Spyke
GBU_28reply
lemm.ee

We're back boys (somewhere I've never been and will never go)

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I played the very early single player Fortnite when I was messing around with unreal 4 back in the day. I thought “this is cool” and never played it again, and now it’s one of the biggest games in the world I never saw it coming.

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sopuli.xyz

Because the single player fortnite was completely disappeared after they fully pivoted to making it a cartoon PUBG.

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logan_heroreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It's still top 20 by player count, despite being the only paid game mode and getting like 2 updates a year with some QOL and bugs every update

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sopuli.xyz

I was wondering what you meant by Top 20 until I checked their website. I thought it was just still BR with some variations. It's basically Roblox now.

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lemmy.today

Similar target audiences right? I’m ok with this, I’m glad that kids have games to look forward to like when I was young. Just because ST isn’t for me doesn’t mean I can’t be happy for the people who will be happy with this.

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nul9o9reply
lemmy.world

This video from tale foundry touches on this.

Let kids be kids, and enjoy their lore like we did when we were young. It's just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

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It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

Yep, I remember the old South Park episode about "Internet Dollars" something like 15 years old, and suddenly, people are figuring out how to do just that.

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lemmy.ca

Internet is weird for people who only stick to message board type social media like lemmy and reddit, and avoid account focused social media like tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, threads, etc.

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sh.itjust.works

That's the journey I went on. The phrae "skibidi toilet" started happening around me, and so I looked up what it was, and I understood it immediately. It's SFM Youtube poop. I was there 3000 years ago when that was invented, I remember nope.avi and pootis.

I find two things remarkable though: 1, SFM is still relevant after all these years and 2, they managed to wring a sci-fi story out of "stupid video about singing heads in toilets."

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JackbyDevreply
programming.dev

2, they managed to wring a sci-fi story out of "stupid video about singing heads in toilets."

It's unironically one of my favorite examples of "show don't tell" storytelling.

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I keep thinking of Abe Simpson's line about "I used to be with it, then they changed what it was." It's not weird and scary yet, but there's a "huh, that's different" factor.

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I got the fact that it's a SFM YouTube poop after I looked it up. I get why the kids like it and they keep making more. It's all very cozy and internet.

What I don't get is corpos trying to put skibidi toilet into things. I get why they're doing, child money. But like how do you integrate something as abstract and absurd into your own IP? But like in a way that kids will still think it's cool and not like dumb corpos trying to get on the bandwagon. Or maybe it's not working and we're just hearing about the attempts before they fail.

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GiveMemesreply
jlai.lu

Hey pal, I'm also in my 20s and skibidi toilet is at least mildly entertaining.

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It's actually really good! It's a classic case of things getting popular and cringe fans. Undertale is another big example of this, at least the first few years it was out. I guess Minecraft too, at times.

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I’m almost twice as old as you and I thought the first one was funny.

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Crafter72reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I find it interesting that Gmod almost touching 20 yrs and sfm still relevant to this day, there is always that guy who animates memes on sfm.

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CoreyLaddo on YouTube. He's a true SFM animator and a damn good one.

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Even with context. The whole site was dedicated to hosting brainrot before brainrot was even a word.

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If I can go back to any of that and not be deeply mystified by our collective insanity, we weren't trying hard enough

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socsareply
piefed.social

Speak for yourself. The only mod slop i consumed was Tribes and Unreal Tournament

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lemmy.ca

I saw skibidi toilet in the toy store the other day, how can it be so popular?

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lemmy.world

have you actually tried watching? I keep seeing complaints from people who never gave it a chance just because it looked weird

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I've seen a number of people who I know for a fact enjoyed Salad Fingers 20 years ago just unthinkingly dunking on skibidi toilet

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lemmy.ca

Right the meme is well aged and starting to smell a bit funky, it's time for the geezers to look at it. 👴

I'll give it a watch.

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blindbunnyreply
lemmy.ml

That's the spirit I thought it was weird until I dated a teacher and we watched like ten episodes and I was like yeah ok it's good.

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lemmy.ca

I have watched Skibidi Toilet - Season 1 [FULL SCREEN] my main thoughts are "cool use of source engine", I then watched a random one and at least it has different content so i'll watch some more of it later.

