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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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Super Romulus Bros (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Considering that they are called the Mario Bros, seems to me that Remus and Romulus characters are played by the wrong character. Since it was called Rome and the game was called Mario, maybe Romulus should have been played by Mario. Did I misunderstand something?

[–] PugJesus 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the meme format, Mario is typically used for some normal, innocuous comment (like "abortion is a woman's choice"), while Luigi is used for something off the wall ("Yeetus that fetus")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ohhhHHHhhhhh! That makes sense. Thank you for explaining the history/context behind it, and I appreciate your dedicated contributions to the Lemmyverse. 🙂

[–] PugJesus 2 points 3 months ago

Always happy to help! 🙏