History of game memes. The history of Go game memes, I created
Memes are the most important part game culture: they are laughed at, they are shared in in social networks, by them players will recognize their own kind. A meme can be anything short funny phrases, pictures and even videos. Some memes go far beyond games, turning into viruses and even making their way into the headlines of news sites. And people who laugh at game memes often don't even know where they came from. To remedy the situation, we have prepared for you the story of the most famous game memes. From the eighties to the present day; from Mario and Warcraft before Heavy rain and Dota 2.
Princess in another castle
Let's start with the classics. The words "Sorry, Mario, but our princess is in another castle!" player in Super mario Bros. had to read after passing each castle. Throughout the game, the Heroic Plumber is missed seven times in a row! Yes, you cannot win in the lottery with such karma. Naturally, this frustrated the players and led to the emergence of many themed photojacks. Today, the meme is used to explain to someone why they will not be able to get what they want.
Make a barrel
Another legacy of the pixel era is the phrase "Make a barrel." We first heard it in the game Star fox 1993 year. In Europe, this unpretentious rail shooter was released under the name Star wing... The essence of the game was to fly a fighter plane, fighting off numerous enemies, and perform aerobatics. A figure called a "barrel" briefly made the plane invulnerable, which the player was reminded of literally every minute. One of the characters, Peppy the rabbit, constantly shouted the phrase "Make a barrel!" and incredibly annoying. Soon, the recommendation to "make a barrel" began to be used on the Internet as a universal answer to any question. Few people follow this advice, except for the ubiquitous Google: if you write the phrase Do a Barrel Roll in the search bar, the interface will perform the classic "barrel".
It is dangerous to go alone. Take it!
The second most popular universal advice owes its appearance to the game. The legend of Zelda 1986 year. During the game the main character named Link enters an unremarkable cave where an unnamed old man lives. “It's dangerous to go alone! Take this, ”the character says and hands Link a pretty decent sword. The phrase has sunk deep into the hearts of players: now it is used to offer help to someone and to lend a completely random item. If you are going to go to university and tell the Internet about it, they can offer you a kitten in return. Or an owl. The meme, as often happens, made its way into other games, for example, the achievement of the same name is given in a shooter Medal of honor... Also mentions of the meme
meet in games Fable 3, World of warcraft,Borderlands and many others.
All your base are belong to us
The Zelda case is far from the only example of how players grab onto a poorly worded phrase and spread it across the Internet. One of the most popular game memes in the world arose from poor localization of a Japanese shooter Zero Wing distant 1989. All characters in the game speak a broken version of the English language, better known on the net as "Ingrish". The most famous remark of the main villain can be translated into Russian as follows: "All your base belongs to us." Western players appreciated the translation and made a short video with footage from the game. Soon, many people on the Internet began to recognize the meme. But he gained real popularity after the video with the song of the same name appeared on the network. It featured a famous replica located in the most unlikely places from fortune-telling in cookies to the Hollywood Hills. Since then, many demotivators, photojacks and even poems have been dedicated to the captured bases. The meme is usually used to laugh at the broken English that is common in Asian countries.
FAIL
And in order to laugh at everything in a row, many often use the word "Fail". This is another classic example of broken English that players are so excited about. 16-bit Japanese shooter Blazing star informs about the loss with the grammatically incorrect inscription YOU FAIL IT! Translated, it sounds something like "You screw it up." Fans happily jumped at the opportunity to distort English language even stronger. The meme spread quickly across the web. Today in many blogs you can see photos and videos of someone's failures with the inscription FAIL in huge letters. The meme has long gone beyond gaming forums and is now widely known even to inexperienced Internet users.
Korovany
If FAIL is the leader in the English-speaking sector of the Internet, then in Russia and the CIS the most famous game meme can rightfully be called “cows”. Once upon a time for a development company MisT land a letter came from a fan with a tearful request to make a dream game. The text of the proposal was immediately published on the company's website in the "humor" section. The letter was written illiterately, emotionally and contained many typos. As is usually the case with the ideas of the players, the image of the alleged masterpiece turned out to be vague, but very funny. The letter spawned whole line memes: "the houses are filling up", "the essence is this" and, of course, "you can rob cows." “Cows” have been mentioned several times on the Bash.org website, there are many fotojabs and several games dedicated to them. Most often, the meme is used in order to point out flaws or incomprehensible functionality of the game.
