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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on the name of the site, I immediately assumed they were going to argue about technique, not how to count and do math! lmao

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I got through page 1 and this conversation has already gone too far. I don't know if I'm emotionally ready for page 2, much less all 5.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish the OP added "Justin-27" and "TheJosh" to the picture

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is fucking amazing 😂

I want to see that calendar so bad

Edit: new challengers keep approaching, it's the gift that keeps on giving!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on board to argue. Saying every other day and then 5 days a week is incredibly triggering.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love how he somehow manages to get 4 workout days every week by just pushing the start of the week forward in post #17

Week 1 - Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

Week 2 - Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday

Week 3 - Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday

Week 4 - Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday

Week 5 - Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday

Week 6 - Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

The funniest ones are when there’s like 20 shouting at first, but gradually they let it go and move on until there just 2 people left on thread abusing each other .

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That's why I love smartphones, I can argue myself to sleep in bed

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't even tell what they're arguing about until around 200 replies in.

[–] _cnt0 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Let's have an argument. We'll know what it's about when we get there. I'll start:

Hard disagree!!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PERSONAL ATTACK AFTER DIGGING THROUGH YOUR PROFILE.

[–] _cnt0 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

*Nonsensical statement involving plankton*

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Anyone up to argue about something stupid?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I think Pokemon is an overrated game that prey on people nostalgia to re-re-release over and over the same game twice at the same time with the only difference being a slight sprite and name swap . Kinda like FIFA, NFL, PES. Heck, even they don't do the release twice with slight variations bullshit. Imagine FIFA : Barcelona and FiFA: Real Madrid editions being sold separately and the only difference is that the team written on the other version isn't available.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would have gotten a more heated debate about this 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember thinking the same even as kid. Why would anyone defend it ten years ago but not now ? Genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pokemon is how a lot of people got into games to begin with. It was a new and innovative experience from their perspective. Pokemon Red/Blue was a competent game with some fresh ideas, but through luck/marketing it became the launch point for a massive population of people into the gaming industry.

So now you've got a few factors playing into Pokemon hype:
Nostalgia (you never forget your first)
Production value (this made money, pump more money in)
Incidentally a formula that favors expansion (just add more Pokemon)

These factors are enough on their own to carry a franchise for a while, especially for an otherwise ignorant audience that doesn't play anything else (just like the people who just play FIFA games and nothing else). But at some point, it becomes too obvious even to the most zealous supporters that the formula is, well, a formula, and it's not changing or improving, and even they finally begin to criticize the product. It's easy to have a favorite pokemon out of 150, maybe even 450, but now there are over 1000 and it becomes exhausting even for die-hard fans. Even the number of types has exploded to 18 without actually having any interesting interactions to justify them, it's just more for the sake of more.

Plus, the most recent releases have been impressively lazy, again so much so that even megafans can't nostalgia their way out of it.

All this together makes for a history of a franchise that was one vehemently defended but is now seen as an embarrassing phase one went through as a child.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There can’t be an argument because I 100% agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I failed my task of starting an argument. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

/Jk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think your Pokémon hot take is much less controversial than you envisioned lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In the game's defense, vaporeon is the game's most compatible pokemon for human-pokemon breeding

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You fight like a dairy farmer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've met a dairy farmer, that mfer could KO a brick wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Last time I got into a fight with a dairy farmer I ended up in a coma for 37 days and when I woke up whenever I tried to move my fingers my toes wiggled instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely not, that would be a complete waste of time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Burger King microwaves their burgers to melt the cheese and their chicken tastes like grade F pigeon meat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked at Burger King 8 years ago, we only microwaved one burger. That's the veggie burger, that thing was the worst. All the rest though, you generally don't have to microwave because it's kept pretty warm in the heating thing.

Also, pigeons are basically the chicken of the sky. And it keeps the local pigeon population down so really a win win 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some people really can eat anything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like the ramblings of a rich kid who doesn’t appreciate the taste of a pigeon. Tell me, how is it to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I don't own a pair of socks with holes in them to use as gloves to eat the damn bird properly. Tell me, how is it to be born with a plastic spoon in your mouth?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well, depends on your definition of stupid. What's something stupid according to you?!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

HOW DARE YOU CORRECT OPS TITLE YOU MOTHERFUCKER ILL KILL YOU

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It makes me happy knowing that people had a sense of humor in medieval times. I want a print of that full painting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the thing I miss the most about Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like on Lemmy I get in more substantive arguments about the subject, and less of the other person playing armchair psychologist when I don't see it their way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah but we also have some of the most pedantic people I've ever dealt with, who will completely ignore your entire argument because they found a tiny bit of nuance in your word choice that they then cling to like it makes any fuckin sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we have a renaissance memes page?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I argue with people on the Internet so that my partner gets less of my batshit crazy.

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