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[@hadesao4952]

Americans do get British sarcasm although I found Californians have trouble with sarcasm in general which unfortunately make up the majority of American travelers.

[@keystep8669]

I am an English teacher in the states. I think people here tend to think satire is inherently comedic. It is not.

[@QuinnKallisti]

Satire is inherently comedic, if you get the joke... Perhaps you mean to say Americans interpret satire as purely sardonic, and slapstic. e.g. South Park.

[@keystep8669]

@QuinnKallisti I wouldn't say it's inherently comedic, though. More than not, however, it does often lead to comedic elements. Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are very much satire. Those pieces of writing are firmly not comedy.

[@QuinnKallisti]

@@keystep8669 That's not Satire, that's dystopian speculative fiction... 1984 is not Satire, Animal Farm is Satire. Exaggeration of thematic societal elements is not inherently satire. Also, comedy doesn't have to be "funny", though Americans think comedy has to be "funny"... generally.... this particular opinion here is painted with a particularly broad brush Satire = not always "funny", Though inherently comedic. Think, Shakespearean Comedy... Versus your average Jim Carrey Film. American Comedy = generally "Funny" e.g. not "Cringe" like much of British comedy. My interpretation of "Funny" here serves to delineate between the kind of "funny haha" joke you tell in front of your family, versus the brutal dark humor you use in the face of a grim situation. I think across the board the American "Comedy" leans toward the slapstick theme. This is why they miss the nuance of satire when it is not being "Funny haha" such as in a Mad Magazine, or on Saturday Night Live. I would not go as far to say however, that every representational tale of things and concepts as they exist taken too far are satire, or inherently satire.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

​@@keystep8669I totally agree with you

[@ProfDanielVargas]

​@@QuinnKallisti you clearly don't know the meaning of the term satire.

[@joshhitxoriginal9367]

If its got 40k-esque gold plated eagle pauldrons theres at least a 80% chance its satire.

[@vxicepickxv]

40k stole the pauldrons from Judge Dredd

[@joshhitxoriginal9367]

@vxicepickxv well, yeah, but 40k is significantly more well known and makes the comparison a lot more likely to land with more people.

[@whyjnot420]

@@joshhitxoriginal9367 But its wrong in the same way that people who called the first Space Marine game a ripoff of Gears of War were wrong. edit: and just a reminder for anyone who might not know, it goes way further than just the pauldrons... Adeptus Arbites is all I need to say.

[@joshhitxoriginal9367]

@@whyjnot420 they wear buckets on their heads. This is funny to me.

[@allthebanter9316]

@@whyjnot420tbf OP never said 40k originated the look, just that it’s 40k-esque, which is accurate

[@literalsarcasm1830]

Tech bros: After years of research and development and billions of dollars spent, we have finally invented the Tournament Nexus™ from the award winning sci-fi novel "Don't Invent the Tournament Nexus"

[@Tech21101]

I can't tell if this is a joke that's going straight over my head or not, but it's the Torment Nexus.

[@literalsarcasm1830]

@Tech21101 autocorrect makes me say things I don't Nintendo

[@varrisz]

Been reading Dredd comics for ages. Mostly spot on, but their are several instances on thr comics where Dredd does the equivalent of looking the other way or letting someone go. Part of what makes him a fun character. Every once a blue moon you see that sliver of humanity from him.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

True, but that doesn't take away from the terrible human being someone like him would be. That's the criticism and satire.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

What writter? It always depends of the writter

[@Al_KR_t]

About warhammer - Terra (Earth) is an overpopulated mess, being home for quadrillions of people, oceans dried out, there is no way to produce any food on it, but it is home planet of humanity and it is Emperor's home, so Terra is taking taxes from all of the worlds under Empirium's rule and gets ungodly amounts of food and other resources every day, but vast majoriy of humans living there are still living in extreme poverty and starving

[@---l---]

...huh, seems fine way to rule the galaxy

[@sev1120]

And Terra's nowhere near as bard as Mars. If you're on Mars, you basically have to live underground coz the surface is an irradiated hellhole, and if they miss even 1 food shipment the entire planet starves. Terra can at least process their dead into Corpse Starch

[@AllenGray47]

Like California, sucking up all the water for the next four states in any direction, and it still burns down every single year

[@Izlude7189]

British humor is so different they spell it humour.

[@forge4119]

I'm from America. Tennessee specifically. And while they haven't directly made homelessness a crime, they have several laws that make it very easy to arrest them for how they live, including making it illegal for them to sleep in a public place.

