Jonathan

Hi, m3mnoch. I was surprised to see your reply (I didn't really expect to check for any), but since it was polite and well written, I do feel compelled to reply. I'm short on time but the gist of what I meant was this:

In terms of timing, I meant that he's posted this exact sort of thing a few times now. I agree that it was fairly amusing the first time, but it was already a bit of a stretch on the second time. I've no problem with the nod to Indexed, I believe it to be a pretty thin joke as it is, posting it back to back just weakened its effect.

I agree that originality is incredibly rare, which is why I attempted to qualify the word. If he wanted to do series of these, perhaps it would have been nice to do it in his own style or with something to give it his own touch (outside of changing the subject matter) or make the moderately amusing joke more entertaining. As it stands now, it basically feels like a rip-off with, on top of that, little to say outside of a pointless jab at some fanboys, I guess. I'm no big fan of Indexed--and, in fact, didn't know that it existed until I saw it noted here--but it almost feels like an insult to it to just co-opt its somewhat unusual idea and use it over to weak effect.

As for dexerity ... well, he took another's idea and used it over and over unless, in my (and, obviously, others') opinion, it wasn't humorous and seemed to just be another fanboy bash or somesuch. There's no comedic adroitness and little cleverness to it all, I feel. Perhaps if they were at least spaced a lot farther apart--I don't know.

But this isn't important, of course. Joystiq can post whatever it wishes. I normally make it a point not to join the copious Joystiq griping (I subscribe to the school of don't-like-don't-read), but I decided to get my feet a bit wet this once. It was an interesting experience.

Now, folks, Joystiq has the right to post this sort of thing and, while Joystiq readers to tend to complain far too much in my opinion, they have the right to do so, as ostensibly granted by Joystiq. My opinion is that, yes, this is a decidedly lame rip-off of Indexed (http://indexed.blogspot.com) and it lacks any comedic timing, modicum of originality, and dexerity. Dragging on a joke that's not even one's own to the point where the humor has been almost entirely wrung out is a sad act.

I shall now depart, lest I get dragged further into the morass.