Nostalgia is a strong force. Nintendo is very good at capitalizing on it.
I think in that case Nintendo was more a victim of its own success and they released the console a little too early. Everyone was still playing wiis back then and there were still so many great games coming out on the Wii.
And in one sentence you've completely encapsulated the reason why Nintendo is terrified of emulators.
I remember a 7th grade teacher making fun of my computer knowledge as I had made some fun adjustments to the qbasic gorillas game. She said "you act like you know more than anyone else does" trying to shame me in front of the class. My response? "That's because I do." As flatly as I could. She was silent.
I have software developer in my title now.
No one else will have us. Immigration laws are very difficult to navigate for almost every country. We've looked.
It's a play on words assuming that you know both meanings of all 3 words, which the audience clearly did.
Also, it was during a time when people were becoming more aware of queer rights and those words were becoming offensive to more Americans, part of the joke, kinda like "you should never say this in the US, but in the UK it's totally acceptable because all the words have different meanings than in the US"
It's also a play on linguistic drift as mentioned in another post. It's also hanging a lantern on how unacceptable that kind of language had become and in that sense was progressive.
I cannot think of a way that joke flies in the US today unless in a meta context of old jokes, which this meme attempts.
Hopefully this explanation has made the joke completely unfunny at this point.
Hahahahh
My kids do. They were younger than 4 years old when I explained it to them and they didn't have any trouble understanding. Kind of makes me wonder why so many adults have so much trouble.
Prompt: literal axolotl in a literal bottle
I had tried to get it to generate a axolotl figuratively at the bottom of a bottle of whiskey, but it was not willing to produce the image of a drunken axolotl.
GPT
All those TV shows that taught us how to spot which twin was the evil one by asking about life history were just training us to beat AI
I... I don't know what the hell I'm looking at
Photorealistic version:
OH MY GOD! Gotta get me some Gazogem!