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[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It’s bait targeted at them. Notice how FO3 is portrayed as having more to it than 2.

Fallout 1 being lesser than 2 is a common opinion on most sites, but it’s clearly bait to place 3 above 2 by showing the larger sandwich.

New Vegas is taking a shot as well, it uses a chicken sandwich to show it’s a different studio but still shows itself as having less than the one I assume is a Big Mac or whopper. Nobody places 3 above NV.

The fish sandwich doesn’t make sense for 4. They should have used a sandwich everyone hates or the target audience hates. Nobody likes 4 more than any except 3.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

FO3 being the biggest sandwich is a dead giveaway. I think the meme is supposed to be someone who grew up with and is nostalgic about FO3, basically someone your average 4channer would absolutely hate and view with contempt.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Nobody places 3 above NV.

You'd be surprised. There's a pretty large and growing backlash to the idea that NV is better than 3. Most of the backlash is just "3 isnt as bad as people say" rather than it being better than NV, but the strongest and loudest backlashers think 3 is outright better.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is /r/prequelmemes contrarianism and it must be crushed. I will be damned if people think Oblivion with Guns is better than NV

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t encountered those. I’m willing to have an open mind if they actually have argument, but I fail to see how there is one. Three dog was a better DJ I guess, buts not a large hinge point

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Many a True Nerd made a video that is decently well respected in defense of FO3. (He's not a chud, pretty decent guy it seems). My Fallout friend who loves NV and hates 3 even respects the video. (He's also gained some social credit with places like GCJ because of another youtuber who obsessively made massively long video essays nitpicking every point in his video which are very offputting lol).

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks for the rec. I liked 3 as a kid, new Vegas is just something else. Personally, I think almost all of the hate is from people who played 1-2 first and knew what was lost.

Oh fuck it’s 2 hours. I’ll listen to it at work later lol.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

MATN is one of those guys who's really into like roman history and stuff and somehow isn't a chud. Really rare breed

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Hot take: 3 is fun enough if you just dick around. NV has the vastly superior main quest. 3 has some good side quests but the main quest is a fucking snooze fest.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

I am in the camp that 3 is not that bad. New Vegas is clearly better, but I started with 3 and definitely had fun.

[–] DongWang@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I am one of those weirdos, I guess. 3 has better tone and also I get to go John Brown on slavers

[–] 1984 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Why do people in this thread say sandwich when it's a burger? I'm not a native English speaker so it's an honest question.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I chose to use sandwich because not every sandwich in that picture is a burger. Since burger is a type of sandwich in American English, I could have used more specific language for each but that would have required me to use more words and I’m lazy.

Do you mind if I ask where the line between the two words is in your first language? You don’t have to say what it is if that’s an opsec thing, I’m just curious about the delineation.

[–] 1984 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which one of the pictures is a sandwich? They all look like burgers to me. Maybe I need glasses but they do. :)

In my native language, all of these are just called hamburgers. The word sandwich is just used for typical breakfast sandwiches with ham and cheese and flat bread on the bottom only.

Of course there is Subway with those larger sandwiches with filling inside, and we call those sandwiches too...

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All of them are sandwiches. The last two aren’t burgers. The term burger has shifted a bit over the years, but for the most part it still retains the assumption that it is made of beef and circular. A square piece of beef like the chain Wendy’s does is still a burger, but a swuare piece of fish would but be unless somebody has a rather loose take on what’s. Burger is.

For example, I’m vegan and don’t call grilled tofu slices between circular buns a burger. I would call it a tofu sandwich. If it was a circular piece of grilled tofu, that would be “close enough” to burger.

Shape, cooking method for the protein, and the “caps” that the buns usually serve as are all factors in how much something fits the ideal of “burger”.

For example: a grilled, circular patty served in between two small corn tortillas could be called a tortilla burger, but wrap the patty in a single larger tortilla and it’s not a burger. It’s now a wrap.

Something I should probably add: put damn near anything on a piece of bread it’s an open face sandwich. Put a k the piece on top it’s just a sandwich. Wrap it something it’s a wrap. A grilled patty wrapped in lettuce would be a lettuce wrap. Two chonky pieces of lettuce above and below, and many people would call it a lettuce wrap still but due to the lack of wrapping it would be a sandwich. The use of bread isn’t required for sandwich functionality. Side note: is there a term for the role the buns fill? What do we call the absorbent thing that allows your hands to stay relatively clean while you eating the things placed between them?

I’m too fucking American, I’ve put more effort into this than anything else I’ve posted today lol.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

The use of bread isn’t required for sandwich functionality.

idk why, but i love that sentence

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In the US nobody would ever say "damn I could go for a sandwich right now" while entering a burger joint- that would be insane.

Sandwich is definitely an umbrella term covering burger, but since there's no word for "a normal sandwich" we usually reserve the word sandwich for the normal sandwich.

We do very occasionally call burgers sandwiches in certain contexts, such as when we are talking about several different sandwiches and one of them is a hamburger.

That usually only happens when talking about things like fish or chicken sandwiches at a burger restaurant. We wouldn't even expect the question "what is your favorite sandwich?" to be answered with "hamburger" - that would be sort of weird too. It's a very limited usage

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Would it be weird? A burger is just a very very well known type of sandwich with a. Few extra definitional requirements. Maybe it’s an old person Midwest thing but two of grandparents always referred to burger joints as sandwich places. The rest of my family does not.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why ham buhbuh called ham when it beef but if buhbuh is when beef why ham.

jerma-burger

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Joke aside, it’s because of Hamburg the place.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago
[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I do feel like old people in the Midwest might call it a sandwich a little more, especially while eating or passing food or something, but would still always say burger if they were trying to pick a food to eat.

Do you want a burger or a brat? Etc.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Definitely, most people opt for specificity when it’s easy and the burger as a form of sandwich is quite possibly the most American way to be specific instead of vague.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you call a patty melt a burger or a sandwich?

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Either a sandwich or a melt

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

americans tend to use burger and sandwich interchangeably, unsure why/when it started but it at least seems to be a US-centric phenomenon

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are not used interchangeably in the US, people might call a burger a sandwich, but would never call a (non burger) sandwich (like a grilled cheese, tuna fish sandwich, etc) a burger.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not all burgers are beef, yea turkey burgers are a thing here. But it is different from the turkey sandwich, and you wouldn't call one of those a burger.

Burgers are a subset of sandwiches, so while you can call burgers sandwiches, you can't do the reverse. Dogs are animals, but the words aren't interchangeable.

You could lump turkey burgers in like OP did by calling them, and a bunch of things sandwiches as a group, but I don't think you'd call turkey burgers a sandwich otherwise (because the turkey sandwich is a separate, already existing thing)

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like we only call them turkey burgers because of American humor rather than anyone genuinely feeling like it’s a burger.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's just compromise and call them "turgers".

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to give a respectful no

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Smh the left is so divisive.

[–] 1984 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's very interesting, I never noticed before.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Not exactly interchangeably, except maybe in some dialects people might use the word sandwich a bit more liberally.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Not even worth mentioning, literally the embodiment of bethesdas fall pre-starfield