Memes are the most important part of gaming culture: they are laughed at, they are shared in in social networks, by which players recognize their own kind. Anything short can be a meme funny phrases, pictures and even videos. Some memes go far beyond gaming, going viral and even making headlines on news sites. And people who laugh at gaming memes often have no idea where they came from. To rectify the situation, we have prepared for you the history of the most famous gaming memes. From the eighties to the present day; from Mario and Warcraft before Heavy Rain And Dota 2.
Princess in another castle
Let's start with the classics. The words “Sorry, Mario, but our princess is in another castle!” player in Super Mario Bros. I had to read it after completing each castle. Over the course of the entire game, the heroic plumber ends up at the wrong address seven times in a row! Yes, you can’t win the lottery with such karma. Naturally, this upset the players and gave rise to many thematic photoshops. Today, a meme is used to explain to someone why they won't get what they want.
Make a barrel
Another legacy of the pixel era is the phrase “Make a barrel.” We first heard it in the game Star Fox 1993. In Europe, this simple rail shooter was released under the name Star Wing. The essence of the game was to fly a fighter, fighting off numerous enemies, and perform aerobatics. A figure called a “barrel” briefly made the plane invulnerable, which the player was reminded of literally every minute. One of the characters, Pippi the Hare, constantly shouted the phrase “Make a barrel!” and it was incredibly annoying. Soon the recommendation to “make a barrel” began to be used on the Internet as a universal answer to any question. Few people follow this advice except the ubiquitous Google: if you type the phrase Do a Barrel Roll in the search bar, the interface will perform the classic “barrel roll”.
It's dangerous to go alone. Take it!
The second most popular universal advice owes its appearance to the game The Legend of Zelda 1986 During the game main character named Link enters an unremarkable cave where a nameless old man lives. “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this,” the character says and hands Link a pretty good sword. The phrase has sunk deep into the souls of players: now it is used to offer someone help and hand over a completely random item. If you are planning to go to university and tell the Internet about it, they may offer you a kitten in return. Or an owl. The meme, as often happens, has found its way into other games, for example, the achievement of the same name is given in a shooter Medal of Honor. Also meme mentions
found in games Fable 3, World of Warcraft,Borderlands and many others.
All your base are belong to us
The Zelda incident is far from the only example of players seizing on a poorly worded phrase and spreading it all over the Internet. One of the most popular gaming memes in the world arose as a result of poor localization of a Japanese shooter Zero Wing back in 1989. All the characters in the game speak broken English, better known online as “Ingrish”. The most famous line of the main villain can be translated into Russian as follows: “All your base belongs to us.” Western players appreciated the translation and made a short video with footage from the game. Soon, many Internet residents began to recognize the meme. But he gained real popularity after a video with the song of the same name appeared online. It featured the famous replica located in the most unexpected places, from fortune cookies to the Hollywood Hills. Since then, many demotivators, photoshops and even poems have been dedicated to the captured bases. The meme is usually used to make fun of the broken English that is common in Asian countries.
FAIL
And to laugh at everything, many often use the word “Fail”. This is another classic example of broken English that makes players so happy. 16-bit Japanese shooter Blazing Star reports a loss with a grammatically incorrect message YOU FAIL IT! Translated, it sounds something like “You screw it up.” Fans happily seized the opportunity to distort English language even stronger. The meme quickly spread across the Internet. Today, on many blogs you can see photographs and videos of someone's failures with the word FAIL written in huge letters. The meme has long gone beyond gaming forums and is now widely known even to inexperienced Internet users.
Korovans
If FAIL is the leader in the English-speaking sector of the Internet, then in Russia and the CIS the most famous gaming meme can rightfully be called “corowans.” Once upon a time, a development company MisT land I received a letter from a fan with a tearful request to make the game of my dreams. The text of the proposal was immediately published on the company’s website in the “humor” section. The letter was written illiterately, emotionally and contained many typos. As is usually the case with players' ideas, the image of the supposed masterpiece turned out to be vague, but very funny. The letter gave rise to whole line memes: “the houses are being raided”, “the essence is this” and, of course, “you can rob the cows”. “Korovans” were mentioned several times on the Bash.org website, many photoshops and several games are dedicated to them. Most often, the meme is used to point out shortcomings or unclear functionality of the game.
Need more gold
If you're tired of angry memes that originate from someone else's stupidity, here's an exception for you. “Need more gold” is a meme that appeared thanks to successful localization. Strategy Warcraft 3 came out in our good translation and with professional voice acting. Each character or troop type had its own set of phrases called “asks”. Characters spoke their lines quite often, depending on what the player asked them to do. Fans especially loved the questions “life for Nerzhul,” “we need to build a ziggurat,” and, of course, “we need more gold, my lord.” The last phrase is especially popular on the Russian-language Internet in connection with the next increase in taxes, the introduction of new fines and news about the budget deficit.
Go, I created
Separately from Warcraft 3 itself, we need to mention the DotA map, which became independent play, and laid the foundations for a special genre of online tactical games. Passionate players have come up with their own jargon, which only a professional linguist can understand. One of the most famous memes: “Oh, I created,” which is now used to encourage comrades to do anything from eating borscht to taking over the galaxy. Some sources claim that this phrase was coined by players in Counter-Strike, but Dota residents use it much more often.
Bottom, bottom, bottom
Another iconic concept in Dota is the word “bottom”. This is how the most inept team member plays. Outside of Dota, “bottom” symbolizes too crooked hands and bad play at anything. Popular modifications of the meme: “bottom” and “bottom” with the addition of all sorts of offensive epithets.
