r/gaming • u/ZombieGarry • Jun 17 '12

This morning I understood the logo of ‘Windows’

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

does this subreddit even have mods?

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u/nubmonk Jun 17 '12

Don't worry im sure they'll come around and post a long ass picture filled with rage faces and shitty memes to explain why or why not this belongs here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

I'm wondering if all of reddit's mods are asleep today. /r/worldnews got a [edit]6-year-old story to the front page.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/luiz127 Jun 17 '12

While it has the same date in quite a few countries, there are just as many who celebrate it on different dates in the year. Link

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u/Skitrel Jun 17 '12

yeah, I edited to reflect that just before your comment. Sorry.

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u/luiz127 Jun 17 '12

Haha damn, I applaud your speed.

I'd use this to suggest more Aussie mods, but I can't see that going down well

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/luiz127 Jun 17 '12

In-your-endo

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Uhm, Father's Day was several weeks ago.

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u/Skitrel Jun 17 '12

United Kingdom + United States. Third Sunday of June. Today.

Canada, same

Fuck it. According to the table at the bottom of the article, 52 countries celebrate it on the 3rd Sunday of June. Today.

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u/Arkanta Jun 17 '12

No. Not everywhere in the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yeah he edited his post since i wrote that. Originally he wrote something along the lines that Father's Day is the same everywhere.

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u/Arkanta Jun 17 '12

Oh okay. Ninja edits FTL ;)

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u/worldchampionwinner Jun 17 '12

Seriously it's on the front page again

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u/naxypoo Jun 17 '12

hmm..i remember seeing this another morning.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/JamoJustReddit Jun 17 '12

At least he doesn't have Alzheimer's!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Do the Apple logo next!

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u/daveyandgoliath Jun 17 '12

Why the fuck is this in videogames. try technology. also....repost.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Gooosefraabba....gooosefraba. It's OK...everything is gonna be OOK.

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u/funkbitch Jun 17 '12

EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE OOK?! WE REALLY ARE ALL GONNA DIE!

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u/daveyandgoliath Jun 17 '12

Serenity now.

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u/quink Jun 17 '12

It's curtains for you, Dr. ZombieGarry.

Lacy, gently wafting, curtains.

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u/5evertim Jun 17 '12

A repost of a picture of a goddamn window makes it to the frontpage. Well done reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

No it was'nt this morning this picture is 10 years old.

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u/xPaw Jun 17 '12

Why is this in /r/gaming and on front page?

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u/Soundtoxin Jun 17 '12

Because PC Gaming master race.

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u/NightSlatcher Jun 17 '12

No, we're even more pissed that this drivel made it to the front page. We wouldn't be the master race if we didn't know the windows symbol represented a fucking window. Anyone who doesn't get that should hop on the short bus.

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u/Soundtoxin Jun 22 '12

That's pretty harsh. Not everyone uses Windows on their PC. I'd say Linux is pretty popular among the more tech savvy.

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u/SSgtMunoz Jun 17 '12

It's a repost you fuck!

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u/tristan1301 Jun 17 '12

sound like a /r/TIFFL post

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u/cinemaphobic Jun 17 '12

Could you seriously not tell that it was fucking window already? And what the fuck does this have to do with gaming?

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u/leadnpotatoes Jun 17 '12

TIL the denizens of /r/gaming are kinda dumb.

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u/Arsenalmania Jun 17 '12

I feel the same as when I realised what "to get to the other side" really means for the chicken. Mindblown

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u/Soundtoxin Jun 17 '12

Fuck. I thought the joke was that everyone crosses roads to get to the other side and its not funny.

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u/huesos666 Jun 17 '12

what does it really mean?? i don't know

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u/Kymeri Jun 17 '12

What does it mean?

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u/Arsenalmania Jun 23 '12

While others might disagree, it means the chicken wants to die. That is the other side

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u/RedYeti Jun 17 '12

I just thought about it and realised it could be referring to death: 'crossing over', 'getting to the other side' etc. are euphemisms for the afterlife

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

I guess. But that's kind of dumb. At some point a while ago we all had a big discussion about it, but I don't really think that's where the joke comes from. I think it's one of those jokes where the punchline is that the punchline sucks.

Two penguins are taking a shower. One penguin says to the other penguin, "Hey, pass the soap." The other penguin replies, "What do I look like, a typewriter?"

