Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Mundane made awesome

Ah, Youtube "Recommended" videos. You try so hard to discern my tastes with deep learning algorithms but in reality, like most people, I'll watch just about any drivel that's presented before me:

Did you too feel a mingled sense of simultaneous boredom and suspense? You might need to have viewed Christopher Dolan's feelm in order to fully appreciate such a juxtaposition.

In other news, I've recently experienced one of the best memetic joke setups in recent years. It's been supplying me with chuckles for days.
Friend: How many chaos you got?
Me: Preem chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"
Friend: u stole obummer's line
Explaining the joke kind of takes away the punch, but if you don't get it you probably aren't laughing anyway, so here's a little context: I've been on-and-off playing Path of Exile, one of those single player games where you have to be connected to the Internet and see other people's chat messages. One of the main currencies used in the player based economy is the chaos orb, but my friend neglected to clarify that, and I love to harp on little details like that (which is part of what makes me such a great conversational partner). 

The Obama quote is self explanatory, as a matter of course.