one of my fun crackpot beliefs is that loss is going to become one of those great historical mysteries when so much of the digital landscape no longer exists - ThreadSky

popelizbet.bsky.social • 3 days ago

one of my fun crackpot beliefs is that loss is going to become one of those great historical mysteries when so much of the digital landscape no longer exists

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alexandraerin.com•3 days ago

I'm pulling for it to be conflated with "losing the game"

orman.bsky.social•3 days ago

The game is probably going to suffer the same fate, given that it's completely unsearchable if you don't already know what it is

alexandraerin.com•3 days ago

That's what makes it plausible they become entangled; two unfathomable and orphaned references that superficially sound related

gastropoda.bsky.social•3 days ago

One night I decided to start "decluttering" and threw out all my LAT food clips, figuring they would always be online. Oooops....

louisathelast.bsky.social•3 days ago

I gotta admit I have just never quite understood the joke with Loss

orman.bsky.social•3 days ago

The joke is *itself* background context that has nothing to do with the strip itself - but AIUI that such a serious and dramatic plot thread happened in what used to be a "two gamers on couch" webcomic

louisathelast.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah…I just always felt like it was mean to turn something that personal into a joke. Wasn’t it based on the cartoonist’s real life?

randomjeweler.bsky.social•3 days ago

We were very mean people back then I think. Ive become kinder with age.

brigid.bsky.social•3 days ago

But also he took something traumatic that happened to someone else and talked about how it affected him in a way that was kind of REALLY out of touch with how it affected the other person.

IIRC it wasn't "we both lost a child" it was "she lost a child, it was a bummer, oh well."

brigid.bsky.social•3 days ago

To go from "lol video games murder cyborgs ha ha talking toaster video game video game video game" to "very serious thing" to "lol video game video game killer robot time travel video game" was such a tonal whiplash especially as his other Very Serious Things involved that whole...

popelizbet.bsky.social•3 days ago

It was, but they were kind of in on it with their fandom – these were the dickwolves guys.

louisathelast.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think you might be getting your two gamer guys on couches comics messed up— Loss is from CAD, dick wolves are from Penny Arcade

popelizbet.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am!

popelizbet.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's one of those things that doesn't mean anything in particular, PA doing a sudden super serious thing inspired a meme and it just started permeating into abstractionuntil "find loss/make loss" became like losing The Game.

orman.bsky.social•3 days ago

And then it wraps back on itself with this sort of thing

popelizbet.bsky.social•3 days ago

like, the most popular "white woman thinking with complex math appearing around her face" gif has loss in it. Humans like playing with pattern recognition.