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Flaiker
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany235 Posts
September 06 2012 17:14 GMT
#41
On September 07 2012 01:33 FeyFey wrote:
making fun of german gamer language is not new ^^; . Started with a show about Wow that got picked up and the parody was insanely funny.

Oh my god. Thanks for reminding me of that. One of the best parodies I've seen so far:




If you havent seen the original series, just google "giga wow". So sad Giga isnt there anymore
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Junichi
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany1056 Posts
September 06 2012 17:23 GMT
#42
I just watched it and it wasn't that bad actually. He seemed to make fun of his lack of knowledge of sc2 specific terms and so on. The same joke has been made with a lot of sports. Every sport has terms in it that make it sound funny, if you present them the right way.

Maybe in the interview with hanfy the jokes were a bit on the "nerds are socially awkward idiots" side, but not too bad at all. Nice that SC2 was shown there.
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Chiller274
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany59 Posts
September 06 2012 17:32 GMT
#43
The reading was so funny.

"Ich gehe ja lieber Nexus first" Very Very funny.

But on the sad side I learned how weird the german casting is because there are more english words then german
kirdie
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany221 Posts
September 06 2012 17:33 GMT
#44
Haha it was totally great. But the battle wasn't even that dramatic, they should have had some battle commentating from Khaldor.
Fuchsteufelswild
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2028 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-06 17:47:25
September 06 2012 17:40 GMT
#45
Now I'm curious about the woman (or was i not really a woman??) that came after SCII, with the silicon face and neck that he pulled!
Also I really don't think the guy in the front's girlfriend looked angry, they were both smiling a little. If anything, I'd say they have friends who do or maybe he does but they both know they wouldn't want to be pointed out to the rest of the crowd on his show anyway.
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oberhofer
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Germany98 Posts
September 06 2012 17:49 GMT
#46
Not even remotely funny, but Raab rarely is anyway. Still incredible how he spends about 10 minutes talking about it.
For anyone interested, it starts at 04:38: http://www.myspass.de/myspass/shows/tvshows/tv-total/TV-total-Sendung-vom-05092012--/9842/

I don't know if you can watch it outside of Germany, but well, you can try.

Also, this is not PR. Not at all. It's just the typical mainstream media way of depicting "nerd culture". Look at the people in the audience, they've probably never looked beyond the rim of their teacup or shown interest in something unknown to them. Ironically enough, most of them will go home, turn on their PS3 and shout at the screen when they get killed in CoD. Holy crap, this makes me rage.
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Thrombozyt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany1269 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-06 17:54:12
September 06 2012 17:50 GMT
#47
On September 07 2012 01:16 virpi wrote:
Show nested quote +
I have the feeling like these people will rule the world soon.

this was my favourite part.
actually, I had to laugh a few times, especially naruto's strategy talk in the beginning was hilarious. (just imagine you've never seen a starcraft match, and then somebody explains you the pros and cons of nexus first against pool first openings. basically it's just gibberish nonsense. it must sound mental to "normal" people :D)

but after all, it's Stefan Raab. he's a douchebag, who manages to make infinite amounts of money by shameless self-promotion and making fun of other people. the sc2 bit wasn't as terrible as some of his earlier "jokes", though.

Actually, the clip reaffirmed me in my preference for english casts. Even though I'm German, the German/English mix is usually so horrible, that I REALLY rather have the whole thing in english.

Edit:
At least switch is truly funny parody.
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18636 Posts
September 06 2012 17:55 GMT
#48
On September 07 2012 02:50 Thrombozyt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 07 2012 01:16 virpi wrote:
I have the feeling like these people will rule the world soon.

this was my favourite part.
actually, I had to laugh a few times, especially naruto's strategy talk in the beginning was hilarious. (just imagine you've never seen a starcraft match, and then somebody explains you the pros and cons of nexus first against pool first openings. basically it's just gibberish nonsense. it must sound mental to "normal" people :D)

but after all, it's Stefan Raab. he's a douchebag, who manages to make infinite amounts of money by shameless self-promotion and making fun of other people. the sc2 bit wasn't as terrible as some of his earlier "jokes", though.

Actually, the clip reaffirmed me in my preference for english casts. Even though I'm German, the German/English mix is usually so horrible, that I REALLY rather have the whole thing in english.

Edit:
At least switch is truly funny parody.


Yeah as German speakers listening to German commentating hurts in the ears :p
IceteaGuy
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany95 Posts
September 06 2012 17:58 GMT
#49
I never really liked Raab and his shameless self-promotion nor TV Total itself (though I don't explicitly dislike him like Mario Barth - seriously, what an idiot), but I could not see anything that would have a direct negative impact on the public image of Starcraft or video games in general. He just tried to be funny like he always does and presented the game and for some part the community to a broad audience. Nobody who is not already prejudiced will be affected, and if they are we would not want them to join us anyway, right?

And Take did a fantastic job in the beginning sounding all professional. And Naruto wasn't drunk.
Eisregen
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany967 Posts
September 06 2012 18:06 GMT
#50
The time when Stefan Raab was kind of funny is long long ago. Now that guy is only self-promoting and squeezing out content to keep his business running.

