| ▲ | snowwrestler 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
But actually there are tons of visual jokes about people looking down the barrels of loaded guns, cannon, even lightsabers: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/1hy7fu/never_look... I didn’t think of it this way before, but yeah, the demon core memes are absolutely cousins of this type of loaded weapon humor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | fluoridation 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
What they said is that it wouldn't have the same appeal, which is true. Someone shooting themselves by looking into the barrel of a gun as a joke is funny because it's a really obviously stupid thing to do. Luke lightsabering himself in the eye is funny first due to shock value, and second as a form of observational humor by pointing out how even though lightsabers are so obviously dangerous, there's not a single mishap where someone maims themselves with their own weapon in the movies. Someone playing with a screwdriver and a few pieces of various metals is funny because its danger is unintuitive. It's so strange that someone can mishandle such seemingly innocuous objects and then die a few days later because of it, that it's comical. It's a non sequitur. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | chuckadams 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reminds me of "Do not look into laser with remaining eye" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||