Meme Comment Archive

yeah, there are ways to paginate the comments -- or we can more them to a "memes comments archive" page -- or we can delete the ones that are no longer relavant. I'm up for whatever.

Is there a way we can summarize or clean up the comment box on this page? It is an epic tome.

And yes, I know I'm adding to it by posting this :)

There, I finished Satan and Pokemon, and touched up Hitler and Jesus's pages with pictures.

Well, it is kind of a repeat considering that game is also on the favorites, but hey :P And Oprah is probably a good one, Ragnell. I'll add her later.

Evang - nice work! Good choice of picture for the darth vader page too.

Does Oprah count? All black women become Oprah at some moment in the game.

Alright, I touched up the page on the Pope and did Darth Vader's, and Pokemon and Satan are still tentative. And before I sleep, I'd like to make to anyone with spare time--add an example picture and comment box for consistency to any pages lacking them. Also, we should probably determine which spelling of Ban Ki-Moon gets the most hits when searched, as the 5 games are not really cutting the standards. :P

I added a few to the bottom to tentatively add. I'll get around to them when I have a chance. If someone objects to having the giant clod of red down there, then just remove it, I thought it'd be handy to have that down there for people to work on is all. And whoever did the Pope, thanks--it's not much, but any start is good.

for that matter - so does darth vader... actually, star wars references are pretty common in general :-)

Obi-Wan Kenobi is in a lot of games, at least as a mention or a parody. It's hard to count how many, because his name comes in many different forms, but it seems like quite a few.

Schroedinger has been showing up a lot too. I need to be paying more attention to the Wiki :-[ I haven't had much spare time lately but by this weekend I plan to add some pages for the last few mentioned.

There are also 57 games now in the archive with the Pope in them. I'm not sure why he's been coming up so much lately.

I think another good qualifier would be Ash Ketchum. He's been showing up often lately (though mostly at my own hands XD).

I've been seeing Schroedinger's cat in a couple of games; think it qualifies?

I believe he's only got three listed, and one other one where he's just in a picture...I mean, I guess if Ban Ki Moon can get up there with 5 (despite the fact that a lot of his appearances have a dash between either parts of his name) GPW can get up there with four, maybe...but ehh.

I've noticed Geriatric Phoenix Wright in a few games now, seemingly spontaneously.

Geez, they came back again. I'll keep editing it out whenever I notice it, but perhaps we should get rid of the comment box for a bit? I think it should be possible to do that without erasing what comments are already left.

i hate spam :-(

My oh my, is it a good thing you can delete comments via edits. *points to page history*

I have included Scissors King in two of my recent pictures. Can we update this?

I'd believe it if there was a huge spike.

I updated the game count. It seems like "TheSentenceGame" had a large jump in games. Were we not counting some or has it just spiked?

I'd like to request of the members to help out and try and put a good picture on every page, as well as link to either the search results for the character's games, some specific examples or even perhaps both. I'd like to see someone else's meme related favorites rather than all the pages just being of my own, so that's why I haven't just gone and done them all :P

looks good - thanks Evang!

Okay, it's done now--just one last comment, the results for "Scissor King" and "Scissors King" were added together; this likely results in some overlapping but it's the best I can do.

Guys, I'm just going to note that Martini Turtle is going to be listed as 11 games on the list because his first appearance had him called "Martini-turtle", so it doesn't show up with the rest due to the hyphen. If there's any objections to that, tell me :-[

Yeah, I didn't think about it until now, but DEFINITELY. He is definitely a suitable fad. I support that.

Also, sometime soon I'll try and get around to updating the game count...Maybe tonight but it needs to be done by someone. Although maybe I should wait for Pac-Man's page to go up, buuuuut either way

Definitely!

http://www.thesentencegame.com/search2.php?stab=games&category=0&orderby=0&viewuser=&gametext=Pac-Man&numvotes_min=10&numresults=20&searchgames=Search

I submit that, suggesting that Pac-man be added. I don't want to add it if people think it doesn't count though

I was going to try to do it last night but something came up. And I should be homeworking right now :-[ But I definitely agree.

I think its time to update the game count.

I think we ought to start working on Martini Turtle's page. I think he's got enoug now.

I added them in the page, yes. Jesusification may need to be added if it catches on after Optimus underwent the process.

Does the Jesus count include his various incarnations (Spider-jesus &c)?

And by Jake, I mean the retarded guy with the "I am Jake" shirt who seems to be recurring in any parody picture of Jake.

I was gonna suggest it as Jake being a meme before all this, but I didn't because it would've encouraged him.

Jake Livingston. What kind of name is that?

Well, less of a meme and more a part of our shared history, but I think it has a place.

The same calls for what I have dubbed "troll-rush 2007". Stay in your homes, nobody is safe.

I don't think it qualifies as a meme. Memes usually have to propogate themselves by being so awesome they trick people into their service. This is just the work of one sweaty guy with no friends and a high speed internet connection sitting in his mother's basement jerking off to pictures of purple members he drew in paint... Or so I would imagine.

I honestly think the "I Am Jake" picture belongs as an example of a truly evil and distasteful meme.

Yeah, most general things tend to be exemplified by some specific figure. Jedi tend to come down to either Darth Vader or Yoda. Nazis, evil,etc, tend to come down to Hitler. Transformers always end up as Optimus Prime (even if they start out as Soundwave. Muppets will likely give you Kermit, fish give Ghost Shark.

I think Yoda and Hitler cover those two, respectivley..

What about more general memes (maybe themes, I guess) like Jedis or Nazis? They seem to have pretty good staying power.

I'd say give it a bit more time so he gets a bit more prolific.

Yeah, he does seem a bit forced but I have a good sentence in mind for him that I hope makes it a little more faddish...but that is probably also gonna end up seeming forced :P

Martini Turtle seems a little on the forced side, but other than that I guess it's cool.

If he lasts another week, nobody will have any problem with a martini turtle page. I like him, personally.

How long until Martini Turtle qualifies as a meme? I must have got about three games recently with him in them.

Yeah, I guess that's the down side to making the picture filename generic (they used to be whatever the user named it + an identifier).

Yeah, I just noticed the new search feature. He's definitely in there a lot. And, yeah, Jesus and the Green guys need some love, too. Although I'll note that there are certainly some games in which a given character appears in the pictures but not in any of the sentences, so there'll likely always be a few games that just searching won't turn up.

I don't know - I definitely have seen the "monopoly man" quite a bit. bean, you're right about all of those -- definitely worth adding.

Jesus, Kermit, Yoda, Cthulhu, and a lone Optimus have incredible staying power and a library of games.

It was an older one, and I don't know if it really stuck in the more "solid" players's heads. I just remember when I first came around here some time ago Monopoly always showed up so it stuck in my head as a "meme" of sorts. Though I guess you're right about the necessity of a character.

I'd estimate that for a proper meme you need a) a character, and b) at least ~10 games. I don't quite know how monopoly would fit there.

I am a liiiittle confused about how to work with this Wiki, but Monopoly deserves to be on the memes list.

It helps that he was pulled off in a sufficiently high-brow manner. This (warning, large image file) was the only other time I've seen him used in a similar manner, and the brow was pretty low.

I was definitely a fan of the Kofi meme -- mostly because it's so random and strangely high-brow for an online game:-)