What's the butter meme about

[Fritz Bittenfeld]

Asking for a friend

[White Knight]

Here's my take on it since I started a wee ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it on another thread.

The way the game is designed, Swadia is right smack-dab in the middle of the map. Everyone sees them, everyone meets King Harlaus, etc. Since only about 1.3% of the people on Steam who have this game (see global achievements) have ever finished it to the end, we have hordes of players who know little else about the game.

Then there was a video that was put up on the internet some time ago. It was a pretty funny joke video made up of in-game footage, mixed with artistic embellishments (like a treasure hoard of butter in King Harlaus' vault). The basic theme of the "joke" is that Harlaus is a loser who hoards butter and would rather sit around admiring his stash of dairy products than be a King.

On top of that, you add nearly a decade of brainless arguments about which faction is "best".

In the end, what we get are an army of fools who think memes are cool, droning on and on about how much they hate King Harlaus, without realizing that they are playing a complex and wonderful game where each and every King is a scumbag and a loser.

The part that irks me is that it's stupid and totally misses the point. It's embraced and popularized by people who know the least about the game. It's just a very distinct example of human beings getting behind a falsehood because they think being a part of a group will increase their social standing or lend them an air of authority...or something?

Perhaps seeing this play out in the real world, given the state of current events, wears my patience thin? Current events being what they are, I think the last thing anyone needs are more people wearing novelty ball-caps and waving flags.

[Khorps]

when you accidentally start a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but you'd like to start another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Originally posted by White Knight:

The way the game is designed, Swadia is right smack-dad in the middle of the map. Everyone sees them, everyone meets King Harlaus, etc. Since only about 1.3% of the people on Steam who have this game (see global achievements) have ever finished it to the end, we have hordes of players who know little else about the game.

Then there was a video that was put up on the internet some time ago. It was a pretty funny joke video made up of in-game footage, mixed with artistic embellishments (like a treasure hoard of butter in King Harlaus' vault). The basic theme of the "joke" is that Harlaus is a loser who hoards butter and would rather sit around admiring his stash of dairy products than be a King.

On top of that, you add nearly a decade of brainless arguments about which faction is "best".

In the end, what we get are an army of fools who think memes are cool, droning on and on about how much they hate King Harlaus, without realizing that they are playing a complex and wonderful game where each and every King is a scumbag and a loser.

The part that irks me is that it's stupid and totally misses the point. It's embraced and popularized by people who know the least about the game. It's just a very distinct example of human beings getting behind a falsehood because they think being a part of a group will increase their social standing or lend them an air of authority...or something?

Perhaps seeing this play out in the real world, given the state of current events, wears my patience thin? Current events being what they are, I think the last thing anyone needs are more people wearing novelty ball-caps and waving flags.

[psychotron666]

It seems some people are still bitter over losing the great meme wars of 2016

[Cpt. Nemo]

Originally posted by Karl von Österreich-Ungarn:

Asking for a friend

Floris is a very popular mod, and it has a bug that results in villages selling nothing but butter if users forget to install the butter fix patch.

[Adahn (´ ᴥ `)]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

It seems some people are still bitter over losing the great meme wars of 2016

definitely still salty about that

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Cpt. Nemo:

Originally posted by Karl von Österreich-Ungarn:

Asking for a friend

Floris is a very popular mod, and it has a bug that results in villages selling nothing but butter if users forget to install the butter fix patch.

That is what I figured as well, at least for the start. It kind of merged with the pre-existing Fat Harlus jokes.

[JtDarth]

TLDR for those that want the info without the condecension:

The joke is that Harlaus has to feast a lot due to villages constantly raided and lords being salty about that, due to swadia's geographical position. Add in the floris butter-bug and you get the meme about fat butterlord Harlaus.

[Preacher]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

It seems some people are still bitter over losing the great meme wars of 2016

Don't even mention them, I still get PTSD flashbacks. shudders

[Twinkletoes]

Yeah I don't really know what White Knight is going on about either.

It's a meme, not some political or social statement. Don't like it, ignore it.

It's like getting upset at people who ride skateboards instead of walking like normal people.

Warband is not a country club, all types play the game. Casual and hardcore alike.

Honestly White Knight, reading WAY to much into this.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Blackout7491 - Deus Vult!:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

It seems some people are still bitter over losing the great meme wars of 2016

Don't even mention them, I still get PTSD flashbacks. shudders

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the ♥♥♥♥ posting trenches, a pepe to my right got his head blown off and permanently removed from Twitter. I grabbed my Facebook and fired off a Hillary "suicide she wrote" meme and a black guy pointing at his head meme and got the hell outta there. Still regret leaving behind my platoon, but it's the only way I'm here today.