[@ptronic]

As there should be

[@Balrog4242]

10 million pts for citing the 40k warp drive refueling process. But of course it's grimdark so that's just the cover story they tell the masses: the reality is warp drives run on human souls. There's nothing in that fuel canister.

[@Takenmynameandmycat]

I thought the warp-drive just does its thing and the Black Fleets are there to collect your Garmin subscription fee…

[@V01D01D]

Jason Kingsley, the guy who owns Rebellion publishing (and therefore the Judge Dredd IP) is sorta based for a CEO. He genuinely understands what he's in control of, and a decent amount of his money goes into funding his KZbin channel about history and also him LARPing as a medieval knight. Man said to himself "I've got enough money that I can pretend to be a knight, I don't need more.

[@chromeghoul3022]

No need to pretend, he has been knighted.

[@jamesr736]

@@chromeghoul3022 No, he's only a CBE which doesn't give him the rank of Knight or the ability to use the Sir honourific.

[@andrewsan1997]

That's based I watched his KZbin but didn't know this

[@spurguvitunhuora9119]

First time watching Dredd, I didnt realize Dredd didnt know if Moms dead mans switch would fail. He was willing to bring that whole building down, (and himself with it,) because hes mission was to eliminate her. True cinema!

[@codystewart9088]

He passed judgement.

[@timwin8194]

Mama Tested, Dredd Approved 👍

[@ShaggyRogers1]

@@codystewart9088 Indeed. If his actions while doing so caused the building to go down, then Dredd would have viewed it as a byproduct. Even Dredd's own self-preservation skills are non-existent, the law isn't going to wait to be enforced.

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

I'm a homeless veteran right now in Orlando Florida. Mostly because of the lockdowns. This year they made it illegal to sleep.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

My God, that's horrible, I'm so sorry to hear that and I feel terrible, I really feel bad for the people in your situation. You do not deserve this. If I was in a bit of a better financial situation myself and if I lived in the USA I'd love to help you out. I just don't know how, but if there were a way we could help you out maybe you could tell us. I really wish you the best and hopefully you can find shelter or someone who can help you out in a mid to long term period. Strength, brother.

[@SystemScandll]

Land of the free...

[@MultiTequilaSunrise]

The lockdowns in 2020 and 2021? Kept you from getting a job by the end of 2024? You sure it wasn't, oh, a drug problem?

[@devinlewis3096]

​@@SystemScandllwe have less freedoms in America then people had in the 1980s and they illegalized booze then

[@omarririttenberg6038]

Fun fact: the police in Warhammer 40k are effectively just the judges from judge dredd.

[@chromenewt]

I can confirm, since I played in a game of Dark Heresy (WH40K TTRPG) as an Adeptus Arbites and in the source book there's a two page spread of laws that give every kind of crime. The only difference is rather than prison it's usually just execution by various horrible means for entertainment and they might need to be interrogated first.

[@williampomplun5618]

That's cause they got the idea from Judge Dredd. 40k is essentially a sci-fi/pop-culture pastiche of borrowed ideas that took on a life of it's own. Dredd, Dune, Starship Troopers, and so on and so forth.

[@davidknott3819]

starship troopers is brilliant sarcasm

[@nosville22]

Yea, just not in the book.

[@PobortzaPl]

​@@nosville22book is walking both sides of the line between 1950s US Republicans and 1930s European authoritarian regimes. It's not a place I would like anybody (let alone me) to live in, but it's still not full on totalitarianism.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

Welp they TOTALLY fail at it

[@LordZaayl]

It is not even close to subtle and film critics at the time still called it pro-fascist propaganda. They took the entire movie at face value, including doogie howser dressed as a SS Officer and screaming "Its Afraid!" to rapturous applause.

[@davidknott3819]

@@LordZaayl and yet lots of people still dont get it

[@michaelwilburn5582]

As an American who has read some Dredd comics, I didn't realize it was satire until in one panel they had Jimmy Carter on Mount Rushmore

[@PangoriaFallstar]

Whole conversation about irony and satire. Uses sarcasm. Brilliant.

[@nathanbrady2704]

Servo skulls are the remains of the honoured faithful, but broadly yes.

[@Gunthersby]

I love 40k because it uses the line of absurdity between horrific and hilarious to play hopscotch The way the alien Tau race was originally written is great because it's a surprisingly modern day human perspective forced to come to terms with what the rest of the fiction considers normal

[@TheHumorousOnePlays]

Trust me. Us Americans make fun of the people here who lack media literacy.