Need more gold
If you are tired of angry memes that arose out of someone's stupidity, then here is an exception. "We need more gold" meme, which appeared thanks to the successful localization. Strategy Warcraft 3 came out in our good translation and with professional voice acting. Each character or type of troops had its own set of phrases of the so-called "asci". Characters spoke their lines quite often, depending on what the player asked to do. Especially fans loved the asci "life for Nerzul", "need to build a ziggurat" and, of course, "need more gold, my lord." Last phrase they especially like to use it on the Russian-language Internet about the next increase in taxes, the introduction of new fines and news about the budget deficit.
Go, I created
Apart from Warcraft 3 itself, it is necessary to mention the DotA map, which became an independent game, and laid the foundations for a special genre of tactical online games. Passionate gamblers have come up with their own jargon, which only a professional linguist can understand. One of the most famous memes: "Go, I created", which is now used to call comrades for anything from eating borscht to conquering the galaxy. Some sources claim that this phrase was invented by players in Counter-Strike, but Dota residents use it much more often.
Bottom, bottom, bottom
Another significant concept in DotA is the word “bottom”. This is the game of the most inept team member. Outside Dota, the "bottom" symbolizes too crooked hands and bad game into whatever. Popular modifications of the meme: "bottom" and "bottom" with the addition of all sorts of offensive epithets.
Spent
These are the epithets that creators usually deserve pirated transfers games. A classic example of disgusting localization GTA: San Andreas... The most noticeable mistake was the machine translation of the Wasted inscription, which appeared on the screen every time the hero was killed or caught by the police. In the Russian version, the inscription turned into "Spent", which could not but please the players. Most often, the meme is used in order to highlight someone's shameful failure, such as the loss of a football team or
defeat in a street fight.
Giant enemy crab
Footage from the same conference, crab from 1:20
If Western players knew about the "Wasted" meme, this is how they would say about the performance Sony at E3 2006. During the presentation of the game Genji 2 the producer called revolutionary “the presence weak points at bosses "and" change weapons in real time. " Since this sort of thing has existed in games since about the 80s, the audience was not impressed. However, the most memorable part of the presentation was when the producer revealed that many of the battles were based on true events from Japanese history. The screen at this time showed the battle with the "Giant Enemy Crab". The players began to scoff at what was happening in every possible way and came up with an alternative Japanese story according to Sony. In addition, a lot of videos and demotivators with the participation of aggressive giant crabs and not so much have appeared on the network. From now on, the giant crab in the gaming community has been the designation of everything absurd and illogical.
Cake is a lie
In general, the players are very fond of absurdity, and the story with the cake is a vivid confirmation of this. The cake is promised to the player as a reward for successfully completing the experiment in the puzzle. Portal... In one of the playrooms on the wall you can find the handwritten inscription “Cake is a lie”. The inscription casts doubt on the likelihood of a happy ending, but does not upset the player, but rather amuses with its absurdity. Despite the fact that you can still get a cake in the game, on the Internet, a meme most often means a pursuit of something unrealizable. The phrase became so popular that the developers were tired of asking about the cake. One of the creators of the game Portal 2, screenwriter Eric Woolpoe, promised not to add a word about cake to the second part of the game. “If you think you’re tired of memes, believe me, I’m tired of them much earlier than you,” admitted Eric.
Press x to jason
And the players, meanwhile, are tired of oversimplification. game mechanics... This is especially true of the game Heavy rain, which actively exploits the Quick Time Events mechanic. This means that the player often cannot fully control what is happening and only presses the indicated buttons in time. This is most annoying in the scene where the protagonist is looking for his lost son Jason in the mall. The player has only one opportunity to press the X button for several minutes to shout out the boy's name. Few people liked this boring and ridiculous scene and immediately became famous. Composer Eric Fullerton wrote a song about Jason, and one of the disgruntled players even made
Jason simulator with exactly one game action... According to some, the simulator is no worse than the original Heavy Rain.
Arrow in the knee
Role-playing game Skyrim has caused a number of memes and parodies. Glorious The series Elder Scrolls always delighted the players with a lot of mistakes and absurdities. In one of the first cities, we will hear the heartwarming story of a guard who used to be a hero, but then caught an arrow in his knee. It would be sad if every second guard he met did not tell the same to the hero. Perhaps “an arrow in the knee” in the vastness of Tamriel is the name of a serious contagious disease? The players happily seized on this absurd plot and also began to explain all their failures by combat wounds. The story was overgrown with details
fan cartoons, and one of the players even found out the real identity of the failed hero. It turned out to be the legendary Ace Ventura from the movie of the same name (see video at the beginning).
