A fork of Rural Dictionary
Whenever you find yourself in a situation that feels like it may escalate from a simple misunderstanding or disagreement into something worse – and you’re really not in the mood, just remember these four little words. This just might be the simplest phrase ever conceived to stop a potential argument dead in its tracks.
M: You’re going to go past it! I said it was on the right!
R: No, you said it was on the left.
M: No, I distinctly told you that it was on the…
R: Game over, you win!
The most dreaded and agony/humiliation-producing phrase that teenagers from the '80's could possibly see. It implied that they were a total klutz at a particular arcade-game.
{{Pac-Man gets "munched" for da last time}} "Bee-yeayayeayayeayayeayayeayayeaya-bweep-bweep!" "Game over --- insert coin"
Bart: Playing a game of wack fuck over here.
*Winston whacks gold ball*
Winston: Fuck!
Usually a screen after a game is over due to loss of all lives or failing a critical objective, especially in older (video) games.
It is conceding defeat, in this instance. Bill Paxton's Private Hudson famously says this line in ALIENS, after the drop ship coming to rescue him and his expedition crew crashes.
Private Hudson : (after the drop ship crash) Well, that's great. That's just fuckin' great, man! Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now, man!
Corporal Hicks : (grabs him by the shirt) Are you finished?
Newt : I guess we're not gonna be leaving now, right?
Ripley : I'm sorry, Newt.
Newt : You don't have to be sorry. It wasn't your fault.
Private Hudson : That's it, man. Game over, man! Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
when if you win in a game where you cant do anything at the last turn. For example, You got a 2048 tile in the game of 2048 but when you continue, you cant do anything
Alice: Yay, I win!
Bob: You do realize it is a game over win, right?
said when a situation is regarded as hopeless or irreversible.
"once your customer loyalty vanishes it's game over"