Meme Monday: Miscellaneous Memes for March 2026

As usual, time to go and rummage through my pile of memes that I haven't used yet. So... Have fun!

Yeah, it's a problem that MMOs tend to have.
From Imgflip.

Because meeting at a tavern is so blase.
From Quickmeme.

I laughed when I saw this. From Facebook.

From Tiktok.

Ha! I'd be buff too! From Shen Comix.

Me too... Yes, me too...
From Tumblr.

Meme Monday: Taking a Break Memes in 2026

All in all, I took over 8 days off from MMOs. It was very much needed, and gave me the chance to recharge a bit. It may sound funny saying so, because a video game ought to be fun, but try telling that to people who are on progression raid teams. Oh, the participants may claim it's fun, but the effort it takes to do raiding and/or Retail-esque Mythic Plus dungeon runs is not a trivial enterprise.

For some people leveling another alt IS
the break. From Facebook's Warcraft Memes group.

Yeah, this is not unheard of in WoW.
From Reddit. (And Twitter.)

To some people, this IS how they get breaks
from MMOs. From meme-arsenal.

It goes without saying that everybody needs a break
from time to time, whether or not Oprah is the provider.
From Twitter and Webengage.

Ha! I'm probably going to be struck by
lightning for this one. From Reddit.

See? Taking a break is a good thing and should
be encouraged. From Memedroid.

Meme Monday: Rainy Memes

This past week has been a wee bit rainy.

It's not monsoon levels of rain --far from it, in fact-- but we got about two months' worth of rain in one week. There was enough rain that I half-expected to see somebody constructing an ark, but nobody was that enterprising of a soul in my neighborhood. We did get a bit of water in the basement, but my redirecting the drainage around the house last Fall apparently was a good enough of a job that the amount of water was pretty minimal compared to last Winter. 

Still, that got me to thinking about rain in gaming. 

A lot of times, rain is a minimal inconvenience; a bit of background flavor. However, if you've ever been caught out in the rain, it can suck if you're not prepared. And then try to imagine being caught in the rain in armor --modern or medieval or ancient, doesn't matter-- and slogging through the mud and the muck to get to wherever you're going, and yeah, rain is a bigger deal than we tend to think it is.

I thought that the beginning of Helm's Deep
was a master class in the impact of rain.
From Reddit and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Therefore, in honor of that past week's worth of rain --thankfully it's sunny as I write this-- here's some memes about rain in RPGs and gaming.

I have to admit it's one of the more unique
ways of introducing everybody in a new
RPG campaign. From Instagram.

It's a D&D meme to have a Cleric bless
the clouds so that they'll rain holy water,
but this takes that meme to its logical
conclusion. From Imgflip via Twitter.

I guess you could say I'm glad I'm not in it.
From Twitter.

And yes, there's always that Tauren joke
about rain. From Twitter.

Meme Monday: Min-Max Memes

The concept of min-maxing has been around as long as games have been around. Anybody wanting to get an edge over the competition will inevitably migrate toward getting the best gear and the best process to "win" most often. Sometimes the methodology of min-maxing is a specific strategy that must be adhered to at all costs, or a specific set of selections that provide the optimal output, and sometimes it's all about when your turn happens in a game.

In the Euro-boardgame Puerto Rico, for example, whether or not you'll win a game among expert players is completely decided before the game begins, when it's determined who starts first.

(Yeah, I don't play Puerto Rico for that reason. Why would I want to play a game where the veterans who play it are all whiny about who goes first?)

Of course, you also see min-maxers in tabletop RPGs and MMOs (well, any video game, but I'm most familiar with MMOs these days). So without further ado, here's some min-maxing memes...

I'm pretty sure that my wife would not find
this very amusing... From Twitter.

In case it's not been obvious over the years,
I'd be one of the people holding a sword.
From Reddit.

Absolutely the truth, and it can wreak havoc
in both tabletop RPGs and MMOs. From Reddit.

Yeah, when you encounter min-maxers
out and about who simply don't understand
that you aren't min-maxing.
From Facebooks My DnD group.

But if you keep min-maxing, the arms race has
begun. Happens in both WoW and tabletop
RPGs. From Reddit.

Even I will readily admit that some people
throw around the term "min-maxer" just
to avoid doing the bare minimum to play
their class/character properly. From Reddit.

Meme Monday: Catch-Up Memes

I suppose when I say "Catch-Up", I could go in a ton of different directions. I could be talking about catching up with friends...

From makeameme.org.

Or maybe I should have said "NOT catching up with friends..."

I'm not a fan of the Duck Dynasty show (or the
people), but this meme is pretty much me.
From Pinterest.

I could also have meant catching up to what's going on in an MMO if you've been away for a while...

That's me in pretty much every MMO
these days... From Reddit.

Or when NPCs in game tell you something that
supposedly happened three expacs ago that you weren't
around for and had no idea you'd done.
From Facebook's FFXIV: A Meme Reborn group.

Or worse, things that make your brain freeze.
From swtor-life.

Or maybe, I'm talking about making sure I'm maintaining my health properly and it's been not a very kind winter...

No Cheetos here, honest! But I will admit I haven't
been eating salad as much this past winter as 
I ought to have... From Pleated Jeans.

Meme Monday: Introvert Memes

I am an introvert.

I mean, if you couldn't have figured that out after years of blogging --and enjoying the fact that less than 50 people read the blog regularly-- that I'm an introvert, well, I'm sorry to disappoint you that I'm not an extrovert.

