[CW: very cringe and nerdy] I just had a cool thought about how what we do lives on through more than just genetics (hexbear.net)

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Okay so, basically, the game EarthBound, yeah? The music in that game was written by a dude who was heavily influenced by the Beatles and other 60s/70s music. To the point where there is even sames from Beatles music used in EarthBound.

Ok so EarthBound, including its music in turn heavily inspired a bunch of Millennials including a fellow named Toby Fox whose work is heavily based on EarthBound to the point where Undertale and Deltarune use the soundfont and sound effects for a lot of things.

Which in turn inspired a ton of zoomers, and yeah you get the idea.

It's just a cool reminder of how we are all connected in the most cringe, nerd way I can think of. Everything we do touches other's lives, whether we realise it or not.

sicko-ness kris-love flowey-wink

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

You can see this through the changing ebb and flow of beanis posts… It’s almost as if everyone’s beanis is touching everyone else’s bean-think beanis

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

tfw beanis posts ebb

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

tfw beanis posts ebbeanis chickpea

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Is this a bit or did you just discover meme theory.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Plot twist: Dirt_Owl is Richard Dawkins posing as an owl.

Rather upsetting to find this out sadness

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Meme? Like the funny pictures online?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Yes

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

They're referring more to the original Dawkins definition of meme as a social analogy of the gene, something along the lines of "minimal reproducible unit of social exchange"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I was doing a ”Chapo? Like the drug dealer?” style bit.

Although if there's one guy whose accomplishment being overshadowed by cats saying they can has cheezburger I don't mind, it's Dick Dorkins.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Sorry, irony through text is hard to read sometimes. But yeah, Dawkins falling off is probably my biggest disappointment in terms of someone falling off

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I always wonder if a bit might be a little too obtuse.

Especially after some people might have actually gotten my reference to Machines of Loving Grace reference yesterday.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Now I’m trying to imagine what megalovania would sound like if the beatles covered it

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

This is why everyone should shit in the woods more often. Your poop will feed bugs and plants and they will grow and feed other things. If you only poop in the toilet your poop will just die and you will be forgotten. If you poop in the woods you will live forever through your poop and the ecosystem your poop feeds. (and if you eat lots of tomatoes you might even grow a tomato plant in the woods.)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

and if you eat lots of tomatoes you might even grow a tomato plant in the woods.

And corn!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

You nerd

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Just kidding, Dirt_Owl, I wuv u heart-sickle

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Every life lived is a ripple in the pond that touches everything else in the pond.

That gave me warm happy feelings decades ago and it still does now.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Toby Fox has a very edgy Earthbound romhack that sort of seems like a proto-Undertale.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Does that mean there was no point in being born? Would you say that of your slain comrades? What about their lives? Where they meaningless? THEY WERE NOT! Their memory serve as an example to us all. The courageous fallen, the anguished fallen - their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them! So as we ride to certain death we trust our successors to do the same for us! Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world. My soldiers march forward. My soldiers scream out. My soldiers RAAGE!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Meme, Gene, Scene

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