.231 isn't even a very good batting average.

April 11, 2012 5:11 PM

Next time, can we discuss the FPP and not the via link?

Out of 13 comments in that thread, I count only 3 (including mine) that are even peripherally about the FPP. The rest are about Memepool. If Memepool returning from hiatus is so important, then maybe there should've been an FPP about it? Oh wait, there already was.

posted by neckro23 to Etiquette/Policy at 5:11 PM (26 comments total)

Oh shit, Memepool's back? Thanks, I loved that site!
posted by flatluigi at 5:13 PM on April 11, 2012 [6 favorites]

I'm guessing it'll settle down into proper indie gaming chatter, but I feel you, and, yeah, it's nice when threads don't swerve hard onto some tangent like that.

On the other hand, in terms of web property resurrections memepool being back (and more back than it apparently was when there was a post about it) is kind of like when you go to a restaurant and you order some toast and the waiter who took your order is totally swamped so the line cook brings your toast out to you and you're like "oh hey, thanks" but then you do a double take and you're all "wait, you're literally Jesus Christ." And your friends at the table are like "holy shit, Jesus motherfuckin' Christ, second coming, holy BALLS man", and then the toast ends up getting cold.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:16 PM on April 11, 2012 [34 favorites]

cortex, my indignation is thus mollified, by toast.
posted by neckro23 at 5:26 PM on April 11, 2012 [2 favorites]

I'm not a gamer, so the meme pool thing really was
more interesting to me.
Sometimes the post just does what the post wants to do.
posted by SLC Mom at 5:31 PM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

> but then you do a double take and you're all "wait, you're literally Jesus Christ."

cortex is actually really familiar with this happening, it is in part why he cut his hair.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:32 PM on April 11, 2012 [5 favorites]

As someone who cares more about Terry Cavanagh and indie games than whether or not memepool's back,

...I knew about his free indie games site before I knew that memepool was back as anything other than a one off dare post. So that's my excuse.
posted by juv3nal at 5:47 PM on April 11, 2012

then you do a double take and you're all "wait, you're literally Jesus Christ." And your friends at the table are like "Hey, man, would it kill you to bring us some wine? You know, the good stuff."
posted by octobersurprise at 6:23 PM on April 11, 2012

via (!) memepool [previously].

This meta would have more of a point if the "(!)" and "[previously]" weren't in there. That at the very least marks it as a subtopic.
posted by DU at 6:36 PM on April 11, 2012

This is why via links are dumb.
posted by empath at 6:48 PM on April 11, 2012

This is why via links are awesome.
posted by 23skidoo at 7:01 PM on April 11, 2012

cortex writes "'holy shit, Jesus motherfuckin" Christ,"

My understanding is their wasn't any actual fucking from any of the trinity; the conception being miraculous and Mary being a virgin until after his birth.
posted by Mitheral at 7:12 PM on April 11, 2012

Childbirth - what a way to lose your virginity.

ow.
posted by Space Kitty at 7:20 PM on April 11, 2012 [2 favorites]

via con cortex.
posted by crunchland at 7:25 PM on April 11, 2012

via links are dumb.

!
posted by mediareport at 7:44 PM on April 11, 2012

My posts have been MeTa'd twice this week: once for freaking people out with Charles Manson, who thought he was Jesus, and once for freaking people out with Memepool, which cortex thinks is Jesus.

COINCIDENCE?
posted by davidjmcgee at 7:51 PM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

Also, we sidebarred you.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:18 PM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

!!!
posted by davidjmcgee at 8:55 PM on April 11, 2012

Well well. Maybe I'm Jesus.

Whoa cool thanks!
posted by davidjmcgee at 8:56 PM on April 11, 2012

I'm spacey enough that I didn't put it all together until just now either.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:05 PM on April 11, 2012

Time for "thinks is the 2nd coming" as a relationship in contacts?
posted by morganw at 10:09 PM on April 11, 2012

"wait, you're literally Jesus Christ."

Via dolorosa.
posted by zamboni at 10:27 PM on April 11, 2012 [2 favorites]

I'm still waiting for my toast.
posted by arcticseal at 11:39 PM on April 11, 2012

holy shit, Jesus motherfuckin' Christ

what an asshole.
posted by radwolf76 at 1:07 AM on April 12, 2012

Jesus Toast
posted by oh yeah! at 4:38 AM on April 12, 2012

It just happens, neckro; I did a FPP post once about something that the Tate museum in London was doing, but about 75% of all the comments were puns about "taters".

I just took it as a subtle sign that "maybe this thing I did an FPP about wasn't as interesting as I thought."
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:40 AM on April 12, 2012

Metafilter: breathless, ham-fisted, and astonishing. Taterburger. (]}

My phone converted "fisted" into "dusted." Mmmm, ham dust...
posted by aydeejones at 12:02 AM on April 13, 2012