VerilyFemme @ VerilyFemme @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Explain the difference?

Man, you were blessed. Maybe it was because I had all DLC installed, but I had a lot of hard crashes in Fallout 3 if I played for multiple hours, especially above level 20.

New Vegas would hard crash every 2 hours on PS3 as well, I imagine it was just a Gamebryo engine thing.

HL1 is the GOAT. THE GOAT!!!

I still hear the sound of the Surface Tension helicopter in my sleep and wake up screaming.

Merry Christmas! I don't know about all of you, but I'm enjoying the holiday music today.

Fallout 3 was my first roleplaying game period. I saw the Prima Games guide at my library and then I bought my friend's PS3 from him and a new copy.

PS3 was easily the worst way to play that game, but I did not care.

I eventually played New Vegas, and I would say I like that game more. But, I don't think it ever recreated the feeling I had stepping out of Vault 101 for the first time.

You actually just reminded me of that with this comment

Lemocratic Party

When I am feeling normal, I will gay.

Text may not be AI, image definitely is. Usually everything in AI images glows slightly, like here. And the placement of Tux in the sky has no rhyme or reason.

If only there was some way for him to stop it from happening.... Well, Joe, at least you tried.

Anyone keeping track of how many times this has happened? I think it's at least 12+ times now.

Every obscure gaming secrets video back in the day.

It will forever be the real Mario 2 to me, though. Let's be for real, Lost Levels is like Super Mario 1.5.

Very excited for the super new inductees that just want to build a Steam home console.

Buuuuut I really have not had issues with anything except Anti-Cheat (which Steam Deck has issues with anyway) using Pop!_OS on my PC.

It did take some learning, but most of that was done through just using the OS.

The only time I had issues doing something I wanted to was when I initially tried to install Mod Organizer 2 for Fallout: New Vegas. That took some reading up. Ended up being an easy fix and then all I had to do was learn how to install Windows components to my F:NV prefix in Protontricks to get almost any mod running.

So for anyone who wants to plug in and play their games, Linux is basically there. And for anyone more technical, it's not a crazy amount more work to do the stuff you're already doing.

This is a tough one. My go-to is usually that episode of the IT Crowd. Second on my mind is Breaking Bad's Ozymandias, but someone already said that.

So, I have to pick two to tie for first.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S3E1 - "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby"

There's a lot of perfectly written IASIP episodes, but this is probably my favorite. Every little detail is perfect, and I think it's better than the pilot at showing the characters' personalities. We have Mac and Dee trying to take care of a baby together, Charlie and Frank becoming homeless because they can't stop collecting garbage, and Dennis seeking revenge on a hippie because he got called out.

The Office S6E9 - "Murder"

This is a much-needed break in the middle of a tense overarching plot about DM's finances. It's not the best Office episode, but it's probably the best Michael episode. There are episodes like "Scott's Tots" that are iconic because he learns a lesson the hard way. But this episode is one of the few where we see Michael take action. The entire office is miserable so what do we do? Play a game and do funny voices. It's a Michael activity through and through, but he uses it to help the office take their minds off a bad situation. It's also one of the only times during the comanagement arc that Jim and Michael really synergize. Really funny, super sweet, and some of the best lines in the series.

I think about these jokes almost daily:

Came here to say this. You should know your spoiler tag is broken btw. I still have the ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Scene where Hank gets shot ::: burned into my brain.

Ozymandias is the perfect title for this episode, too.

I mean, if the meme's not tankie then you shouldn't need to give a warning at all...

What's your point? This meme is tankie because tankies like Marx? Makes no sense. This meme even has the original political statement removed from it as the main joke and you're talking about how it's tankie?

I had to look at the community name before I realized this was about unit conversions and not that alien sticky.

EDIT: I checked the original community it was posted in. Some scientists here have been doing a little experimentation for their thesis.

Exactly! And that's another category, too! Not one that would be mixed up with the others, so I didn't include it, but memes that have real life use are among the oldest we have.

Stop, drop, and roll is a meme ;)

Context is very important here, and maybe it's impossible to find funny if you weren't there for it.

But as just my little take on an explanation, it's less funny than it is shocking, which is what makes it funnier than it is shocking.

I know that's confusing, so let me explain. CTRL+ALT+DEL is like the be all end all of snarky gamer webcomics. Week after week, Tim Buckley would have his characters make nerdy 2000s-2010s gamer puns and complain about video games. It's pretty straightforward, just basically imagine The Gamer™ stereotype and you're pretty much there.

Ex:

So then out of nowhere, Tim starts uploading comics that really focus on relationship drama, culminating in Loss. Then he dropped the idea of being serious in that manner altogether.

So this gamer comic about gaming drops an arc about a miscarriage then immediately goes back to being a gamer comic about gaming without a second thought.

It's truly shocking. So shocking that if you were enveloped in that world at the time, you couldn't help but chuckle at Tim for releasing something like this. It's that mix of shock and (if you know the comic) an utterly unexpected situation that has given Loss staying power.

Remember, a meme is not a joke. A joke is something crafted to make us laugh, but a meme is just an idea with staying power. Yes, some memes have staying power due to their hilarity (I would say maybe "2 guys walk into a bar" jokes fall in this category - the idea is simple and can be set up to end in many different ways, but the goal and the way it's remembered is comedic), but on the flip side a lot of memes have staying power because of the shock they cause (2 girls 1 cup, jarsquatter, Astolfo Monster can, Shrek is Love Shrek is Life).

An element of shock memes that increases their prevalence is the game of "getting" your friends. A lot of those shock clips were circulated through people saying something similar to "oh hey check out this cookie recipe I found" and then deviously sending a link to something horrific instead, thus tricking the victim.

Here's where Loss comes back in, because there's a third relevant category of meme here - "gotcha" memes. These memes play on the same "gotcha" value that helps spread shock memes.... but they're not necessarily shocking. People get a kick out of their friends' reactions when they see that meme, so they send it to them to get that reaction without necessarily causing real trauma by actually sending horrific pornography.

Examples of this include Loss, Rickrolling, Darude - Sandstorm, The Game, Updog. One common factor between these? They generally rely on shared cultural experiences. If you rickroll a 10-year-old they're just going to be like "uhm I think you sent me the wrong link," but it's funny to people who were there for that moment in history.

Another common factor is most of these are spread by people "getting got." If you fall for "smells like Updog in here," I guarantee the first thing you're doing is going to try that out on someone else.

In short, is Loss funny? Not really. But it's not forced either. It's widespread because people reading gamer comics got smacked in the face out of nowhere with a miscarriage plot and it was so outrageous that they spread that feeling of "what the fuck did I just see" all over the internet.

But that's just my two cents.