[@darkblood777]

As I'm listening to this I'm playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, a game about dwarves in space mining rocks and killing bugs. It's a satire of corporate culture and workplace hazards.

[@ProfDanielVargas]

Just like Starship Troopers.

[@vivimusjenos8174]

I think the word you were looking for when trying to describe our humour was "dry". *opens an umbrella and flies away*

[@jordanguelbert7754]

Why would you open an umbrella when it's dry? Umbrellas are for wet time, silly.

[@vivimusjenos8174]

@jordanguelbert7754 when I read that it sounded like tfs goku in my head🤭

[@JoeWiv5]

The satire is basically why I got Warhammer, and helldivers 2 being basically starship troopers, probably my favorite satirical movie

[@Nyerguds]

Starship troopers is kinda messed up since the source material was actually not meant to be satirical at all.

[@matthewhippie]

I have to thank my mom for getting me into Monty Python as a kid

[@dreadedevil4055]

16:40 I know he meant extenuating, but I think I just found my new favorite concept, "Existential circumstances"

[@ProfDanielVargas]

I didn't see it / think it that way. Maybe it was a slip up on Lucas' part but still is correct in a way, since of course you'd have to consider a whole bunch of philosophical existential circumstances in order to judge and condemn someone; and many people in that position aren't inherently intellectually, philosophically nor ontologically prepared to deal with cases and judgements on a philosophical, epistemological and unbiased sense, sadly.

[@Ontinara]

The talk about Judge Dredd and most Warhammer book series are helmed by the same writer never fails to make me laugh.

[@Ontinara]

For the Record: Dan Abbnett

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Most misunderstood satire? Max headroom.

[@mr.pauliver]

British sarcasm is camp American sarcasm is cynical

[@ikondrift]

Ah yes, place where it's illegal to die - Longyearbyen. Been working there, was very surprised at some of the laws. Found the cemetary, actually, 36 graves since the place was founded like 100 years ago. The thing is - it's illegal to grow old and die of old age so as soon as you're a pensioner - you're out of there. If you aren't working in that town - you're not living in that town. It's also illegal to suffer a terminal illness there. You can still legally get run over by a car, and they will ship your body to mainland Norway. It's also illegal to be buried there.

[@aaronbredon2948]

Americans used to use sarcasm. But when Steven Colbert did The Colbert Report on the Comedy Channel, the people he was being sarcastic about went so much further than his character that he had to give up. The Handmaid's Tale was supposed to be unbelievable. Now American Christians actually want to replicate that society.

[@linus8380]

A thing American fans of Warhammer ought to do, like I did, is learn about it, at least partially, from another fan, a fan that is aware of the fact that it is satire, because partially because of our films and TV series, British sarcasm translate to our versions of satire and sarcasm because we express them differently, so unless it is explicitly broken down how 40K is a satire piece, not every American is going to get it. I mean, I came to the same conclusion as it being a satire because I took a liking to it and read a couple books that aren't the best at being introductory, but they gave me the perspective in-universe that I needed to realize that it was blatantly satire

[@donut3946]

What? I saw it immediately. Characters are too sketchy with their attitudes.

[@linus8380]

@donut3946 well it depends, the books I started with were the third book in the trilogy of the plague Wars and Longshot, both are more reliant on you having context, Godblight because it's the end of a trilogy, and long shot because it makes plenty of references to both Imperium and empirical equipment weapons and vehicles, and I only kind of had a basis of understanding. Plus long shot is a lot more grounded, because it's from the perspective of a sniper squad, and Godblight is the end of a trilogy so all the context for such satire is already well into the story, and if you don't know what you're looking for, it doesn't really come off as much beyond a story from a couple handfuls of perspectives. I recognize that it's more obvious in some books or games then others, but the ones I started off with were less clearly satire, but it could just be me because usually when I read a book I delve into the in-universe logic and apply that to my observations, so I probably wouldn't recognize satire if it's not in my face, because I'm usually too into the mindset of the characters

[@---l---]

wait. next you're going to tell me Kick-Ass is a commentary on celebrating ultra violence.

[@mrxcman9272]

Royalty is so weird. "I'm the 0.1%, IAll my weath was stolen from you and I flaunt it in your face, now worship me"

[@jacobe2995]

what's hilarious and sad is in a LOT of places in the US it is illegal to be homeless.