That's all for now. Of course, we have not remembered all the game memes. There are hundreds and thousands of them each popular game contributes to the collection of game folklore. Sometimes players argue with pain in their fingers about whose meme is funnier and more significant.
Memes are the most important part of the gaming culture: they are laughed at, they are shared on social networks, and players recognize their own kind from them. A meme can be anything short funny phrases, pictures and even videos. Some memes go far beyond games, turning into viruses and even making their way into the headlines of news sites. And people who laugh at game memes often don't even know where they came from. To remedy the situation, we have prepared for you the story of the most famous game memes. From the eighties to the present day; from Mario and Warcraft before Heavy rain and Dota 2.
Princess in another castle
Let's start with the classics. The words "Sorry, Mario, but our princess is in another castle!" player in Super Mario Bros. had to read after passing each castle. Throughout the game, the Heroic Plumber is missed seven times in a row! Yes, you cannot win in the lottery with such karma. Naturally, this frustrated the players and led to the emergence of many themed photojacks. Today, the meme is used to explain to someone why they will not be able to get what they want.
Make a barrel
Another legacy of the pixel era is the phrase "Make a barrel." We first heard it in the game Star fox 1993 year. In Europe, this unpretentious rail shooter was released under the name Star wing... The essence of the game was to fly a fighter plane, fighting off numerous enemies, and perform aerobatics. A figure called a "barrel" briefly made the plane invulnerable, which the player was reminded of literally every minute. One of the characters, Peppy the rabbit, constantly shouted the phrase "Make a barrel!" and incredibly annoying. Soon, the recommendation to "make a barrel" began to be used on the Internet as a universal answer to any question. Few people follow this advice, except for the ubiquitous Google: if you write the phrase Do a Barrel Roll in the search bar, the interface will perform the classic "barrel".
It is dangerous to go alone. Take it!
The second most popular universal advice owes its appearance to the game. The legend of zelda 1986 year. During the game, the main character named Link enters an unremarkable cave where an unnamed old man lives. “It's dangerous to go alone! Take this, ”the character says and hands Link a pretty decent sword. The phrase has sunk deep into the hearts of players: now it is used to offer help to someone and to lend a completely random item. If you are going to go to university and tell the Internet about it, they can offer you a kitten in return. Or an owl. The meme, as often happens, made its way into other games, for example, the achievement of the same name is given in a shooter Medal of honor... Also mentions of the meme
meet in games Fable 3, World of warcraft,Borderlands and many others.
All your base are belong to us
The Zelda case is far from the only example of how players grab onto a poorly worded phrase and spread it across the Internet. One of the most popular game memes in the world arose from poor localization of a Japanese shooter Zero Wing distant 1989. All characters in the game speak a broken version of the English language, better known on the net as "Ingrish". The most famous remark of the main villain can be translated into Russian as follows: "All your base belongs to us." Western players appreciated the translation and made a short video with footage from the game. Soon, many people on the Internet began to recognize the meme. But he gained real popularity after the video with the song of the same name appeared on the network. It featured a famous replica located in the most unlikely places from fortune-telling in cookies to the Hollywood Hills. Since then, many demotivators, photojacks and even poems have been dedicated to the captured bases. The meme is usually used to laugh at the broken English that is common in Asian countries.
FAIL
And in order to laugh at everything in a row, many often use the word "Fail". This is another classic example of broken English that players are so excited about. 16-bit Japanese shooter Blazing star informs about the loss with the grammatically incorrect inscription YOU FAIL IT! Translated, it sounds something like "You screw it up." Fans happily jumped at the opportunity to distort the English language even more. The meme spread quickly across the web. Today in many blogs you can see photos and videos of someone's failures with the inscription FAIL in huge letters. The meme has long gone beyond gaming forums and is now widely known even to inexperienced Internet users.
