for a while I had a housemate (this is part of why these memories are so fucking cringingly terrible) who continued to believe this well into his forties, but unfortunately he kept GETTING THE LINES WRONG. like "look how awesome I am, I can quote demi-relevant chunks from MPatHG!" and I'm gritting my teeth "NO YOU HAVE GOTTEN THAT DIALOGUE WRONG IN FACT, SHUT UP SHUT UP I HATE YOU"

and evidently that's it. this is a fantasy world created so that rote memorization of geek-popular properties will win you ACTUAL SOCIAL STATUS AND MONEY. and I just. I'm starting to *really hate* this whole concept.

@green ... wait... is this a movie or a game show?

@JulieSqveakaroo it's a movie about a game show, where an encyclopedic memorization of trivia from 80s pop culture can win you (or rather, the pasty nerd kid main character) trillions of dollars in a horrible post-apocalypse dystopia. DOESN'T THAT JUST PIQUE ALL YOUR INTERESTS.

@green . . . umm. . . no. . . no, it does not. . . unless, of course, there is pain of demise at failure. . . but this does not sound like that sort of game show. . . movie. . . thing. . .

@JulieSqveakaroo nope, if he fails he will be consigned to an even worse fate: BEING CALLED DEROGATORY NAMES. like "loser" and "nerd" and stuff.

..... yeah my interest in this scenario is pretty much zero. XD

@green I'm... genuinely confused at how losing at a game of social-recall nerd knowledge warrants the name-calling of 'nerd'... purely for context's sake...

... but, yeah. No interest in this movie, at all.

@green “Yes. We are all individuals.”
“ᴵ’ᵐ ⁿᵒᵗ!”

My social groups in college mostly quoted South Park. At work, we mostly riff off of unnecessarily “corporate-y” things that have been said either in announcements to employees or to the public by our own employer, which is at least a more locally inclusive basis for inside jokes.

@Kistaro @green I will still buy things for a dollar!!