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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
NA

I think the problem here is that someone came in saying "it's so funny that people see my scrappy misfit team as villains!", which kind of implies that they are especially scrappy or misfit-y. If they're only a scrappy misfit team as much as any other team, then there's no especially amusing juxtaposition there - try subbing in any other team name (like, for example, the Flyers or CBJ) and you can see how annoying it is. "Oh, it's so funny that Pens fans see my team as villains when really they're scrappy and love each other!" No, they see your team as opponents who they don't like and don't want to win for a variety of reasons. (The decision to call them "villains" is also weird as hell - people don't want the Pens to win for a variety of reasons, but literal villains? Ehhh. Even the people who hate them and call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect. I don't think there's any serious contingent that thinks the Pens shouldn't win because they're downright evil, instead of because they're a divisional rival or their fans are annoying or they won too recently or or or.)

tl;dr Fake exceptionalism and misrepresentation of other people's point of view is annoying, hence the response.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

That's fair. The original comment was pretty annoying.

Even the people who hate them and call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect.

I would like to believe you, but some of the Pens haters on meme are really fucking aggressive about it. I don't think they're all doing it for comic effect.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

You're right, I didn't word that the best way. "Even the people who call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect" would have been better, without the "hate them" - of course people genuinely hate your team, and I'm sorry that they're nasty about it. But I don't think that's necessarily the same as thinking they're evil.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
NA
I gripe about the Pens a lot and find them annoying, but I would never think they're evil, or even hate them on the level I do other teams that have actually done stuff I find deplorable. Any complaining I do on meme about the Pens is just blowing off steam in a fandom where the Pens are kind of inescapable.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
na

Some of the Pens fans are pretty fucking aggressive in a much less tongue-in-cheek way, both in their pro-Pens and anti-Other-Teams opinions.

(And as an avowed Pens hater, I both passionately despise the team and every single player on it, some for reasons and some for Reasons, and use exaggerated language for comic effect when talking about the team. I'm a rational person who knows objectively that the Pens are just like every other team in the league. But also slime monsters from the deep whose success is the worst thing to happen to this planet since global warming and the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. Cue lots of bloody pictures of leopard seals eating penguins, because those make my heart feel light.)

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
You realize that you're not better than the homer Pens fans you hate, right? Possibly worse, or at least more serial killer-y, what with the enjoyment of animal death.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I am an avowed serial killer as well, of course. That was clearly implied.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's the joke, son! You missed it! Flew right by ya!

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Cue lots of bloody pictures of leopard seals eating penguins, because those make my heart feel light.

I read a very entertaining comment the other day speculating that the Sharks logo is secretly a drawing of a Shark attacking and eating the Penguins logo, because they both have a triangle and a hockey stick.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
I want to believe~

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
It was the best! It's a tweet.

twitter.com/AnthraxJones/status/735669614932307968?s=09

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

It wasn't that specific tweet that I saw, but yes, that's the general idea.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I think you mean this one, for the curious:

http://puckducky.tumblr.com/post/145016382689

This matchup has led to a lot of light-hearted comments in that vein. But I think my favorite comment anyone has made thus far was the Pens fan on tumblr who asked, "what do you guys think Sid is going to think of the Sharks' good luck black cat?"

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

The guy could have been stealing from that. It was a couple of paragraphs riffing on it, not just one sentence, and I'm pretty sure it was on the hf forums. Someone linked it in a reddit comment, and I followed the link.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I saw that on tumblr! And I enjoyed it, because I do really like sharks, as in the animals, and dislike the Pens, as in the hockey team, although I also legitimately have an issue with the rampant anthropomorphizing of penguins.

I have a sort of vague fondness for the Sharks, so I'm glad they have a shot at the Cup and hope it goes to them, for reasons unrelated to the black vials of hatred I inject into my veins on the regular. Of course, I also possess a vague fondness for the Blues!