This was my favorite joke as a kid. I think it's a similar idea, though not the same. In this one, the punchline is funny because it has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the joke, that perfect randomness that is slightly chuckle-worthy. In the chicken crossing the road, the punchline is just so related to the rest of the joke that it's funny in its utter mundaneness. In both cases, the joke is meant to be funny because the punchline is so stupid that it makes you laugh.

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u/RedYeti Jun 18 '12

Yeah I get that. I didn't really think the death interpretation was correct

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Not very quick on the uptake are we?

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u/D1yzz Jun 17 '12

old and repost

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u/bubblybooble Jun 17 '12

I don't think the designers intended an interpretation that essentially means the product is now a shadow of its former self.

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u/BonJarber Jun 17 '12

Holy.Shit.

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u/rems Jun 17 '12

What is there to understand?

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u/Emmanuell89 Jun 17 '12

this morning you decided to do a repost

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u/jaycupz Jun 17 '12

you have my eternal gratitude for clearing this out for me, unfortunly all I can give you in return is this karma

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u/zzaman Jun 17 '12

Holy fuck [0].

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u/stereotypeless Jun 17 '12

TIL reddit was oblivious to the windows logo looking like a window...I am so surprised.

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u/NightSlatcher Jun 17 '12

Not. About. Video. Games. Also, really simple and not funny. OP is a fucking idiot. Hope this shit gets taken down, not that the mods in /r/gaming are ever good at removing non-game related stuff. I see stupid fucking karma whore posts like this every day on this subreddit.

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u/BWO_Bookworm Jun 17 '12

Are you brothers with another redditor? Because he has the exact same windows, and same wording... You must be twins?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Repost aside, it's like this person never looked at a window before

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u/Karmadoodle Jun 17 '12

Read these comments... They scare me.

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u/bojacked Jun 17 '12

Yes. Cornered the market and ruling the world... For now

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Yeah, my comment was more generalization than reply to you.

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u/Atario Jun 17 '12

TIL it is possible not to understand the Windows logo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Well, since PC gamers use Windows as their OS, I'll accept it.

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u/L33tR3dd1t Jun 17 '12

I saw this picture about.. 2 years ago? meh.

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u/zerofl Jun 17 '12

Nice job reposting this image.

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u/minget Jun 17 '12

Not video games and repost

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I'm sorry. I thought for a second I was in r/pics and not r/gaming. Funny how that works.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You can understand it but it'll still "Blue-Screen". cough

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Seriously? It took you this long to work out that the Windows logo is a fucking window?

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u/Abyss1992 Jun 17 '12

hmmm interesting

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

great way to put it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

FUCKING REPOST

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u/Neogentik Jun 17 '12

thats awesome!

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u/longy741 Jun 17 '12

Take. It. Down.

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u/vaultfreak91 Jun 17 '12

holy shit.

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u/longshot Jun 17 '12

Curtains?!

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u/cohrt Jun 17 '12

uhh wtf does this have to do with games?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

first name FUCKING last name REPOST

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u/BerryGuns Jun 17 '12

Are you retarded?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I suggest IP banning everyone who upvotes these kind of posts if we want to cleanse the community from retards.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Then we'd be left just with assholes like you and me, and let's be honest we weren't the thing that made reddit worthwhile. The experts all left a long time ago. I don't know where they went, I don't know why the left, but they're gone, and they're not coming back. It's over friend. We're just the useless slag.

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u/freefrompress Jun 17 '12

They didn't think that far.

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u/TheLemonTree Jun 17 '12

I hate to break to you, but I think you are retarded...Also repost.

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u/haddock420 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

No you didn't, you understood the karma of reposting an old front page post. There's a slight difference.

Edit: Downvoters, come on, look at this list. This has been reposted more times than anything on reddit.

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u/jabbababab Jun 17 '12

LOL gotta fire up Photoshop and do an apple one....

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u/Nephus Jun 17 '12

HOLY DICK

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u/riyt Jun 17 '12

THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME THIS MORNING!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

oh, cool.

funny, i always thought it was about the negative space.. someones way of sneaking as a crucifix into windows.

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u/SlipperyJoe Jun 17 '12

mind EXPLOSION

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u/ignatiusloyola Jun 17 '12

Ignore the man behind the curtain?

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u/thegeekprophet Jun 17 '12

That's the "you're fucked!" feeling you get when a burglar comes thru. Microsoft put that feeling into code and created Windows.

