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[Remix-General Aetius]

WHAT THE HELL does that mean? Did anyone get it?

[Excella Gionne]

I don't know. The joke is on us. I guess we'll never know...

[dgcatanisiri]

That's the joke.

 

No, really, Javik made it up. Javik is the only one who has the knowledge of these various species alive in his cycle, which means that we have no knowledge of them, and so we can't understand the humor of a contextual joke like that.

 

Javik is essentially a fifty thousand year old troll.

[Farangbaa]

WHAT THE HELL does that mean? Did anyone get it?

 

Dude, seriously? 

 

The conversation goes like this:

 

James: "Hey Javik, did you guys tell jokes in your time? Do you know any jokes???"

Javik: "No.............   YES"

 

I thought only James could fall for that

[Remix-General Aetius]

Dude, seriously? 

 

The conversation goes like this:

 

James: "Hey Javik, did you guys tell jokes in your time? Do you know any jokes???"

Javik: "No.............   YES"

 

I thought only James could fall for that

 

James fell for that because he's a stupid musclehead grunt. He laughed.

 

I didn't, so that doesn't count as "falling for it". I simply don't understand it.

[SporkFu]

Javik says he made it up after James makes a fool of himself by laughing. I mean, if everybody didn't know Javik was a troll before then, they know it now. 

[KaiserShep]

James fell for that because he's a stupid musclehead grunt. He laughed.
 
I didn't, so that doesn't count as "falling for it". I simply don't understand it.

It was pretty clear that James was humoring him.

[Farangbaa]

It was pretty clear that James was humoring him.

 

Oh?

 

I've always interpreted that part as James not wanting to show he didn't know what the f was going on. (why he would do this I don't really understand, but it's James. He's not there to be smart)

[Remix-General Aetius]

It was pretty clear that James was humoring him.

 

naw, he ain't smart enough to humor Prothy the Prothean. if James ever became a Spectre, I'd be very concerned with the Council's intelligence.

[SwobyJ]

It was pretty clear that James was humoring him.

 

No. He was clueless and didn't want to look clueless. He didn't know whether to believe Javik or not.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

The purpose of James was to make Shepard look intelligent.

[Arcian]

Silly primitives, they don't know what parnaps are.

[SwobyJ]

The purpose of James was to make Shepard look intelligent.

 

You know, I wouldn't be surprised.

[dgcatanisiri]

It's not that James is dumb. What's happening is that James was trying to connect with Javik, trying to find some common ground with him. Instead of treating him like an oddity or a walking codex entry on the protheans resisting efforts to wring out every last bit of information on them, or even just ignoring him (which are reactions from the rest of the Normandy crew), James is trying to reach out to Javik on an individual level, get to know Javik as an individual. Javik makes a remark that James thinks was kinda funny ("Smoking, you ever do that?" "Only when my armor became enflamed."), so he tries to connect through humor. And then Javik says something that he has no frame of reference to find funny, but since for a moment, it looks as if he's found something that he can bond with Javik with, he laughs, rather than risk that tenuous connection. And then Javik reveals he was just trolling him.

[SwobyJ]

..and James is clueless, not sure whether he's being trolled or it is a serious story. It isn't just about him finding a bonding moment - he really doesn't know what is happening and what Javik is doing.

 

That's fine. James does this a lot. He's the 'new face' character.

 

I wouldn't call him dumb though. In some ways, Bioware did avoid the 'Jersey Shore' allegations that happened before the game was released. He's just sometimes a mixture of slight ignorance and slight arrogance - mostly in good nature.

[dreamgazer]

Pshhh. Like you guys 'n gals haven't laughed at a joke you didn't get before. 

[Remix-General Aetius]

Pshhh. Like you guys 'n gals haven't laughed at a joke you didn't get before. 

 

how can you laugh at a joke you didn't get? the whole idea behind finding a joke funny is that you're supposed to get it first.

 

knowing myself, I wouldn't laugh even if I did get it. stand-up comedy is the unfunniest thing in the world. the fact that we're expected to laugh at every single joke they make becomes even worse when the jokes aren't even remotely funny.

[ImaginaryMatter]

how can you laugh at a joke you didn't get? the whole idea behind finding a joke funny is that you're supposed to get it first.

 

I did it a lot during welcome week my freshman year of college, awkward situations can do that to you.

[SwobyJ]

how can you laugh at a joke you didn't get? the whole idea behind finding a joke funny is that you're supposed to get it first.

 

knowing myself, I wouldn't laugh even if I did get it. stand-up comedy is the unfunniest thing in the world. the fact that we're expected to laugh at every single joke they make becomes even worse when the jokes aren't even remotely funny.

 

Depends how much you want to put up a persona, and how easily you can do it.

[Remix-General Aetius]

I did it a lot during welcome week my freshman year of college, awkward situations can do that to you.

 

aka try-hard lol

[KaiserShep]

knowing myself, I wouldn't laugh even if I did get it. stand-up comedy is the unfunniest thing in the world. the fact that we're expected to laugh at every single joke they make becomes even worse when the jokes aren't even remotely funny.

 

I dunno, that Louis CK is a funny sonomonbeetch.

[dreamgazer]

how can you laugh at a joke you didn't get?

 

It's a social convention for some, especially in uncomfortable situations.  Maintaining appearances, keeping the mood going, humoring someone you generally like.

[CronoDragoon]

how can you laugh at a joke you didn't get?

 

I chuckle anytime I didn't hear what someone said and they look like they are expecting a response. It's perfect really: if it was a joke, you win. If they're looking for agreement, they'll take it as agreement and you win. If they're looking for disapproval of something that happened in a story, they'll take it as disbelief and you win.

 

This is especially relevant for someone like me that immediately tunes out anyone talking that isn't interesting.

[ImaginaryMatter]

I chuckle anytime I didn't hear what someone said and they look like they are expecting a response. It's perfect really: if it was a joke, you win. If they're looking for agreement, they'll take it as agreement and you win. If they're looking for disapproval of something that happened in a story, they'll take it as disbelief and you win.

 

This is especially relevant for someone like me that immediately tunes out anyone talking that isn't interesting.

 

I've had that happen to me a lot. I sat bow in my boat and whenever the coxswain made a joke I was usually the odd man out.

[Remix-General Aetius]

It's a social convention for some, especially in uncomfortable situations.  Maintaining appearances, keeping the mood going, humoring someone you generally like.

 

moods ruined by really crappy jokes cannot be salvaged with a fake laugh.

 

PS: I really didn't know your parnaps could glow.