Top 10 Most Brutal Viral Elden Ring Deaths That Have Left Gamers Devastated

Game developer FromSoftware has made a name for itself in the industry for the brutal and unforgiving gameplay of its "Souls" series of games, which have spawned an entire subgenre that seeks to emulate the suffering of FromSoftware's formula.

Their most recent project, Elden Ring, has been unleashed upon gamers to the tune of rave reviews. Seriously, I have yet to read or see something bad about this game. As of the writing of this post, it is currently sitting at a 95% Metacritic Rating. 

This impeccable critical reception has made it the target of mass review bombing by a subset of triggered gamers who can't stand to see Elden Ring topping their game of choice. 

Despite this campaign against the game, it still sits at a 7.9 user rating.
 

Memes About Memes To Worsen That Meme Dependency

Is knowing a bunch of memes the same as having a personality? Not exactly. Knowing a bunch of pictures and what emotions they represent is a lot more like understanding hieroglyphics than it is actually having an articulated set of values. It's kind of like how knowing French doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that you can understand French. A love of quality memes does, however, identify someone as having particularly excellent taste.

Memes used to just be cats and burgers, but in these short few decades, they've grown up and become their own machine. So naturally, that machine will of course turn in on itself and start commenting on the fact that it exists. Like an existential crisis, but only a little funnier. Here are memes about making memes, consuming them, and every other part of the meme economy people seem to find themselves participating in. One day there will be a great singularity and everyone will become their own meme, but before that perfect day comes, we have this. So good luck out there, and happy meme-ing. One does not simply, and all that jazz.

(Jazz music stops)

Wildly Petty Moments That Really Escalated Things

Most anyone would tell you that letting things slide is a virtue. In the grand scheme of things, it's better to allow negativity to roll away like water off a duck's back. But some of us are geese. And geese will honk and bite and poop everywhere even if you don't get too close.

Here are some people who chose to take things to the extreme, make them personal, and use the power of spite to greatly inconvenience the people who they've felt wronged them. We can't say that we agree with every reason or method, but we can look at them with our mouths hanging wide open going "damn son that's petty as hell."

So maybe these are more of a warning than anything else. Know that there are people out there who, if you wrong them in the right way, will make sure that you have a bad time. Especially if it's over something trivial. Maybe deep down we all wish we could get this petty. But at the end of the day, these folks are being petty enough for the rest of us.

Hapless Idiot Humiliated, Gets Lost In Girl's Dorm During a One-Night Stand

This sorry soul found himself completely lost inside of a girl's dormitory when he was over at her's for a one-night stand. Wearing nothing but his boxers, he was forced to ask for help from a random girl who took him knocking on doors at  4 am to try and find his lost lover.

u/Silly_Donut_362 shared this story about what happened to him "a couple of years ago" to Reddit's r/TIFU subreddit. If you didn't already know, and I find it hard to imagine someone reading doesn't, TIFU stands for "Today I F-ed Up" and it's one of the oldest initialisms on the internet. 

I don't know what's worse in this story, the fact that he couldn't even remember her hair color or the fact that he was practically naked for this entire event. One thing is for certain this is a new core memory. One of those memories that keep you up at night for years afterward, as you lie in bed cringing yourself into the dark abyss of shame.

 

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People Share Their "Screw It, I'll Deal With It Later" Moments

Risks are an important part of life. If we don't take the right risks, we can miss out on important opportunities. It's common for us to find ourselves shackled by our own sense of security. Choosing to walk out of a bad job or ask someone out can feel incredibly stressful, but there are moments when we just kinda go "f*ck it" and see what happens. Even a seemingly stupid decision can sometimes be necessary. And those moments of taking a leap can have longstanding positive benefits for us.

And then there are other times when we know our decision is just plain stupid. Choosing to get back together with someone you know is bad for you, or stealing a police officer's hat off his head are definitely risky maneuvers, but they don't hold a lot in the equation for potential gain. The problem is that good stupid and bad stupid risky moments can feel almost identical.

When telling oneself "We'll just deal with the consequences later" it's often important to take into consideration what exactly those consequences will be, but sometimes we just don't have the time to think about it.

For some tales of escape, here are some people's "screw it, I'm out" moments.

Boss Won't Respect People's Time, Employee Cleverly Trains Her

Bosses, much like children, need to learn that their disrespectful behavior has actual consequences. In this case, this bartender had a boss who was notorious for letting potential employees just sit and wait for her to show up. Not understanding that this actually has an affect on people, Madame Henry The Late'th just kept disrespecting their time.

That's when this employee realized they could actually do something about their boss' incessant tardiness. Why not just tell her all the no-shows are just people who got frustrated and left? It's not like she's ever around early enough to know the difference. Amazingly, being treated the way she was treating people actually gave this lady some insight and she actually started changing her behavior.

You'd think this is something an adult would just need to be told, rather than shown through an elaborate ruse. But adults aren't that smart, and results are results.

Wildlife Control Employee Gets Called in for "Squeaking" Heard in the Attic, Turns Out to be Over 1,000 Bats

Is this the Batman's real origin story? Imagine thinking maybe you have a couple of mice in the attics, and instead walking into the friggin' bat cave. 

Malicious Compliance: Frustrated Technology Teacher Destroys Fifty Computers Following Boss's Poor Choice of Words

This tech instructor, u/Personal_Lavishness4, worked as a volunteer at a private high school in the 90s, waited patiently for the school to approve a budget to put him onto salary, and adequately introduce computers to the school.

Unfortunately, this technology wasn't a priority for the old hats running the school, and they found every reason not to approve the budget.

The school director was notoriously tight and thought that he had struck a bargain when he convinced a bank to donate their old computers to them. The problem was that these weren't personal computers or "PCs" we know them today. These were bank terminals that did not play nice with a kid looking to learn how to use an operating system for the first time. Essentially, the bank had just offloaded their old trash onto the school, and the idiot director thought he had scored a deal.

The lesson is the same that we often see in "Malicious Compliance" stories… You really should choose your words with care when you're threatening someone.

Alas, the director hadn't learned this lesson. When confronted with the uselessness of the terminals he had authorized, he uttered the following.

"I'm sure they can be helpful in some way. They must be worth something. Figure it out…because if you can't, we're going to have to throw them away."

"Throw them away?" the Instructor must have thought to himself, "Well, don't mind if I do!"

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For more compliance of the malicious variety, check out this story where teachers maliciously complied when asked to attend a video training session during their holiday.

 

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