{"id":47,"date":"2010-04-06T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:56:16","slug":"laughter-the-universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Laughter: the Universal Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across <em>Shakes and Fidget<\/em>, a web comic dedicated to <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>.  Not much good for American audiences however\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit&#8217;s written in German.  But the page from which I reached it contained pleas for an English version, so I figured it must be good.  As it happens, I took German in high school and college, so, with a little help from something like Babelfish to patch over holes in my vocabulary, I figured I could wade through it.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad, but not remarkable, either.  I&#8217;m struck by how similar it is to several similar strips in English, with somewhat better illustration than average.  It&#8217;s got all the same jokes as all the other strips, taken in a slightly different order.  You&#8217;ve got the joke about where monsters store their loot, the joke about the wizard saving himself with a feather-fall spell from death by impact only to descend gently into a volcano, the joke about intimidating hordies who prove just as scared of our heroes as the heroes are of the monsters, the joke about transforming a friend into a sheep to shut him up&#8230;  All the low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n<p>So I can&#8217;t recommend the strip particularly, but I&#8217;m still enjoying it, for all the wrong reasons.  Exercising long-atrophied verbal muscles is thoroughly enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe has the same jokes we do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}