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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And that's why the people of the Sword Coast think that Aluminum dragons fart fire.

[–] Flushmaster@ttrpg.network 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"They're weird looking dragons, I tell you. They fly really fast but somehow do it without flapping their wings, they have short, fat tails, and when they go really fast they blow jets of fire out their arses!"

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] kionay@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

There is no antiememetics division

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Isn't an antimeme something that's impossible to remember?

It's an anti joke that's utilizing an image macro that itself is a meme.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm taking about r/antimeme type. A lot of things are accepted there, but usually, it's just when you use a well established meme template completely differently from what is expected. Could be an anti-joke/literal usage of the meme, but not always.

[–] Flushmaster@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would be the actual definition, yes. But many if not most people who use the word "meme" to mean "funny picture and caption" don't actually know what the word meme refers to. So they go by some definition originating from Reddit, Facebook, 4chan, etc.

[–] dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe antimemes being memes is a meme.

We've been here before

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Time is a flat circle.

[–] Flushmaster@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 months ago

Kind of. As a concept but not the definition people that use it attribute to it. The act of people getting that definition wrong is itself a memetic behavior.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Articifer in the background furiously taking notes.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

... fireball

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Rome Sweet Rome.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I was hoping that series or movie would ever materialize, but it always was a very long shot.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 months ago

Honestly I feel it was way more exciting in concept than execution anyway. Hell, I think it would make a fantastic TTRPG setting, since it's strongest in premise and has strong ludo-narrative cohesion falling between a narrative game and a wargame.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Give it another year, and this sort of project will materialize directly through video AI nonsense. There won't be a years-long journey from excited fanfiction to artistic involvement to corporate interest to maybe becoming a real thing. The original cluster of obsessives will do it themselves.

Idiot executives think generative networks mean they can type in a premise and extrude entertainment product. (They probably can, but if that's the case, so can you. Try selling ice to someone with a fridge.) What's going to transform the industry is scribbling a rectangle onto a landscape photo, saying "this is a Roman legion," and having it be so. The word "transform" might be overly polite. For example, a forest is transformed by fire. We're looking at a very near future where you can MS Paint a helmet onto a dude and have it become as photorealistic as any costume. And doing it on one frame carries across the entire shot.

It's gonna get weird.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Reddit license, ducking up things since forever.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago

they're america's familiars.

[–] Graycliff@ttrpg.network 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before but it makes me chuckle every time.

[–] LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Gives me, "right you primitive screw heads" vibes.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feels like something from Malazaan - ancient dragon getting blown tf up with an explosive bomb comes to mind...

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is a comic that I can't remember the title of right now. But the plot is basically the whole country of Japan gets Isekai'd, land and all

[–] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Summoning Japan / Nihonkoku Shoukan

Where they kill an Oni with a 35mm autocannon

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, that's it! Now that you mentioned it I've started to re read it. It was as wack as I remember lol. And it was an ogre btw!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

"I cast regular missile."

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

those are clearly F-16s headed to the Ukraine and then Russia

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It reminds me more of "The Road Not Taken", by Harry Turtledove: https://youtu.be/aXhCX7lr2tM