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This meme uses a candid shot from a Ring residential doorbell camera. A man walks onto the front porch towards the door, and an unlocked hanging door security chain accidentally aligns perfectly to look like a giant broadsword strapped to the man's back, making him look exactly like a powerful final boss from a video game. Overlaid text at the top reads 'Boss Fight Incoming:' to lean into the video game boss encounter trope for the joke.

Ultimate Reddit Boss Fight Incoming

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This meme jokes that Kim Jong Un's superpower is making people around him act like stiff, janky non-player characters (NPCs) from Wii Sports. The photograph shows Kim Jong Un walking through an indoor hallway, with his security personnel and other people in the background having awkward, stiff unnatural walking poses that resemble the low-quality, robotic NPC animations found in the Nintendo game Wii Sports. The text at the top sets up the joke comparing the people's movement to Wii Sports NPCs.

Kim Jong Un's Wii Sports NPC Superpower

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This wholesome meme shows two domestic cats sitting tightly side-by-side, with their backs facing the camera on a grey textured couch. One is a traditional black-orange-white calico cat, the other is a dilute grey-tan-white calico. The text at the top makes a joke comparing the unreachable second cat to a locked unlockable option in a video game, since the cats are pressed so close together that the owner cannot reach the second cat to pet it without moving the first one first.

I Hope I Unlock The Option To Pet My Second Cat Soon

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This is a 3-panel meme that uses the iconic Donnie Darko therapy conversation template to joke about trends in modern video game graphics development. In the first panel, Jake Gyllenhaal's character Donnie states 'I made a breakthrough in graphics rendering'. In the second panel, his therapist asks the skeptical question 'A breakthrough or just better lighting?'. In the final panel, Donnie confirms the punchline 'Just better lighting', paired with a screenshot of the graphically impressive open world game Horizon Zero Dawn, which relies heavily on advanced dynamic lighting for its visual quality. The meme pokes fun at the fact that most so-called 'graphical breakthroughs' in video games over the past decade have been mostly improvements to lighting technology, rather than fundamental jumps in other rendering or texture technology.

Been the same way for over 10 years: Just Better Lighting Graphics Breakthrough

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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.

When You Get An Armour Upgrade In A Game

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This is a wholesome gaming meme featuring a real light-colored puppy sitting on a home kitchen tiled floor. A cut-up cardboard box is wrapped around the puppy's neck and head, looking like clunky, makeshift armor that a new low-level game character would wear. The top text jokes about the common experience in role-playing or open-world video games, where new level 1 characters have no access to good armor and have to equip whatever poor gear they can find early in the game. The puppy's calm, slightly smug expression adds to the humor and cuteness of the joke.

When You're Level 1 And Have To Wear Any Armor You Can Get

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25 Year Old Priorities: Marriage vs Starting a New Minecraft World

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This meme uses the well-known physical properties of a Prince Rupert's drop (a shaped piece of toughened glass created by dropping molten glass into cold water) to mock a common video game trope. The thick, extremely durable bulbous head of the glass drop is labeled as 'Main Character during gameplay', representing how player characters can survive massive amounts of damage and countless fights during interactive gameplay. The extremely thin, fragile tail of the drop is labeled 'Main Character during cutscenes', joking that main characters become inexplicably weak and easily captured or injured during non-interactive cutscenes immediately after surviving impossible odds during gameplay.

Prince Rupert's Drop Gameplay vs Cutscenes Meme

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This is a 2x2 comparison meme that contrasts popular, commercially successful video game character designs with poorly received, unpopular designs called flops. The left half under the heading *CHARACTER DESIGN THAT SELLS* features two conventionally attractive, well-liked character designs (one female, one male). The right half under *CHARACTER DESIGN THAT FLOPS* features two recent controversial character designs: Rook from Dragon Age: The Veilguard (top right) and a heavily criticized re-design of Wattson from Apex Legends (bottom right). The meme argues that game developers often unfairly blame gamers for the failure of bad character designs, when the contrast in quality and appeal between successful and flop designs is obvious.

Character Design That Sells Vs That Flops

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This meme features an anime-style female office presenter standing next to a flipboard presentation. The text on the flipboard states the unpopular hard truth that game console prices keep increasing because gamers will still purchase them even at higher price points. It uses the common anime presenter meme format to express a cynical, relatable observation about the video game industry and consumer habits.

The Hard Truth

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This two-panel satirical meme jokes about perceived excessive pressure on modern western game developers to add racial and LGBTQ+ representation, even when it makes no sense for the game being developed. The top panel opens with the heading 'MODERN WESTERN VIDEO GAMES BE LIKE:', then shows a woman (representing an out-of-touch executive or diversity consultant) asking the game development team 'Can you add more blacks and gays to this game?'. In the bottom panel, one developer replies, 'Lady we are making Tetris' — Tetris is a completely abstract puzzle game with no human characters at all, making the request for representation absurd, and highlighting what the meme frames as unreasonable demands from non-technical management.

Modern Western Video Games Be Like: We're Making Tetris

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A two-panel comparison meme contrasting Portal and Half-Life gameplay. The top panel, labeled 'Portal Gameplay:', shows a relaxed animated character sitting in a chair with a thought bubble reading 'This is too easy' surrounded by complex mathematical equations. The bottom panel, labeled 'Half-Life Gameplay:', features a determined animated character (likely Gordon Freeman) stating 'I am a scientist' next to a gun, a computer mouse, and a crossed-out enemy figure (resembling a Combine soldier from Half-Life). The meme humorously exaggerates Portal's puzzle-solving focus as 'easy' despite complex visuals and Half-Life's combat-oriented gameplay despite the protagonist's scientific background.

Portal vs Half-Life Gameplay Comparison Meme

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