Yesterday evening, Sean Spicer took to the press briefing room to criticize the media for how it had emphasized the low attendance at President Trump’s inauguration the day prior. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” he said. Minutes later, the Internet unleashed its latest meme.
Sean Spicer lied, as press secretaries, and the governments they serve, are wont to do. But perhaps because Trump had only been President for a day, and because of both how unnecessary the lie was and how easy it was to fact-check it, the Internet ran with it. People lie all the time, especially in politics. Most of them just happen to be much better at it than Sean Spicer.
People lie in video games too. “Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle,” isn’t a lie per se, but by the fourth or fifth castle, it starts to feel more than a little dishonest. Trailers for games can lie, depicting things that don’t ever actually make it into the finished product, or don’t look half as good when they finally do. Sometimes the people who make games say certain things will happen in them, even when those things sound too good to be true. And then some games we are told will eventually come out one day just vanish without a trace
So it’s only natural that the new Sean Spicer “period” meme would have plenty of video game-centric iterations. Some of the best ones are below:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/823000455072587776
"Uncharted 4 is actually a great third-person shooter. Period." pic.twitter.com/PjDmNUDsEq
— Imran Khan (@imranzomg) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/embed/status/823083621535907841
https://twitter.com/embed/status/823188945202778112
"Konami loves and has always supported Kojima. PT was never created. Period" pic.twitter.com/X5gAVkhykW
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/embed/status/822965448945889280
"The Big the Cat sections of Sonic Adventure were very popular. It's true" pic.twitter.com/qjzmUX8qtE
— Bit Socket (@BitSocket) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/embed/status/823133952831582209
"Instead of having some sort of bulky gamer headset, you’ll be able to do it right off your smartphone…that’s a pretty sweet solution." pic.twitter.com/YdnLHwQGTi
— David Abrams (@CheapyD) January 22, 2017
"Dark Souls is not broken and is a beloved franchise by every single person on the planet… period." pic.twitter.com/sijQSLHSxh
— Simon Miller (@SimonMiller316) January 22, 2017
"The Nintendo Switch has the most compelling launch library in gaming history. Period." pic.twitter.com/bzgtYe3FO1
— Colin Moriarty (@longislandviper) January 22, 2017
"Killzone 2's trailer was 100% in-engine footage, period." – Sean Spicer pic.twitter.com/U9sbj57v93
— dannyodwyer was here (@dannyodwyer) January 22, 2017
— COKELOGIC 🐈 (@cokelogic) January 22, 2017