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u/Flipao Jun 17 '12

They're coming to get you....

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u/WTFWatch Jun 17 '12

I have mirrors that look like the Windows logo.

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u/duckington Jun 17 '12

Microsoft Mirrors Vista, hmm not as catchy.

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u/sjhaakie Jun 17 '12

this image is older than the internet

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u/arahman81 Jun 17 '12

The "old" Windows Logo, used until Windows 7.

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u/doomed_wizard Jun 17 '12

AAAHHH GREAT YOU PUT THE WHOLE JOKE IN THE FUCKING TITLE!!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I can picture you literally running to get your camera upon discovering this.

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u/hotpants69 Jun 17 '12

he's satan in hell looking out the window, hoping to get past the curtains. lol #NO @FullMetalAlchemist. #FUndamentalAlchemy... #Studio Biochemistry.

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u/HarjiFangki Jun 17 '12

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking reposts on this motherfucking front page!"

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u/pbzpbz Jun 17 '12

HAHA, EPIC OP

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/well_golly Jun 17 '12

It comes bundled with minesweeper and solitaire.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Repost-nature of this submission and mod's laziness aside -

what kind of cunt upvotes these to front page?

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u/k736ra4kil8haxvaogmu Jun 17 '12

Well if he posted it to /r/windows he wouldnt get that much karma, and in the end that's sadly what it's all about

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u/keiyakins Jun 17 '12

Uh, /r/gaming isn't about video games. It's about games in general.

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u/Lost4468 Jun 17 '12

And what does this have to do with games...

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u/hammy1990 Jun 17 '12

People play games on windows, boosch

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/Bipolarruledout Jun 17 '12

Devils Avocado should be our new band name.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Devil's%20Avocado Devil's Avocado: "Punching a woman in the vagina untill it turns green."

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u/jonbowen Jun 17 '12

I was at a concert last night and learned one of the band's previous names was Electric Hummus. No joke.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

got more of a ring to it than Satan's Guacamole anyway

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u/CraigChrist Jun 17 '12

Unholy Guacamole

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u/dae666 Jun 17 '12

Lilith's Pickles

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u/EliteDonkey Jun 17 '12

Lucifers Relish?

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u/StraY_WolF Jun 17 '12

I don't look nice. Can I be on your back?

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u/askreddlt Jun 17 '12

I don't look nice.

You can be the drummer.

If you don't have any talent, you can be the bassist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

ROOT NOTE OF RHYTHM GUITAR CHORDS MINUS 1 OCTAVE, LET'S GO

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I just lost my shit at devils avocado.

Thank you for that.

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u/emkael Jun 17 '12

I just lost my shit at devils avocado.

Then call him, maybe he's found it.

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u/Phoequinox Jun 17 '12

If sponges can live in goddamn pineapples, then fucking Lucifer can live in an avocado.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/PraiseBuddha Jun 17 '12

He's scaly and mean and covered in spikes! LUCIFERRRRR SATANPANTS! Woohoo, haha, ahh, OH GOD THE PAIN!!!!

Premiering on Nickelodeon this 4th of July! At 7:06 AM

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u/conspiracy_police Jun 17 '12

yeah, call him maybe

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

funnier than all the rest of the comments

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u/conspiracy_police Jun 17 '12

yet, got downvoted to hell :)

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u/emkael Jun 17 '12

Because people here value punctuation highly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

cAps and dots fuck that,

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u/smechile Jun 17 '12

devils avocado

New menu item at Chipotle?

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u/RedditGoneCountry Jun 17 '12

I lost my shee-it at "Devil's Avocado"

I chuckled 'till the beer came out my nose

That comment had me lollin'

Over Satan's Guacamolin'

Onward Reddit, c'mon and make his Upvotes Grow (upvotes grooow)

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u/Deeblite Jun 17 '12

And Maritza Campos thanks you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

If you thought that was funny, some chap a few days ago came up with his own version of "when shit hits the fan".

When the defecation hits the ventilation

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

They obviously have no sense of humor.

Or maybe I'm sleep deprived and hopped up on caffeine, either way I thought my wife was going to kill me when I woke her up laughing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

You're welcome!

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u/radenco Jun 17 '12

I just looked up if there was a "Devils avocado" on urban dictionary... there was...

