r/explainitpeter • u/IAmABoss37 • 10d ago

I need your help. Explain it Peter.

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Is the implication that PC gamers pirate their games?

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u/PeterExplainsTheJoke The Peter in Question 10d ago

Hey guys, Peter Griffin here to explain the joke, returning for my cake day. So basically, this is used to represent the fitgirl website, which is used for piracy. So, the joke is that PC players don’t complain about the prices of games because they pirate them, and so get them for free. Peter out!

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u/Admirable-Put2688 10d ago

Holy shit, the main character

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u/DioSuH 9d ago

And on his cake day

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u/DioSuH 9d ago

Nvm

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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 9d ago

Yeah, he comes back one day ever year, on his cakeday.

It's a tradition at this point.

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u/randommcrandomsome 8d ago

As foretold in the prophecy!

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u/KNOXIBOI 6d ago

Lisan Al Gaiib

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u/ThenContext3663 10d ago

Been a long day? Have you missed any of this?

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u/The_Killer_Squirrel 10d ago

Happy Cake day!

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u/UsualCaptalist5174 9d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/zenaxos 10d ago

Further detail: it's a screenshot from a movie called Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). That is a scene where she is doing things that bring her joy in a montage - this one is cracking the top of a creme brulee with a spoon.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 10d ago

kisses you on three points of your face

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u/mattaugamer 9d ago

It is, for the record, one of my all-time favourite movies. I should watch it again.

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u/_ferrofluid_ 9d ago

Then you should watch Alien 4. And heck, why not City of Lost Children while you’re at it?

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u/mattaugamer 8d ago

May I exchange Alien for Delicatessen?

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u/_ferrofluid_ 7d ago

Non. Il est maigre, mais essentiel. You can have Delicatessen ALSO. Just don’t eat the money.

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u/AdventurousSlip6407 9d ago

Finally i get to know fitgirl icon origin!! And holy shit it fits!!

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u/noctilucus 10d ago

Happy cake day you legend!

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u/AnotherUN91 9d ago

And besides this... just go look at fanatical/humble bundle and steam sales. Ive got 9k worth of games that i bought at super low sale prices for about 2.k over the life of the account. Also amazon gives out free games everymonth. Eoic also gives out a free game.

All and all on pc I have over 650 games between gog, epic and steam for dirt cheap or free.

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u/Jibbajaw 8d ago

This is the way...

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u/BunkerSquirre1 10d ago

Let me be in a cutaway gag Peter Familyguy

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u/chronicdumbass00 10d ago

PETERS BACK??????

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u/Wild_Reserve_6230 [Insert text here] 10d ago

Happy cake day, GOAT

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u/Cirrus-Nova 10d ago

Wait.. so Peter is a real user? I thought it was just some meme.. 😁

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u/Homsarman12 9d ago

Real dude lol

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u/Intrepid-Lemon6075 9d ago

r/usernamechecksout

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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 9d ago

I mean he named this sub after himself. This is the sub's founder.

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u/Doc_Demento 10d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/Chiber_11 10d ago

holy shit

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u/Various-Salt-7738 9d ago

Holy crap Lois it's Peter Griffin

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u/Sad-Pop6649 9d ago

Not as a further explanation of the meme but as an addition on PC gamers: even when not pirating PC players have a choice of several large platforms selling games these days, each with their own sales and/or giveaways. There are sites for tracking the historic pattern in these sales so you can figure out how long it will probably be before the next one. There are bundle sites that will sell you ten games for one dollar and there are more limited time freebies than you can shake a hat at. If you spend any effort on building a PC game library you'll be buried in hundreds of games you still need to play in no time. The only two times you'll ever spend serious money on PC games is if you want the latest and greatest, or if you want a specific title and you want it now.

Contrast that to Nintendo games that essentially just don't go on sale all the way until they're obsolete. Now that's a legit business strategy. I'm not saying they don't deserve full pay for their work, but it is a difference as a consumer. If you care less about specific new titles PC games are very cheap by comparison.

And even when monetization increases it kind of still works in our favor. A bunch of titles that were considered abandonware, "you can freely share this because clearly the publisher stopped caring, it's not being sold anymore", are now being sold again. But this also means that they are being ported, emulated or whatever needs to be done to make them playable on modern PCs again. You pay a few dollars for a 30 year old game like Doom or Tomb Raider, but it works.

