I guess we could say that John is at a loss
God damnit
Took me a second.
Took me like 9 hours TBH
I was straight up brushing my teeth and then realised “Oh shit that was Loss.jpg”
took me about a planck time
I’m really trying to figure out if you guys don’t get it, or are just pretending like you don’t…
I didn’t get it until I read this comment and thought more closely about it - so I guess put me in the stupid camp lol
I still don’t “get it” but I get that it’s a reference to something that I dont know (or care) what it is
It about a comic called “loss” where which has the same character positions as the rectangles.
Yeah, I know that, but I’m not sure how many others get it.
I’ve been on the Internet since dial up was the pinnacle of technology, and I have never seen this meme before.
Just post it over and over again and it becomes a meme.
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
It’s funny how you can roughly ballpark the education level of a random internet user by how they interpret the word “meme”.
It’s also because the blocks form “Loss.” The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.
Ah fuck.
This is metameta meme. It’s a meme about something that’s not a meme referring to another very specific meme.
Give it another 10 or so years and we’ll be going even deeper
So, just relax, i guess
It is a crooked vein of self referential metacomedy, same as everything these days. Yawn.
I’m irrationally agitated about Scale and Rotation involving a translation and that this is not called out in the meme.
Like it looks like “translation” is just “nothing happens” and this is going to bother me all day please help.
Translation just means all the coordinates of the points of the rectangle are moved the same increments. So the rectangle is the same length, width , and area, but the location of all of its vertices are different after translation. There’s should be an x y plot to show this.
The rotation one still works. It’s just being rotated around a very specific point to get there.
I think I know what you mean, but is there any point you can rotate around to get that transformation without a translation? Where would that point need to be?
Here’s the video where I actually learned about this phenomenon!
Oh wow that video is actually really good. I was hoping there would be 100 more like it on that channel, but it looks like kind of a one off.
Yeah, I went ahead and subscribed anyways. It’s the first time he’s done a video like that, but it was by far his most successful video. Hopefully there are more to come
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I’m irrationally agitated about Scale and Rotation involving a translation and that this is not called out in the meme.
It’s not entirely inaccurate in the case of rotation, since the composition of a rotation (with angle not a multiple of 2pi) and a translation is also a rotation with a new center.
R e a l l y?
I believe you, but what do I need to read to understand why that is?
There are many ways to prove it but my preferred one is by using complex numbers. In what follows we identify 2D points and vectors with their complex representation so that we won’t have to deal with too many notations.
Let there be three points
z,z'andz'', and assume that:z'is obtained fromzby applying a rotation of angleθand centeru;z''is obtained fromz'by applying a translation byv.
That means that we have:
z' - u = (z - u) * exp(i * θ)z'' = z' + v
In particular, we have:
z'' = u + v + (z - u) * exp(i * θ)It kinda looks like a rotation is there, since we have a
exp(i * θ), so we’d ideally like to have the right-hand side in the above equality be in the formw + (z - w) * exp(i * θ).Let’s see if we can achieve that, we’ll look for
wsuch that:w + (z - w) * exp(i * θ) = u + v + (z - u) * exp(i * θ)Which after some simplifications becomes:
w * (1 - exp(i * θ)) = u * (1 - exp(i * θ)) + vAnd assuming that
θis not a multiple of2 * pi, we can divide both sides by1 - exp(i * θ)and we get:w = u + v / (1 - exp(i * θ))(from here you can easily further simplify to get the explicit 2D coordinates ofw)So what we’ve shown is that there indeed exists a unique center
wsuch thatz''is obtained fromzby applying a rotation of angleθaroundw, ie:z'' - w = (z - w) * exp(i * θ)
And scale only scales one dimension… the width is unchanged.
catgirljohn seems a bit loss-t
They sure went off on a tangent
In spring man built a pillar
In summer another
Throughout autumn they held
In winter, one fell
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Leaves fell on the shorter one
During the eclipse on the night of 7 moons, a mysterious new pillar is spawned by an unknown force, once again opening a portal to the dark dimension
Evil rises
I too am at a loss as to where the meme is
Oh it’s… wait shit I’m dumb how dare you
Me too don’t worry…
I’m at a loss, what could it mean?