Korovany
If FAIL is the leader in the English-speaking sector of the Internet, then in Russia and the CIS the most famous game meme can rightfully be called “cows”. Once upon a time for a development company MisT land a letter came from a fan with a tearful request to make a dream game. The text of the proposal was immediately published on the company's website in the "humor" section. The letter was written illiterately, emotionally and contained many typos. As is usually the case with the ideas of the players, the image of the alleged masterpiece turned out to be vague, but very funny. The letter gave rise to a number of memes: "the houses are filling up", "the essence is this" and, of course, "you can rob cows." "Cows" have been mentioned several times on the Bash.org website, many fotojubs and several games are dedicated to them. Most often, the meme is used in order to point out flaws or incomprehensible functionality of the game.
Need more gold
If you are tired of angry memes that arose out of someone's stupidity, then here is an exception. "We need more gold" meme, which appeared thanks to the successful localization. Strategy Warcraft 3 came out with us in a good translation and with professional voice acting. Each character or type of troops had its own set of phrases of the so-called "asci". Characters spoke their lines quite often, depending on what the player asked to do. Especially fans loved the asci "life for Nerzul", "need to build a ziggurat" and, of course, "need more gold, my lord." They are especially fond of using the last phrase on the Russian-language Internet about the next increase in taxes, the introduction of new fines and news about the budget deficit.
Go, I created
Apart from Warcraft 3 itself, it is necessary to mention the DotA map, which became an independent game, and laid the foundations for a special genre of tactical online games. Passionate gamblers have come up with their own jargon, which only a professional linguist can understand. One of the most famous memes: "Go, I created", which is now used to call comrades for anything from eating borscht to conquering the galaxy. Some sources claim that this phrase was invented by players in Counter-Strike, but Dota residents use it much more often.
Bottom, bottom, bottom
Another significant concept in DotA is the word “bottom”. This is the game of the most inept team member. Outside of Dota, the “bottom” symbolizes too crooked hands and poor play at anything. Popular modifications of the meme: "bottom" and "bottom" with the addition of all sorts of offensive epithets.
Spent
These are the epithets that the creators of pirated game translations usually deserve. A classic example of disgusting localization GTA: San Andreas... The most noticeable mistake was the machine translation of the Wasted inscription, which appeared on the screen every time the hero was killed or caught by the police. In the Russian version, the inscription turned into "Spent", which could not but please the players. Most often, the meme is used in order to highlight someone's shameful failure, such as the loss of a football team or
defeat in a street fight.
Giant enemy crab
Footage from the same conference, crab from 1:20
If Western players knew about the "Wasted" meme, this is how they would say about the performance Sony at E3 2006. During the presentation of the game Genji 2 the producer called "the presence of weak points in the bosses" and "the change of weapons in real time" revolutionary. Since this sort of thing has existed in games since about the 80s, the audience was not impressed. However, the most memorable part of the presentation was when the producer revealed that many of the battles were based on true events from Japanese history. The screen at this time showed the battle with the "Giant Enemy Crab". The players began to scoff at what was happening in every possible way and came up with an alternative Japanese story according to Sony. In addition, a lot of videos and demotivators with the participation of aggressive giant crabs and not so much have appeared on the network. From now on, the giant crab in the gaming community has been the designation of everything absurd and illogical.
Cake is a lie
In general, the players are very fond of absurdity, and the story with the cake is a vivid confirmation of this. The cake is promised to the player as a reward for successfully completing the experiment in the puzzle. Portal... In one of the playrooms on the wall you can find the handwritten inscription “Cake is a lie”. The inscription casts doubt on the likelihood of a happy ending, but does not upset the player, but rather amuses with its absurdity. Despite the fact that you can still get a cake in the game, on the Internet, a meme most often means a pursuit of something unrealizable. The phrase became so popular that the developers were tired of asking about the cake. One of the creators of the game Portal 2, screenwriter Eric Woolpoe, promised not to add a word about cake to the second part of the game. “If you think you’re tired of memes, believe me, I’m tired of them much earlier than you,” admitted Eric.
Press x to jason
And players, meanwhile, are tired of the general simplification of game mechanics. This is especially true of the game Heavy rain, which actively exploits the Quick Time Events mechanic. This means that the player often cannot fully control what is happening and only presses the indicated buttons in time. This is most annoying in the scene where the protagonist is looking for his lost son Jason in the mall. The player has only one opportunity to press the X button for several minutes to shout out the boy's name. Few people liked this boring and ridiculous scene and immediately became famous. Composer Eric Fullerton wrote a song about Jason, and one of the disgruntled players even made
Jason simulator with exactly one game action. According to some, the simulator is no worse than the original Heavy Rain.