Spent
These are the epithets that the creators of pirated translations of games usually deserve. A classic example of terrible localization GTA: San Andreas. The most noticeable blunder was the machine translation of the Wasted inscription, which appeared on the screen every time the hero was killed or caught by the police. In the Russian version, the inscription turned into “Spent”, which could not but please the players. Most often, the meme is used to highlight someone's shameful failure, such as the loss of a football team or
defeat in a street fight.
Giant enemy crab
Footage from that very conference, crab from 1:20
If Western players knew about the existence of the “Spent” meme, this is how they would have expressed themselves about the performance Sony at E3 2006. During the presentation of the game Genji 2 the producer called “the presence of weak points in bosses” and “real-time weapon changes” revolutionary. Since this kind of thing has existed in games since around the 80s, audiences weren't impressed. However, the most memorable part of the presentation was when the producer revealed that many of the battles were based on real events from the history of Japan. At this time, the battle with the “Giant Enemy Crab” was shown on the screen. The players began to mock what was happening in every possible way and came up with an alternative Japanese history according to Sony. In addition, many videos and demotivators have appeared on the Internet featuring aggressive giant and not so giant crabs. Since then, the giant crab in the gaming community has been a symbol of everything absurd and illogical.
Cake is a lie
In general, players really love the absurd, and the story with the cake is a clear confirmation of this. The player is promised a cake as a reward for successfully completing an experiment in the puzzle. Portal. In one of the playrooms on the wall you can see the inscription “Cake is a lie”, made by hand. The inscription casts doubt on the likelihood of a happy ending, but does not upset the player, but rather amuses him with its absurdity. Despite the fact that you can still get a cake in the game, on the Internet the meme most often means the pursuit of something unrealistic. The phrase became so popular that questions about the cake tired the developers. One of the creators of the game Portal 2, screenwriter Eric Wolpaw, promised not to add a word about cake to the second part of the game. “If you think you're tired of memes, believe me, I got tired of them much earlier than you,” Eric admitted.
Press X to Jason
And players, meanwhile, are tired of the general simplification of game mechanics. This is especially true for the game Heavy Rain, which actively exploits the Quick Time Events mechanics. This means that the player often cannot fully control what is happening and only presses the indicated buttons at the right time. This is most annoying in the scene where the main character is looking for his lost son Jason in the mall. The player has only one option for several minutes to press the X button to shout the boy's name. Few people liked this boring and ridiculous scene and immediately became famous. Composer Eric Fullerton wrote a song about Jason, and one of the dissatisfied players even made
Jason simulator with exactly one game action. According to some, the simulator is no worse than the original Heavy Rain.
Arrow in the knee
Role-playing game Skyrim gave rise to a number of memes and parodies. The glorious series The Elder Scrolls has always pleased players with a large number of errors and absurdities. In one of the first cities we will hear the heartbreaking story of a guard who used to be a hero, but then caught an arrow in the knee. This would be sad if every second guard he met did not tell the hero the same thing. Perhaps “arrow in the knee” in the vastness of Tamriel is the name of a serious infectious disease? The players happily seized on this absurd plot and also began to explain all their failures as battle wounds. The story is full of details,
fan cartoons, and one of the players even found out the real identity of the failed hero. He turned out to be the legendary Ace Ventura from the film of the same name (see video at the beginning).
That's all for now. Of course, we didn’t remember all the gaming memes. There are hundreds and thousands of them, each popular game contributes to the collection of gaming folklore. Sometimes players argue until their fingers hurt over whose meme is funnier and more meaningful.
Jokes about computers, despite their distribution only in Lately, appeared relatively long ago - about twenty years ago. Back then, almost all jokes about computers revolved around a dispute between two operating systems - Windows and Linux. As a result, Linux lost the competition, and funny jokes about computers almost stopped appearing.
The era of unlimited Internet has once again revived computer jokes, adding jokes about the Internet to the theme. Today we will talk about such a genre as comics about computers and the Internet.
I like computer jokes. Any cartoon computer makes me feel positive emotions, because the genre is specific, completely unexplored, with a lot of possibilities and unexpected turns.
It can also be classified as a growing humorous genre. Numerous Internet memes, funny sketches, cool photographs on the Internet - these are all sometimes unusual, but definitely funny Internet comics.
What are funny comics about computers and the Internet? In a number of comics, users appear before us with their insoluble problems, lofty goals or original ideas. Only a computer prevents these aspects from becoming a reality. Such comics computer can often be found on humorous sites. Problem, thoughts in the user's head - send the problem to later and the computer wins. In principle, these comics do not amuse the computer much, but at least they make you think about whether we are the same addicted people as comic book heroes?
By the way, if you look at the section on aphorisms about the Internet, it will become completely sad. From everywhere you hear that the Internet is hindering development human brain, a person degrades, becomes dumber, and so on. Of course, there is some truth in this, but only if you spend time on the Internet all day long. Funny computer comics That's not what they're talking about.
In some comics about the Internet, the World Wide Web or world servers are subject to humorous hacker attacks, the results of which cannot but make you laugh. Some comics about the Internet show funny parodies of modern users who are 99% dependent on the Internet. Jokes like this are a lot of fun. And to get the most out of computer comics, you shouldn’t take them too seriously.
They often show funny stories about zombified gamers who live only in anticipation of the release of a new version of their favorite game. In funny computer comics, it is also interesting to watch heroes who in all their affairs are guided by stupid advice from the Internet, as a result of which almost everything falls out of their hands.
Many internet jokes also follow this strategy. But one good thing about computer comics is that they not only tell an issue or a story, they can bring it to life through characters.
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