Pardoposting / I Was Born With Thick Skin

About

Pardoposting refers to a series of jokes and references regarding the detective Manny Pardo from the video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number , in a similar manner to Baneposting .It quickly became a running gag amongst the fanbase and a form of shitpost in videogame forum boards.

Origin

After the release of the second Hotline Miami, many of the series fans, especially on reddit and steam forums, began to discuss the plot and it's characters. Due to the rather discconected and hard to follow narrative, eventually fans created theories and community jokes within the lore and the characters.

Development

Fan images based on the character Manny Pardo started to become popular within the community because of his role as a stereotypical "hard-as-nails" cop, his cynical and pessimistic attitude throughout the game and especially the infamous "Dead Ahead" level, which is well known for it's overwhelming challange for most players, especially in the game's Hard difficulty. His few lines of dialogue steadily became popular replies on Steam and /v/ threads to respond to users that were doing either legitimate discussions or not.

Few days after the game's launch, multiple Steam forum threads began to complain about the aformentioned "Dead Ahead" , which further encouraged the spread of the "pardoposting"

On March 15 , 2015 YouTube user unrealert uploaded a gameplay video in which he managed to achive a x90 combo (eliminate all enemies with very short spans between kills) , causing a mayor boost of popularity to the character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Wgz2TbcfE