Gurpreet is your co-worker on the sister-team, over in India. He’s hard-working, a family man, and takes care of his aging parents, all in their home village over the weekend. He spends nights in Bangalore, debugging and reviewing your code while you’re asleep. His contributions to the project are pretty solid too, even though he’s only been coding for four years. His management treats him and his team like garbage, but they don’t let that stop them from showing up and doing a good job. If you ever came to visit, he’d roll out the red carpet along with his co-workers, and give you the kind of hospitality typically reserved for a minor god; doubly-so if it’s a holiday.
Gurpreet is awesome.
He does the needful and never ever has to revert.
All my bros and sisters love Gurpreet
“Now that I’m done being baffled by an ordinary name, it’s about time for me to go vote in a major election!”
Right? Insane!
A fiver says OOP has never left their suburb
The naivety of the person is what made me laugh.
Damn, son. I grew up in a mostly white town, but there was still a couple of Sikh kids in my school. OOP must live in a zip code that’s only been written down like four times.
Gurpreet is obviously normal enough to be on a bottle of Coke where OOP is so I don’t know
Huh, so presumably, they send out groups of names by an area’s demographics. I could see them ending up with some very strange seeming names in some areas, either by smaller towns being grouped in with nearby cities, or due to supply chain changes, and stock for one area getting rerouted or mixed up.
Like there might be plenty of Sikhs in NYC, but go upstate and its possible someone’s never heard the name, or met a Sikh.
The names are definitely somewhat geographical. They’re different here in Sweden. No Gurpreet here
For anyone as uneducated as me: the name is Indian.
No, the name is Gurpreet.
No this is Patrick.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Hi is this the Krusty Krab?
This is Sparta!
Oh, I assumed they were introducing themselves.
Yeah. I think it’s a pretty nice name tbh
I don’t get this post, is it just racist?
Well, my intent wasn’t racism. Of course the meme contains a racist aspect but the joke, to me, is that the creator of this meme is insular enough to assume that no one could ever be named Gurpreet.
That’s what I got too.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Or, in this context, probably ignorance*.
*edit
Ignorance.
That’s the word I was looking for!
I thought so. Too many people use it as a perjorative when it really is merely an absence of knowledge. Not a bad thing itself, but something to “cure” for sure. Thanks for the post!
I try not to judge ignorance as a moral failing, at least not of the ignorant person.
I did assume stupidity. Racism and stupidity go hand in hand.
The word you are looking for is ignorance.
that’s the sound one makes when drink it
They never have a bottle that says Luci :((((
Edit: did I get a down vote because Coke hates my name? Good lord!
You gotta install OpenWRT on the bottle to access that.
Is that short for Lucifer?
Sure
Our goddaughter I’d called Lucie, its really hard to find anything with her name on
Me neither. I did find one which said Ragnhild.
Aren’t all the names ObviouslyNotBanana?
Oh god I hope not
Gurpreet might be the mentor
Is this…the legend of zelda timeline?
Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.
More context about the Hero’s Journey narrative:
Once one understands the hero’s journey it becomes obvious why most of the steps exist. If they just go out and do everything successfully the first time with no hesitation they come across as boring. If they don’t have the upside and downs then there isn’t any opportunity for growth.
The ending often have a return and celebration instead of steps 11 and 12 which I think are story specific.
Yeah, it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, but more like “If this story has these aspects, this is generally the order in which they occur.” Some of the terminology developed from the original concept is also flexible or substitutible.
Edit: Applying the example above to Zelda (Ocarina of Time), just based on the question towards the top:
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Ordinary World: Kokiri Forest
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Call to Adventure: Navi arriving, The Deku Tree
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Refusal of the Call: Saria’s disappointment at Link leaving (interpreted this case merely as the temptation to stay)
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Meeting the Mentor: The Owl who teaches you not to mash A too quickly
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Crossing the Threshold: Stepping out into Hyrule Field
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Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, from the end of Kokiri Forest up to collecting all the Medallions.
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Approach: Going to Ganon’s Castle
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Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Ganondorf and Ganon, awakening to the power of the Triforce of Courage. Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.
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Reward, Seizing the Sword: Ganondorf’s defeat, rescuing Zelda (the Master Sword is not itself the reward in this case, despite the specific mention of a Sword in this stage, though could maybe interpret as grabbing the Master Sword again during the Resurrection stage)
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The Road Back: Escaping from the collapsing castle
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Resurrection: Ganondorf returns as Ganon and must be confronted one final time.
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Return with Elixir: Reclaiming the Triforce, sealing the darkness, returning to childhood and meeting Zelda again.
It also occurred to me that folks from the younger generation may not have played OoT, so here is the same reapplied to Breath of the Wild:
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Ordinary World: The Great Plateau
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Call to Adventure: The message left by Zelda after waking up.
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Refusal of the Call: The temptation not to climb that damn frozen mountain because you haven’t figured out how to keep warm yet. Alternatively, the temptation to spend hours just chopping trees and killing Bokoblins instead of moving on.
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Meeting the Mentor: The old man (King Rhoam) who teaches you how to do things like staying warm to be able to climb the mountain.
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Crossing the Threshold: Climbing the tower and gliding down to Hyrule Field.
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Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, including all shrines and the four divine beasts.
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Approach: Pushing through Hyrule Castle.
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Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Calamity Ganon (and the 4 Blights if skipped). Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.
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Reward, Seizing the Sword: Rescuing Zelda, obtaining the Bow of Light.
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The Road Back: Returning back out to Hyrule Field.
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Resurrection: Calamity Ganon returns as Dark Beast Ganon
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Return with Elixir: The calamity is over, the guardians are deactivated, and Hyrule Castle is no longer corrupted. People can move back and rebuild.
Thank you for taking the time to type up both of these.
We get it. You’re a Lit major with ADHD.
Not a lit major, just someone who spends too long going through Wikipedia and TV Tropes and was looking for any way to pass the time at work, haha.
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That fucking owl. Though it was worse by far in Majoras mask, since he kept. coming. back. And was wordy as fuck every time.
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I enjoyed working with Gurp.
I assume we’d all enjoy Gurp.
I’m pleased to report that in reality, I did work with a guy named Gurpreet many years ago, and yes, he was a pretty cool dude.
Good for Gurpreet, and good for his co-workers!
Gurrie gur the man.
G’preet *tips fedora*
My boi Ginny is who Gurpreet is!
