Goonhub
02-23-2019, 12:30 PM
Anyone who gets upset at you for killing them when they are a cluwne right now has a sort of reasonable point. It's trivial to un-cluwne someone so like, why would you even bother with murder when you could get them un-cluwned very quickly? I'm not advocating metagrudging or people getting upset because they were a cluwne and got murdered, it's just that it's easy to see why they think it's dumb to do right now.
Cluwnes getting murdered for existing is a big joke. Everyone knows that you can murder them assuming they read the first rule because the very first rule in the list of Goonstation rules includes the word "Cluwne" twice, both in reference to how the rules about grief does not apply to them. Killing a cluwne isn't about ruining someone else's fun or griefing other people for the sake of it, it's about perpetuating the joke that murdering cluwnes is funny so that when cluwnes actually avoid getting murdered through sheer luck it's an exciting occurrence. You never see angry cluwne mobs running to bash in the wizard who cursed them because getting cluwned means that you'll be slightly clumsy for the rest of the round at worst. Wizards rarely bring the spell because it lacks the powerful effect that it should, they could always just take (whatever murder spells) and just kill everyone, why even bother with cluwne if it's not even permanent? Gibbing people into skeletons is a permanent consequence and I see wizards take that much more often than cluwne.
It's a fun spell. Getting cluwned is funny but only if the joke of cluwnes being widely hated by everyone is perpetuated and if getting cluwned isn't just a "until I get this really common medical chem" thing. The joke that cluwnes are so terrible that you can just murder them on sight is so ingrained into Goon that it's literally mentioned in the very first rule and I think it's funny enough to continue to act on that. What's even the point of allowing us to kill cluwnes if it's so easy to fix that getting cluwned is hardly a setback?
Maybe my sense of humor is just really bad, but I think cluwnes should be what we think of cluwnes as rather than something for medical to treat with a trivial autoinjector. They're supposed to be twitching, honking nightmare sadclowns that everyone wants to kill because their mere existence is an insult to the natural spaceworld.
Cluwnes getting murdered for existing is a big joke. Everyone knows that you can murder them assuming they read the first rule because the very first rule in the list of Goonstation rules includes the word "Cluwne" twice, both in reference to how the rules about grief does not apply to them. Killing a cluwne isn't about ruining someone else's fun or griefing other people for the sake of it, it's about perpetuating the joke that murdering cluwnes is funny so that when cluwnes actually avoid getting murdered through sheer luck it's an exciting occurrence. You never see angry cluwne mobs running to bash in the wizard who cursed them because getting cluwned means that you'll be slightly clumsy for the rest of the round at worst. Wizards rarely bring the spell because it lacks the powerful effect that it should, they could always just take (whatever murder spells) and just kill everyone, why even bother with cluwne if it's not even permanent? Gibbing people into skeletons is a permanent consequence and I see wizards take that much more often than cluwne.
It's a fun spell. Getting cluwned is funny but only if the joke of cluwnes being widely hated by everyone is perpetuated and if getting cluwned isn't just a "until I get this really common medical chem" thing. The joke that cluwnes are so terrible that you can just murder them on sight is so ingrained into Goon that it's literally mentioned in the very first rule and I think it's funny enough to continue to act on that. What's even the point of allowing us to kill cluwnes if it's so easy to fix that getting cluwned is hardly a setback?
Maybe my sense of humor is just really bad, but I think cluwnes should be what we think of cluwnes as rather than something for medical to treat with a trivial autoinjector. They're supposed to be twitching, honking nightmare sadclowns that everyone wants to kill because their mere existence is an insult to the natural spaceworld.