The funniest gaming tweets from the past decade, just in case Twitter implodes

I think it's safe to say that we're in Twitter's endgame now. I don't think it's going to collapse like a dying star: Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the tortured, eternally unprofitable platform, and his creditors certainly want to see some kind of return on that investment. But Musk's annoying mercurial unseriousness, MAGA drift, and the fundamental reality that 11 figures is way too much to pay for a beleaguered social media company has me and other longtime posters coming to terms with the fact that Twitter is already well past its peak. Nothing lasts forever on the internet, especially when venture capital is involved.

I've got mixed emotions about it. Twitter and its clout jockeying has been bad for my mental health and terrible for my perception of reality, but some of the greatest posts ever written have appeared on my Twitter timeline, and I'll be sad to lose that venue when it's gone.

While the signal is still blinking, we've assembled a collection of our favorite gaming tweets (from the past decade-ish, after which our memories start to fail us) as a tribute to this long, strange trip. Screenshots link to the original tweet, when possible. Now let's remember the good times, pre-emerald-mine dynast.

Jenny Lawson: Very frustrated lady next to me at Gamestop:

I'm not that into Fork Knife, but Fork Knife: No Build Mode is excellent. (Image credit: Jenny Lawson)

@bobby:

This only gets more pronounced as you get older. (Image credit: @bobby)

@oxyjene1986: Discord servers either have a system of 45 channels based on the Dewey decimal system or 3 channels named like

It's true. (Image credit: oxyjene1986)

Danielle Partis: Yet another display of inaccuracy from Netflix's Witcher series Attached images: 1. Geralt riding his horse Roach in the Netflix series. 2. Roach standing on Geralt's head due to a glitch in The Witcher 3.

C'mon, get it right. (Image credit: Danielle Partis)
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James Brown (@JRBSFX):

Link And Zelda Go To White Castle. (Image credit: James Brown)

wint (@dril): FBI deemed my tool assisted glitch run of Mario Teaches Typing too dangerous for the public eye. the raw emotion has rendered my face purple

One of many dril classics. (Image credit: @dril)

Magic The Gathering card

There's also an account dedicated to turning dril tweets into Magic cards. (Image credit: @drilmagic)

@VictoryPosition: People are like “omg mass effect is back, look at my husband” and post a picture of this guy Attached: An image of the grasshopper character from A Bug's Life.

🤷 (Image credit: @VictoryPosition)

Pocklecool (@instant_grat):

A kangaroo with a snatched waist, one of the great cultural innovations of the games industry. (Image credit: @instant_grat)
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Andy Kelly (@ultrabrilliant): Elden Ring asks important questions, such as:

Former PC Gamer editor Andy Kelly on what matters. (Image credit: Andy Kelly)

@PeterMolydeux: You know, my dream for gaming is where in one game you'll shoot someone and then during a game of say Fifa you'll see their son crying

The Peter Molyneux parody account has been running for over a decade now. (Image credit: @PeterMolydeux)
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Valve Facts:

You can learn a lot about game design on Twitter. (Image credit: Valve Facts)

(Further reading: this thread by game designer Robert Yang criticizes the genre of post the tweet above is parodying.)

Andy (@iamandyholt): The earliest known use of the word

A history lesson from Hard Drive editor Andy Holt. (Image credit: Andy Holt)

@Ranting_Trans: This dude got the Resident Evil 4 inventory system 👀 Attached photo: A man with four handguns holstered on a flat board attached to his jeans.

(Image credit: @Ranting_Trans)

@shackle_ton: *nukes dropping outside* Me: fuck yes *sprinting to bathroom so i can be an environmental storytelling toilet skeleton*

🩻 (Image credit: @shackle_ton)

@jon_bois:

This parody of crypto culture was, of course, taken seriously by some. (Have you heard, though? Market gains have become virtually ad quanta!) (Image credit: Jon Bois)

@MNateShyamalan [every assassin's creed game] NPC: hello it is i, your best friend wolfgang amadeus mozart! i made you this crossbow

Thank you, Wolfgang. 🫡 (Image credit: @MNateShyamalan)
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@mrbasil_pesto: My favourite bit of Marvel films is where you sit through nine minutes of credits to watch a five second clip of some guy stepping through a doorway and saying

What is wrong with us? (Image credit: Matthew Castle)

@radiatoryang: anyone else look at old historical maps and be like

Going to need a wiki to keep track of all these factions. (Image credit: Robert Yang)

Best of E3

@dril:

🙏 (Image credit: @dril)
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No one: Not a person: Not a single goddamn soul: Guy in the Bethesda conference audience: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The 2019 Bethesda E3 conference woo guy, what a legend. (Image credit: Mica Burton)

@yozetty The merch at this year's E3 is just impossibly lame. Attached photos: A shirt that reads

We'd probably wear the one on the right today, to be honest. (Image credit: Ben Hanson)

Daniel Ahmad: For those confused why Square Enix's press conference was quite short that's because you need to watch the other versions for it all to make sense. Square Enix E3 0.2 Square Enix E3 1.5 + 2.5 Remix Square Enix E3 358/2 days Square Enix E3 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue

Square Enix E3 358/2 days was underrated. (Image credit: Daniel Ahmad)

The brands™

HotPikachuSex:

The internet has changed a lot since 2011, but in some ways, it hasn't changed at all. (Image credit: Sega)

Wendy's: Already know y'all about to ask for something free for #NationalFastFoodDay, so just download our app and get a free Junior Bacon Cheeseburger with any purchase. ez AF: What if we dont have a phone? Wendy's: Then you won't be playing the new Diablo

We don't normally condone being amused by anything a fast food chain has to say but, alright, not bad. (Image credit: Wendy's)

Games Done Quick: Bankrupting Twitter is not an eligible run submission for the second submission period.

The first $44 billion speedrun. (Image credit: Games Done Quick)

The official Need for Speed Twitter account, in response to a complaint:

The official Need for Speed account probably shouldn't have called this person "milkshake brain" (it apologized), but you have to admit it's a pretty funny thing to call someone. (Image credit: EA)

@stopmrdomino:

"Come see what a real government shutdown looks like" might be the best Ubisoft gaffe, and there are a lot to choose from. (Image credit: @stopmrdomino)

@rarecandyio: a lotta yall still dont get it ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape so if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Special Forces

The most mocked NFT tweet of all time. (Image credit: Rare Candy)

PC Gamer and staff

@screencuisine: 'I Understand' he clicked again in the Crusader Kings 3 tutorial. He did not understand

We have all done it. (Image credit: Chris Livingston)

PC Gamer: A reality-bending chasm has appeared in Microsoft Flight Simulator's version of Brazil. Kate Wagner: yeet me into the flight sim glitch hole

Everyone desires to be yeeted into the flight sim glitch hole now and then. (Image credit: Kate Wagner)

@pcgamer: Some big changes are coming in the next Witcher 3: Wild Hunt update. Attached image: Geralt bathing in a cylindrical tub. He's facing the viewer with his feet resting on the edge and water obscuring his waist.

We're pretty sure this is the first time we tweeted a screenshot of Geralt in a tub. We did it so many times after this, it became one of the best-known depictions of the character. You're welcome. (Image credit: PC Gamer)

🏳️‍⚧️ lady alexis 🏳️‍⚧️ @StebMcDreb: us:

We're incorrigible.  (Image credit: @StebMcDreb)

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