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u/Cthulu19 10d ago

How did Peter become a meme for explaining jokes? He usually has the joke explained to him on the show.

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u/ThePowerfulWIll 10d ago

Hey, Peter who explains Peter explaining jokes here, I do it a few times in the show. There is a cutaway we did with a commercial for a jelly that we nearly mimicked perfectly, and then I realized that our audience is young so I popped up to tell them what it was all about. Another time we had Joe Pesci show up for a bit, and since he is small, we thought the younger members might not know that in the 90s, he was a tough guy.

Thats not every time, but I hope that clears it up for ya. Now you get the joke!

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u/platypusses 10d ago

Ladies and gentlemen, Conway Twitty.

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u/UnMeaningnessName 10d ago

Happy cake day you fat fuck. <3

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u/beerdude26 10d ago

THE KING RETURNS

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u/TectonicTurtle 10d ago

Happy cake day you legend!

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u/salikarn 10d ago

I mean, also steam actually has good sales. Switch sales are stingy as hell

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u/JamesH_670 10d ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/Inertial_Ruen 10d ago

Happy Cake Day M'Lord!

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u/Gender_fluid_hotdog 10d ago

Bloody hell…alright Pete?

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u/minion71 10d ago

Not only that but steam sales.

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u/fatdudeinthecorner 9d ago

Happy cake day

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u/JimJamJenonickles 9d ago

All those times I saw this on 4chan and just thought it was a stupid meme. I could've been getting free games and such thsi whole time 🤦‍♂️

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u/EX_Rank_Luck 9d ago

Imma be honest, Peter, I don't see the cake. Is one of them western cakes?

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u/ClearMacaron9234 9d ago

horse, the peter's here

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u/WebOutside1597 9d ago

HAPPY CAKE DAY IS IT TRUE THIS SUB TRAINS AI WE NEED ANSWERS

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u/Tposingisdabest-XD 9d ago

I thought it was about most pc players use steam which frequently drop big sales for alot of titles, which negates the insane 3A title prices some devs put on their product but oh well

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u/Kinnikuboneman 9d ago

PC players always complain about videogame prices though, because Gamers always complain about everything

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u/Ghost403 9d ago

We don't all pirate games, we do however have way more choice. There are multiple storefronts and third party reseller sites that are all competing for our money and attention. The result is fairer and more competitive pricing as well as more frequent discounts and sale periods compared to identical titles on console storefronts.

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u/OliveBoi_ 9d ago

unironically i read this in peter voice and wrote this in quagmire's voice

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u/tymp-anistam 9d ago

O fuck I didn't think you'd actually do it

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u/LeodFitz 9d ago

Happy Cake Day, Peter!

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u/davidsmeaton 9d ago

I know about fitgirl, of course, and I know she uses this image in her profile ID. but my stupid ass kept looking at the spoon going "is this a matrix thing? like the games are digital and don't really exist?"

I'm dumber without coffee!

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u/Jeo_1 9d ago

god damn its the John Peter himself

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u/xlpxlpx 9d ago

Happy cake day

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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 9d ago

Did you share the cake?

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u/BlueThespian 9d ago

It’s the man himself!!!

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u/Gunda-LX 9d ago

Finally Peter himself! And a spit on explanation at that, very nice!

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u/0_Moth 9d ago

HOLY SHIT IT HAPPENED

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u/Weird-Ball-2342 9d ago

Happy cake day petah

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u/skyrimmoddernumber69 9d ago

Steam is also great too

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u/ImpressMountain3027 9d ago

Holy shit, John Peter explains the joke.

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u/followingforthelols 8d ago

I missed his cake day?!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/SergA2929 8d ago

Hi Peter, how old are you now?

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u/ThatSubaru86 8d ago

You read this in Peter Griffin's voice didn't you? Now you're giggling just like Peter Griffin as well.

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u/grand305 7d ago

Do not forget about the steam sales and the game has a deep 80-90% or some times higher, off sale.

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u/Apprehensive_Sun_535 10d ago

We pay three times as much for a laptop or desktop compared to a console so we deserve to get them free.

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u/Boostedtrash112 9d ago

Can you shut up about your cake day in every post sir?