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At work I say "the ride never ends" everytime some ongoing issue or everyday shenanigan happens. My colleagues kinda interpreted that as something I say but they have no idea its a reference to Mr Bones Wild ride which is RCT2 meme.

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I think that meme strikes a chord in people because there's an inherent relatability to being stuck in a hellish process almost deliberately designed to be as long and soul-crushing as possible. Some websites/user interfaces, "ecosystems", feel like they are Mr. Bone's Wild Ride in cloud-compute platform form.

Mr. Bone's Wild Ride is a kafkian metaphor for our struggles.

There's another thing that was inspired by this. There's a really creative gamer/streamer/creator called "Daniels" who made a sort of troll level in Garry's Mod, a theme park which looked spectacular but had an infuriating and impossible process to enter. Inside the park had various pitfalls and traps to further infuriate participants. This sounds a little bit cruel but it's really fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ZrKehQ_xc

Because you’re butchering the line.

It’s “I want to get off <x>”

One of the lines from the original meme is "I want to get off Mr. Bones' wild ride.", but "Mr. Bones says: The ride never ends!" also features which the parent comment is probably referring to.

If you're going to confidently state someone is misquoting something you should probably make sure they are quoting what you think they are quoting.

The second formation doesn’t exist in the game

> On March 26th, 2012, an anonymous 4chan user started a thread in the /v/ (video games) board, which included several screen captures from the amusement park management simulation game Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. The images showed a 30,696 foot roller coaster track with 38 riders that took four years of in-game time to complete. The original poster (OP) provided greentext descriptions of the images, explaining that passengers were constantly yelling “I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.” After the coaster ended, the passengers walked down a large path leading to another entrance to the ride, where they were greeted by an installation of a skeleton with a top hat and a sign reading “The ride never ends.”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mr-bones-wild-ride

Ty hats user created content, not part of the game. “I want to get off” is an actual thing that guests think in-game and is displayed in various dialogs.

Well its a meme. Good memes are created by general community. Like Sanic which doesn't exist in the game its referring to.

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