For me the initial clip is a bit meh, but the world building of the random episode looks interesting.

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The lack of any dialogue kinda makes me feel like I have to pay attention otherwise I'd have no clue what's going on.

Yeah I initially wrote it off as absurdist source engine 2010 yup engineer videos. But there's quite a bit more nuance than that.

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Comment105reply
lemm.ee

Isn't it absurdist horror?

These kids seem way more into horror than I've ever seen. I was really surprised to hear how my cousin's kids adored a freaky one called Poppy Playtime.

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lemmy.world

Nah, it's a constantly intensifying war between alien invaders (the toilet people) and a resistance group of electronics-based people.

Absurd as hell as a concept, but dude somehow makes it engaging?

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jerakorreply
startrek.website

How is different from Crazy Frog or Billy Bass? Dumb memes turning into toys or dumb meme toys have been around for forever.

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I must have been spared from the other meme toys, this one I noticed.

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It’s an awesome war movie with action scenes that go beyond what triple AAA productions like 300 of mad max can deliver and it just keeps going episode after episode.

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lemmy.world

It should be studied in film classes as a perfect example of non narrative based storytelling.

I'm serious.

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AS others have said, have you tried watching it? I am a millennial and have watched the show about 5 times and it’s just plain awesome.

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5in1kreply
lemm.ee

Why did my friends love Weebl and Bob or Arfenhaus?

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5in1kreply

You can buy weebl and bob toys right now still.

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leminal.space

That animation is shit, it's slow and doesn't have the weirdness the OG has. You ruined a shitty meme fortnite, well done.

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Comment105reply
lemm.ee

It would require them to individually custom animate every face's 3D mesh to it's absolute extremes.

If it were to be implemented properly it would probably have to be available only for the default skins and a small selection of popular skins. And that's if they even have the tools ready to push facial animations like that at all, idk if there are limits to the current rigging that would need to be addressed, idk how they'd do it tbh.

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DUMBASSreply
leminal.space

If they can spend the time making sure the stupid dances are right, they can spend the time making this shitty meme right.

If you're gonna do something, do it right or don't do it at all!

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Comment105reply
lemm.ee

I'm getting the impression that your name isn't exactly misleading.

But I do agree that a limited implementation of a more well executed version would be more interesting. Even if the whole meme is dumb.

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I chose my name for a reason.

It's more the speed of the movement that ruins it, it's too slow, speed the animation cycle up a bit and it wouldn't look as bad.

Just put skibidi toilet as a random NPC enemy in the game, I think that would be better, have it be like a random hord that runs through the map

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Seems like the best strategy don't you think? There are no real pros to pushing a pointless copyright claim and only negatives would come from doing so.

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I asked a seven-year-old girl why he's in the toilet. The answer - he fell in. You're welcome.

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oursreply
lemmy.world

With Michael Bay of all people. Sounds like something out of a comedy sketch.

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jlai.lu

I find it funny news. I don’t get why so much people hate it like their personality depends on it

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It's filled w/ MTX that preys on young people's sense of FOMO.

Oh, you're talking about Skibidi Toilet? Yeah, I really don't care one way or another about that.

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I mean atleast recently there haven't been a lot of new battle Royale games. I haven't seen a new big battle Royale game in a while, at most you get shooter games having a battle Royale game mode on top of the normal game modes they have.

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Lennnyreply
lemmy.world

And yet we all fiended for a new reddit. Sometimes rot is good, it makes alcohol after all.

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Rot is an essential part of our digestive process, assuming rot just means biological processes converting food from one state to a generally less appetizing state.

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ST is a Govt psyop designed to distract, debase, and demoralize the youth

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It would be easier to count the character skins that are NOT in Fortnite.

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Yeah they have everything, that’s the idea.

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How on earth is this confusing? Skibidi toilet is like one of the biggest memes right now. Fortnite has practically everyone and everything in it nowadays.

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lemmy.ml

This is Generation Alpha stuff, AFAIK no one is listening to this brain rot.

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My 8-year-old actually informed me that this was in the game and followed it up with, "I want to die."

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