What he actually does is tryig to make fun of words being used in a sport he has no idea of, stating that gamers are some kids never seeing the sun and unsocial idiots.

I imagine myself watching american football or baseball and I have no idea of the terms being used there. Or you can try to listen to a company's CEO, will probably be the same :D
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NesquiKGG
Profile Joined February 2012
100 Posts
September 06 2012 18:06 GMT
#51
I dont know why this is good... hes making fun of Gamers and Starcraft .. :/ (yes i understand german 100%)
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Naphal
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2099 Posts
September 06 2012 18:08 GMT
#52
xD i laughed a lot, and it is true, esport interviews and commentary can be pretty akward xD
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2107 Posts
September 06 2012 18:18 GMT
#53
that was pretty funny lol. The giga wow was hilarious, great show, i remember watching giga warcraft3 ages ago! great game program. what happened to it?
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alpenrahm
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany629 Posts
September 06 2012 18:20 GMT
#54
HAhahaha Raab bashes naruto hard good thing he didnt get the drunk night with take and fatbag...
Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
September 06 2012 18:24 GMT
#55
The real news should be that Starcraft 2 pro-games were broadcasted in the German television on ZDF Kultur. I had no idea! Awesome.
ACrow
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6583 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-06 18:35:22
September 06 2012 18:27 GMT
#56
On September 07 2012 00:45 Awesomeness wrote:
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On September 07 2012 00:31 FeiLing wrote:
It was better than everything else that has been mentioned about esports/gaming in german television so far^^

You know, the people who spot for these clips they're making fun of are usually students... maybe one of them is actually a fan of the game/scene trying to somehow promote it. Otherwise they probably would have skipped over this content as like 99.99% of the viewers never have heard about this game.


Yeah I heard that some of the TVTotal-Staff is into esports and they wanted to show it. They also wanted to bring on guys like HasuObs but the idea was rejected.

Raab used the usual stereotypes, but it wasn't too bad overall, I had to laugh myself a few times. Hanfy's interview was really awkward by itself so it was easy to make fun of.

I like the part where Raab said "You know I might be old-fashioned, but I prefer nexus first" :D (He obviously has no idea what he is talking about.)

I think as a follow-up they should get Take or so on the show...it's not unheard of on TV Total, and he's got the personality to make for a good,short-time guest
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Xpace
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2209 Posts
September 06 2012 18:32 GMT
#57
Despite the fact that these threads pop up a lot, I can never get enough of them. More publicity!
Cirqueenflex
Profile Joined October 2010
499 Posts
September 06 2012 18:43 GMT
#58
On September 07 2012 03:06 NesquiKGG wrote:
I dont know why this is good... hes making fun of Gamers and Starcraft .. :/ (yes i understand german 100%)


you might understand the language, but you might not understand what the host of this show usually does on the show and how he already screwed a lot of people (by publicly making fun of them). Compared to that, this was like nothing at all^^.

Instead, i was surprised at how moderate he was at this topic, how correct his SC2 sentences (read from the screen) were, and how he represented the whole thing. Notice the people hardly laughing at all. They only did at the end, when he made a joke about HanFy saying that he wants to quit and go to australia for a week (as in the game must be horrible), and when he made a really bad joke about saying those were the first words HanFy spoke to a human being in 8 years. Plus the joke about the korean being too busy playing instead of getting a new visa. Remember, those are people who got probably fed tons of flat jokes already to get them into the state of laughing at everything. They would have laughed for a really bad fart joke. But they basically did not laugh at all during the SC2 part, even though the german casting sounds really awkward (with more english terms than german ones).

Yes, he did try to make fun of the game, instead he promoted it, did not even manage to make fun of it (and Take was superb professional ) and i think a lot of people from the audience do think better now about the game than they did before.
So i'm happy for him screwing up when trying to make the game look bad

P.S.: in my humble opinion, i think the guy who did the research on the topic (and there had to be one, else the host would not have been able to correctly speak a single SC2-related sentence, he would have just shown a short clip and repeated something that sounded weird because he didn't understand it. Like he did with the "Nexus first" thing, and later on the "30 Linge im Forcefield") was having a huge influence on how SC2 got actually presented pretty well, with a good explanation about the german championship and that there was a huge battle going on. If that is the case, good work dude.
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insaneMicro
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Germany761 Posts
September 06 2012 18:54 GMT
#59
I thought this was pretty funny...Raab takes the piss out of everyone on TV.
I mean come on. Very serious german nerds ITT.
He didnt go harder on poor HanFy than he would at any awkward person on reality TV tbh. And the mixing of german and english termns in commentary does not make any sense at all to like 99% of the general, TV-watching public.
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TigerKarl
Profile Joined November 2010
1757 Posts
September 06 2012 19:06 GMT
#60
The quality of the jokes is disgustingly poor. I'd love some mainstream media to make me laugh about my hobby, but this was just shockingly bad.
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