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Psst: Traveller needs its own category..... ;) Spica 10:02, 17 June 2007 (PDT)

Thanks!

You have definitely, ultimately, positively won the internet! Thanks for setting this up!

Steffen, UK

Thanks for the vote of support. I'd hope I was not doing this only for my enjoyment. Tjoneslo 08:00, 4 September 2007 (PDT)

New Meme Categories

This is a list of potential new meme categories for the posters. Critera for a meme category are:

1. Needs to have more than 10 posters, but not more than 200 posters
2. Posters created by more that 2 people
3. Posters on more than one "page"
4. Can be described to allow other to add posters to the Category.

That is, ideas that show up repeatedly at different times. This can be use of pictures, ideas used, what people think of some posters, whatever can be described.

Probably candidates

• Bad ass - Posters defining the classification of what is or is not a bad ass.
• Bards - The D&D character class provokes many posters
• Paladins - The D&D Character class second most likely to provoke a poster.
• LARP - to go with the Game Systems. Like crossovers LARPs can be good or really strange.
• Malkavians - The insane fishmalks provoke bicycles.
• Character Concepts - Ranging from the awesome to good to really bad to violence inducing.
• Riggers - One of the shadowrun player types, inspires all kinds of vehicle descriptions
• Alternate History - The weird histories where zeppelins still fly and mechs stomp about during WWII
• Catgirls - The mysterious attraction of the mixture of cats and girls...
• Random Encounters - Who know what will show up when dice determine the next encounter.

Potential Candidates

• Rules lawyers - one of the styles of players. (are there others)
• Gamers - Poster commentary on the people who play the games...
• Japan - The source of much of the high weirdness that infects some of these posters.
• The Map - Posters showing how important a map is and can be.
• Adds/disadd - Posters talking about advantages and disadvantages as they are applied in game and to real life.
• Skills - Posters talking about various RPG skills, as applied in game and to real life.
• Kill it - This is a mash of the "It has stats so we can kill it", "kill it and take its stuff", and "Kill it with fire" memes
• Dice Rolls - Noting the effects of a natural 1 or natural 20
• Rocks Fall - From the Something Positive comic: Rocks Fall, Everybody dies.
• Mary Sue - Posters about Mary Sue or the Gaming equivalent, the GMPC.
• Gamer Girls -Counterpoint posters to the rare breed: Women who game.
• Faces of Evil - Evil is known to have both a pretty face and an ugly one.
• Mecha - Images of Mechs, Mecha and mechanical walker tanks.
• Mooks - The faceless and useless minions of the big bad.
• Homebrew Monsters - The weirdness that comes from a GM's brain after their players have memorized the all the monster stats.
• Goggles - The Goggles do nothing!. (8 entries: 3540, 4449, 4575, 11430, 16037, 16189, 20520)
• Steampunk - The mixing of the victorian era steam technology with the cyberpunk sensibility of new technology. (9 entries: 4472, 4502, 4705, 11173, 11183, 20794x2, 20834, 20849)
• Tributes - little tributes to various people, usually folks who just died.

Overdone Candidates

• Alignments - Poster on the D&D Alignments. This has been done at least two dozen times, plus the scattered additions. Though Batman alignment...
• Exalted Castes - Done almost as frequently as the Alignments.
• Vampire clans - next in the overdone classification.
• Star Trek - Posters using star trek screenshots and fan art.
• Star Wars - Posters using Star wars screenshots, props and fan art.
• Babylon 5 - Posters using Babylon 5 screenshots and fan art.

Hats off to wehvoer wrote this up and posted it.