I prefer "I'm just a jackass" to
"No, see, this horrible shit I do is totally justified and you're the one with a problem!"

but only by a small margin.

Completely failing to do what you're trying to do because you're not willing to make the effort to translate your personal sense of humour into text is better?

I don't fail. It usually still amuses me, which is my primary goal. I only fail if I myself don't have fun. If others are amused, it is a benefit, of course. If they are not... oh well. Can't please everyone. Thinking you can is just delusional.

Let me rephrase that for you.

That is my, I think fairly neutral, interpretation of your post.
I'm not quite sure if that is, in fact, what you wanted to say.
If it isn't, I'd suggest adding some clarification.
If it is...
Goddammit man.

Sigh. People do enjoy reading too deep into things on the internet. Especially if such hyperbole makes someone look bad.

Okay, consider this. Your favorite work of fiction, be it book, show, comic, whatever... it will really only remain enjoyable if the creator enjoys the work, enjoys doing it. If they start doing it for the sake of doing it, for only a sense of obligation, the work as a whole suffers. it becomes an empty practice for them, and thus the work itself starts becoming empty, weak.

Pretty much, my best chance at being amusing is if I amuse myself, I enjoy myself. I'm of the camp that you can't really force being funny, it just has to happen. You either have the knack or you spew forth lame puns and limp jokes. So I don't fret over trying to be funny or amusing. If people find me amusing, great. If they don't, well, chances are I wouldn't be if tried to cater to them anyway. There is no universal joke, no way to please everyone. People will think I'm lame, people will misinterpret what i say, or people will outright not even give me a chance. These are certainties. Everyone is, as they say, a critic. Trying to please everyone all the time, to elimanate those factors, those criticisms, will only lead to frustration, anger. And, well, there's already enough frustrations in my life outside of this computer screen.

There's no point in telling a joke if you don't laugh along with it. There's no use in fretting over if someone doesn't like you. These two statements have helped me get over my shyness, and be more extroverted. Would you believe classmates have complimented me on my sense of humor? I still find it hard to believe myself, actually. And, well, I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me grin when it happens.

Ok, that suddenly makes you seem like less of a dick and more like a sympathetic person.

And I do what is pretty much the same, I don't consider the potential impacts of a joke or comment I make, but this is less because I'm indifferent to its effect on others, and more because I'm fairly certain that even if my peers don't find it funny, they won't take offense. And even if they do, I'm willing to apologize to those I've offended.

From your previous post, it seems like you're similar, but it was rather difficult to derive that from the post before that.

So being a jerk and laughing at your own jokes, basically. Not that I can really claim any moral high ground, seeing as how I randomly troll chat rooms when I'm bored.

Ugh. THIS.

But the entire 'this is just the way I am' thing is, I guess, little more than a coping mechanism. How do you deal with the fact that no one likes you but you're unwilling to change? Make it everyone else's problem.