Let's make a Meme! "The Nemesis Plot"
By
Caemgen,
Posted on: 2010-08-19 10:32 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
1) You can't make a meme. They're born and evolve through natural selection.
2) It's already a meme.
3) Artoo is awesome.
1)Right off the bat Steampunk/Jaeger Artoo is pure awesome. 
2)It's already a meme isn't it?
3)What Foo said about meme's evolving over time through natural selection is true and doubly appropo since we have
an evolutionary biologist (Richard Dawkins) to thank for the word Meme in the first place. 
setting out to make a meme is kind of like deciding to give yourself a nickname... Even if it catches on it's just not as cool as the real thing. 
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I find this example to be quite ironic given that the discussion is taking place on an internet forum, where you have to give yourself a nickname before you can even talk to anyone.
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Originally Posted by Caemgen
setting out to make a meme is kind of like deciding to give yourself a nickname... Even if it catches on it's just not as cool as the real thing.
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In my experience the role of nicknames and of forum names are really different. Nicknames tend to be born of affection, comaraderie (spelled that wrong, didn't I?) or alternatively jest or ridicule... But however given, nicknames tend to have to do with how others see you.|
Originally Posted by Johnstone
I find this example to be quite ironic given that the discussion is taking place on an internet forum, where you have to give yourself a nickname before you can even talk to anyone.
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Forum names, on the other hand, tend to be more about how the person wants others to see them. They are chosen by the person themselves and when they reveal anything it's more about what the person wants projected than the actual person themselves..
*shrug*
Nicknames aren't aliases. Nicknames are like if I hang around with you and you keep wearing a hat and I call you Johnny Stupidhat or Johnny Hatnerd.
Johnny Stupidhat - a nickname of ridicule...
Johnny Hatnerd - a nickname of affection...
Johnny Nohat - nickname of kid whose hat Foo stole.
My friends call me SuperGeek. o_o
*puts a THIS THREAD HAS JUST BEEN HIJACKED sticker over the thread's title*
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I understand the differences between an alias and a nickname. However, we are still asked to choose a name for ourselves. Therefore, I still find it amusing.
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Originally Posted by The_Foo
Nicknames aren't aliases. Nicknames are like if I hang around with you and you keep wearing a hat and I call you Johnny Stupidhat or Johnny Hatnerd.
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Originally Posted by Caemgen
Johnny Stupidhat - a nickname of ridicule...
Johnny Hatnerd - a nickname of affection... Johnny Nohat - nickname of kid whose hat Foo stole. |
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as terribly incorrect as the OP can be for suggesting this, those demotivationals are very creative and kudo's Mad Mummy on those. If indeed you did make them.
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Then your name is now Johnny Non-Sequihat.
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Originally Posted by Johnstone
I understand the differences between an alias and a nickname. However, we are still asked to choose a name for ourselves. Therefore, I still find it amusing.
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hmmm, I don't think a forum name counts as a nickname. It's more like a pseu- pseudo- ... writers name.
take my name for instance most people don't call me by my full name they've given me the "nickname" Roxy. While thats not the best example (more along the lines of an abbreviation) but forum names are taken. Think about what you say when you sign up for a forum and the name you choose is already in use, "someone took my name."
*plays the PSA jingle*
The more you know...
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A pseudonym, an alias, a nom de guerre. I'm well aware of exactly what a forum handle is, but it is still a name that we are made to choose for ourselves. And then we get nicknamed based on what we chose as a forum name. I still stand by my statement.
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Originally Posted by the_fox_Rox
hmmm, I don't think a forum name counts as a nickname. It's more like a pseu- pseudo- ... writers name.
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I just wish Foo would give me my hat back! 
Well, as far as nicknames go...this forum is one of the only places I DON'T use the screenname I'm most connected to throughout the internet: Thrythlind
I can't remember exactly why I don't use it here, but eh, not worth it.
Anyway, eventually, most people cut my name down to "Thryth" in speaking to me.
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Well since we've threadjacked anyway...
I've been PowerStream on these forums and in game since day 1. BUT all my SG mates call me Bully because the first toon they met me with was Bully the Clown which I only made as a joke but became too fun not to play. One of my SG mates went on a cruise/sight-seing vacation and sent me postcards..... mailed to Bully and family.
Ironically in real life I have been nicknamed Rebel since before I was born. My mom thought it appropo because the doctors sent her home to miscarry me because they could not find a heartbeat and yet here I type....
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Originally Posted by Caemgen
I just wish Foo would give me my hat back!
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now we just need someone to reference the foo caem hat fight and a meme is born.
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