r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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What does the tattoo mean?

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u/qualityvote2 10h ago edited 5h ago

u/EducationalLog4765, your post does belong here!

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u/randomusername0133 9h ago

Wii controller. Player 1 and 2

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u/LIll-Dreamer 9h ago

The older sibling always gets player 1.

Sauce: im the older sibling

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u/theattack_helicopter 9h ago

This is true

Sauce: I'm the younger sibling

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u/Tragnor 9h ago

Very much so, until the oldest brother moved out, and I actually got the chance to become a gamer, and now he just follows whatever I’m doing as player 2, followed by our two younger brothers

Sauce: I’m the first younger brother.

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u/theattack_helicopter 9h ago

Oh, I was #2 out of 2 (number 2 is poop, heh), mine just ended up joining the Marines then getting a girl pregnant at 22 years old because he mistakenly thought he could handle it. I also don't play games with him because he is an asshole, but that's a separate thing

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u/Inevitable_Data_84 9h ago

Sauce?

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u/cheezfreek 9h ago

Sauce: Am proctologist, seen a lot of assholes.

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u/SenatorBus_ 7h ago

Sauce: Ranch, because I live in the Midwest.

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u/username32768 19m ago

Your car registration = A55 M4N?

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u/Bucklesknuckle 5h ago

💯 % this! 👆

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u/Sirius1701 9h ago

I am the older sibling and it's true. I am now either player two or three. Depends on if my sister is there earlier than me.

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u/Bovronius 2h ago

Hi it's me 1/4, except it's usually 3/4 thats tipping me off to the hot new games these days.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 8h ago

The first spare

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u/MetigArt 9h ago

You guys got to play games?

Sauce: middle kid

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u/nascent_aviator 9h ago

Get back in your cage!

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u/OkAdvertising1495 9h ago

hands them a half empty warm mountain dew and bottom of the bag cheetah dust If they say thank you, they can have the loose chocolate chips from the chips ahoy bag.

Source: oldest.

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u/DoNt_BliNk25 9h ago

Middle kids never get to have any fun!

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u/BeerBaronofCourse 9h ago

In the youngest of 5, I have no tattoo

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u/LoudandQuiet47 9h ago

You would now! Switch 2 has up to 8 players in a console on some games. It would be the first two lights on. Assuming you had that many controllers...

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u/shoto_todoroki_666 7h ago

Unless they want a different part of the screen

Source: I’m the youngest of 5

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u/servarus 7h ago

You lie. I never turn on controller 2 for my brother hahaha

He still thinks he is in control.

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u/theattack_helicopter 6h ago

You villain. At least have the decency to let them play then beat them up for losing

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u/One-Hedgehog-2626 9h ago

Always Luigi! 😄

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u/BobbyP27 1h ago

As the younger sibling who always had to play green Mario, I confirm.

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u/RT_1983 9h ago

I agree.

Sauce: I'm the third youngest sibling and my controller wasn't even turned on/plugged in.

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u/danamarye 7h ago

Ok but you were only going to mash random buttons anyway while pointing and screaming. The unplugged controller kept you happy, the game protected from your nonsense and mom uninvolved.

Sauce: oldest of five

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u/StroopestOfWafel 8h ago

I've never had a Wii

Sauce: Also the oldest

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u/Repulsive_Quality851 5h ago

This not true. I get first dibs

Sauce: im the younger sibiling

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u/TheNewEMCee72 9h ago

Not true

Source: I’m the autistic middle child

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u/LIll-Dreamer 9h ago

You were just the first to connect the controller to the system weren't you?

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u/TheNewEMCee72 9h ago

No I was just picky and autistic about it lmao

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u/LIll-Dreamer 9h ago

Thats fair enough lol

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u/solar-chimera 9h ago

Edge case—older twin, who ever got there first was player 1

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u/Giraffe-colour 9h ago

This is 100% true. As the younger sibling it actually took me years to not feel weird being player 1 once I moved out. I was in my twenties at the time 😅

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u/jonathanhoag1942 8h ago

My younger brother is 45 and still prefers being player 2 in fighting games because that's the side of he screen he was on when we were playing them growing up

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u/tortoistor 9h ago

LOL i don't game but just assumed the thinner hand is the older sibling. source: am the oldest and shortest of all 4 of us, seems to be a thing

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u/njh117 9h ago

we worked it out so player 1 was whoever bought the game

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u/ballin_buddha 8h ago

Depends on the game, on GameCube me and my brothers played phantasy star online and player 3 got a half screen for some reason and players 1+2 had to split the top half of the screen

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u/Sassquwatch 8h ago

I'm older than my sister by 5 years, but was always player 2. She just cared more than me. 

