Is there a difference between Amused Mastery and Agree & Amplify?

Sepean · 2015-07-16T21:02:05+00:00

Agree & Amplify is a specific way of answering back on banter/shit tests.

Amused Mastery is an attitude of you've seen it all, you know what she's going to do, and it is just amusing how she's angry and hamstering and whatnot; you're above it.

There's overlap, but A&A can be done with a tone different from AM, and AM can be pulled off without A&A (like say you can't come up with a good A&A, you can just go for AM with the right look and smile and still come out on top).

VasiliyZaitzev · 2015-07-16T21:34:38+00:00

Go watch the early Bond films with Sean Connery for "Amused Mastery" at its cinematic best....

RidleySmith · 2015-07-17T08:11:47+00:00

Maybe an example to illustrate it could be found in Jussasic World:

When the parents tease their angsty teen son about leaving girlfriend, asking him jokingly if he's gonna be okay, that's amused mastery.

But if he was to be all like "Jurassic world is bullshit, you guys are ruining my life" and they were like: "yeah it's total bullshit, we're just one small step away from being child-abusers, you should really call social services on us" then that would be agreeing and amplifying

Sorry if my examples are... Dumb

Title	Is there a difference between Amused Mastery and Agree & Amplify?
Author	AmericanHistoryAFBB
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Date	July 16, 2015 8:54 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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