anyway it's okay if you don't like steamed hams or loss, but there's plenty of people who do and going "ugh but it's not funny!!" probably isn't going to convince anyone to change their mind
let's just grab some frosty chocolate milkshakes and ride out the rest of this chat as a family
I adore loss maybe because because loss is elegant in its simplicity
Not sure why this one completely doesn't land
regardless, I have finished the (minimal) work I assigned myself to do today so it is time to sleep
The best Steamed Hams takes are the ones that go above and beyond to emulate the things they are parodying/emulating.
I'm talking the MGS one, the Hotline Miami one, the Gundam one.
Ace attorney is my favorite I think
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I experience steamed hams differently because the original simpsons joke is itself an absurd reskinning of a much older trope that I recognized back then.
I experience steamed hams differently because the original simpsons joke is itself an absurd reskinning of a much older trope that I recognized back then.
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Maybe it's supposed to become funny through repetition...?
That's how memes work, isn't it? A code being repeatedly de- and re-territorialised through variation and repetition, organising milleus into conceptual whole of the meme.
anyway steamed hams is great, especially the Nier Automata one
So with VH on DS3 I can see the "now the real dark souls begins" as being funny. We transplanted it to Subnautica and it worked and was funny. In part because there is a grain of truth to it. "You think this shit is bad? Just wait".
Steamed Hams is just a simpsons clip of Skinner having to double down on his web of lies and deceit and while entertaining in a cringeworthy kind of "will he get caught now?" kind of way it's not...funny? It's like it exists purely for its own sake without humor or an actual nod to a truth of the subject matter.
my dude there is no "truth" to steamed hams, or at least not in the kind of Hegelian way you seem to be alluding to; it's a nodal point in an internet culture which fixates on memetic variation and absurdity
the steamed ham is a rhizome which lacks a form subject-object relation and we're all already dead
I understood part of this and I want to ascend to whatever zen state mountain top you are perched upon to sup at your font of research and knowledge.
I type this truthfully and not to gaslight you at all. I understand some meme stuff, but certain reaches of Internet Culture appear to me as blank areas of a map
Or am I simply served by thinking "Everything is permitted, nothing is forbidden" when regarding the Internet and being content with that
I mean listen I can apply Deleuze and Guattari and other postmodern theory to internet culture all day long, because I am a broken man who has devoted his life to the humanities
In general I would just say that trying to eke out a deep, ingrained meaning within any individual meme is probably a fool's errand because the way these things spread don't tend to have a kind of arborescent, traceable flow
Memes for some, miniature American flags for others
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I experience steamed hams differently because the original simpsons joke is itself an absurd reskinning of a much older trope that I recognized back then.
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it's a play on the "housewife burns dinner as company arrives and hi-jinx ensue as she tries to solve this embarrassing domestic faux pas" thing. I love Lucy was doing this joke way back in the day. I'm certain Bewitched had a take on it, as did a few other shows. Casting the Superintendent as "the company" and Skinner as the housewife was already a sort of transgressive upending of the joke.
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I adore loss maybe because because loss is elegant in its simplicity
Not sure why this one completely doesn't land
regardless, I have finished the (minimal) work I assigned myself to do today so it is time to sleep
I'm talking the MGS one, the Hotline Miami one, the Gundam one.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Ace attorney is my favorite I think
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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I mean listen I can apply Deleuze and Guattari and other postmodern theory to internet culture all day long, because I am a broken man who has devoted his life to the humanities
In general I would just say that trying to eke out a deep, ingrained meaning within any individual meme is probably a fool's errand because the way these things spread don't tend to have a kind of arborescent, traceable flow
Memes for some, miniature American flags for others
do I dare drink... one beer
it's a play on the "housewife burns dinner as company arrives and hi-jinx ensue as she tries to solve this embarrassing domestic faux pas" thing. I love Lucy was doing this joke way back in the day. I'm certain Bewitched had a take on it, as did a few other shows. Casting the Superintendent as "the company" and Skinner as the housewife was already a sort of transgressive upending of the joke.
dare dare!
*hulk Hogan’s a shirt*
i dunno, man, sounds pretty risky
Be really racist?
This is how low brow comedies start.
On average, this thread was zooming by at warp 2.9
@simonwolf will create the new thread
@spool32 is backup