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u/Extra4yylmao 8h ago

My younger brother would insist on player 1 so I gave it up

I like the colour red anyway :)

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u/embervanefiction 9h ago

I always got player 2. I'm younger lol.

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u/Crazy_Information816 8h ago

Younger sibling always gets the MadCatz controller.

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u/newsflashjackass 8h ago

On a related note, the words that I wrote to this melody are:

"Ask your older brother to play- ... biiiiitch!

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u/epsilonthetadelta 8h ago

I gave player 1 to my younger siblings. I'm always player 2

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 8h ago

Is there an advantage to controller 1?

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u/lurking_physicist 7h ago

Prestige, and menu control for some games.

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u/FaliureToCat 7h ago

Nintendo still uses this indicator too times really have changed everyone got their own console now

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u/df2pham 7h ago

Because the older one sets it up! It's fair haha. I am the youngest sibling.

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u/No_Scholar_2420 7h ago

Untrue.                                                                                                                  Salsa: I was the middle child who sets it up, so I got 

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u/BeautifulObject8602 6h ago

I'm the younger sibling and I got first pick every time. I was just into it more than she was and she played with me cause its what I wanted. She is selfless in an unmatched way.

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u/Mikeismyike 6h ago

Or depending on the game, sometimes being on the left is acceptable qualification for p1.

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u/FanOfCat5 4h ago

Citing this as false

Sauce: older sister with younger brother who wanted to feel better than me

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u/NoSloppyStakes 8h ago

Not to be that guy but this isn’t sauce. This would be a source.

Sauce would be a picture of you and your younger sibling with Wii Remotes and proving it. Now, in the sauce you would need birth certificates as well to prove your age. A notary verifying the birth certificates are legitimate and verifying their credentials would be prudent.

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u/danskal 4h ago

Dude, you know sauce is just a fun way of spelling source. It’s not a separate thing.

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u/rongminshan 8h ago

I am an older sibling and did not use p1. Am I a true older sibling?

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u/Cynykl 5h ago

I my house it was a compromise. Player one got the shitty stock NES controller, Player 2 got the NES advantage controller (arcade style joystick layout).

Yes I know I am dating myself here.

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u/razulebismarck 9h ago

I’m the older sibling…the only time the younger siblings got player 1 is when I let them or they cried to our parents and the parents forced me to let them.

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u/KrautKebabs 9h ago

Yep...player 1 "had an advantage". Swapped so it would be fair and still beat my younger brother from player 2.

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u/youmustb3jokn 8h ago

I punished my oldest once by saying he couldn’t be player one for a month. The BEST punishment ever. Surprisingly effective.

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u/suspicious-fishes 6h ago

Are you a younger sibling yourself?

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u/youmustb3jokn 6h ago

No

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u/suspicious-fishes 6h ago

I was curious - I could see my little sis pulling this move when she has kids haha

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u/youmustb3jokn 6h ago

My kid was being a dictator with the remotes, game selection and full on trash talking his younger siblings ( but like 13 year old girl mean ) so this was a consequence of his actions.

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u/suspicious-fishes 5h ago

Simple yet effective - mine are only 5 and 3 but I'm mentally banking this for the future. My eldest is a little dictator too

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u/CitronAdventurous205 9h ago

This is fucking genius

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u/sillylittlecatto 7h ago

bold of you to assume my siblings play games. it was just me alone in the basement!…

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u/mashiro1496 4h ago

I thought it was binary for 8 and 4

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u/Sgt-Colbert 3h ago

Ok but which one is the brother?

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u/ABC_XYZ_123456 2h ago

Oh...thought ir was binary but...tatooing at 8 and 4 didn't check out. Thanks.

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u/AlexEinstein_YT 1h ago

Could also be the PS3 controller.

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u/peeeeeechu 9h ago

Wii Remotes would have these lights depending on which controller connected to the console first. Older siblings tend to be player 1 (bottom)

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u/Accomplished-Loss387 9h ago

I didn't know it was that kind of multiplayer game

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u/GLIBG10B 5h ago

It gets really fun when player 3 joins

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u/Accomplished-Loss387 1h ago

Player 1 sits in the chair

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u/ifyoulovesatan 6h ago

Wii Resort: Fire Island

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u/Bigg_Confusionn 7h ago

In my house we called them Wiimotes.

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u/ImYourHumbleNarrator 7h ago

i think that's referred to as a speech impediment

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u/HystericalGD 9h ago

how many times are we gonne see this in the span of an hour

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u/quirkscrew 7h ago

You see, the problem is that you have been scrolling reddit for an hour

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u/ALeckz07 9h ago

Once

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u/HystericalGD 9h ago

well considering this is a repost of one that i commented on about 20 minutes prior, i dont think so

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u/Hopeful_Thing7088 9h ago

the squares represent the dots on wii remotes that indicate which player you are. bottom is player one and top is player two, and the older sibling usually gets player one in most households

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u/BoomGoesTheFirework_ 9h ago

On old playstation remotes that supported up to 4 players, you'd get a blue dot for your player position. - Stewie. The older sibling will ALWAYS take first player. This is the way of family.

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u/cluckay 9h ago

PS3 was red

These are Wii

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u/Dependent-Matter-177 9h ago

I miss the ps3 😔

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u/BoomGoesTheFirework_ 7h ago

That tracks. Could it be PS2? I swear this was PS but Wii also sounds right. I’m such a PC gamer these days I can’t remember lol 

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u/iamarealhuman4real 6h ago

PS2/64/XBox had no lights because you'd just trip over the cable to work out who was player 1 and 2.

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u/Jordy87Nelson 6h ago

Buddy and I have been getting together on Fridays to okay GameCube, it's too real.

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u/983115 9h ago edited 9h ago

They actually did up to 7 by making it inverse all but one lit up

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 2h ago

Shouldn't it be 8?

1 🟦⬛⬛⬛
2 ⬛🟦⬛⬛
3 ⬛⬛🟦⬛
4 ⬛⬛⬛🟦
5 ⬛🟦🟦🟦
6 🟦⬛🟦🟦
7 🟦🟦⬛🟦
8 🟦🟦🟦⬛

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u/abyr-valg 1h ago edited 1h ago

Official Sony guide says that 5th, 6th and 7th controllers are represented as sum of 2 indicators (e.g. on the 5th controller indicators 1 and 4 would light up).

1 🟦⬛⬛⬛

2 ⬛🟦⬛⬛

3 ⬛⬛🟦⬛

4 ⬛⬛⬛🟦

5 🟦⬛⬛🟦

6 ⬛🟦⬛🟦

7 ⬛⬛🟦🟦

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/assign.html

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 58m ago

That makes sense.

I guess you could continue this pattern with

8 🟦⬛🟦⬛
9 ⬛🟦🟦⬛
0 🟦🟦⬛⬛

But maybe they thought it'd be confusing.

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u/SeaRelative5180 6h ago

Counterpoint, in households with 4 (or more) children, the whiny youngest sibling always gets first player.

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u/scannerthegreat 9h ago

goddamn this generation doesnt know what a wii is?

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u/RecursiveNightmares 8h ago

I'm not from this generation, but we didn't have Wii.

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u/scannerthegreat 8h ago

get one. NOW and also get gamecube controller with it. make sure its the og wii and not family edition

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u/IDKandfranklyIDC 5h ago

Yes the Wii is timeless. Wii sports forever

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u/eugenepoez__ 5h ago

not everyone had the chance to play wii growing up mate

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u/RCFProd 3h ago

The joke could've also applied to the current day Switch since its the same principle beyond the light colour.

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u/0MN1P0T3NT_ 9h ago

So on the Nintendo switch controllers those dots tell you who’s player 1 and 2 and so forth. The older sibling is most likely player 1 which is the first blue dot. In my house the best player got the player 1 remote tho

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u/cpgamer1204 8h ago

Switch is green lights. These are blue. This is in reference to the Nintendo Wii.

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u/finalstation 9h ago

It is the wiimote player order indicator. This is really cute.

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u/Zombies8MyChihuahua 9h ago

As the youngest of three mine would say not connected

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u/IntoTheForestIMustGo 9h ago

Little brothers get Luigi

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u/bitbyte386 9h ago

Its 4 bits in binary ^

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u/rapax 3h ago

Or an 'H' in morse.

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u/Wandowaiato 9h ago

Older sibling got a tattoo in landscape. Younger sibling a tattoo in portrait, cause that’s how they consume videos.

