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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Why is spelled wrong? And why are there two of them? Clearly the second is in reference to something, but I can't figure out what! It's misspelled due to a lot of the posts in TVIV were made as soon as something HOLY gently caress has happened. They don't have time to check their spelling. this is related. Why is "synpa" the trigger for this emoticon?
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# ? May 15, 2012 21:58 |
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I can never tell and it distresses me: is glum and then cheering up? Cheerful and then glum? Caught in an endless cycle of disappointment and glimmering hope?
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# ? May 15, 2012 22:09 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Why is spelled wrong? And why are there two of them? Clearly the second is in reference to something, but I can't figure out what! The shape of the chair and the blood smear in the second one makes it look like a Game of Thrones reference (the blood smear referring to the show's extreme level of violence), though the emote title ("asoiaf") is the acronym for the similar fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. That could be intentionally misleading, though.
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# ? May 15, 2012 22:16 |
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Groghammer posted:The shape of the chair and the blood smear in the second one makes it look like a Game of Thrones reference (the blood smear referring to the show's extreme level of violence), though the emote title ("asoiaf") is the acronym for the similar fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. That could be intentionally misleading, though.
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# ? May 15, 2012 22:20 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Seems simple enough. The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' books were adapted into the 'Game of Thrones' TV series. Yeah, it's this. The series is somewhat (in)famous for its frequent and often unexpected plot-twists. The blood stems from the fact that the titular throne is a jagged metal one made out of melted-down swords:
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# ? May 15, 2012 22:24 |
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What the hell is ? It's some kind of pokemon on the right I think, but I have no idea what that has to do with money or hypnotism. The smiley comes from when SA cartoonist Shmorky found out that "artist" Todd Goldman had stolen a drawing of his and was selling it, the cat in the emote is the drawing. Wikipedia has the details.
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# ? May 15, 2012 22:25 |
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Ovo posted:What the hell is ? It's some kind of pokemon on the right I think, but I have no idea what that has to do with money or hypnotism.
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Ovo posted:What the hell is ? It's some kind of pokemon on the right I think, but I have no idea what that has to do with money or hypnotism. It's Kadabra, I think, a pokemon that hypnotizes people. The pyramid, dollar sign, and the fact that it's named lron makes me think it's related to Scientology. Since I've seen some confusion about it before, came from one of my Let's Plays of a terrible terrible game named Hard Time, in this update. For it, and the game I spent most of the time playing (The Making of a Prophet), I used a face mod to put in a look of extreme contempt from the X-Men character Apocalypse, because it ended up looking really funny and I was inspired by another Let's Play of one of MDickie's other games. Hard Time is about being a prisoner, and the resolution of committing crimes is screwy at best. It culminated in me getting away with blowing off a warden's arm with a machine gun, and the judge telling the warden to deal with it. The thread, understandably, flipped their poo poo, and I was made an avatar of my ridiculous-looking character: "Just try to deal with it next time..." Eventually the thread wanted a emoticon and, after a few revisions, they bought one for me, and it sort of exploded in popularity over time until people were using it who'd never seen my thread or knew who the goofy little face was. Also, this is a bit of a stretch, but I sort of think I inadvertently helped create the whole Deal With It meme, because this was shortly before it really took off, and the first real major version was an edit of another SA emoticon, .
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# ? May 15, 2012 23:42 |
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Can someone explain to me? I know is a thing, but why a frog?
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# ? May 15, 2012 23:46 |
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Benne posted:Can someone explain to me? I know is a thing, but why a frog? The frog itself was a very goofy looking plush pillow thing staring like at the rear end of a half-naked girl in a porn shoot. That pillow's become a goon collector's item, though I'm not sure how Get Out got attached to it.
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# ? May 15, 2012 23:48 |
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Before anyone asks, stemmed from a discussion of a ball of weed the size of the sun. e: vvv the thread in which originated can be found here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2877873 (may definitely require archives) Bible Ian Black has a new favorite as of 23:55 on May 15, 2012 |
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Daeren posted:It's Kadabra, I think, a pokemon that hypnotizes people. The pyramid, dollar sign, and the fact that it's named lron makes me think it's related to Scientology. It's actually Hypno. Kadabra looks pretty different. is from a short lived anime called Oh! Super Milk Chan. This is her english catchphase. as I can remember was from an old thread where someone typed or did an MS paint with the word "wom" in it and it exploded into some clusterfuck of something. is the biggest waste of $30 dollars someone has ever spent.
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Penguingo posted:is the Juggernaut, as per this scene from X-Men. The movie was actually a reference to another internet meme. The original thing also has the far superior line "silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me!" Benne posted:Can someone explain to me? I know is a thing, but why a frog? It comes from , which in turn comes from this picture ( ) EDIT: Beaten on but I have a link to the picture!
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# ? May 15, 2012 23:55 |
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what is this really what is this how would you use it why would you buy this why does there need to be a "cool fish" why? you have to be kidding me, why? seriously? This is cool, but why is it "holy"?
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:00 |
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Polythene Pam posted:is the biggest waste of $30 dollars someone has ever spent. Not while still exists.
