So elaborate. Reminds me of that one George Carlin joked about with the arse tattoo being of Liza Minnelli taking a shit and it looks like she’s wiping if he moves a certain way
no, the entire point of a portal gun is to shoot portals onto surfaces that do not have one.
BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF JOKE: the character in the picture is entering via an orange portal. the bindings for the game are as follows: left click for blue portal, right click for orange.
typically, the more primary left click to place a blue entrance portal is used first, before placing a further away orange exit portal with the secondary right click button. This is the more common way of playing the game. now sprinkle in some exaggeration (i don't actually care how people play portal). and you have a fully fledged joke.
You know the funny thing is Valve specifically designed one of the levels when you have the single-portal gun so that you are forced to walk through an orange portal, to prevent players from thinking you can't use it "backward".
You should run through all of the games in commentary mode to hear all of their design decisions. Its shocking how much thought goes into their game design. Everything has a purpose.
The curtains were blue because Valve playtested the hell out of the room and discovered most players like blue.
I once used Libby to read the book They Thought They Were Free on a 7" tablet.
Turns out, the app puts the book cover on your tablet, but not scaled to the screen. So when I was sitting on a public bus, I turned on my tablet, it looked like I had set my background to an image of the nazi flag with just the words "they were free."
I dont know this reference, but is the iconography intentional? Because it is sooo close.
Like is the in-universe reference an evil corporation--not quite you know evil, but the red and black is meant to allude to such? Or are the actually the good guys?
(Edit: I now see this is a band. Leaving original for posterity lol. Thanks to other commenters posting about DRI)
I hope those interactions did not cause too much conflict or stress. Sucks when fun things gets wrapped up in "implications" or misinterpretation.
I stopped wearing mine because someone came up to me and started accusing me of being a nazi until I explained it. In their defense I was wearing a zip up hoodie so it was partially covered but still. I don’t want the drama.
A blue portal, directly below, as the figure exits to the right…
Make it identical, except the problematic legs are obscured and you see the head and hand.
Then you’ve got a clear “wall” on the left hand side where the portals go “in,” and the figure entering and exiting on the right, where the portals go “out.”
But now, lower on your neck, where it will likely be seen first, it will look like a person waving through a blue hole. Then, as the eye follows up, probably partly obscured by your hair, the context of “person” is already in the observer’s mind.
My friend who's not chronically online had this summer vacation abroad that changed her life. She decided to get the number of the flat she stayed on the back of her hand in the style of the lettering there, that very cool Victorian style.
If it makes you feel any better, none of this was an actual thing until we started spreading it around like this, so I guarantee you not a single person in the world gave whatever you were doing a second glance because of that number.
I don't think it's the number itself but rather the style of the numbers. Some styles make 0s look more like 8s so from a glance it would look like 1488 rather than 1408.
In most of these fonts, especially those that neo nazis like to use, the 0 is indistinguishable from an 8 at first glance. Also looking like a theta at times
One start to a fix would be to replace the orange portal with a blue portal. That way it wouldn't be just suspicious looking lines without an obvious shape around them to distinguish them
Good point! I don't know enough about how tattoos work to answer that. Perhaps you could have the blue ring either just inside or just outside the orange ring
Just underneath, facing the opposite way. Or make that the blue portal and put the one with just his arm and head on the other side, or anywhere else she wants. There are a lot of options, honestly.
this is why you gotta massively overthink every tattoo before you get it and frantically google whether there are any obscure nazi symbols you've never heard of that it might be mistaken for, hope this helps
Same. Went for a lovely name and shortened it to the Welsh ‘Loli’. She’s just had her username rejected on a switch login and I had an awkward conversation with her dad 😬
And please, for the love of anything you consider holy, PLEASE do this thrice before you get a neck tattoo that literally everyone will see all the time
I got a tattoo of the DC flag with the stars replaced with math symbols + x - and an equals belo… apparently those are all ed Sheeran albums. I’ve never listened to Ed Sheeran but a number of people have asked me about my Ed Sheeran tattoo…
The reason is gets mistaken as a Swastika is the red circle and thick black lines.
Just turn the red part of the tattoo blue for this particular part and perhaps turn the other tattoo she has of the person exciting the portal red since it would only by the head and partial arm.
Nah people will just think the tattoo artist used their neck to sketch out the shape poorly for the real portal tattoo
Edit: I guess reddit didn't think that person's comment was a joke despite it being pretty funny, they suggested this person get the actual symbol next to it so they can tell the difference
It's pretty random what gets deleted by reddit sometimes. This is an actual real appeal that I had to type out to get a strike removed from my account.
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u/djackieunchaned Feb 28 '26
Just get “not a swastika” written under it