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The three most common 2D transformations. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by lelgenio@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 256 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I too am at a loss as to where the meme is

[–] gumdropbunnies@lib.lgbt 101 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh it's... wait shit I'm dumb how dare you

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[–] victron@programming.dev 145 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Their loss.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There, Loss.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're loss.

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[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 118 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In spring man built a pillar

In summer another

Throughout autumn they held

In winter, one fell

[–] callyral@pawb.social 84 points 11 months ago

im at a loss for words

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 79 points 11 months ago

Sorry for your loss

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's funny how you can roughly ballpark the education level of a random internet user by how they interpret the word "meme".

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also because the blocks form "Loss." The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.

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[–] starman@programming.dev 60 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Explanation

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 33 points 11 months ago

XcQ, link stays blue

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why you little...

[–] starman@programming.dev 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

spoilerI was about to give a real link to explanation of this meme, but it would be a missed opportunity. Anyway, here you go: knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Sync shows the thumbnail

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[–] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I wasn't understanding the joke. This made it much more clear.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

I guess we could say that John is at a loss

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 43 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Welp. I just loss The Game.

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've taken math beyond Calculus and proof based math and I'm still not sure what this is supposed to be other than a demonstration of 2D transformations.

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago (15 children)
[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh god! How many people are commenting something about loss on this post and I had to be, almost literally, smacked on the forehead with it before I got it.

Thanks!

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[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm at a loss, what could it mean?

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Let me translate it for you:

               I'm at a loss, what could it mean?
[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't help but hate this meme so much. I feel like it's just a poor dude who shared a legit sad thing and now everyone is making fun of him

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The biggest problem I think people have with loss is it is a huge tonal and emotional shift from the rest of the comic series.

The guy is a really annoying tone deaf weirdo who only cares about games for the longest time. A lot of the punchlines ib the comics were "violence". Finally gets a GF, and treats her kinda poorly on the comic, and then bam loss comes out. It feels a bit like whiplash and is trying to be serious and sad when it never was serious or sad, but """"zany"""" and non consiquential.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 22 points 11 months ago

Sometimes a comic artist just has a moment where they take it way off the rails. Remember the time Garfield woke up all alone in the house? Haha fat kitty lasagna mondays amirite? Oh wait a sec, let's have some existential fucking terror for a moment.

[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I learnt about it way later after it happened through some random website that explains memes. Maybe it made sense at the time but when you come to it without a lot of context it just hit as sad.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago

In a vaccum and without context, loss is, IMO, good and sad. Wordlessly explaining the dudes panic and his shared greif with his SO quite well.

Unfortunately for this particular comic, there is a lot context that makes it feel very weird, tone deaf, and uncomfortable.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 30 points 11 months ago

God damnit

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I'm really trying to figure out if you guys don't get it, or are just pretending like you don't...

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

I didn't get it until I read this comment and thought more closely about it - so I guess put me in the stupid camp lol

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[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Took me a second.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago

took me about a planck time

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Guess the joke was loss(t) on him.

[–] RandomWalker@lemmy.one 23 points 11 months ago

catgirljohn seems a bit loss-t

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 18 points 11 months ago

~~:.|:;~~

[–] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Just post it over and over again and it becomes a meme.

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I'm irrationally agitated about Scale and Rotation involving a translation and that this is not called out in the meme.

Like it looks like "translation" is just "nothing happens" and this is going to bother me all day please help.

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[–] Johanno@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago

I mean I get the meme but I loss the joke.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm done scrolling trying to figure this out and just accept that this thread makes no sense to me.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 20 points 11 months ago

Oh it's a reference to a comic strip where the main character runs to a hospital to find his wife has miscarried.

The strip gained infamy for changing the tone of the comic so adruptly. Look up "loss comic".

The joke here is that the shapes represent the different characters in the strip, there's a lot of abstract jokes in the same vein

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