• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    This is honestly a great case for the “memes are modern hieroglyphics” argument.

    Imagine archeologists unearthing this meme in 10000 years and trying to decipher it. They’d never be able to, because it requires a LOT of external knowledge (which can only realistically be obtained by living through the present times) to make any sense.

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      Hieroglyphs were relatively easy in comparison. They just needed enough translated material as a reference to be almost universally understood.

      Memes are shifting on a year to year basis and are sensitive to news events. There are people that are going to spend their entire lives looking for a specific meme or event that will allow them to understand another meme. And with the occasional “vintage” meme references there’s even lots of opportunity for dramatic eureka moments when an expert on 2000s memes finally provides the missing clue for a 2030s meme.

      Edit: and for their sake I hope someone is backing up the Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme in several nuclear bunkers.

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    OK folks, let’s break this one down.

    Miles on average: run down (from Chief O’Brien at Work)

    Smith/Rock: hit it

    Capn: gotcha

    Turkish olympics guy: everything cool?

    Raygun: everything is not fucking cool

    billionaire sub: wreck that shit

    Spongebob: X minutes later

    DiCaprio: cheers bro

    Dune bucket: go get yer dick wet

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            Oh no, I started watching Star Trek not that long ago, and I’ve been kinda thinking about going to Linux soon… I was a pawn of the fediverse the whole time!!

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                That’s why they are missing. I installed Arch once got annoyed in seconds and went back to SUSE. I extensively use the arch wiki though, so can I get one or the other?

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              TNG S5E2 is the legendary episode from this post. You have so many gems in your journey like S2E9 etc etc. You are in an envious position of experiencing the franchise for the first time, just make sure you start out with TNG, DS9(slow start but great), and Voy (a bit mid but with some great episodes) & I always thought enterprise was good.

              Post that lot though… The newer films can be a fun cinematic experience I guess, but the series are mostly trash. SNW had some moments, Discovery had a few, but really MEH.

              Oh also TNG S1 was fairly rough but improves so much as it ran. Still had its share of duds but the highs of the high points were some of the best TV of the genre at the time.

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          I like The Orville and enjoyed the J.J. films, but that’s as far as I’ll dive into the world of Trekkie-dom.

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      What in the fever dream is this comic? It’s so bizarre, I’m going to need a translation for your translation.

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      My edit of your initial insights:

      Miles on average: Everything out of spec, how do I fix this?

      Smith/Rock: hit it

      (Shaka[…]: error) Capn: gotcha

      Turkish olympics guy: Did you succeed without any specialist tools?

      Raygun: No, it’s much worse

      billionaire sub: Drive it into the sea.

      Spongebob: X minutes later [Claim the insurance (implied from image)]

      DiCaprio: Great thanks, new car works

      Dune bucket: Enjoy it

      Next…

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    How much internet brain rot do I have?
    I understood that…

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    the fact that i understand this makes me want to stop selling death sticks and go home and rethink my life

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    The metaphor language made me wonder how kids in that culture learned to speak it. To understand what “Shaka when the walls fell” you need some backstory - who was Shaka? What happened when the walls fell? How did it affect Shaka? To understand the jokes here you have to know the Olympic break dancer story, the DiCaprio “cheers” meme, etc. I would think the civilization must have had a rudimentary factual language for telling stories and explaining the metaphors, and the metaphor language was more advanced, used by people once they learned enough metaphors to understand it.

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      The guy to the right is a character from TNG season 5 episode 2.

      Picard crashes on a planet with that alien guy. They don’t understand each other, not because the universal translator doesn’t work, but because the alien language consists of allegories that make no sense due to the different cultural backgrounds.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

      The meme is written in contemporary allegories. It’s not gibberish. It does make sense if you know the stories of each event that is referenced.