Hardware Expensive: Gamers vs Boat Owners Hobby Cost Comparison Meme

This is a two-panel meme using the iconic 'First Time?' hanging scene from the 2018 film *The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*. The top panel depicts two men with nooses around their necks, labeled 'GAMERS FINDING OUT THEIR HOBBY COSTS MONEY', referencing the often steep cost of PC components, gaming consoles, and related accessories. The bottom panel shows a third man also awaiting execution by hanging, labeled 'BOAT GUYS', who turns to the other two men and asks 'First time?', making the joke that boat ownership is a far more consistently expensive hobby, making gamers' surprise at their hobby's costs seem naive and inexperienced.

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GAMERS FINDING OUT THEIR HOBBY COSTS MONEY

BOAT GUYS

First time?

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Joke comparing the cost of gaming as a hobby to the far higher cost of boat ownership

Overview

This is a two-panel meme using the iconic 'First Time?' hanging scene from the 2018 film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The top panel depicts two men with nooses around their necks, labeled 'GAMERS FINDING OUT THEIR HOBBY COSTS MONEY', referencing the often steep cost of PC components, gaming consoles, and related accessories. The bottom panel shows a third man also awaiting execution by hanging, labeled 'BOAT GUYS', who turns to the other two men and asks 'First time?', making the joke that boat ownership is a far more consistently expensive hobby, making gamers' surprise at their hobby's costs seem naive and inexperienced.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, with the original submitted title 'Hardware expensive'. It is a user-created remix of the widely circulated 'First Time?' meme template, which originates from the Coen Brothers' 2018 Netflix film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, edited using the Imgflip meme creation platform as indicated by the watermark.

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