"give me some black paint and a crowbar and I'll make this thing safe enough to display in the courtyard at Site ██!"
I…fucking get it now.
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Perform, not preform.
I really like this. Also, good Starslip reference.
I think we can do better than a /b/ meme. I'd personally use "Game over, man! GAME OVER!" from Aliens, which is a meme associated with losing horribly in a task, and is also very easy to apply to things. But that's up to you. I'm not going to downvote the article because of it, but I'd rather not upvote it until that gets fixed.
In almost all circumstances I agree that we can do better than /b/, but since the purpose was to provide an example of the lowest common denominator and a play on telekill goggles that one had to be what it was.
I never understood what the frak the telekill goggles were supposed to do anyway, unless it's a psychic attack focusing on the optic nerve, like Niven's Plateau Eyes.
Seconding the thumbs-up on the Starslip reference - be sure to wear the hideous statue like a hat, to remove the object from its frame of reference and thus disable its meme…
Technically the telekill goggles could be somehow detecting harmful memes(by some well crafted criterion) and block them, but telekill is passive as well as being totally unrelated, and those were not written with that in mind.
Anyway, upvoted strongly, but doesn't seem to explain that processing is the danger too well.
EDIT:
Clarification, Mann has a good point that I didn't explain.
Telekill would only work if the meme were transmitted telepathically. And even then, it would be blocking the vector, not the meme itself.
This guide is now in the top bar menu under the Information Tab.
WEAR IT LIKE A HAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
Also, this was pretty awesome. THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING was a good way of making a mental link to what a meme is, even if someone has never heard the term before. +1
Haven't read this, but it seems related to us and to Memes.
Free Kindle horror book called Meme: A Zombie Novella. (You don't need a Kindle, just an Amazon account - they now have an online reader.) I kind of want to hear what Sorts thinks of it.
it's not free it costs my time D:
what's the synopsis, people with a meme in their head are zombies now or something?
From a glance; a text meme is released frying the brains of people - except those that have brain damage because they either can't interpret it the same way, or (in the case of the main protagonist) they have anterograde amnesia and can't retain the meme. Wackiness ensues as the rest of society tries to kill itself, and these guys try to survive. Refered to as a "Zombie-less zombie novel."
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