"Virus is item"

When playing late-night Bomberman, you spawn in your own little area that you have to bomb your way out of. One element that could provide a critical advantage as you started to encounter enemies is whether the game's RNG decided to give you any items/powerups in the beginning, as you destroyed bricks.

It became the source of a lot of complaining, when you didn't receive an item. Worse, there were viruses that would sometimes drop instead of powerups, that mostly were downgrades and hindrances to you as a player. After one opening to a match, Chris hadn't received any items to open the match, but had received a virus. Enraged and out of patience, he screamed "''Virus is item!" ''as if to imitate the game explaining to him in broken English that he had in fact received an item and should stop complaining. It became a meme that lived on indefinitely.

Chris: Let it also be known that the Dome will gobble up every single item drop the game will give you, viruses included. He doesn't give a single gram of fuck, he'll eat it and try to win anyway.