Would you better like a MC of a game you play as a self-insert you can render yourself onto without limits, a one that is written as a complete character that you can't control but to follow their plotline, or something between these two.
Meme is a one-shot less-effort message juggling objects, meaning and references to convey a feel, a joke, an idea or really whatever, more characterized by how it's easy to share it (sometimes causing it spread like a virus) and canibalize it into another meme - just what social media needs. To succeed, a meme should be discernible by a target group, relevant to it and not contradicting itself. Due to how all sorts of multimedia are intertwined, nearly everything can become a meme or a meme material, but if the crowd don't get, see it irrelevant or erroniously composed - it's dead.
Best memes are usually organicly occuring first sources, e.g. videos of people doing awkward things (overly enthusiastic man drawing connections on a board), or best takes at interpreting them with added context (TFW you are explaining the minesweeper lore to your spouse), or best takes at repurposing them (your spouse is thankful you didn't expose others to minesweeper lore at the extended family diner). And so it goes.
Worst memes are like jokes: you are either trying too hard, don't know the audience (e.g. zoomers), try to promote your products or worldviews or just fail at composing a sensible message from the materials you use.
The easiest to understand proto-memes like emojies, stickers and reaction gifs aren't that far from simplistic ragecomics of old, and characters from the latter found their way into the pool of the former ones. In the context, these reactions don't need anything else to work and convey your simple opinion or idea. But the meme needs that context packaged-in to be understood when shared elsewhere to strangers, like rage comics were actually comics explaining why someone feels foreveralone or a smiling trollface in the end.
In the modern meme scene, there are layers over layers of added references, symbols, meanings and subversions, but their fast-food tier digestability is still the key of why they are here.
I vouch for symmetry, or rather important buttons not being placed on the bottom. Active movements and especially button presses, e.g. in QTEs or multiple menus, are rather uncomfortable there, while sticks employ a different and less demanding moveset of slightly tilting them to the side. I don't see a reason why it's assymetrical on Xbox and I feel it's really dumb in autonomous Joycons with Nintendo party games when they should be completely interchangeable when shared between casual gaming persons.
I like PS glyphs because they are language-neutral and look more distinct, and I think, it would be point one in my choice. Point two is color-coding that helps most people (but may adjustments for accessibility?). Point three although ofercomplicating things is direction-coding, as it'd be generally nice to have a > shape near them, so they'd read intuitively from the first playthrough.
My initial thought went for second set of arrows. Like d-pad has one kind ⬆️➡️⬇️⬅️ and buttons have the other 🔼▶️🔽◀️. But I doubt it would be consisntetly great in different games with their own visual approach to portraying them.
Having more direct sign buttons on the other hand ✅️❌️❓️❕️ may be limiting to what devs want their game to be as it implies the check button is always approval, etc.
Math symbols, tho, ✖️➕️➖️➗️🟰 can be a universal and neutral set to pick from, especially if avoiding the confusing X button.
Also, ♤♡◇♧, in connection with older modes of gaming, but it should be tested for illegebitility between them and compared to arrows as three of them have vagualy triangular shape.
Besides funny rituals invloving deities, what is material in neoliberal capitalistic world is that there are various exclusive legal rights for partners over property, in labor forces, over child upbringing and in other fields. A select group of heterosexual partners who co-signed and keeps that deal with church/gvmnt gets a different treatment and some benefits no other party gets. It sounds petty and surreal to hold belief this custom should exist for that whole group but not +2% percents who are not heterosexual.
Single people, single parents, partners not married are way larger groups that are to look into discussing the marriage privelege. There can be no logical reason into pushing LGBTQ+ folks out but, emh, being more occupied with their personal live than their own. And with how many legalized gay marriage are in her state, there'd probably more court clerk involved into reviewing her whining than there are actual married gays, portraying how relevant and/or significant her problem with them.
For both law and market it isn't reasonable to generate subcategories that small, as they seek the most optimized approach in classificating clients. While the state would instinctively want to calculate owned taxes as clear as possible, the market would feel ganked on for it doesn't know what to do there, like, they need to invent new flavors of rings and decorations for incorrectly wed people? It is unreasonable to say the least, I bet they would still sell the same rings for hetero pairs and it would only lead into a spiral of moral-inspired lawsuits.
I don't feel that person can be involved in any discussion about gay people. I'm not a gay person myself but I have a gay friend so I get it naturally. Sorry for rambling, I was farming for my second diamond hoe while dictating it.
Sharing nice posts and personal experiences. We can discuss news pieces all day long under anonymous accounts with no need to really communicate with each other, just competing for a best take in the comment section, and it's something else entirely to discuss some OC with a person who shared it. Fedi is small and tight, so acting like we are a small community and not the Frontpage of the Internets may be beneficial to our existence there, leading to less toxic behavior and more quality interactions.
Ask youself, where have you seen the best comments and interactions? I've seen them when either post is OC, or if a person under a random post gives their expertise in something. While we can't predict the latter (if there's a Boing malfunction and there's a guy who worked with them who can go into details), we can encourage OC posters to do their thing and find if we ourselves can join them.
That's probably Machine Learning, the root category of tools and the origin of LLMs, not Large Language Models themselves we call 'AI'. These have many applications they are efficient at gradually explored from the 80s I believe, while the AI boom involving Google, Meta, OpenAI and others is about generalistic chatbots that are bad in just about everything they used in. I'm putting that distinction not because I'm an ass, but because I don't want the hype wave to get more credibility on the back of real scientifical and technological progress.
Imagine a cyclist who came upon some birds blocking the cycle path, pulled out a pocket knife, and started stabbing them so they could get through 20 seconds faster.
Not to deny the overall message, but now I want to see a comic strip about that with an unhinged cyclist telling car-persons' arguments in the most weird way while trashing the poor bird with any next sentence.
CYCLIST: Let me tell you about a cycling efficiency. Keeping a speed doesn't consume as much energy as constantly speeding up and slowing down, as in the jam you've selfishly caused. When I'm hopping on a bike I expect to get from point A to point B in a set amount of time, on a speed aknowledged by the road signs if not a bit faster, as set by a road authority. The infrastructure built exclusively for my mode of transportation doesn't consider surprise deviations, and as a daily driver I should not care for them too. There are two types of obstacles, and I'm completely in my right to drive over those I couldn't predict or couldn't see in time as it's their own problem that unlike type 2 obstacle they haven't made themselves visible for me to react as it's their responsibility to do so. That is not an isolated instance I'm angry at, but a systemic issue that I shall double down on every occasion because giving them a step means they'd take a mile from us, cyclists, the cowboys on gears. Allowing you to jaywalk like that on my lane would mean losing the world I love and brought up to be in. You are a destroyer of the cycling civilization, and it's only you to blame for what's coming to you.
Content becomes a lot bigger in size while we get too used to getting it immediately. I could've laughed and how I set a PC to torrent overnight in pre-100MB times, but with games liberally crossing 100GB line I can see myself going back to that.
imagine shrex