People get credit for linking off-site pages now?

Didn't understand why there was such a huge ragefest about who does what first anyway.

 

I have 5 handles banked for lols.

I'm tempted to farm a ton of Fork Handles by buying candles on the GE, then selling them to the candle shop so that I can then buy them back in batches of four.

Yes, odd, I know.

People get credit for linking off-site pages now?

 

No. We neither copy information from other sites nor credit people for providing information they found on other sites. Interesting though the debate on who believes they deserve or do not deserve credit on that entry is, it is rather irrelevant to the topic.

 

If anyone feels that they should be credited anywhere and have a reason that is within our common conduct they are free to send me a private message. If anyone has any issues with said conduct they are also more than welcome to address it to me.

 

To get back on topic, those fork handles are lulz. Thanks for explaining the back story. :grin:

What a waste of 67760 pixels.

Oh, in that case, allow me to be more literal. I never really liked these references that are supposed to make us laugh. That gif is my reaction to most of them.

I mean, sure easter eggs are fun to find, but it's the way they pull out the "joke" that I don't like.

 

If you relly on someone's else "humor" to try and be funny, you're trying too hard; basically, it's the fact that you actually have to explain the joke that kills the humor in the way. Not much different from telling a joke without the charisma to do so, and having to explain it later...

 

Just my opinion though, I don't like having jokes explained at me, let alone have them "hidden".

But it is funny to the people who knew the joke.

 

Herring and trees, anyone?

What a waste of 67760 pixels.

Oh, in that case, allow me to be more literal. I never really liked these references that are supposed to make us laugh. That gif is my reaction to most of them.

I mean, sure easter eggs are fun to find, but it's the way they pull out the "joke" that I don't like.

 

If you relly on someone's else "humor" to try and be funny, you're trying too hard; basically, it's the fact that you actually have to explain the joke that kills the humor in the way. Not much different from telling a joke without the charisma to do so, and having to explain it later...

 

Just my opinion though, I don't like having jokes explained at me, let alone have them "hidden".

 

Easter egg references aren't aimed at being especially funny or being a joke as such.

Easter eggs are aimed at putting little cultural references to things you admire in to the game just to add that little extra something where people can spot it and be like oooh I see what you did there.

 

You're not specially meant to laugh at the fork handles itself, its a punch line removed from context anyway; your supposed to have a little smile and perhaps a small laugh if you recognise the reference.

 

tl;dr

Easter egg =/= a joke.

Easter egg = a hidden reference to something else to make you smile if you recognise it.

 

Just happens to be the case Jagex take a lot of their Easter eggs from classic British comedy. Eg herrings > tree vs grand tree. Ex-parrot. Fork handles. But there's plenty of others too Asgarnia Smith = Indiana Jones, Jeremy Clerksin is believed to be a pun of Jeremy Clarkson. That guy at rogues den (combined with the original dun) was a pun on the Crystal Maze etc.

It depends how you'd define a joke, but that's a boring discussion of semantics. I'm not sure what discussion value this has, unless it becomes a easter-egg general disc.