Let me translate it for you:
I'm at a loss, what could it mean?
Sync shows the thumbnail
This saved me from many things … It had this option already on Re**it for a few years.
But when i see the thumb, i instantly hear the song, so the rick roll does succeed somehow in the end‽
I would use sync, but $30 to remove ads is expensive. There is free open source apps without ads. I miss sync, when used the cursed site called Reddit.
If you reject all on the cookie banner you don’t see ads, although you see a grey box where the ads should be. I can live with that.
I would have paid up to £5 I think for an ad removed version but £20 is way too much.
I tried to close the comment thread and clicked the Rick Roll anyway fml
i closed lemmy because of you, F you.
XcQ, link stays blue
Thanks, I wasn’t understanding the joke. This made it much more clear.
No problemo
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Why you little…
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I was about to give a real link to explanation of this meme, but it would be a missed opportunity. Anyway, here you go: knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
i hate you
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The piped bot ruined it.
I can’t help but hate this meme so much. I feel like it’s just a poor dude who shared a legit sad thing and now everyone is making fun of him
its not my fault the guy put a miscarriage in his trash comedy gamer comic for losers
The biggest problem I think people have with loss is it is a huge tonal and emotional shift from the rest of the comic series.
The guy is a really annoying tone deaf weirdo who only cares about games for the longest time. A lot of the punchlines ib the comics were “violence”. Finally gets a GF, and treats her kinda poorly on the comic, and then bam loss comes out. It feels a bit like whiplash and is trying to be serious and sad when it never was serious or sad, but “”““zany””“” and non consiquential.
I learnt about it way later after it happened through some random website that explains memes. Maybe it made sense at the time but when you come to it without a lot of context it just hit as sad.
In a vaccum and without context, loss is, IMO, good and sad. Wordlessly explaining the dudes panic and his shared greif with his SO quite well.
Unfortunately for this particular comic, there is a lot context that makes it feel very weird, tone deaf, and uncomfortable.
Sometimes a comic artist just has a moment where they take it way off the rails. Remember the time Garfield woke up all alone in the house? Haha fat kitty lasagna mondays amirite? Oh wait a sec, let’s have some existential fucking terror for a moment.
This was never funny. I hate how the Internet just grabs some random stupid thing and then won’t shut up about it for years.
Downvote to your hearts content idc
This isn’t loss
Prove it.
You sound like someone who’s lost The Game.
It’s a primo meme and it’s your loss for thinking it’s not funny…
lol for some reason I’ve always liked this one! I think I just like how it’s become so abstract that people got creative with how to express it
I was willing to accept your judgement of “this was never funny” until I got to the rick and morty panel and realized you don’t have a clue what funny actually is.
Good thing comedy is subjective
I’ll take “the literal definition of a meme, which is coincidentally also the name of the sub I am currently commenting on” for $800, Alex.
Can you explain what you meant by this?
Dude’s here talking about how much he hates the idea of a meme, on a meme sub.
Yeah it’s a little different when it’s about a fuckin miscarriage.
It’s like the Green Day song Wake Me Up When September Ends
It was a song about remembering his father’s death. Then every October his Twitter was flooded with messages telling him to wake up September is over.
I can only imagine how annoyed the creator of the original comic feels seeing this devastating moment used as a joke for years after
I mean, he did write about his miscarriage in a webcomic that was just goofy pop-nerd humor up to that point, which is the entire reason it became a meme.
If people are sending the dude loss comics on the anniversary, that’s a little fucked up because it’s being used as a personal attack. Which is 100% not the case with the typical loss meme.
Tl;dr I don’t think the guys needs people white knighting for him every time a loss meme is born.
That’s fair. I just know if I made something to commemorate a significant impact in my life and it became a joke for the next decade I’d be pretty upset
No, you shit up!
Edit: OC edited, originally they said “won’t shit up”.
It’s always funny until you try to shit upstream
Loss has some of the most original and ingenious variations, that’s what I like about it. I’ve never seen other memes close to it. It’s completely different to all the text-over-established-image memes.
