 1982. I most recently recall hearing it dubbed over a visual of a boy playing something on a (thoroughly modern) Game Boy Advance on an episode of "Lost". Excellent.