I think Tim is very well aware of the double meaning of his use of “Up yours!” in that context. Both telling Kenny to level up and go fuck themselves at the same time.
Tim probably asked an LLM for a clever insult and it spat out a Pat quote.
Another one liner that still stuck with me was, “why spend billions on foreign military dictatorships, when we can use the money to better take care of the one we have at home?” Some things never change.
Anyone using it in that manner absolutely means it that way in context. It’s a gag that’s decades old, a staple of Gen X culture, which is squarely Tim Sweeney.
Except I didn’t assert that non-American GenX wasn’t ‘true’ gen-x, just that it might be a facet particular to Gen-X in America, and perhaps a non-American could be excused for not being in on it.
On top of everything else, it was the core of 7-up’s marketing in the early 2000s.
Do you not understand that „up yours“ is an insult or are you purposefully trolling?
I think he was saying “I upped my expectations and so should you”.
I think Tim is very well aware of the double meaning of his use of “Up yours!” in that context. Both telling Kenny to level up and go fuck themselves at the same time.
That’s a pretty classic way of sneaking that particular phrase in with plausible deniability. Pat Paulsen made it famous.
Tim probably asked an LLM for a clever insult and it spat out a Pat quote.
Another one liner that still stuck with me was, “why spend billions on foreign military dictatorships, when we can use the money to better take care of the one we have at home?” Some things never change.
Okay, assuming your tinfoil hat theory of the secret up yours is true, where’s the meltdown?
Have you seriously never seen someone do the ‘so up yours!’ schtick? Have you managed to never interact with a Gen-Xer in your life?
Have you serious never read English before? Have you managed to not read assuming it’s true?
He’s saying both.
Yeah I don’t think that’s what “up yours” means in that context.
Anyone using it in that manner absolutely means it that way in context. It’s a gag that’s decades old, a staple of Gen X culture, which is squarely Tim Sweeney.
How great of you to know everything about what everyone else thinks and does.
/GenX
American GenX? It feels impossible that an American GenX wouldn’t get the blatant reference Tim is making…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Except I didn’t assert that non-American GenX wasn’t ‘true’ gen-x, just that it might be a facet particular to Gen-X in America, and perhaps a non-American could be excused for not being in on it.
On top of everything else, it was the core of 7-up’s marketing in the early 2000s.