Curious to what degree the smackdown falls on humor that was distantly ethnically derived, and whether ot not it's limited to Asian.
Just sayin. If you're going to analyze one statement, analyze them all.
Ok, personally I don't like it as a tagline. I think EA as a whole tries for something other than crowd-pleasing, and me likey implies a somewhat simpler aesthetic than at work for something like, say, Hell is the Absence of God.
Regardless of if it's funny, which I suppose it could be used rightly, I don't really thing it actually implies anything about PodCastle to the reader. Some of the others do, like the LOTR one.
And regardless of if it says anything useful, this one in particular got a smackdown from the editor of the 'cast, and would likely be subject to a veto.
So, er, sorry to whoever came up with it, but I just don't think that one's going to work. Trying for a single tagline/summation is difficult. None of the Podcasts can really be winnowed down to a single thing, though SF/F/H get closest.
I'm not going to go line by line because that would A. Take a lot of time, and B. Be very rude. This one got singled out because of institutional knowledge. (Though, if I was going to apply that institutional knowledge elsewhere, I'd note that Episode 21 makes one of them simply false.)
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