The saddest part is two years later I got offed by Facebook for posting a Stephen hawking at the bottom of the stairway to heaven meme with him thinking "... ♥♥♥♥". Not even a war casualty.

But at least I didn't commit suicide by two bullets to the back of the head like many others...

[Twinkletoes]

"The saddest part is two years later I got offed by Facebook for posting a Stephen hawking at the bottom of the stairway to heaven meme with him thinking "... ♥♥♥♥". Not even a war casualty."

Nice.

[Adahn (´ ᴥ `)]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Originally posted by Blackout7491 - Deus Vult!:

Don't even mention them, I still get PTSD flashbacks. shudders

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the ♥♥♥♥ posting trenches, a pepe to my right got his head blown off and permanently removed from Twitter. I grabbed my Facebook and fired off a Hillary "suicide she wrote" meme and a black guy pointing at his head meme and got the hell outta there. Still regret leaving behind my platoon, but it's the only way I'm here today.

The saddest part is two years later I got offed by Facebook for posting a Stephen hawking at the bottom of the stairway to heaven meme with him thinking "... ♥♥♥♥". Not even a war casualty.

But at least I didn't commit suicide by two bullets to the back of the head like many others...

I lost left arm in a whip nae nae.

[Der Epic-Skin]

Originally posted by White Knight:

Here's my take on it since I started a wee ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it on another thread.

The way the game is designed, Swadia is right smack-dab in the middle of the map. Everyone sees them, everyone meets King Harlaus, etc. Since only about 1.3% of the people on Steam who have this game (see global achievements) have ever finished it to the end, we have hordes of players who know little else about the game.

Then there was a video that was put up on the internet some time ago. It was a pretty funny joke video made up of in-game footage, mixed with artistic embellishments (like a treasure hoard of butter in King Harlaus' vault). The basic theme of the "joke" is that Harlaus is a loser who hoards butter and would rather sit around admiring his stash of dairy products than be a King.

On top of that, you add nearly a decade of brainless arguments about which faction is "best".

In the end, what we get are an army of fools who think memes are cool, droning on and on about how much they hate King Harlaus, without realizing that they are playing a complex and wonderful game where each and every King is a scumbag and a loser.

The part that irks me is that it's stupid and totally misses the point. It's embraced and popularized by people who know the least about the game. It's just a very distinct example of human beings getting behind a falsehood because they think being a part of a group will increase their social standing or lend them an air of authority...or something?

Perhaps seeing this play out in the real world, given the state of current events, wears my patience thin? Current events being what they are, I think the last thing anyone needs are more people wearing novelty ball-caps and waving flags.

You get too much into it here, man. Everyone who truly appreacitates meme-culture can enjoy the butter-memes. There are some people who have spent a TON of hours (to be exactly, two tons) like me and who haven't got the "Conquer Calradia"-Achievement. (If that is what you are referring to).

The meme originally was spawned from a bug (to be exactly, most common in the Floris mod, sometimes in Native) where whole swadian villages were filled with Butter when looted, nothing else, just butter. Combined with the fact that King Harlaus prefers to stay with his giant army in Praven to hold feasts instead of defending his kingdom, the Meme of the "Butter-Party-King" was born.

[Preacher]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Originally posted by Blackout7491 - Deus Vult!:

Don't even mention them, I still get PTSD flashbacks. shudders

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the ♥♥♥♥ posting trenches, a pepe to my right got his head blown off and permanently removed from Twitter. I grabbed my Facebook and fired off a Hillary "suicide she wrote" meme and a black guy pointing at his head meme and got the hell outta there. Still regret leaving behind my platoon, but it's the only way I'm here today.

The saddest part is two years later I got offed by Facebook for posting a Stephen hawking at the bottom of the stairway to heaven meme with him thinking "... ♥♥♥♥". Not even a war casualty.

But at least I didn't commit suicide by two bullets to the back of the head like many others...

You are a true hero who got screwed. I salute you o7

Godspeed, soldier

[Morkonan]

Yeah, this is a little baby necro, still fresh from the grave. It is not an ancient danger from which a lich spawns...

That being said, the Butter Meme is simply explained - Why not Butter?

(Or, due to a historic laughable bug that caused all loot from raided villages to be Butter... because, butter.)