Gamer Affirmations
To draw a fair generalization, gamers (like many other folk of fringe groups) tend to quotations. Not the kinds you find in front of speeches, but action quotes, things that recall humourous situations, or "signature" lines that draw an immediate connection to a shared moment, or the reference itself. It's an "in-joke" that is slightly less exclusive as it can often still be experienced (at least, like knowing the punchline and not the joke, in retrospect.)
An affirmation is a positive statement used to influence your (sub)conscious to assist you in manifesting change in your life.
The concept behind them relies on the suggestion that your reality is a direct result of your thinking, and thus, if you can change your thinking, your reality will change, and affirmations help charge your thinking towards a certain goal.
Most affirmations you'll run into are kind of dorky. "The past has no power over me." "I deserve the best, and I accept the best, now." "I express anger in appropriate ways so that peace and harmony are balanced at all times." Or even, "I am at one with the inner child in me."
Is there a connection between our quoting habits and affirmations?
When I'm saying, "Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure," am I actually making an affirmation?
The problem with the dorky, "I am in control of my life," affirmations is that they don't speak to me. They're not in the language I use to communicate with myself. But I can ask myself, "What Would Damascus Do?" I can tell myself, "Sorry, I don't give my name out to ugly dungeon fodder like you."