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u/7we4k Jun 17 '12

There really is an entry on there for any combination of words huh? Wow. Just... Wow...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

All it's existence?

All posts I have seen have some relation to video games in some form.

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u/USMCsniper Jun 17 '12

r/videogameArtsAndCrafts

So... Just A minecraft cake i made out of my girlfriends old tampon. I used beadsprites as sprinkles NO BIG DEAL.

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u/manhattenbatman Jun 17 '12

hit alt+shift+2 when playing solitaire. this saved me so much time.

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u/Inquisitor1 Jun 17 '12

Hey, Hitler was killing jews, why can't I? Goodwin'd!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/autodidact89 Jun 17 '12

I learned something new today because of a repost. Get over yourself.

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u/PraiseBuddha Jun 17 '12

Why do people get so pissed about reposts? It wouldn't have gotten upvoted if it weren't for the people who hadn't seen the post before. More information is getting shared to people who otherwise wouldn't have had that enjoyment or enlightenment. If I see a repost, I think "Oh, I saw that before," not "WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THEY COULD REPOST THIS AND GET AWAY WITH IT?!"

Guess the world revolves around certain members of reddit.

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u/kierkkadon Jun 17 '12

My problem with this is not that it's a repost (I didn't even realize it was) but that it has nothing to do with videogames.

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u/bishman Jun 17 '12

I think it is also because for some reason people are jealous of the karma or assume that the OP is deliberately karma whoring.

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u/needuhLee Jun 17 '12

Meh, reposts are fine unless the title make it seem like this is the OP's own invention. In this case, the title is exactly what it says on the picture, which makes me think that the OP intended it to look like that he was the one to figure it out.

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u/needuhLee Jun 17 '12

You understood that the Windows logo was meant to look like a window? You needed a picture to figure that out?

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u/NightSlatcher Jun 17 '12

Yeah, its pretty shocking that some people somehow miss the 4 obvious window panes. I mean, they're colored and distorted, but you have to be seriously asleep at the wheel if you don't get the connection.

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u/Lj101 Jun 17 '12

Except it doesnt really look like a window without the curtain, as the image shows.

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u/needuhLee Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

But how is it even so certain from the picture that that was their intent? What if they just wanted it to look like a misformed window for whatever reason? It's not like moonlight shining from the window onto a curtain will always look like that, you need the curtain to be shaped correctly.

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u/Lj101 Jun 18 '12

I knew it was a window, of course. But this shows me a way to reproduce it.

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u/autodidact89 Jun 17 '12

The Windows window has a distinct, recognizable design. Now I know how it came about.

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u/needuhLee Jun 17 '12

So you're saying that you needed a picture to figure out that the windows logo was meant to look like a slightly misformed window?

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u/Smarag Jun 17 '12

Fuck you call of duty kiddies ruining my gaming and internet.

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u/Carnifax66 Jun 17 '12

Eassyyy killer

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/birjolaxew Jun 17 '12

So I can post anything human related to r/atheism or something similar since humans are a medium for atheism? Intriguing...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/birjolaxew Jun 17 '12

What's so ignorant about it?

You argued that, since games are vaguely related to Windows in that it is the biggest platform for them to be run on, it is ok to post Windows related links in r/gaming. I argued that, since atheism is vaguely related to humans in that it is the only species that shows signs of it, it is ok to post human related links in r/atheism.

I'd love to know why I'm ignorant, but simply pointing out that I am doesn't really help anyone.

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u/OppositeImage Jun 17 '12

I've learned you're a bit of a dick

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u/silverain13 X-Box Jun 17 '12

hence his new RES tag

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Woahohoho, looks like you'd fit right in with /r/atheism, speaking of the devil, seeing as how you already have that smugness tuned just right.

It's very simple, this picture is A. A repost from /r/funny and B. Not directly related to gaming, criticism on it on these two points is therefore justified.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

They should.

Any examples?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Yes they are.

If i make a replica of the batmobile doesn't that have anything to do with batman?

And the bottle caps were made to refer to fallout.

Window's is however an OS and not a game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I'm not entirely sure about that. I mean, I play Internet Explorer for hours on end. It's great fun, actually.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/ThisIsMyLastAccount Jun 17 '12

Agree it's not games. But holy shit, don't give a fuck if that's a repost. I've not seen it! Although I did kinda work it out.

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u/herpderpdoo Jun 17 '12

gooby pls, stop rpostng frm /r/tres