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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I've never understood these memes. If you don't want to play whatever game, don't play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you're superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I understand that it's a joke, but the humor isn't making sense to me, and I especially don't see how it's at the expense of AAA games

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

I guess it comes from a point where Linux gamers have been neglected by major studios for so long and now that there are enough other options they don’t have any power on them.

The joke is just "Call of Duty and Fortnite are shit / overrated" which you can disagree with

joke is that not being able to play things you don't like are a bonus. it's a joke about how much you dislike that. now if you excuse me, I have a frog to dissect

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it's associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn't support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it's a plus

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's definitely something to this. Like I'm often scared to be part of any group because inevitably someone in that group will be an asshole. I have played video games for a long time but I refuse to refer to myself as a "gamer" because of the associations.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I also notice I hate when something I love becomes too popular, precisely because it loses its initial associations with the group I was happy to associate with, and becomes associated with a larger group that I don't feel connection with (or worse, becomes associated with a toxic fan base I actively don't want to be associated with - e.g. Rick and Morty, I love the show but developed shame for enjoying it, once it became popular and its biggest fans created negative associations with liking the show; you can tell yourself to ignore the shame, but I admittedly no longer identify as a fan of Rick and Morty because of what it will communicate to people about me).

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The thing is that with W10 going EOL, everyone is going to be forced to learn a new OS, regardless if they want to or not (W11has been out for years, if you havent jumped, there is likely a reason). Lemmy users being the socially concious crusaders that they are, are encouraging people to make a better choice than defaulting to Windows again (given all its very real issues of useability and data harvesting).

Not having access to preditory games due to self-imposed tech limitations isnt high on the list of reasons to choose linux, but its good shitpost material.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Linux users are a different breed.

G*mers are a different breed.

Linux G*mers. Holy jesus.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

As a part time Linux gamer myself I couldn't agree more