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Summer Meme Sundae REFLECT Year: 2021 Medium: Interactive Video Runtime: 1 minute 17 seconds

The dinosaurs were cool.

I considered staying, to be honest. I did stay. I thought maybe I'd die there - get eaten by a pliosaur or something, and then no-one would be any the wiser. Or maybe some archaeologist would dig up my bones millennia later, and be very confused. But I kept thinking about the things I'd said. Or, well, the things that - in the future - I'd seen myself going to say, in the past.

I remembered being so angry, at the time - when I was making those threats, I meant them. I… had a point to make, and I was going to make it in the worst way possible. Only when the time came to follow through on that promise, I found that I couldn't. I'd already followed through.

I have my excuses for why it took me so long to put the pieces together. I was running off a single can of Lilt. I was in an unfamiliar, high-stakes environment. And, moments after I'd made the connection, the submarine ran aground. So I was a little preoccupied, all told.

I think it was seeing the others that got me thinking. For a moment - at least until they took off the masks - it felt like there could be more than one me running around at the same time. Different mes.

I ended up making some stupid decisions after that, and one of the consequences of those decisions was that I had a lot of time to think. So I thought about how the pieces fit together, came up with a solution, and went back to school.

Time travel is easy. That's one of the things I learned. You can go back as far as you like, and I did. But you won't change a thing, and I didn't.

Eventually, the time came, and I did it - just like I'd seen myself do. I wasn't angry any more. I'd learned enough to know that they were right. l did it because I’d said I would, and for no other reason, and that was the end of it.

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Summer Meme Sundae REVERT Year: 2017 Medium: Interactive Video Runtime: 1 minute 54 seconds

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"Adder? I hardly knew 'er!"

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“I JUST FINISHED YOUR BOOK AND THERE’S ONLY ONE PROBLEM EINSTEIN’S WRONG.”

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School's out, but that doesn't mean you should stop learning!

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man they let just about anyone into a lecture theatre nowadays

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the summermemeshank sundaemption

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YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A POLICE CAR YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A TEMPLATE YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A PAINTING YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A MEME

DOWNLOADING PIRATED MEMES IS STEALING STEALING IS AGAINST THE LAW ART THEFT. IT'S A CRIME.

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“Police are on the lookout for an average-looking man wearing a baseball cap. This CCTV footage from last night shows him walking down the high street with the stolen artwork.”

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Bring On The Wall

(the title and content of this piece is a reference to the 2008-2009 BBC television game show ‘Hole in the Wall’) (the blue shape is cut into the red background using either the shape or the select tool, much like how the shape is cut into the foam in the actual show) (the opposing blue and red shapes represent the show’s opposing blue and red teams) (in a humourous subversion of the hole’s usual design philosophy, the hole in this wall is a completely abstract shape with more than enough room for contestants to simply jump through the middle) (a black star in the top right corner is used to show the impact between the wall and the contestants) (freeform tool used to create bodies and limbs which are bent in unnatural ways; this creates a sense of motion but also of discomfort) (numbers have been placed on the contestants’ heads, indicating who came first, second, and third - the amount of contact they have with the wall can also be used to measure their success) (the winner’s number is marked with an asterisk, indicating that this was not a victory without loss; their head is the only one to be deformed to fit through the shape) (the thought bubble itself is clouded, this may be an indicator of brain damage or else that ‘bring on the wall’ is not a phrase this person wholly agrees with) (a black rectangle has been placed in the ‘o’ in ‘on’, but its significance is unclear)

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me: ...and then I made a disparaging remark about his body weight, hahaha! You should have seen his face. Anyway, that's not even the best bit.

complete stranger: cool story bro.

me: Man, art's so stupid. All there with their subs and their subtexts. Duuumb, y'know?

complete stranger: what

me: It's like, yeah well are you actually capturing reality? Nooo. It's just pictures.

complete stranger: mate how many have you had

me: So any- anyway. Art should be free. I don't like paying for things.

complete stranger: look mate I don't give one if you want art so bad go to a gallery and get some

me: Hold my beer.

