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For people who don't get this joke: There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the pla
by reidjs 6y ago
For people who don't get this joke:
There's a party game called 'Among Us' that's sort of like a real-time version of Mafia set on a space ship. Most of the players are trying to determine who's the 'killer' while completing tasks, and the killer is trying to kill all the other players. So when he says 'red sus' he means, the red colored player is suspected to be the killer.
Apparently the words 'among us' show up somewhere in the Rust source code, so the person made a silly pull request to change it to "here" instead.
- Funes- 6y agoGod I'm out of the loop...
- trav4225 6y agoThat's probably a good thing. ;-) I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these. Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because practically -nothing- on it makes any sense to me... almost as if it were from another planet. It's disturbing because it makes me realize how little I understand about people in the very society in which I live. Get off my lawn?
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI think "AMOGUS" is a meta reference to the overuse of Among Us memes, where people would constantly ask if everything was a reference to the game, eventually devolving to "AMOGUS". Edit: Tiktok is similar; its some sort of Darwinian laboratory of memes where innocuous memes are selected for and duet-ed until they become freakish monstrosities of in-jokes and meta humour.
- trav4225 6y agoHah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
- pityJuke 6y agoArguably Among Us is the game of last summer, or hell, even the game of this lockdown.
- mynameisvlad 6y agoUh, Animal Crossing would like to have a word about that latter title.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoPokémon Go enters the chat. Seriously, we picked the worse games to pass time during lockdown. Edit: I mean it, lockdown was weird and it looked like it would last only a few months, so many of us picked casual games to fill the time we would spend running errands. It took me three months to switch to more interesting passtimes.
- astrange 6y agoAmong Us has been holding on longer than Animal Crossing at this point. In some ways it has fewer annoying design problems - Animal Crossing feels like it's forcing you to slow down and relax, but they did this by making all the loading times and menus at least twice as slow as they should be. Inventory management, selling bugs, visiting islands, etc, it just takes too long.
- smoldesu 6y agoVlad, you're looking a little sus at the moment.
- cabaalis 6y agoRoblox piggy has that title.
- klyrs 6y agoMy kid refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" -- I've never heard him pluralize it. But god, we couldn't figure out what the hell he was talking about until he drew the thing.
- Shared404 6y ago> refers to a character in the game as a "mungus" > a "mungus" Your kid is quite clever.
- klyrs 6y agoOh, I don't know... he also pronounces "bald" as "bob" and considers bob to be the third gender. We're working on that. Similarly, I've heard of kids "versing" eachother. Root cause: in Pokemon, the announcer says "A versus B" -- naturally, the kids interpret "verse" as a verb, which clearly means "to fight", and conjugate it normally.
- Shared404 6y agoI'm guessing he's in between 11 - 17? (Rhetorical, definitely would not expect an answer to that.) I wouldn't worry too much. He'll get there when he gets there, in the meantime, just let him enjoy the in-jokes [0]. You'll miss it when it's gone. (source: Spent a while hanging/working with a group 11-18 year old males, as both a member and a leader [1]) [0] The group I hung out with/worked with would refer to "potato" as a species. The "mungus" and "versing" both strike me as plays on words, much in the spirit of programmer humor. [1] In a semi-official capacity. Not as in "natural leader".
- Narretz 6y agoThe phrase "is this an Among Us reference?" has also become a meme, and has been further deconstructed into AMOGUS? as a reaction to overuse.
- mdoms 6y agoI really still don't get it.
- smoldesu 6y agoIf it's any consolation, I think you'd get the same response from a group of 3rd graders if you showed them "All your base are belong to us."
- teraflop 6y agoTo be clear: there is no joke in the code. The joke is the issue itself. Specifically, the idea is that the character designs in Among Us are so minimalistic that just about anything [1] can look like them, due to pareidolia. So there's a running gag of people posting objects whose resemblance to the characters is increasingly strained, until you're seeing little spacemen literally everywhere you look. When you take this to its extreme, the joke is that even just seeing the words "among us" in source code is enough to drive someone to a nervous breakdown. [1]: https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CAN https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/284994674/AMONG-US-TRASH-CA...
- mdoms 6y agoOh ok. Not very funny but cool cool.