Goonhub
06-02-2017, 09:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-02-2017, 09:12 PM by CounterfeitFaker. Edited 1 time in total.)
A good clown knows the difference between funny and obnoxious. It's a very fine line and it's kinda different for everyone.
Obnoxious, I guess, would be harassing people who are doing important stuff like borging or cloning, breaking into places without having any particularly good reason and then leaving them wide open for everyone else to wander in, throwing annoying chems at people, et cetera. It's sort of subjective, I guess, and most pranks you pull on people will annoy the victims at least a little; it's knowing when it's only funny to you and not any onlookers that's the problem.
Funny's also kinda difficult. Usually I just fill a fire extinguisher with pee and spray it in front of the janitor. Messing with particularly self-important crewmates can also make for some funny moments. Pushing dudes over and farting on them is also a good time (and easily weaponizable if you're a traitor with the mini-bible; push a guy over and fart on him, and then 'accidentally' fall over with the bible in hand, and 99 times out of 100 he'll come over to fart on you in revenge).
Clowns who save the day, who act as the last refuge against the methed-up nerd with the c-saber who's been chucking pipe bombs at everyone, who manage to knock him over and fling him off the station, are a rare breed; plenty of people try, but most aren't very good, and almost everyone who tries this path forgets to entertain anything but their own dreams of robustness.
(I'm probably guilty of being more obnoxious than funny on occasion, so I guess take this with a grain of salt.)
Obnoxious, I guess, would be harassing people who are doing important stuff like borging or cloning, breaking into places without having any particularly good reason and then leaving them wide open for everyone else to wander in, throwing annoying chems at people, et cetera. It's sort of subjective, I guess, and most pranks you pull on people will annoy the victims at least a little; it's knowing when it's only funny to you and not any onlookers that's the problem.
Funny's also kinda difficult. Usually I just fill a fire extinguisher with pee and spray it in front of the janitor. Messing with particularly self-important crewmates can also make for some funny moments. Pushing dudes over and farting on them is also a good time (and easily weaponizable if you're a traitor with the mini-bible; push a guy over and fart on him, and then 'accidentally' fall over with the bible in hand, and 99 times out of 100 he'll come over to fart on you in revenge).
Clowns who save the day, who act as the last refuge against the methed-up nerd with the c-saber who's been chucking pipe bombs at everyone, who manage to knock him over and fling him off the station, are a rare breed; plenty of people try, but most aren't very good, and almost everyone who tries this path forgets to entertain anything but their own dreams of robustness.
(I'm probably guilty of being more obnoxious than funny on occasion, so I guess take this with a grain of salt.)