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if I could sustain my body on lilt that'd be real nice

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For the last year and a half I've been in a relationship with the girl I thought I was gonna marry. Two days ago she sent me a text saying she couldn't picture a future with me, and we talked for a while and now it's over. Eighteen months, just like that. I spent yesterday morning just listening to Lemon Demon and watching YouTube videos, which sounds like a pretty weird thing to do after going through something like that but honestly I just wanted to forget about it. I didn't eat anything until five when I decided to go to Tescos and buy myself a pizza. I was walking down the aisles looking for cereal when I happened to glance down the aisle with all the bottles of wine. Now, you guys who know me know I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life. I just don't see the appeal. Like, when I think of cider I just think 'fizzy apple only bitter'. What's the point? But I was passing and all the people were there with their trolleys and stuff and I just felt worthless. I don't know what came over me but I went down the aisle and put a bottle of wine in my basket. I know basically nothing about wine so I just bought a bottle with a nice-looking label; nothing fancy but not the cheapest thing there. I got home and put the pizza in the oven and poured myself a glass and it tasted like shit. But I had another anyway thinking that maybe it would get better. It didn't but I think I had a third glass, then I just watched YouTube until like eleven o'clock. I left some pretty angry comments, ha ha. But the next morning I woke up with a headache and I felt no better and I ate four Weetabix instead of two and none of the sentences above are true.

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Summer Meme Sundae Kangaroo Killpocalypse Year: 2017 Medium: Video Game

(Available now at the following links. Adobe Flash Player is required.)

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/170925065/

http://summermemesundae.tumblr.com/kangarookillpocalypse

(Confused? Visit the FAQ page, start from the very beginning here, or start from the beginning of the current storyline here.)

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everything about this just makes me so angry I want to punch a kangaroo right now

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ha ha you're right I was wrong to try and change the past

REALLY MAKES YOU THINK

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Need an icebreaker when confronted with several future versions of yourself? Try this brainteaser:

A tortoise and a hare have a race. The tortoise self-identifies as a hare and starts ten meters ahead of the hare (which also self-identifies as a hare) such that by the time the hare reaches any point the tortoise has passed, the tortoise has moved a little further ahead. A sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence has been developed which takes Chinese characters as input and, by following the instructions of a computer program, produces other Chinese characters, which it presents as output. This computer performs its task so convincingly that it comfortably passes the Turing test. One hour before the race begins, a cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with a book containing an English version of the computer program, sufficient paper, pencils, erasers, filing cabinets, and the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. Chinese characters can be fed into this box through a slot in the door. If the appropriate responses are produced such that any Chinese speaker would be convinced that they are talking to another Chinese-speaking human being, the tortoise is injected with steroids. Otherwise, the hare receives a placebo. Neither the tortoise, the hare, or you (the impartial transhuman observer) know which outcome occurred without opening the chamber. The tortoise and the hare are travelling through non-Euclidian space on a straight drag strip. At the 1km mark the racetrack is articulated through the use of a swing bridge. The bridge is controlled by a lever. At the start of the race (by the swing bridge’s default setting) the track goes down the right fork, where five baby Hitlers from alternate timelines are tied in place such that the tortoise and the hare travelling down the fork will kill them. On the left fork there is a single baby Hitler from your timeline. The man controlling the lever keeps having his eyes pecked out by crows as punishment for stealing fire from the gods; they regenerate but not quickly enough for him to see what the lever does. The two paths later converge, only to diverge again into n alternative paths whose 'true' expected lengths are μ1, ..., μn. The tortoise and the hare only have limited time to evaluate the paths, and receive the estimated lengths V1, ..., Vn upon doing so. Of course, both the tortoise and the hare choose the path i* that has the highest estimated expected length Vi*. Upon travelling down this path, the tortoise and the hare find the realised length xi*. The difference Vi* - xi* can hold either a positive or negative value, where a negative value indicates that the path chosen was longer than expected. Regardless of the path chosen, it diverges again in the same manner described above a total of p times; the tortoise and hare must evaluate the paths and select that which they believe will give the shortest expected length. Even if the estimation is unbiased, the realised length xi* of the route chosen will usually be longer than expected. Both the tortoise and the hare are accelerating towards the speed of light but never approach it due to time dilation, and are constantly under the gravitational influence of a black hole. Is communism a viable economic model for a working society?