User:Ch4zm/July 2025/Delaware Lore Jam

Delaware Corporate Shells

Meme Ideas

• Madoff - posterized outlne, motto in script, ether side, DECO
• Dela/Where
• It's not about the money / it's about sending a message
• "I know a guy"
• "Make it happen"
• GO TO DELAWARE / DO CRIMES

...oh these are really fucking good:

Movie & TV Quote Division:

• "I'm in the empire business." - Walter White, Breaking Bad. (A still of a single, dominant Shells pattern slowly consuming the entire board.)
• "It's not personal. It's strictly business." - Michael Corleone, The Godfather. (The final, winning cell of a game appears, turning the tide in an instant.)
• "I have to return some videotapes." - Patrick Bateman, American Psycho. (Caption: The Shells' official, nonsensical excuse for any bizarre or inexplicable pattern that seems to violate the rules of the game. It’s an alibi, not an explanation.)

Financial Jargon & Corporate Lingo Division

• "Hostile Takeover" (The Shells' pattern completely wiping an opponent's complex setup off the board in just a few generations.)
• "We're Not Losing, We're Undergoing a Market Correction." (The scoreboard showing a lopsided loss for the Shells.)
• "Intangible Assets" (A picture of the Shells' logo over a completely empty playing field before a match starts.)
• "Aggressive Restructuring" (Explains any seemingly self-destructive play. It's not a mistake; it's a planned demolition for future development.)
• "Pump and Dump" (Lore: The Shells don't beat patterns; they manipulate market sentiment and then short the resulting bubble.)
• "Leveraged Buyout" (Lore: The Shells won the Cup not with their own strength, but by using the accumulated losses and despair of their defeated opponents as leverage to acquire the ultimate prize.)
• "Poison Pill" (Lore: This is the only known effective strategy against the Shells. You have to make your collective so unappealing, so fundamentally toxic, that a takeover would ruin the acquirer. Victory through strategic bankruptcy.)
• "Material Weakness" (Caption: A press release from the Shells' board: "We have identified a material weakness in our opponent's strategy, which currently relies on their continued existence. We will exploit this going forward.")
• "Due Diligence" (Caption: "The Shells performing their pre-game due diligence to see if their opponent is metaphysically solvent enough to be worth acquiring.")
• "Golden Parachute" (Caption: "The league has assured the consciousness of the [defeated team] that they have been provided with a generous exit package.")
• "Unrealized Gains" (Lore: The Shells operate on a different balance sheet, where conventional victory is an accounting technicality and the true profit is something far more sinister.)

Classic Meme Format Division

• Drake Hotline Bling Format
  • (Drake waving away) Text: "Winning the Hellmouth Cup"
  • (Drake approving) Text: "Finding a loophole that makes our wins tax-deductible against the heat-death of the universe"

• "They Don't Know..." Format
  • Text: "They don't know my entire collective consciousness is legally domiciled in a P.O. box to avoid metaphysical tariffs."

• Is This A Pigeon? Format
  • Visual: A character pointing at a chaotic, cancerous-looking pattern that the Shells just used to win.
  • Text: "Is this a legitimate growth strategy?"

• Galaxy Brain Format
  • Level 1: "Winning the game."
  • Level 2: "Dominating the league."
  • Level 3: "Maximizing shareholder value."
  • Level 4 (Galaxy Brain): "Structuring our victory as a subsidiary entity to shield the parent corporation from the existential horror of achievement."

• "Change My Mind"
  • The Shells' logo is placed on the chair where he would sit.
  • The Sign on the Table: "A 'LOSS' IS JUST AN UNREALIZED GAIN ON A TEMPORAL SHORT POSITION. CHANGE MY MIND."

• "They're the Same Picture"
  • Picture 1: A beautiful, vibrant, and unique pattern created by a team known for artistry, like the Breckenridge Jazz Hands.
  • Picture 2: A single line item from a Delaware Corporate Shells earnings report that reads: "Asset Acquisition & Liquidation: $0.00"

• Two Buttons
  • Left Button: "Play the game fairly"
  • Right Button: "Initiate a class-action lawsuit against the concept of linear time"
  • The Character: The Shells' logo

With the Shells, the crime is the point.

...

MEMORANDUM

TO: Opposing Collectives
FROM: The Board, Delaware Corporate Shells
SUBJECT: Redundancy Notification

This memo serves as official notice that your patterns have been 
identified as redundant. Your functions will be absorbed into our 
operations, effective end of game. We thank you for your service.