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.)
• "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

• Trade Offer
  • I receive: Your spot in the postseason
  • You receive: Increased availability for off-season restructuring
  • ...
  • I receive: itemized loss receipt that can be deducted against expected value of potential future claimed income
  • You receive: a win

• Text plus screenshot from tv show or movie format:
  • "Well, new ideas are fine, but they're also illegal" (The Office)
  • "You son of a bitch, I'm in." (Rick and Morty)

• Sad Pablo Escobar
  • A really really big loss in an elimination game, and the score just follows them around
  • (159-158 game)

With the Shells, the crime is the point.