[@VoidstriderLucatiel]

It's not that Americans don't get satire, or that American satire is exaggerated, it's that we in America have seen enough people take satirical positions seriously that we no longer can engage with Satire on the same level. We're post-Satirical. And single-layer satire, your Adam Swifts and their Modest Proposals, that's stuffy single-layer satire. Single layer Irony. Americans live in a Post-Ironic world, where positions of Satire have been adopted as sincere, so satirical works come across as sincere here, because we've already head someone advocate for whatever your satire is, unironically. You could say we suffer from Poe Poisoning.

[@Skreeonkg]

12:23 you may be thinking about Longyearbyen, Svalbard! It’s not that you suddenly become immortal when you step into town, you’re just advised to leave if you are going to die because it’s so cold the ground is permanently frozen and won’t decompose your body.

[@BillyBStiff]

@1:44 We don’t realize it’s satirical because that can really happen in the someone in the US

[@lorenzobaglioni9647]

There was a huge discource on 40k a week ago were a youtuber named Adam something made a video on 40k and satire that made the comunity go bonkers, trying to defend the imperium and the setting, if you guys made an episode on it with your friend from gw i would watch it for shure

[@rammsteinfan884]

Monty python has some of the best sarcasm

[@captain-commander8138]

Monty Python is funny af

[@rammsteinfan884]

No its not 😂 department of arguments

[@rjesterie]

Dred is a workaholic. Peachtree was a movie for us, the first part of his shift for him.

[@onegenericman]

Judge dread isn’t satire it is an aspiration please help.

[@wethefreeproductions]

I'm a little concerned for my fellow countrymen if people out there are taking the faceless "I am the law" guy seriously.

[@Vaxcraft]

The Imperium being a merge of the ww2 bad guy Germans and the Catholic Church should scream satire

[@khartog01]

Life is the Emperor's currency spend it wisely.

[@GeryonM]

0:50 as a 'murican i take offense at that statement. sarcasm is a way of life for me and my whole family.

[@yoyo51010]

I really like Warhammer and I appreciate the satire in it

[@keystep8669]

Warhammer is peak satire. It's wild to me that people don't realize.

[@padrescout]

Warhammer is a lot like Christianity, it’s fine but its fanbase sure are trying hard to be intolerable.

[@r.connor9280]

I think the main opinion is that as the writers changed over the years, people started taking the setting more seriously or kept changing the indicators of the satire to the point that it became watered down to nothing

[@padrescout]

@@r.connor9280 that’s a pretty good theory. I got into it right at the tail end of second edition. Played orks. Third edition hit and suddenly it focused much more “ferocious feral space warrior” aspects of orks. This is after the older rules with things like “roll a dice, congrats, the squad decided another squad disrespected them - roll for hits and their shots are done for this turn” type stuff and they cut a lot of that out. Since then, they’ve been waffling back and forth on how wacky those lovable gits are, and I think you’re right- that’s confusing as hell. Orks will always be drunken football hooligans in my heart.

[@averywhitaker3513]

​@@keystep8669so much work goes into rationalizing and realizing the satirical elements that they just dont seem satirical to most. When the allegoical in-universe response isnt overexaggerated, ironic, or funny, it stops having a claim to the word

[@Chaossage]

Wait so what did people think Dredd was if not satire? I always understood even as a kid that it was poking fun at our cops and legal system.

[@CAP198462]

Side note: the character of Judge Dredd originated in a comic book called 2000 AD. The first movie starring Sly Stallone was outright satire and my preferred movie of the two. The second film, the more critically acclaimed is far more serious drama than satire.

[@MrTyp00n]

The point about both 40k and Judge Dredd is they're both really dark satires that the characters in them take seriously. They're both dripping in sardonic ironic humour featuring points that make you laugh out loud and then immediately think "oh shit, I should not be laughing at that, they're actually making a really serious point about modern society and it's psychology."

[@warshrine8635]

I live in Tennessee I can't go to the doctor cause I'm poor pretty much a death sentence for being poor

[@sidrat2009]

I really like how you went from a green screen background tacked to the wall to a gorgeously lit green hue in the background of your room.

[@gary0044187]

I grew weary of 40k because of the people that take it too seriously. like bro, one of the most iconic bad guy groups is sentient mushrooms that travel the galaxy through belief and speak like soccer hooligans.

[@PhiltheuniKoRn]

As an American I thought both 40k and dredd were obviously satire but to be fair tho I watch alot of British tv and am a massive smartass

[@grindcoreninja6527]

If feel as though a certain segment of 40k fans intentionally misinterpret 40k and Starship Troopers.

