Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Wiwaxia, Oct 28, 2015.

  1. Lazarae

    Lazarae The tide pod of art

    I know I tend to default to meme when I'm dealing with grief, which is why I post so rarely in Witness Me and keep it to short stock phrases. Any "I don't know how to handle this" situation/emotion, really. I default to movie quotes, song lyrics, and memes when I don't know what to say.
     
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  2. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    the clark kent to the superman
    the bruce wayne to the batman
    the tony stark to the... wait, not a secret.
     
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  3. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    fair but when i watched danny phantom, i got the impression that danny was stressed by the pressure and time sink of keeping up two identities and wouldn't want a third one
     
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  4. Deresto

    Deresto Wumbologist

    wait what if chip is evil danny's alter ego
     
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  5. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    Oh, he definitely was.
    But his antagonist could manage to replicate himself 4 times seemlessly, and by the end of the show Danny was managing at least 1 time pretty well. With another couple years, given his growth rate in powers, he could probably keep up his identities by having ghost power duplicates separately running them.


    SOLD
     
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  6. unknownanonymous

    unknownanonymous i am inimitable, i am an original|18+

    true
     
  7. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    On Kintsugi? No idea. In general? A need for a sense of group identity and belonging.
     
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  8. Deresto

    Deresto Wumbologist

    Memes can also be a competitive thing for some people i think, trying to be more attention grabbing than others. Its like peacocks, only with grainy jpegs of pepe with pastel text in comic sans plastered over it.
     
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  9. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    Sometimes the competition and belonging are even part of the same thing. Establishing who gets it the most and therefore belongs the most. Weeding out those who don't get it. Competitive displays of acculturation.
     
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  10. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    Hey, at least twelve inches and hard as wood is definitely appealing to some people.
     
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  11. kmoss

    kmoss whoops

    hey that reminds me

    what's long and thick and comes with a quiver

    an arrow

    ....I only did this because I thought of wood and euphemisms
     
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  12. sirsparklepants

    sirsparklepants feral mom energies

    I misread that as comes in a quiver, which almost ruined the entire joke.
     
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  13. anon person

    anon person actually a cat

    something something beautiful plumage of the memester...?
     
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  14. rje

    rje here comes the sun

    Reminds me of injokes, which is a big thing in a lot of social spaces I've found to instant bring around a sense of inclusion. Tho thinking of it, I guess memes can be the exact same thing as injokes, just on a larger scale? All your base are belong to us is literally the injoke of an entire subculture (and generation, I'd also say)

    Eta: aw what why'd I get so serious all of a sudden
     
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  15. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    Huhhh. I wouldn't have thought of that (making a meme as attention-having) partly because I don't remember who came up with most of ours. I'd have to go digging to see who did the first butterknife joke, who extended "thanks Seebs", and so on... And partly because the person who makes it is making a joke, while the people who echo and mutate it make the meme.

    In-joke inclusiveness, I can see that.
     
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  16. NevermorePoe

    NevermorePoe Nevermore

    answer to one of those is on the first page of Thanks Seebs!
     
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  17. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    Skimming the thread, I see that @furrylatula was the first to duplicate the thanking of Seebs in a deliberately joking manner, and you were the first to formally call for its inclusion as a meme. Trophies for you both!
     
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  18. TwoBrokenMirrors

    TwoBrokenMirrors onion hydration

    Who Wore It Better, sixties sci-fi edition
    titties vs no titties.PNG
     
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  19. Deresto

    Deresto Wumbologist

  20. Ipuntya

    Ipuntya return of eggplant

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