What an impeccable combination of image with username

I’ve not seen a whole lot of TNG so I’ve only managed to hear about that episode thru this exact kind of talk – I know I need to look it up and I’m glad you mention the episode title b/c I don’t think I’d heard it before.

As a minor language nerd, I would like to posit a 2.5, if you will: memery as a dialect and individual memes as bespoke words.

Like, consider this sequence of emoji: 🌍 🧑‍🚀 🔫 🧑‍🚀

Chances are, you’re familiar enough with memes that you can infer the meaning of an English sentence which has nothing to do with the actual representational meaning of those emoji independently. By placing them in this specific context, I have communicated a meaning beyond their intended representation.

By a similar token, different specific memes under the same genre (e.g. Gigachad) may be equated with synonyms, and different contexts may call for different “words” (i.e. individual memes).

I pray Lord Apollo is kind enough to me for that to make sense because Hypnos is buzzing 'round my head and it’s getting hard to think

I think that’s a (very slight) exaggeration but I recognize Pokémon is babby’s first RPG which is why I generally don’t count the series when discussing RPGs.

In the case of the topic at hand, tho, all the Pokémon games I’ve played have encouraged the use of status ailments against bosses and has hard caps on stat boosts that are easy to wrap your head around.

Hate to agree with an anon but that was always my exact experience playing any RPG outside of Pokémon. Between that and not having any indication how much stat-boosting moves actually boosted my stats, it trained me to never use anything other than offensive skills.

…Yeah, okay, username checks out.

That’s kinda funny for me as a former pony fan because that exact bit got turned into a super-popular animation that at least cemented itself in the brains of all my friends.

Thanks, I’ll look into that.

Personally, as someone who has had to follow friends and friend groups through Skype, Telegram, and Discord when I didn’t have any of those things, I am perfectly fine making them do the fucking legwork to follow me this time.

(・_・;)

FWIW, I joined that instance because it had the only RWBY community I could find.

(Also love the FLCL avatar)

Yeah, I’m new (also driven from Reddit after the recent changes) and within like a week I signed up for three different servers, and I’ll probably sign up for more if I can figure out how to navigate servers well enough to find what I’m looking for.

It’s actually rather nice to have separate accounts for different use cases and not mix, say, a memery and general discussion account with an art account.

This is reminding me so hard of an old webcomic I read like a decade ago about this witch girl who fell off her world and discovered hers was one of many flat, triangular worlds in the cosmos but I cannot for the life of me find it.

I may be old, but I’m always reminded of a particular line from The Golden Girls, said by Rose Nylund:

“That’s why the bear and the field mouse can live together in harmony… Of course, they can’t mate or the field mouse would explode.”

Take your upvote and get out

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. In general I don’t use social media the way a lot of other people do and was worried that having a pic show up even those 2-3 times in a row would get on people’s nerves and end up not drawing them to the community.

I was worried about seeming spammy if I was cross-posting immediately.

Legitimately thanks for that. That had stood out to me as “one of these things is not like the others” but my mind only went to sex workers, I did not think at all about men who bought prostitutes.

Why is that your question?

Kinda hate to show my whole ass on this topic, but I lived through this exact thing 5 or 6 years ago when AI Dungeon accused its entire userbase of being pedophiles.

I learned about it from Austin Powers in Goldmember in the early aughts, but yeah I’m glad someone else pointing out there’s like, an odd historical rhyme with the particular numbers coming back.