The memes…

The Joy Of Memes

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I was talking with a co-worker and good friend about some Bob Ross figurines we received in freight this morning. He didn’t realise that Bob Ross has become such a meme, or that he has his own Twitch. I even introduced him to the sheer idea of Bob Ross in the universe of Fallout 4:

It’s so unusual and interesting to me that a talented artist, who passed back in 95 would go on to be remembered by people — to the point of having people at the end of a Joy Of Painting episode in Twitch Chat go “gg Bob”, or even touch other parts of the world in ways that he’ll never know.

I don’t think he could have foreseen how far his own legacy would go. He passed away just as the internet was in its infancy; if he lived to see his own YouTube and Twitch channels he would have been 78 at the time of writing this. Imagine him living to actually communicate with everyone telling him gg, or witnessing that he is officially someone’s cosplay character.

I actually wouldn’t mind visiting this alternate timeline.

One more time… with feeling!

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I’ve been having another on and off week. They’ve been screwing every week and its been putting me off, not to mention that I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. I’ve put in to take a small bit of time off at the start of November, the place is wearing away at me  moreso than usual.

I’ve also been pitching in with a computer project. My Dad built a computer out of his and my old computer parts (my old processor and R9-290 so its still rockin’) and we’re donating them to him. I’ve been working on it over the last couple of days getting emulators and some older games. We’ll have another one to add to our list of local card carrying PC Gaming Master Race card members. :v:  I tried installing the PC version of MGS1 but kept running into errors despite applying the patched exe’s. Then I remembered that “Duh! Just use the PS1 version! You can tweak it to look better anyway!” But I noticed one weird thing when going through quite a few of the files with the datestamps specifying they were created on my birthday in the year 2000. I sense a conspiracy theory coming on…. here are some facts:

  1. I was born the same year the first Metal Gear game came out
  2. I hate seagulls
  3. My copy of MGS1 has my birthday on a bunch of files
  4. I like watermelon
  5. My birthstone is a diamond
  6. One of my best friends magically becomes Otacon whenever I pose an odd question in voice chat (and Jack Black in other forms of spare time)
  7. I really like watermelon
  8. I know my way around a cardboard box, even how to kill them
  9. Did I mention that I hate seagulls?
  10. My hair went from purple to white in a weeks time
  11. I’ve had my chin scraped against pavement
  12. Did I mention watermelon?
  13. One of my nicknames was Major Tom (before I got promoted to Overlord)
  14. I FUCKING hate seagulls

I think it’s time to just come out and face the music…

 

I dunno why it took me so long to figure it out. :morty: