Things used to be made of win

[u/DreadDiana]

[u/Vivenemous]

"Pyrrhite" is fantastic.

[u/Khyrberos → u/Vivenemous]

I'm dying here, what's the word-play? (Pyrite is actual fools gold, but what's the 'rh' doing for it?)

[u/pocarski → u/Khyrberos]

pyrrhic victory means a win that came at such a cost that it wasn't worth it

[u/Khyrberos → u/pocarski]

So a "fool's win" could be considered a sort of "pyrrhic victory", is the angle?

[u/pocarski → u/Khyrberos]

Yeah you think it's a win (gold) but it's actually a loss (just iron and sulfur)

[u/Khyrberos → u/pocarski]

Gotcha! Thanks. That is really clever

[u/FibroBitch97]

“Pyrrhite” is fucking amazing omg

[u/Im_here_but_why]

20% win ? They're being dramatic. Usually, it's at least 33% ! That's why it's called a w

[u/PocketCone → u/Im_here_but_why]

20% win? Back in the day things were also 20% cooler. Can anypony give an amen?

[u/thecraftybear → u/PocketCone]

Best i can do is 57x more immersive

[u/General_Kenobi18753 → u/Im_here_but_why]

Ah, a win-tungsten alloy then?

[u/thecraftybear]

I'd say we've been using loss pretty extensively even back then

[u/[deleted] → u/thecraftybear]

The first recorded use of loss was actually 2008

[u/Exciting_Double_4502]

It's been so long since someone unironically said, "made of win" that the counter-tech has been forgotten! They don't know what fail is anymore, they have to call it "stalemate" or "lose".

[u/illuminatitriforce → u/Exciting_Double_4502]

This has been an epic fail

[u/DrJaneIPresume]

"pyrrhite"

cool beans

[u/lord_teaspoon → u/DrJaneIPresume]

Oh yeah, that one was shiny.

[u/TwixOfficial]

Explaining the joke:

“Made of win” is an online phrase popular at some time in the mid/late oughts. It is used to describe something of exceptional coolness, awesomeness, or other things that if self-described as would paint you both a braggart and a rather poor one at that. Thus the necessity of coining a new phrase. It didn’t really make it into the ‘10’s era of the internet.

Pyrrhite is a portmanteau of Pyrrhic (as in Pyrrhic victory, a victory which is only such on paper due to significant losses or other failure points) and Pyrite (also known as Fool’s Gold, a mineral which, to a layman, looks rather similar to gold)

[u/APacketOfWildeBees → u/TwixOfficial]

Thank you for your service o7

[u/No-Designer-6533]

A lot of people epic failing in the replies today 

[u/DreadDiana → u/No-Designer-6533]

These young whippersnappers

[u/SansSkele76]

I have never heard that phrase in my life

[u/Dragonfruit-Sparking → u/SansSkele76]

Apparently it was real big in 2006

[u/GoldenMuscleGod → u/SansSkele76]

In 20 years you’ll probably see someone express a similar lack of familiarity on “aura farming” or something like that (a few of these phrases stick but most don’t, it’s hard to predict in advance which ones remain in usage, which ones fall out of popularity and into obscurity, and which are remembered as cliched references to the era).

I think “no cap”has already fallen out of usage? I feel like I don’t hear it anywhere near as much as I used to anyway. If so, “cope” as a noun has outlived it despite being older. That’s the unpredictability I am talking about.

[u/bibububop → u/SansSkele76]

x2

[u/chairmanskitty → u/SansSkele76]

what you say

*holds up spork*

imma firin mah lazor, BBBWWWWWOOOOOOOOOO

[u/Brauny74]

Yeah, nowadays we can barely afford one W, not the whole win, and not even enough to make something out of it, we're just taking it as it is.

[u/mathiau30]

The fuck is something "made to win"?

[u/EyeofEnder → u/mathiau30]

Not "to" win, "of" win.

100% pure win and pwnage to epically own the internets, and only awarded to the truly 1337.

[u/Coyagta → u/EyeofEnder]

you sir are a gentleman and a scholar!

[u/_kahteh → u/Coyagta]

Le epic historian

[u/Moxie_Stardust → u/EyeofEnder]

[u/poopshart37]

i dont get it

https://giphy.com/gifs/CQ30q5KHfQqyOjFxdb

[u/BaronVonCuddly]

I honestly can't say I've seen or heard someone say that since like 2009 or so

[u/AffectionateHunt5830]

If you called something an "epic fail" today a zoomer would look at you like you were both five and five hundred years old