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BumRushDaShow

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25. I used to play Unreal Tournament back in the day

Reply to EarlG (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 13, 2025, 08:11 AM

Yesterday

(with my SETI@Home team members, and that came out a couple years after Starship Troopers)

And it seems that most if not all of the FPS games are filled with snark, I suppose as their way to provide "comic relief" in what is a gory and graphic scenario.

But I expect the Chat streams that go on with those games when playing online, are where you see many of these types of memes pop up and get amplified, as well as where new memes are born.

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