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We all make jokes that don't land, but sometimes we make jokes that should've been funny if anyone understood it.

Maybe it was too subtle, or too nuanced like a joke based off work-jargon.

Whatever it was, what joke did you say that should've had people in stitches but... didn't land?

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not me, but in the last DnD game my wife and I co-DMed over discord one of the players decided to nickname themselves Yaoi as a joke and changed their per-server profile to match.

Unfortunately their character was a tiefling so my wife and I just assumed this was a virtue name and started calling their character Yaoi with such a straight face that the player assumed we didn't know what yaoi is. So now their character's legal name is Yaoi unironically.

Part of the reason we were more primed to assume that their name was unironically Yaoi Moxin was that they had just met a character named Resilience Trixie who was stabbed to death and died in front of them, and setting is populated with nobles who have such realistic names as Curse Kungus and Vigil Tilk and Schist Storm