This one goes out to the Tech stubble deniers.

We also have this more realistic render from the Shatterpoint tabletop game.

It looks like he sometimes has stubble, but either shaves it very close every day or just has slow-growing but still present facial hair.

Here you go, have some Sunday Piece Of Lore

That’s actually a great explanation as to why our bad batchers seem to be of different ages despite having been decanted the same day (as per commandos lore).

If this is the case, they could be the same chronological age but not the same biologic age, and honestly that makes a ton of sense seeing how Crosshair looks much older than Tech for example, or even Wrecker, despite both of them having been decanted before him ! And I’m not even talking about the grey hair, their faces have different aging traits.

So yeah, very cool ! Thank you again « Star Wars Republic Commando : True Colours », you’re that toxic friend that knows-it-all and hurts me a lot but who is so mesmerising that I can’t let go 👍🏻

Sneak peek: the full version will be ready in a few days

（commission）

im so excited hope everyone see the tits XD

i’m a twin. i had a brother.

Reading valid criticism of chappell roan: hmm that's true I guess, they make some good points

Reading the replies saying she's not really a lesbian, is faking being gay for clout, isn't a real drag queen, is secretly a republican: okay actually I think I should be allowed legally to beat the shit out of people

she would kill it in drag race

Reminder that, in The Before Times (before the internet was common), almost all of our memes (not that we knew that's what they were) came from commercials or funny TV shows

before TV, they came from radio and print

before that, word of mouth (or perhaps a lot of people witnessing the same memorable action)

and, while some of those memes are still recognizable as memes today, most of them are as opaque as the next generations' memes will be to the previous generations, when there's no context. (Or as, say, Tumblr memes seem to nonTumblr users.)

(I am of the opinion that it's fun to learn the context, instead of just dismissing any other generation--past or future--as inscrutable, or, worse, having no sense of humor.)

@masterkree replied: "Please make a post with examples of vintage memes? I love this kinda stuff. ex: my Dad's favorite meme of all time is still "Come with me if you want to live" "

Oh, this is one I'm going to have to open up to other Old People, because I'm better at identifying them when I see them than I am at thinking of examples XD

The big one I do think of is "Where's the beef?" from some early 1980s Wendy's commercials

"Where's the beef?" was everywhere for a while, even making its way into the 1984 presidential election. I think, when people hear "Where's the beef?" now, they do still have a vague idea where it comes from.

From the late 1960s is "Sock it to me," from the comedy variety show Laugh In. Laugh in didn't coin "Sock it to me," but they certainly used it a lot. A lot. There's a section on the Laugh In wiki listing all the "catchphrases" made popular by the show; I'm pretty sure we'd call any phrase started in one place and used in general pop culture a meme now?

That got a presidential candidate involved, too

An even older example (which, as far as I know, wasn't referenced by a potential president) is the ACME corporation from the 1940s Warner Brothers Wile E Coyote theatrical shorts.

Now, young people today see the ACME gags, and can tell they're supposed to be some sort of joke, to the point that I've seen posts claiming it's an acronym, standing for A Company [that] Makes Everything. This is incorrect.

When the jokes were written, people would have turned to the phone book to find things. With the phone book entries being listed alphabetically, a lot of companies tried to give themselves names that would not only put them near the top of the listings, but also denote quality...whether they were quality or not. This led to companies having names like A1 Supply, with A1 not only being associated with things that are high quality, but also being, y'know, right at the top of the listing in a phone book category.

Acme also fits this scheme, because the word "acme" means "the top, highest point, peak, or summit." You also can't find too many superlatives that will be closer to the beginning of the alphabet.

References to companies (of dubious quality) named acme predated the Wile E Coyote shorts

but the Warner Brothers writers really ramped up the irony, by not only showing that their Acme's products were very much not the summit of anything, but also heavily implying that Coyote was just ordering his stuff from the first listing in the phone book, with no research whatsoever. There's also room to interpret it as being not one single Acme company, but a series of shady companies that are just trying to get the early 20th century version of SEO.

I don't see this quite so much as making a meme that went on to be used by others as I see it as using an existing meme, a cultural reference that viewers would ~get~

Those are the only examples I can think of offhand. I know there are more--and older--example out there!

If I may add, as someone probably from a gen a bit later than yours

France had a lot of quotes from adverts on tv and one liners from movies that I hear people still quote, but the younger generation is baffled about.

My parents know about these quotes. I am in between where i grew up on both tv memes and internet memes so most of the memes I reference, they don't get. Most of the memes they reference, my nephew (who grew up with a tablet in his hands, not on tv) does not get.

I'll give a few examples of stuff from ads we used to say if people are interested

Tu peux te brosser, martine. (Sometimes shortened to tu peux te brosser) means "dream on". From a biscuit advert

Tu pousses le bouchon un peu trop loin, maurice. (Same, name is often omitted) meaning you're taking the piss. From a dessert advert.

Et la marmotte, elle met le chocolat dans le papier alu. (Followed with "mais bien sûr") meaning someone is talking utter shite (mais bien sûr is sarcastic) from a chocolate advert

C'est cela, oui. (Meaning you're not interested in what someone is saying and they're potentially talking shit) from the movie le pere noel est une ordure

Anyway you get the idea. Some of these older movie references had a revival on msn messenger back in the days with the ability to send sound clips as reaction (same way you'd do with a gif nowadays) so people would uploads clips from movies to use in reply. Honestly we should maybe bring reaction sounds back.

Most of these make you sound like an old fart now btw, they're "old refs" as in old references (shortened). People sometimes say "J'ai pas la ref" when they identify something is a meme but they don't have the reference.

The "B" is *not* for "buses"

Via mastodon(aka the fediverse)

Imagine, post-war Rex, in hiding from the empire. He's on a small planet that saw a skirmish or two during the war, so he knows the land. He's stalking through the woods when he finds a small but well maintained grave yard. It's about a battalions worth of clone troopers.

All the graves have flowers and notes and trinkets, thanking the troopers for saving their village.

Out of the tens of thousands of troopers abused. It would be nice if someone somewhere honored their lives.

when it’s really bad again and it’s still way better than it used to be but it’s still really bad. and you do all the right stuff and you try and try and it still really hurts but it’s working but it still hurts and you go see the beautiful majesty of nature and your soul is so close to being at peace but your mind is still in pain. and it’s better but it’s still bad. and the sun is setting.

whys combat and military gear always got to look so fucking cool when the people wearing them just objectively arent. thats unfair

this goes for like, all of time. knights are serving the KING? the fucking KING?

you cant serve cunt and the government at the same time come on now pick the right side i know you have it in you

Jesus said this. Matthew 6:24

jesus said this

Summoning the clone rebellion show

TEMUERA MORRISON as Dr. Hone Ropata in Shortland Street 1.16

Shortland Street gifs — 3/?

please don't repost my gifs, reblog to share :)

reworked the first crosshair piece i ever did cuz it was so ugly and every time i saw it i got violent. idk if i really salvaged it but its more managable to look at now imo

Your daily affirmations from Set. Life got you down? Feel like nothing is going your way? Put something you hate in a box and cut it up into a bunch of pieces and throw them in the river. Do it. Do it now.

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