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:05 |
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Yonic Symbolism posted:why? There should be a warning in the OP to check the SAclopedia for these, too. http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=700
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:08 |
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I always thought that referred to this picture of Riker. I had an old psychology textbook that had this picture in it and they talked about how a person can look normal if the picture is upside down yet their features (eyes and mouth) are right side up. Mister_Eel has a new favorite as of 00:19 on May 16, 2012 |
# ? May 16, 2012 00:08 |
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Why is the Ego Orb "anime"?
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:18 |
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Yonic Symbolism posted:what is this http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=963 Old school forums emoticon for "cool"
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:24 |
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Eggie posted:Why is the Ego Orb "anime"? Forums user formerly known as "Anime" is why. It's been their avatar for ages. Don't know any deeper than that.
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:27 |
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Daeren posted:It's Kadabra, I think, a pokemon that hypnotizes people. The pyramid, dollar sign, and the fact that it's named lron makes me think it's related to Scientology It's a Hypno, not a Kadabra.
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:29 |
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What's the backstory behind ? I love that.
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# ? May 16, 2012 00:54 |
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This thread is excellent. I've always wondered where came from, I know it's an reference but the name 'black 101' always reminds me of this.
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The Fucky posted:This thread is excellent. I've always wondered where came from, I know it's an reference but the name 'black 101' always reminds me of this. I don't know if there was a specific thread behind it, but that smilie is a reference to black metal bands like these guys. Hence the "corpse" face paint and totally metal battle axe. Kimmalah has a new favorite as of 01:09 on May 16, 2012 |
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I'm pretty sure is a reference to a Front Page Article about a sick longing for hamburgers, 'Burgin' ', but it later evolved into a jab at self-diagnosed Aspies. I'm curious about What's going on here? Why is this man being menaced by a crab?
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:25 |
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NaturalLow posted:I don't know if there was a specific thread behind it, but that smilie is a reference to black metal bands like these guys. Hence the "corpse" face paint and totally metal battle axe. I guess that makes sense. Type O Negative isn't even that far off, then!
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:36 |
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Nucular Carmul posted:It is one of many Mass Effect related smilies. It actually wasn't created as a Mass Effect thing originally. I don't remember the context exactly but it was posted in a non-Mass Effect GBS thread, everyone thought it was hilarious, and then I guess Games decided to appropriate it because apparently we don't have enough Mass Effect smilies and we need to brand only vaguely related things with ME. I really wish I could remember which thread that was, I remember laughing til I was out of breath at seeing that thing out of nowhere. What's the story behind ? I don't get the reference.
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Mad Hamish posted:I'm curious about What's going on here? Why is this man being menaced by a crab? That's Jean Philippe from Hell's Kitchen. He tried to make one of the contestants befriend a crab at some point, I believe.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:38 |
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TVIV has a lot of show-specific ones but is probably my favorite.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:39 |
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A teapot...why a teapot? And who is Zoro? It's clearly not that guy in the black cape with the sword...
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:It actually wasn't created as a Mass Effect thing originally. I don't remember the context exactly but it was posted in a non-Mass Effect GBS thread, everyone thought it was hilarious, and then I guess Games decided to appropriate it because apparently we don't have enough Mass Effect smilies and we need to brand only vaguely related things with ME. I'm almost positive its a ME2-related smiley, hence why its called shepface. Its not a reference to that particular image, but a different one that looks a lot more like it.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:44 |
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is from this Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic but it seems to be a pretty useful emoticon on its own merits. What the heck is ?
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1stGear posted:I'm almost positive its a ME2-related smiley, hence why its called shepface. Its not a reference to that particular image, but a different one that looks a lot more like it. I guess it's possible that someone posted it in an ME thread and then someone else posted it in the GBS thread before it got bought as a smiley (I remember when I saw it it was an image from imgur, not a smiley), but everyone in the thread who commented on it hadn't seen it before, so I figured someone in one of the ME threads saw it, noticed a resemblance to Shepard and bought it as shepface. I hope someone has a link to the thread either way, though, I really wish I could remember which one it was.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:48 |
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Thank god this thread is back. I haven't seen a similar one since before I regged. Where is this from? It seems like it would have a melancholy backstory. buglord has a new favorite as of 01:58 on May 16, 2012 |
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:What the heck is ? There's a whole series of regdate smileys. regd09 looked like regdog, hence . The dancing icons are for the .dll file extension - regd11. is a dude from an anime about wacky pirates.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:50 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:
I don't know if it's related to the smiley, but way back when, there was a legendary thread about the best teapot EVER. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2931850
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:58 |
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Can someone remind me what is referring to? I kinda remember something about formatting or installing OS.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:59 |
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Flatten and reinstall.
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# ? May 16, 2012 01:59 |
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So I get what this is supposed to convey but what does Viggo Mortensen have to do with anything?
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# ? May 16, 2012 02:02 |
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:It actually wasn't created as a Mass Effect thing originally. I don't remember the context exactly but it was posted in a non-Mass Effect GBS thread, everyone thought it was hilarious, and then I guess Games decided to appropriate it because apparently we don't have enough Mass Effect smilies and we need to brand only vaguely related things with ME. I don't know why it carries Fork Bomb's name, but there were these pictures going around that some guy took of his "sweet whip" and got his Asian girlfriend to model atop of it in a bikini. The chick was a total butterface, and that's the chick.
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