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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by lovegoblin on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:56PM (#23194404)
> All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

If this is an ironic joke, it's a good one. If not, it's painfully un-self-aware.

Because "feels like I'm in Darmok" is just an meaningless in isolation as "Temba, his arms wide."

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by tempestn on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:05PM (#23195303)
Whether ironic or not, I found both the initial observation and your reply hilarious. Meme replies really are Darmok, and the meta nature of that is perfect.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by lovegoblin on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:49PM (#23197214)
Exactly.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by thebigshane on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:37PM (#23198321)
```It is a genuine source of hilarity to me that “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a potentially really useful popcultural-reference shorthand for “a situation where two groups face a difficulty communicating because one group speaks exclusively in memes and popculture references”```

-- https://twitter.com/venatrixlunaris/status/11852863701068595...

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