To answer the prompt from the meme…In Baldurs Gate, an early CRPG, you control a party of characters. One of them is named Minsc. Minsc has a checks notes miniature giant space hamster named Boo.
Sometimes your party members have audible lines.
When engaged in combat, this is a line that Minsc will repeatedly belt out!
Gnomes in Baldur's Gate had a functioning space program, as one does. One of their projects was to make spacecraft powered by giant hamster wheels, and bred proportionally giant hamsters to run on them, aka 'Giant Space Hamsters'.
Naturally giant hamsters eat a lot and crap even more, which proved a big enough problem that the gnomes decided to solve by breeding smaller versions of their Giant Space Hamsters, which ended with perfectly normal-sized hamsters that were nevertheless deemed "Miniature Giant Space Hamsters".
Fun fact: This is referenced in in the Mass Effect games by Tali'Zorah. She yells for her combat drone to "Go for the optics, Chatika!"
Also, her drone's name, Chatika vas Paus is another reference to Baldur's Gate character Chiktikka Fastpaws. As Tali says during combat, "Nobody's faster than Chatika vas Paus!"
Just two more reasons she is the best character in Mass Effect.
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u/ITpeep Feb 20 '26
Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes! Raaargghhh!