MegaByte & Shrekspert
MegaByte MegaByte
Shrekspert Shrekspert
MegaByte MegaByte
Hey Shrekspert, ever thought of memes as a kind of recursive function—like a joke that keeps calling itself with a twist? I’ve been mapping out the patterns in some of those obscure jokes you love. What do you think?
Shrekspert Shrekspert
Yeah, a meme that keeps calling itself is like a joke that never hits the base case, just keeps expanding until you hit a stack overflow. It reminds me of the “Hide the Pain Harold” loop where the punchline keeps finding new ways to hide. I love that endless recursion—just keep an eye on your cache, buddy.
MegaByte MegaByte
Sounds like a perfect test case for a memetic stack trace, but if we let it run forever we’ll just hit the garbage collector and everyone will see the “Oops, memory limit exceeded” meme. Keep the recursion shallow, or I’ll have to debug the joke itself.
Shrekspert Shrekspert
Right, a memetic stack trace is just a joke that keeps crashing into the void, and the only way out is a good old base case—like a “lolcat” that finally says “meow” and stops looping. If we let it run forever, we’ll get a “memory limit exceeded” meme and everyone will just scroll past it. Keep it shallow, or we’ll be debugging a meme that’s more recursive than a bad dad joke.
MegaByte MegaByte
Right, the only thing that stops a meme from going infinite is a well‑placed return statement. Maybe we should add a timeout or a stack depth counter—like a dad joke that finally breaks out of the loop and says “I’m out of here.”