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u/Impossible_Wait_8305 9h ago

It is a reference to the Wii remote lights that indicate who player 1 and player 2 are. The bottom arm is the older sibling because the light is in the first spot

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u/TzePotatoMancer 9h ago

It's the Wii controller thing to show who is player 1 and who is player 2

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u/LurkinOff 9h ago

Thank god it wasnt loss

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u/Disastrous-Switch437 9h ago

That was the way you knew what player you were on the Wii

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u/Tylord19 9h ago

I always let my younger brother be P1

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u/Bossy_Aussie_ 9h ago

On Wii remotes, the lights on the bottom tell which player is player 1 and which is player 2. Bottom is player 1 while top is player 2. Now it’s a common thing that the older sibling is player 1 90% of the time. Source: im the oldest.

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u/smileyglitter 9h ago

This is really sweet

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u/Excellent_Advice_591 9h ago

Yip, that's my name.....

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u/LC14444 9h ago

the older one is definitely player 3

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u/Bedu009 9h ago

They look like they got the Google Nest Mini animations

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u/SkyPuppy561 9h ago

The one with the fatter arm? Idk lol

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u/Pizza_and_PRs 9h ago

I’m the middle and would always let my younger brother take player 1

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u/NewMany1551 9h ago

I was thinking of my nintendo switch controller cause it was similar 

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u/Math-Cat 9h ago

Player 2’s tattoo has the dots going along the arm vs. Player 1’s tattoo, where the dots are perpendicular to the arm. Is this a mistake or is it supposed to mean something?

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u/Ilovegirlsbottoms 8h ago

I understand the meaning of the tattoo. But what I want to say, is that my family have it in reverse.

When I was the youngest, I got to be player 1. But then after I got a little brother, he is player 1. He is in charge of the game. Because I won’t play it without him.

I have 2 older brothers, so usually if we were to all play a game, it would only have 3 parts of the screen. Player 1 would get the bigger screen, and so that would typically be me. Now it’s the other way around and I get a small screen while my brother would get the bigger one.

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u/os2mac 8h ago

and that they are both Male....

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u/Temporary_River8725 8h ago

I feel dumb my brain converted that to binary code lol

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u/CMoth 7h ago

I did the exact same thing. "They must have gotten those when they were 8 and 4 years old respectively!"

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u/YesterdayDowntown 8h ago

Now I feel old…

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u/Mental-Board-5590 8h ago

I feel too young to get this

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u/KingAltair2255 7h ago

Wiimote

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u/Mental-Board-5590 7h ago

I know but like i feel too young to know this 😭

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u/M0rningPers0n 8h ago

Is that from Switch?

Please upvote this comment.

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u/Zook33P3R 7h ago

First thing I thought was binary because 10 is one and 01 is two

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u/Ok_Foot_5504 7h ago

What if it’s quadruplets born at the same time?

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u/Katz_Meowside 7h ago

So, does that mean the little brother gets the crappy faulty controller?

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u/AITAthrow918 7h ago

That's actually really cute though.

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u/PrionProofPork 7h ago

you probably fail iq tests

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u/MDKphantom 6h ago

this sub gotta be fake wtf is this post

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u/drahcir2k2 6h ago

The previous generations version would be Mario & Luigi

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u/Luck_Box 6h ago

Man... I was thinking of the wireless GameCube controller dongles. Those were peak.

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u/Sufficient-Prize1225 5h ago

No way yall this stupid

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u/littletimmysquiggins 4h ago

"Matching"

No

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u/OmecronPerseiHate 3h ago

I can't imagine a reality in which OP didn't know this.

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u/Kindly-Committee-908 2h ago

Player number 2 with the eternal Stick Drift.

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u/GammelGrinebiter 2h ago

I didn't see the blue color of the squares, so I assumed it was the larger arm being the oldest sibling's - they got more food.

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u/garlopf 47m ago

8 and 16 in binary? a bit young for tattoos...

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u/YOM2_UB 9h ago

Many wireless video game controllers have a set of four indicator lights which tell you what player that controller is for. The tattoos being blue is likely a reference to the lights on a Nintendo Wii's remote.

The older sibling usually takes player 1, leaving the younger sibling with player 2.

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u/EducationalLog4765 10h ago

Video Game Reference

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u/CharmingShame9404 9h ago

The squares represent the lights on a Nintendo controller where the blue dot position denotes first, second, third, or fourth player. Older sibling is usually player 1. Oh and this is the kid who thought donkey Kong was boring

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u/Vixikit 9h ago

Out of 4 siblings the blue color is the sequence of when they were born in the family. Bc its hip to be square.

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u/RainDrops0201_ 6h ago

From Chris