[@17thmidnight96]

Little small fun fact. Judge dread equivalents exist in 40k (Adeptus Arbetis)they also have dangerous weapons ment to sub due criminals but I can't name one rn. But if I remember correctly they have shock batons that can straight up kill somebody

[@sev1120]

And their code of laws is so big it needs an entire library just to house it, with dozens of them being contradictory The individual arbites carry a smaller book that's the size of all of Tolkien's collective written work, and has a fraction of a fraction of the Imperium's laws.

[@17thmidnight96]

@sev1120 think I heard a scene where an arbeties says "Hey listen if you were truly innocent as you claim. The emperor would have stopped my shells. But the you would have been guilty of wasting my ammo"

[@sev1120]

@17thmidnight96 That's similar to the military's attitude to friendly fire. "The loss of life is regrettable. The wasted ammunition is inexcusable" The Arbites are the Gestapo, SS & FBI rolled into one

[@adamallen661]

It's funny I get British sarcasm and miss American sarcasm. Also, there are no good guys in 40k.

[@sev1120]

The closest are the Farsight Enclaves, and even they're incredibly insular

[@adamallen661]

@sev1120 Even then, eugenics and controlled breeding of "lesser races" is hardly what I'd call good.

[@michaelmrozek604]

23:40 okay not the be that guy tm but those are servo skulls. a servitor is the same basic concept but with a persons full body

[@joshhitxoriginal9367]

One of my favorite turn your brain off movies is the first Michael bay transformers. Don't bother watching the rest of 'em.

[@NathanPeel-z5s]

Dont even watch the 1st one, they are all shit,

[@Kattlarv]

In terms of comics, "Bamse" was ironically a comic that grew with the reader. Each real year was a year that progressed in the comic. *Until* they suddenly froze time. Like, he met someone, got married, had kids, raised the kids, all in real time. Until the kids became tweens, then time froze for... reasons. Which is sad. I'd have loved to see it keep progressing.

[@owlsthirdeye6174]

Holy hell, its been years since ive seen Fact Fiend in my recommendations, like a full 8 years ago, what the hell happened to the setup.

[@jeremyhagen7684]

I’m waiting for the version of this episode that I can understand. . .

[@5TailFox]

Wrong. Americans don't get that Judge Dredd is a satire of the American Justice System because that's the way loads of Americans actually _want_ the American Justice System to be. It's the reason why, when the tv show The Boys came out, up until the moment the writers made it unimistakable that the show was satirizing the right-wing in America, you had loads of right-wing Americans who legitimately loved the show, because they viewed Homelander as the "hero."

[@djpandaburr230]

"They find that distasteful" 😂😂😂 That line in the sand always moving

[@gaslitgames]

I disagree this a thing Americans miss, but something that you'd have to think authoritarianism is bad to understand it's a satire.

[@JimXUltima]

This sounds like heresy brother. But I think watchmen is another good example

[@ProfDanielVargas]

It is!

[@firehawk0815]

i wish there were more Dredd movies following the 2012 one

[@scullystie4389]

There was supposed to be a whole follow-on streaming series starring Karl Urban, but it got shelved during COVID and never happened.

[@MumboJ]

6:52 There's a note on TvTropes about how the tropes "20 minutes into the Future" and "Next Sunday A.D." are named the wrong way around, chronologically speaking. "No, it won't be fixed"

[@QuixoteBadger]

My satirical take on the difference between British and American satire is through the lens of Don Quixote. The characters in British satire is much like the mad Don himself. What he may be doing is completely insane, he is taking it all quite seriously. Whereas the characters in American satire are similar to his "squire", Sancho Panza. Well aware that what they are doing is madness, but goes along with it anyway. Much to his detriment, often to comedic affect.

[@marginis]

It's less that Americans don't get satire and more that fascists don't get satire... It just so happens that there's a growing overlap between the two demographics...

[@calebmalpin6926]

Remember, Americans don't necessarily not understand satire but it's immensely difficult to tell the difference between satire and our own Idiocracy style often anime inspired trash media.

[@MrAllgoodnamesaregon]

The last I heard The punisher two katanas, And works with the devil

[@azamonra]

The fact that one of the few times Dredd is unambiguously the "good guy" was when he was up against an undead Judge from another dimension that killed every living thing in its world because it decided since all crimes are commit by the living that being alive is a crime, should make it pretty obvious Dredd is parody.

[@Proxyxd1]

Judge Dredd being there wasnt a mistake the law made, it was a happy accident👌😅😂

[@DaveSpaceman]

This is the closest I'll see to fact fiend talking about 40k and I'm here for it.