Arrow in the knee
Role-playing game Skyrim has caused a number of memes and parodies. The glorious Elder Scrolls series has always delighted players with a lot of mistakes and absurdities. In one of the first cities, we will hear the heartwarming story of a guard who used to be a hero, but then caught an arrow in his knee. It would be sad if every second guard he met did not tell the same to the hero. Perhaps “an arrow in the knee” in the vastness of Tamriel is the name of a serious contagious disease? The players happily seized on this absurd plot and also began to explain all their failures by combat wounds. The story was overgrown with details
fan cartoons, and one of the players even found out the real identity of the failed hero. It turned out to be the legendary Ace Ventura from the movie of the same name (see video at the beginning).
That's all for now. Of course, we have not remembered all the game memes. There are hundreds and thousands of them, each popular game contributes to the collection of game folklore. Sometimes players argue with pain in their fingers about whose meme is funnier and more significant.
In the coming years, only government regulation measures will be able to save the stagnating Russian insurance market in the coming years: the refusal of budgetary compensations to victims of natural disasters, the unification of compulsory medical insurance and voluntary health insurance policies, and the introduction of tax incentives for life insurance.
This was announced on November 18 during the forum "The Future of the Insurance Market" organized by the RAEX (Expert RA) rating agency, the President of the All-Russian Union of Insurers Igor Yurgens.
The conclusions of the RAEX analytical study state that the Russian insurance market continues to experience serious difficulties.
Despite its nominal growth (+ 2.2% in the 1st half of 2015 compared to the value for the 1st half of 2014), the real volume (excluding inflation) of collected insurance premiums decreased. The loss ratio of insurance companies increased (101.1% at the end of 2014, 99.9% in 2013), pressure from other financial markets (including the stock, foreign exchange and banking) increased.
According to the RAEX forecast, in 2015 the growth rate of insurance premiums will be from minus 1 to plus 4%, the market volume will not exceed 1,020 billion rubles. At the same time, the number of insurance contracts will be reduced by 5-8%. If the profitability of insurance companies does not rise above the inflation rate (in the first half of 2015 it was 6.6% against 8.5% of official inflation), investors will lose interest in this market, warned Alexey Yanin, Managing Director of RAEX for Insurance Ratings.
Salvation must come from the state, says Igor Yurgens, President of the All-Russian Union of Insurers.
“Just yesterday the leadership of ARIA met with the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, - he said. - We are glad that our views on the future of the insurance industry coincide. As economist Joseph Schumpeter said, every economy must one day creatively collapse and take a step forward. in Russia we will not get out of the rental economy, which depends on oil prices. But I do not know of a single country in the world that would create an ideal insurance system, despite the fact that the economy itself is bad. The insurance system of Russia is being cleared of dubious players. including with the active participation of the regulator. And if after this cleansing process is completed, together with the Central Bank we convince the state that we need only 3-4 things in the legislation for successful development, then the industry itself will solve all problems through the SRO. "Yurgens considers the adoption of the bill on home insurance to be the first in terms of importance for the insurance market.
"We are of the same opinion with the regulator, - noted the President of the ARIA, - if we convince the State Duma that the law needs to be promoted in our edition, then for the market it will become the same driver that OSAGO once became."The bill, which the State Duma adopted in the first reading in the spring, provides for a new procedure for compensation for homeowners affected by natural disasters. The main burden rests with insurers (with whom, accordingly, citizens can voluntarily conclude an insurance contract). Participation in compensation from the federal or regional authorities is designated as possible (subject to the availability of funds in the budget), but optional.
The second necessary measure, according to Yurgens, is the combination of compulsory medical insurance and voluntary medical insurance policies into one product.
"The existing CHI system hinders the development of voluntary health insurance, - says the RAEX study, - since when buying a VHI policy, the client actually pays for the same service twice. It is necessary to integrate compulsory medical insurance and voluntary medical insurance into a single system, legislative consolidation of the place of voluntary medical insurance in the health care system, so that it can supplement compulsory medical insurance and open access to additional private treatment and services for citizens, as well as return the functions of insurers to medical insurance organizations. "Finally, the third necessary measure to save the insurance market is the establishment of tax incentives for voluntary life insurance, the head of ARIA believes.
But this will have to wait in the next two or three years, he warns. The situation in the economy is not such for the authorities to go for new tax breaks.