But recently, people on the web have started putting together sets of posters with the same look, but on geek topics. For example, there are RPG motivational posters<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/cite> inspirational posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n And the thing is, although some of the jokes are pretty funny, most of them seem to me to have little to do with the motivational-poster form. They don't promote (even jokingly or sarcastically) an idea or an ideal; they mention a noun (often a concrete noun) having something to do with the topic, and they associate an image (often a picture of the concrete noun), and then they have a one-sentence joke related to the noun. Most of them entirely miss the \"motivational\" part.<\/p>\n Which probably just means that I'm completely missing the point of what they're trying to do. If I think of these not as parodies of motivational posters, but as roleplaying jokes, or Star Trek<\/cite> jokes, that just happen to be presented in a format that looks more or less like a motivational poster, then I like them more.<\/p>\n![\"Missing-Point-Small\"](\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/pix\/missing-point-small.jpg\")
It's like writing an essay in the form of a series of questions and answers and then calling it an interview. Or decorating a cake with pepperoni-shaped frosting circles and calling it a pizza. There's a surface resemblance, but the content is almost unrelated to the content of what they're parodying, which (for me) makes the parodies fall flat as parodies.<\/p>\n