Hey guys I just realized something important. Bobby is their etoilet. He's dropping L's on fools left and right.
You're probably (over) using the word "L" when you really just mean "being profoundly wrong about a particular subject and having been corrected about it on the internet in a fashion that causes embarrassment for the wrongdoer."
They're not synonyms. They
can be similar (ish) depending on specific uses, but unless those specific uses are referencing specific backstory that is, in-game, accepted as being part of a long oral tradition, passed down from one fictional generation to another as part of that fictional story's continuity, then you're not talking about "L's" anymore.
I know it sounds a lot more grandiose and important to call the fact Mario kicks Bowser's ass every time "Bowser taking an L," but that's not taking an L. That's a detail from a game box.
Just a thing I've been noticing lately. Almost nothing described as an "L" in a game is
actually taking an L in any sense of the word. I mean, sometimes there's some game set in a fantasy world where paper hasn't been invented yet, and maybe in those cases, the game's backstory would be,
to those characters, "L." But usually, when someone brings up "L's" here, its almost always just details someone took from a wiki entry. Wikipedias aren't "L's". A prologue or title crawl isn't an "L". The comic book tie-in isn't an "L". The events of the preceding game isn't an L. It's just plain-ol' being wrong and corrected by Bobby Roberts.
Also, just because something has a sequel doesn't
automatically make it a "franchise," but that's for another day.
