who was the second voice???
who was the second voice i think it was dan mcnely but im not sure could someone plz confirm?!?
Reviews for "The Last Gift"
Wasn't That Great....
What I don't get about this sort of satire is that none of the personalities behind the religion itself never get flamed or slapped around. Nobody makes a Flash derailing St. Thomas Aquinas, for instance, or publicly attacks a pope. Everyone assumes the clergy and papacy are rife with flaming pedophiles. People count the days of Christmas backwards. Like morons.
And few will ever go after another religion like Buddhism or Islam or Judaism, or slaps around the atheists. No. Nobody ever bothers to pick on the fallacies of ancient polytheistic religions, such as the Egyptians, or the Greeks, Romans, Celts... well, we don't know enough about exactly what the Celts worshiped in the first place. We can only make guesses. Guessing ain't that funny, I guess.
No, it's less about the funniness or the satire than it is to literally piss other people off. We can safely assume that Christianity is well-established as a religion of the west and for disenfranchised outsiders who prefer their science and their concrete assessment of existence, they assume the precepts of any religion are ludicrous, even destructive. So they satirize and mock what they don't understand. They assume that anyone following a religion is going to be twice as stupid because they must be twice as gullible to follow along with a religion in the first place, and lack the intellectual sophistication to have any real influence in our postmodern society.
I sincerely don't care about the debate between religion and science or intellectual pride against imminent doom or whatever. I seriously don't. I just find it taxing that people go out of their way to piss each other off. Sometimes I wish the suicide rate would escalate, just so I can wave goodbye and good riddance. But that's just me.
If I disregarded the obvious subjective context of the flash itself, I would shake my head and concede that it set out what it was intended to do. The dissonance between the flash's art direction and initial subtext and allegory were perfect foils from which to throw a joke on the audience. Sometimes, the best jokes are on the audience.
I suppose that's true if you were writing them, these jokes upon the audience. But that's just it. It's an inherently selfish venture to throw the wool over people's eyes. And apparently, the ones who claim that religious authorities have been doing so since their inception are the very same culprits when it comes to their black humor--throwing the wool over people's eyes at the very last minute.
As for protected speech, a lot of people will pleasantly claim that this is protected without first addressing those types of speech that the First Amendment (US Constitution) doesn't protect: threats, libel, slander... those kinds of things. Essentially, randomly slandering a religion without providing any intellectual discourse--other than claiming its adherents are all misguided fools unworthy of possessing any say to the contrary--will more than likely be perceived as a BBS-worthy episode of 'Trolling', where everyone remembers where they buried their hatchets and congregate to the nearest electronic venue to hold a tossing contest.
In other words, this Flash is something that only an atheist could love. But you can be sure that Newgrounds' Christian minority will want to ring your pencil neck for having submitted this wanton piece of slander. Congratulations.
It's a trap!
well, that was incredibly HILARIOUS! I totally fell for it. Nice job! I think the only thing that would have made it more funny would have been some pooping/farting noises. (yeah I know thats immature but it would have made it funny)
Wonderful.
That was beautiful, thank you. The ending touched me in ways I can't even put into words.
Oh my
That was pretty intense and random :-O