[@Jiian]

This is the whole sarcasm vs sardonic vs facetious vs satire. These all mean different things. Judge Dredd is satire, not sarcasm.

[@benjaminswartz6434]

Us Americans are also living in the system and have been fed coppaganda from the moment we got our first toys and children’s books. A good half of the US population has been trained to automatically assume that the police are always right. Satirical commentary on the US legal system is lost on them

[@LostRed_Fox]

As much as I love Warhammers stories, I don't get how people don't get satire.

[@CuddlesTheSlayer]

The number of people I’ve seen who do not understand that cyberpunk is both satire and a dystopia is wild to me. Especially the number of fans it has in the tech bro scene.

[@MartianYoung]

In the Dark Knight dinner scene, Bruce's date there literally holds a paper up over Harvey Dent's face and says "maybe you're the Batman." Watching this made me remember that scene.

[@drtaverner]

The first _Judge Dredd_ film would last 5 min as Judge Anderson would walk in and _know_ Dredd was innocent.

[@jason-blond8495]

My favorite quote from warhammer 40k is from the inquisition "incoence proves nothing"

[@WisdomThumbs]

Shit, shower, shave, and brush, all in one spot.

[@KoppoKen]

Ending this with the cartoon robocop theme, chefs kiss.

[@druggedoutpennokio9699]

My favourite part of 40 k is orks because there just millwall circa 2002 if they had 1 full brain between there half of a stadium

[@lCaptainCanaryl]

Now- just Devil’s advocate here. The last English class I was in that highlighted satire, we used a piece from the UK. It was a letter to the British Queen suggesting that the Irish famine could have been solved by changing society so that women were essentially cows and babies were sold off to the British rich men as an exotic delicacy. Little needed said here, but she was pissed because she thought the satire was real.

[@andrews6411]

Crime is only everywhere in that universe because almost everything is a crime

[@BoshyG]

Its still a heinous crim that the 2016 Dredd never had a follow up or anything.

[@eaofdeath187]

As an Aussie I love British sarcasm, we are closer culturally to the place our king lives.

[@benjicrowley8505]

I AM THE LAW

[@jros4057]

I think I heard somewhere that Stallone went in and rewrote the script because he stipulated in his contracts that he could. He didn't read the comics and changed a bunch of stuff which resulted in the movie we got.

[@jacobhatfield4970]

In defense of my follow Americans. Robo cop is our way of making the same point as Judge Dred and we haven't thought about a literal king in hundreds of years. We consume british satire as often not the intended audience.

[@blindjustice5695]

I know this might be a hot take but I prefer the first Dredd movie to the second. Like honestly watching the second one when it got to the end i was like, "where's him getting kicked off the force? Where's the second half to my movie?"

[@mcjaggerify]

Ciaphas Cain books are dripping with sarcasm and satire. I recommend reading/listening to the books.

[@taxman3749]

American humor is a little more middle of the road, but it's more reliable. British humor, as I have found, rides on the fringes. It can either be the most brilliantly subtle joke, or just a man saying silly words, then calling it comedy.

[@TopShagger999]

Where does big bang theory fit into this

[@taxman3749]

@TopShagger999 anti-comedy.

[@ShatteredAutomaton]

Nobody: Black Mirror: "SOCIETY'S A PHONE!"

[@scottneil1187]

They have lawyers and courts in Mega City One too, it's not just the Judges.

[@rodolfomartinezee4739]

The siege of Vraks. That story perfectly illustrates how the imperium of man views its men and women as little more than expendable resources.

[@ESC_907]

SOMEONE GET US A FRAGGIN’ SEQUEL!!!

[@jmfowler9062]

Americans as a whole get satire, I think, but it's my opinion that we also have a serious problem with media literacy in the modern day.

[@JimBoFet171]

As an American, I have loved the warhammer franchise. It's satire yes but it's refreshing to see it in the form of non-comedy(most of the time). Many satirical franchises have, to me personally, felt like a dire warning of the wrong path to travel down.

[@spyder335]

They actually did deage the punisher in the frankencastle storyline.

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In the 1995 film (fantastic opening shots) the film company paid for the right to use anything that was in the Judge Dredd universe. When Rico kills the pawnshop owner (Ian Dury). He steals a robot. That Robot was Hammerstein, an ABC warrior, which isn't from the Judge Dredd universe but from another strip entirely. 2000AD could have sued, but didn't.