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This is a relatable meme composed of two parts: the top section has text reading 'Me when I have a cough that lasts more than a day or two:', followed by a screenshot from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 showing protagonist Arthur Morgan leaning over his horse while riding, visibly ill and pained. The joke draws on the game's plot where Arthur contracts fatal tuberculosis and suffers from persistent coughing fits, humorously comparing people's overreaction to minor, short-lived coughs to Arthur's terminal illness.

You're a sick man, Mr. Morgan.

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This is a 4-panel meme using the popular 'Nobody is born cool' cartoon template. The first panel shows large muscular character Jorgen Von Strangle driving a car with a child passenger, with text reading 'Nobody is born cool'. The second panel shows Jorgen raising his hand, with accompanying text 'Except of course....'. The third panel shows Jorgen holding up a black sign that reads 'Devs of single player games that let you play without internet'. The fourth panel shows Jorgen with a smug, approving smirk. The meme praises developers of offline-enabled single-player video games as exceptionally cool, speaking to the frustration many gamers feel with unnecessary always-online requirements for single-player titles.

True heroes of the gaming world

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This dark humor meme features text at the top that reads "Resident Evil set in India but there's no G-Virus or anything. You're just Jill Valentine in India and that's the entire game." Below the text is a canonical screenshot from the Resident Evil survival horror franchise, showing a horde of aggressive, decaying zombies crowding against a chain link fence and reaching out menacingly toward the viewer. The joke relies on common stereotypes about chaotic, crowded public environments and safety concerns for women in India, implying that simply being present as a woman in India is as dangerous and harrowing an experience as surviving a zombie apocalypse, with no fictional virus required to raise the stakes.

A fate worse than death: Resident Evil India joke

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This collage meme highlights a common recurring video game design trope: the existence of a mushroom-themed level paired with quirky, upbeat, 'funky goofy' background music in many different game franchises. The image includes three separate game level screenshots: a dark blue pixel art mushroom forest level at top left, Mario Kart Wii's 'Mushroom Gorge' track at bottom left, and a pixel art mushroom level from the Sonic the Hedgehog series at right, where Sonic the Hedgehog is visible standing next to a large spotted mushroom. The text at the top of the meme explicitly states the trope, and the accompanying post questions if this shared design choice is an unspoken rule among game developers.

Is this some unspoken rule between game developers or something?

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This meme uses the popular angry Omni-Man screenshot from the animated series *Invincible*. The character is labeled with a red 'VALVE' banner across his forehead. The top text reads 'YOU DON\'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND.', and the bottom text reads 'THE NEW STEAM CONTROLLER ISN\'T YOURS TO SCALP.'. It humorously depicts Valve taking an aggressive, confrontational stance against scalpers who purchased all available Steam Controller stock immediately upon the product's release, preventing regular consumers from buying the hardware at retail price.

Valve's reaction to Steam Controller scalpers

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This is a black and white captioned meme. The top text reads "the cards when you win in Microsoft Solitaire". The visual below depicts a large industrial machine violently ejecting large stacks of card-like materials, while a man in work attire stands nearby observing the process. The meme humorously exaggerates the iconic classic Microsoft Solitaire win animation, where completed game cards bounce and fly across the screen in a chaotic, playful manner.

Microsoft Solitaire Win Animation Exaggeration Meme

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This meme jokes about Microsoft's failed attempt to launch Blinx the Time Sweeper as the official Xbox mascot to compete with Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic. The top section is a scan of a vintage Official Xbox Magazine cover featuring Blinx with bold text reading 'Mario, Sonic... Prepare for war BLINX IS HERE!', which was a real promotional announcement for the 2002 Blinx game. The bottom section shows official art of Mario and Sonic both laughing hysterically and pointing mockingly at the old announcement, referencing the fact that Blinx never gained mainstream popularity and was quickly forgotten as an Xbox mascot.

Microsoft Really Thought They Had a Mascot

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This two-panel meme jokes about the frustrating, mundane experience of launching a new James Bond (007) video game, only to first be forced to accept terms of service to proceed. The meme uses a deadpan armored knight character in both panels, who states 'TECHNICALLY I HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT' in the second panel. The humor arises from the clash between the 007 franchise's premise of a secret agent with a license to ignore rules and carry out dangerous missions, and the boring universal requirement of agreeing to standard legal terms of service before accessing a modern video game.

Launching new 007 game gets greeted by terms of service

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This meme consists of two parts: top text describing a common absurd open-world video game trope, followed by an image of a bearded man looking upward with a stunned, helpless expression against a sky that is half lit by sunset/sunrise and half dark night sky. The text jokes about the perspective of non-player characters (NPCs) in video games, who are helpless to act when the player character chooses the option to instantly 'wait until night time', which illogically skips the entire passage of day and effectively breaks the in-game world's equivalent of Earth's rotation, forcing all NPCs to experience this sudden, unnatural time jump.

NPCs React To Main Character Breaking Earth Rotation By Waiting Till Night Meme

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This gaming meme jokes about the widely discussed visual quirk of the Bowie Knife99 skin in the Counter-Strike series, where the knife appears disproportionately large when viewed head-on from an opposing player's perspective. The top text sets up the joke, followed by a cartoon of Ryu from Street Fighter in a fighting stance facing an ordinary purple car, referencing the classic Street Fighter car-punching minigame. The joke implies that facing a player wielding the oversized Bowie Knife99 head-on feels as absurd, intimidating, and unfair as being forced to fight an entire car with only your fists.

Facing Bowie Knife99 head on in-game feels like Ryu fighting a car

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This meme features a Kermit the Frog plush lying limp and spread out on its back on an unmade, messy bed in a cluttered room with piles of clothes scattered around. Yellow text at the top lists three negative rising trends: increasing unemployment, increasing PC component prices, and increasing game prices. White text at the bottom serves as the punchline: 'But my salary isn't increased yet'. The defeated, lifeless pose of the Kermit plush visually conveys the frustration and helplessness of facing rising living and hobby costs while personal wages remain stagnant.

All Costs Rising But Salary Not Increased

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This meme displays a deadpan, annoyed illustration of the character Nahida (Lesser Lord Kusanali) from the video game Genshin Impact below a block of text. The top text first quotes the common ubiquitous positive phrase "It costs $0 to be kind", then follows with the sarcastic, petty retort "as if hating ain't free too". The humor comes from the relatable, cheeky pushback against the often overused demand to be kind, pointing out that choosing to be unkind also has no associated cost, leaning into the mood of people who are tired of being told to be nice in frustrating situations.

Sarcastic Response to 'It Costs $0 to Be Kind' With Unimpressed Nahida

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