Discussion: I CAN HAS COSTUME CONTEST?!


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however, with the explosion of those websites and the creation of newer websites, memes have devolved from being jokes to just sentences that are supposed to be inherently funny (they're not).
Sometimes they are.

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Sometimes they are.
When?


 

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When?
Quite often.

You don't enjoy them, great.

That doesn't mean others must join you in the ritual sniffing and posturing of cultural superiority.


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It seems like a neat idea, until you realize how many memes are based on copyrighted material from pop-culture and would technically violate the terms of agreement.

Then the SFW requirement knocks out a lot of the remaining memes.

Basically, this is going to just be a lot of cat toons saying cute misspelled things.


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But how can I make Lex Luthor stealing 40 cakes without breaking the service agreement?! =(
You can't. And that's terrible.

You could try to make a stolen-cake costume and get 39 others to help you.


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Basically, this is going to just be a lot of cat toons saying cute misspelled things.
If my entry gets beaten by an LOLCAT, I will flip my desk over. (╯°Д°)╯︵ ┻━┻


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It seems like a neat idea, until you realize how many memes are based on copyrighted material from pop-culture and would technically violate the terms of agreement.

Then the SFW requirement knocks out a lot of the remaining memes.
And thus the challenge of this. I've already made 2 different memes and will likely come up with more before the contest. I've thought of a bunch more that I refuse to make (My Little Ponies) and I am likely going to have to throw out a few more concepts that fit the parameters of the contest.




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It seems like a neat idea, until you realize how many memes are based on copyrighted material from pop-culture and would technically violate the terms of agreement.

Then the SFW requirement knocks out a lot of the remaining memes.

Basically, this is going to just be a lot of cat toons saying cute misspelled things.
So just another night at Virtue's D


 

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So it turns out that all the meme's are NSFW and copyright violations...


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Perhaps you are looking at this the wrong way. Instead of finding a Meme you can make a costume from; why not create a costume then create a Meme of it. Spam your new creation all over 9gag, reddit and 4-chan, then you win the interwebs.


 

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So just another night at Virtue's D
This is as utterly hysterical as it is soul-crushingly true.


 

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Xanth and Discworld are on the phone. They want to know if you'd like your sense of humour back.

LOL, actually I do have one. It's not very big, and has a tendency to be a bit dry, but it is there.

I have read some of the Zanth novels, I love Piers' writing (Adept, Incarnations of Immortality, Bio of a Space Tyrant, Mode), but even in the Zanth novels, the puns all made me groan. Never read Discworld, sadly.

I guess for memes to work for me I would have had to be at the beginning. Thanks for the post on "The Cake is a Lie", but as I never played Portal or talked to anyone who did, it made no sense to me. Now that it is in context, I understand what it means. Doesn't make it any funny tho.



 

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Well, seeing it "in context" really means playing Portal and stumbling across the phrase itself. In the game, it comes across as creepy tinged with funny, rather than laugh-out-loud funny. The "joke" is seeing it in another context after first seeing it in the game.

Memes didn't start with the Internet (Jimmy Walker's "Dy-no-mite!" was as much a meme in its time as "I can has cheezburger?" is now), but the Internet popularized the word "meme" (to the extent that I think the word "meme" itself, the way it's usually used, has actually become a meme).


 

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Internet memes are really no diferent than inside jokes.
Sometimes they're actually funny, sometimes it is just the reminder of that funny occasion, scenario, you can remember or just relate to.

Whether they are actually funny or not... they get repeated... some people have no idea what the inside joke is about (because they weren't in on it)...
And then sometimes (rarely) the inside joke just gets funnier the more it is repeated in the right instances.

I'd hope most everyone has some family/friend inside jokes that can still make you all laugh (or cringe) when they are used again.
As always, timing and taste are the key.

The internet, being what it is, is just a very big, worldwide circle that picks up some inside jokes now and then.

That's how I see it anyway.


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Well just found out about his contest. Have an idea, but am at work and can't try to reserve a name

Though I'm planning a one two punch combination between the name,costume and description.

As I was typing this I thought of a secondary name. This should work then.

EDIT: And now I discovered what i was planning might not technically count. Hmm harder than I thought this would be.


 

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I actually came up with a name pretty quickly and the costume was very easy.

I like mine, not sure enough to actually play it post the costume contest, but it definitely fits Virtue's Pocket D and a meme combined.


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We need a planking emote!


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We need a planking emote!
Just get killed in the right place.


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We need a planking emote!
The 2 Incanrate unlocked emotes for collapsing and swooning can be used for that.


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I was at the Meme CC and I still don't know what a Meme is, all the entries were names that players usually name their toon.

And the website did not make any sense to me! So can someone in plain words tell me what a Meme is, please.
As I told someone else that was in the costume line: It is an often repeated phrase that seems to have been repeated so much that is becomes a part of group thinking. For example, "Use the Force". It may not be everywhere, but chances are that you've heard it somewhere. A meme is the internet version of this phenomenon.

In other words, a silly little in-joke that most people know.




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So......
List of winners?
Photos?
Or did you go and post em on facebook and twitter but not your own boards?


 

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So......
List of winners?
Photos?
Or did you go and post em on facebook and twitter but not your own boards?
Things take time to Photoshop you know .


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And round one's winners are...

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