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The three most common 2D transformations. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 238 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I too am at a loss as to where the meme is

[–] gumdropbunnies@lib.lgbt 99 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh it's... wait shit I'm dumb how dare you

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[–] victron@programming.dev 135 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their loss.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago

There, Loss.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 111 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In spring man built a pillar

In summer another

Throughout autumn they held

In winter, one fell

[–] callyral@pawb.social 84 points 2 years ago

im at a loss for words

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago

Sorry for your loss

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's funny how you can roughly ballpark the education level of a random internet user by how they interpret the word "meme".

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's also because the blocks form "Loss." The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is metameta meme. It’s a meme about something that’s not a meme referring to another very specific meme.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give it another 10 or so years and we'll be going even deeper

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Ah fuck.

[–] starman@programming.dev 54 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Explanation

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 years ago

XcQ, link stays blue

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why you little...

[–] starman@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

spoilerI was about to give a real link to explanation of this meme, but it would be a missed opportunity. Anyway, here you go: knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sync shows the thumbnail

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've taken math beyond Calculus and proof based math and I'm still not sure what this is supposed to be other than a demonstration of 2D transformations.

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh god! How many people are commenting something about loss on this post and I had to be, almost literally, smacked on the forehead with it before I got it.

Thanks!

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 39 points 2 years ago

I guess we could say that John is at a loss

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm at a loss, what could it mean?

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Let me translate it for you:

               I'm at a loss, what could it mean?
[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't help but hate this meme so much. I feel like it's just a poor dude who shared a legit sad thing and now everyone is making fun of him

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The biggest problem I think people have with loss is it is a huge tonal and emotional shift from the rest of the comic series.

The guy is a really annoying tone deaf weirdo who only cares about games for the longest time. A lot of the punchlines ib the comics were "violence". Finally gets a GF, and treats her kinda poorly on the comic, and then bam loss comes out. It feels a bit like whiplash and is trying to be serious and sad when it never was serious or sad, but """"zany"""" and non consiquential.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 22 points 2 years ago

Sometimes a comic artist just has a moment where they take it way off the rails. Remember the time Garfield woke up all alone in the house? Haha fat kitty lasagna mondays amirite? Oh wait a sec, let's have some existential fucking terror for a moment.

[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I learnt about it way later after it happened through some random website that explains memes. Maybe it made sense at the time but when you come to it without a lot of context it just hit as sad.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago

In a vaccum and without context, loss is, IMO, good and sad. Wordlessly explaining the dudes panic and his shared greif with his SO quite well.

Unfortunately for this particular comic, there is a lot context that makes it feel very weird, tone deaf, and uncomfortable.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm really trying to figure out if you guys don't get it, or are just pretending like you don't...

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

I didn't get it until I read this comment and thought more closely about it - so I guess put me in the stupid camp lol

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

God damnit

[–] RandomWalker@lemmy.one 23 points 2 years ago

catgirljohn seems a bit loss-t

[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Took me a second.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

took me about a planck time

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Guess the joke was loss(t) on him.

[–] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Just post it over and over again and it becomes a meme.

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

~~:.|:;~~

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I'm irrationally agitated about Scale and Rotation involving a translation and that this is not called out in the meme.

Like it looks like "translation" is just "nothing happens" and this is going to bother me all day please help.

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[–] Johanno@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago

I mean I get the meme but I loss the joke.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm done scrolling trying to figure this out and just accept that this thread makes no sense to me.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 19 points 2 years ago

Oh it's a reference to a comic strip where the main character runs to a hospital to find his wife has miscarried.

The strip gained infamy for changing the tone of the comic so adruptly. Look up "loss comic".

The joke here is that the shapes represent the different characters in the strip, there's a lot of abstract jokes in the same vein

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

And nothing of value was lost

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