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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The PS3 is of that era where there was huge hype at the time about how realistic the graphics were (deservedly, to be fair) but when you look at it historically the shortcomings are all too clear, and it's almost comical.

Games on older consoles couldn't gun for realism the same way, and so they ironically look better now in retrospect because they just come across as having a particular style of their own.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even on consoles like the ps1 the games that chased "cutting edge" graphics look so much worse than games that had distinct art styles.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

True. There's always that subset and it kinda looks good, but only for a moment in time.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some of them did go for realism.

Persian Gulf Inferno was almost banned for being too realistic..

[–] kossa@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago

This shit was on the index in Germany for "inciting violence in players" 😅