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The Game

From WhatPort80

Lose The Game Day 2008!

You just lost.

The Game is a quickly spreading internet phenomena which has also taken root IRL. The game is well-known on forums and OL games alike, and has been praised and cursed for being annoying, useless and mind-bending in a way that has yet to be equalled by another text meme. It goes by no other title, aside from The Game. This may appear to give it a sense of importance, but in the same way that the Frisbee team sport is simply called Ultimate to its fans and players, it is in fact complete and utter crap with no real relevance or drama. The earliest known player of The Game is Rick Astley who said "We know the game and we're gonna play it" in his hit song Never Gonna Give You Up.

1 The Rules
2 GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER
3 Variations include:
4 Gallery
5 External links

The Rules

In order to play the game, one must simply know about the game, and have a basic grasp of the rules. Thus, if you do not wish to become a participant of this simple but unfathomably stupid internet concept ritual right now, simply click the random page button. Beware: This may lead to goatse. If one does not read the rules and thus is not playing and cannot lose he wins.
There is no way to win the game, but one can, at any given moment, be winning. However, awareness that one is in fact winning will immediately make the winning person a luser. The reasons for this will now become no clearer. It has been speculated, however, that the game may be won by, after learning of the game, never thinking of it again until your death. If you manage to attain this feat, then you can consider yourself as having won the game. You deserve it, given that your lack of thinking about the game must be a result of Alzheimer's, amnesia or being dumb.
In order to lose the game, one must simply think about it. You heard right. This means that in order to maintain a certain vague level of success one must know of the game, but not be cogitating it at that moment. This means that by uttering the words "the game" on the internets, or saying them aloud in a public place, you are condemning any present players of the game to a similar loser fate.
Optional rule. If a participant does, on their mental travels, briefly remember the fact that they are playing the game, and thus lose, they are obliged to tell anyone nearby that they have just failed in their subconscious attempt to remain victorious. The most common phrase of use in these circumstances is simply "I lost the game."
A rule that is both lesser and optional. Since the realization that you lost the game can occur several times in rapid succession over the course of a few minutes, you may decide that you do not need to inform everyone else each time you lose the game in the same hour, or whatever. People who follow this rule are known to the game as losers. The usual amount of delay in between game losses is generally until the moment that it annoys you the most, or a half hour. Whichever comes first.
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PROFIT!

P.S.: Essentially, by the fact that you have just looked at this page, you instantly lose the game, likewise I just lost the game by writing it.

P.P.S.: A perplexing game. The only winning move is not to play.

GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER

On March 3rd, 2008, the author of stick-figure webcomic XKCD attempted to put an end to The Game:

Since anyone with pretensions to geekhood worships XKCD and pretends to get all the obscure math jokes, this declaration may indeed put a stop to The Game among many. However, seeing as you cannot win the game, the author fails as hard as his comic does.

Variations include:

THE GAME... ...There's nothing you can say but you can learn how to play it.

THE GAME... ...World of Warcraft

THE GAME... ...YOU WERE NEVER A PART OF IT

THE GAME... ...IS NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN, NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU

THE GAME... ...YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT YOU TRIED TO SHOPLIFT IT BUT GOT CAUGHT AND THE CELL GUARD HAD THE GAME FOR DS SO ALL DAY YOU HAD TO LISTEN TO THE GAME'S SOUND EFFECTS

THE GAME... ...WHISTLED FOR A CAB AND WHEN IT CAME NEAR THE LICENSE PLATE SAID FRESH AND IT HAD A DICE IN THE MIRROR IF ANYTHING THE GAME COULD SAY THAT THIS CAB WAS RARE BUT THE GAME THOUGHT NOW FORGET IT, YO HOME TO BEL-AIR

I CAN'T LOSE THE GAME

In the event of this last one, shoot whoever said it.

In the face.

Twice.

Gallery

Variation of the typical rules list.	Once you lose the game you must take orders from the gameball.	A typical round of the game, as seen on 4chan.	This is not the game.
Nor is this.	Not the game either.	Consolation prize.	You lose.
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.	Even Unown are against you.	The game IRL