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When You Get An Armour Upgrade In A Game

This meme makes a relatable joke for gamers about the satisfying feeling of getting a new armor upgrade in a video game. The image shows a real pheasant whose natural spotted feather pattern on its chest and back coincidentally looks exactly like a piece of medieval plate armor. The pheasant stands facing the camera next to a metal fence, with a person's hand visible in the foreground about to feed it. The text at the top connects the bird's accidental armor-like appearance to the experience of unlocking new, better armor in games, using the coincidental visual resemblance for humor.
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When you get an armour upgrade in a game

Overview

This meme makes a relatable joke for gamers about the satisfying feeling of getting a new armor upgrade in a video game. The image shows a real pheasant whose natural spotted feather pattern on its chest and back coincidentally looks exactly like a piece of medieval plate armor. The pheasant stands facing the camera next to a metal fence, with a person's hand visible in the foreground about to feed it. The text at the top connects the bird's accidental armor-like appearance to the experience of unlocking new, better armor in games, using the coincidental visual resemblance for humor.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, as confirmed by the given source metadata, with the original Reddit post titled 'Gotta show off'. It is a user-created meme that leverages a real photograph of a pheasant's naturally occurring feather pattern to create a relatable gaming joke, and has been circulated across social media as a popular funny meme.

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