Ironic game titles

[Mark]

Next week bathos vs. pathos!

Is this to decide who beomes the 4th Musketeer?

[merman]

Street Fighter IV

That's not ironic. Capcom can't count. It should be at least Street Fighter 20 by now...

[Alarm]

Street Fighter IV

That's not ironic. Capcom can't count. It should be at least Street Fighter 20 by now...

It also takes place before the Street Fighter III games.

[KlaxonCow]

Street Fighter IV

That's not ironic. Capcom can't count. It should be at least Street Fighter 20 by now...

It also takes place before the Street Fighter III games.

Nope, still not ironic, I'm afraid.

[Foozwah]

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, methinks.

No, I'll agree with you, I was just being a pedant.
Next week bathos vs. pathos!

Ooh, can't wait!

[littledrummerboy]

Irony...
It's like rain on your wedding day I think? Or maybe a free ride when you've already paid? Or perhaps the good advice you just didn't take? Who'd have thought it eh?

[betamax]

We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, methinks.

No, I'll agree with you, I was just being a pedant.
Next week bathos vs. pathos!

Ooh, can't wait!

Announcer 1: It's a title match, falls count anywhere and no disqualification, JR!

JR: OMAGAAAWD!

[SiN]

Irony...
It's like rain on your wedding day I think? Or maybe a free ride when you've already paid? Or perhaps the good advice you just didn't take? Who'd have thought it eh?

Actually, it's more like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Or meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife.


SiN

[littledrummerboy]

Irony...
It's like rain on your wedding day I think? Or maybe a free ride when you've already paid? Or perhaps the good advice you just didn't take? Who'd have thought it eh?

Actually, it's more like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Or meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife.


SiN

Or maybe a traffic jam, when you're bloody late already or perhaps it's when you go for a cig break and there's one of them goddamn signs up. It ironic isn't it? Don't you think? A little TOO ironic.

[Foozwah]

Wasn't the irony of that song that some of the situations quoted in it weren't actually ironic. They were just... bad luck, e.g. the wedding day one.

I still wonder whether that was deliberate or not... Cos that'd be somewhat, well, you know...

[ThetaReactor]

Duke Nukem Forever.

[Foozwah]

I thought that title was a reference to how long we'd* have to wait.



*Not me personally. Couldn't give a crap about it.

[SiN]

Or maybe a traffic jam, when you're bloody late already or perhaps it's when you go for a cig break and there's one of them goddamn signs up. It ironic isn't it? Don't you think? A little TOO ironic.

Yeah, I really do think.

[KlaxonCow]

Wasn't the irony of that song that some of the situations quoted in it weren't actually ironic. They were just... bad luck, e.g. the wedding day one.

I still wonder whether that was deliberate or not... Cos that'd be somewhat, well, you know...

Yes, apparently, Alanis Morisette did, in an interview, claim that the true irony of the song is that none of her examples are actually ironic (though, arguably, "a death row pardon two minutes too late" could arguably be seen as "cosmic irony" - a situation that's ironic on a cosmic level, but not on an individual level for its participants, e.g. as if god or gods were mocking humanity. But if you discount that kind of irony, then, in fact, none of the examples are strictly ironic).

Rather the examples are just plain "schadenfreude" instead.

But, just to pile on another layer of irony (or is it another example of schadenfreude?), if Alanis Morisette did it in order to see if anyone would notice and understand the real irony of the song, then the fact that many who noticed think she's just claiming to have purposefully made it non-ironic after-the-fact, in order to cover up that she got it wrong is, itself, arguably ironic too.

That's the beauty of a piece of well-aimed irony - it can become recursively ironic.

The song is, thus, most ironic because it exposes that, apparently, no-one knows what is and isn't ironic to know whether "ironic" is or isn't actually ironic. Which, of course, is itself ironic....or not.

[Dio]

There is one genuine absolute ironic example in the song, the bloke who takes a flight to get over a fear of flying and the plane crashes.

But -10 points to the first person that mentioned it for being far too predictable.