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[onodera]

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The only thing internet memes provide less than humor is relevant information. On anything.

A meme is not about humour or useful information. A meme is something you want to repeat, and they also function as a social marker.

[Alluvian_Est-Endrati]

Nobles are useless piles of bones.
Catsplosion.
Ticket Booths (or Cotton Candy Vending Machines) sit at the entrance to the Circus.
Loosing is Fun!
Interrupted by Carp.

[Siquo]

And we've got a new meme in the current version: Badgering.

[Scaraban]

And we've got a new meme in the current version: Badgering.

true true

[Urist Imiknorris]

There are never enough badger threads.

[Jeoshua]

You know, I haven't seen Badgers in the game yet, but I modded them to a "25" frequency since people say how much they pwn everything that exists, up to and including your dwarves.

Same reason I nerfed carps.

[Sutremaine]

Catsplosion.

This is a useful meme.

[darkrider2]

badgers are apparently a meme coming up, unless toady fixes them too soon that nothing awesome has time to come of it.

[Peewee]

Loosing is Fun!

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Loosing

as for a meme, "Fun" (capital F)

[NW_Kohaku]

Memes... I cannot think of a lower form of humor.

Humour is not a prerequisite for memery.  A meme is a unit of social information.  Humour does not factor into them.

The only thing internet memes provide less than humor is relevant information. On anything.

A meme is more about social pressures and conformity than it is about "information" in the same way that you normally would think of the word.  In much the same way that you can tell where someone is from by their accent, or their job by the words they tend to use or the way they tend to dress, people tend to conform to their social group, consciously or subconsciously.

For example, hating elves is, indeed, a meme. 

Gimli and Legolas were competitive, but Gimli wasn't the same sort of psychopath a DF player's dwarves typically are, and didn't instantly chuck Legolas off that long narrow bridge over the chasm in Moria even though he completely had the chance to make an "unfortunate accident". 

(Oh, and "Unfortunate Accident" is also a meme.)

To show how this is a matter of social pressures and conformity - just consider the reactions you would probably get for talking about how much you love elves in every possible way, and would never think of harming a tree, or how magma is something that no true dwarf would ever want to harness, for fear of getting burned by its hot flow.  After all, Dwarf Fortress is a game that is all about winning, and winning with all your dwarves in perfect health, and in peace and harmony with nature.

While I don't doubt you'd be able to bring yourself say it, and wouldn't strictly fear some sort of reprisal for deviating, you know inherently that you are completely flying in the face of everything that, jokingly or not, DF fans hold up as the standards of DF playing or talking about the game, just as everyone would instantly recognize it if you suddenly started talking with a New York or Southern accent you didn't have, or tried talking with the jargon of a different line of work than your own in the office.

[Daetrin]

So far as I know, there is no standardized definition of meme, though they all share the concept that it's a piece of information that spreads.

The way you're talking about it, NW_Kohaku, it's acting more like a shibboleth (though I doubt the two are exclusive of each other).

[GrizzleBridges]

[GrizzleBridges]

inb4 "thats not a DF meme but an old meme altered for DF blah blah blah."

[Dradym]

i accidentally dwarfed the whole fortress?

[GrizzleBridges]

I accidentally... quoted when I should have edited


Also, Im not sure if these count as memes...but I like the funny alerts such as:
-Praise the miners!
-A vile force of darkness has arrived!
-Protect the hoard from skulking filth!
-Beware its deadly (x)!