After 30 years of marriage, my wife has figured out that just leaving me to do my thing in the evening, with me occasionally popping into the TV room to see what she's watching, is the way for us to operate. Sure, I play board games with her and I have some occasional RPG games with a game group, but my hobbies tend to not be of the face-to-face variety. 

So, in honor of all of us introverts, here you go...

Yes, this is me at parties. While I can interact with
people well enough, my brain is freaking out the entire
time. From Thisismyrandomlife via The Minds Journal.

This is me to a 'T'. I had an awkward interaction
last week and I simply.cant.stop.thinking.about.it.
From Thunder Dungeon and X.

This is also me. The skills are similar
to that of stalkers, but the result is one
of active avoidance of certain people. It
is not a requirement that we don't get along,
as I also do that so I don't have to interact with
people I do know and like because... reasons.
From X.

Yep. I'm not fond of spontaneity. In my experience,
things get awkward far more often than not. 
The plot of Martin Scorsese's After Hours is
pretty much why I would never go and embrace
spontaneity. From The Minds Journal.

Yes. This. From Sarah Andersen.

Yeah, my introversion is very much on display
when my friends group wants to go and do things,
whether IRL or in WoW. When you dread that
"XXX Invites you to group" pop-up, you might be
an introvert. From The Minds Journal.

Meme Monday: Valentine's Day Memes for 2026

Yep, it's that time of year again. I'll try to provide links if I can find them to the creators' stores, so if you want some of these cards you can order them from them.

From Celestial of the East.

From Goddasaurus on Imgur.

Have to have some Warhammer 40K Valentines.
From Idiot of the East and Sparrows and Lily,
although the link seems to be broken now.

From Someecards.

From ammatice via Pinterest.
They apparently have both a DeviantArt page
and a carrd.co page.

From Sparrows and Lily, which apparently is
yet another broken link. Alas.

Meme Monday: Raspberry Pi Memes

For all of my years puttering around computers and IT, I've never built a Raspberry Pi.

Until now.

I built one to power what's known as a Hamclock* that amateur radio hobbyists use to keep an eye on contact listings, what amateur radio bands are open (it's a shortwave/High Frequency thing, just roll with it) and what solar activity is.

Oh, and it has a nice graphic of the earth showing parts of the earth that are in daylight or night:

This is DL1GKK's Hamclock, which looks much
more detailed that the graphic I have. From DL1GKK.

Geochron makes those as well, but the digital ones cost $500 and the physical machines cost much more than that. My Hamclock is basically the cost of the Raspberry Pi, parts to put it together, and a spare monitor and/or keyboard + mouse.

Anyway, I figured I'd put Raspberry Pi in this week's Meme Monday.

Okay, let's get the low-hanging fruit
out of the way. See what I did there?
From Instagram.

And yes, this is another popular meme type.
From ifunny.co.

When the most current powerful version
of the Raspberry Pi came out, the Raspberry
Pi 5, it was a bit difficult to find one in stock
at first.  From Zuyun Zeng.

Again, unless you're in the know (and
you are now) this would kind of make sense.
From Memedroid.

Apparently Raspberry Pi enthusiasts are a bit
excited about their hobby. From Memedroid.

But just like any other electronics project, you
can go down the multi-week rabbit hole
when you start on a new Raspberry Pi project.
From imgflip via Medium.

*Because of course ham radio would be involved.

Meme Monday: Snowpocalypse 2026 Memes

Before you ask "Hey, haven't you been putting out enough winter and snow related memes lately?" yes, I'm aware of that. And apparently Mother Nature has taken notice and said "Hold my beer!"

Beginning late in the afternoon on Saturday and until Sunday evening, we got about 9-9.5 in/ 22-24 cm  of snow dumped on us.*

I took this pic when I was out shoveling.

Close to the street, the snow totals were over a foot deep (30+ cm). And now that the snow is here, the really cold temperatures have moved in. The Wind Chill for tomorrow night is expected to be -22F/-30C, so this snow isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Hence, more memes, this time of the Snowpocalypse.

The snow storm hit more than just the Midwest.
It came up from Texas and hit a lot of
the South, too. This was from the
St. Louis Reddit page.

Yes, this was Kansas City's reaction to the impending
snow, but I survived my regular trip to the grocers on
Thursday night when most of the store was stripped
bare by people afraid that they'd run out of food.
From Twitter.

Of course, reading isn't a bad thing to do during
the snowstorm. From Instagram and ournerdiestthing.

And not everybody believes the world is ending.
From Reddit.

The storm has reached the Atlantic Coast
and New England, who are more used
to this sort of thing. From WAHUP.

As for me, I'll be fine. I've already shoveled the snow so that we can get out into the street and to the mailbox, so there's that. And whenever somebody complains about the cold, I like to bring up January 10, 1982, when the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game commonly known as The Freezer Bowl, because the wind chills were -59F/-51C, making it the coldest NFL game on record. 

This was a screencap from a recording of the NBC
broadcast of the game. From Amazing Blaze Zine.

I remember that game quite well, because we all watched it that day. It was so cold in Cincinnati that day that our heat pump simply couldn't keep up with the cold, and we all wore heavy coats and wrapped ourselves in blankets inside the house while we watched the game on television. We actually had the curtains closed because the cold air seeping through into the house was so bad.

The Augusta Kentucky Historic District
put this collage of photos from news reports
of the game. From Facebook.

So yeah, it could be worse...

*This is just in my backyard; snow totals for the Cincinnati Metro area varied.