The term “encumbance” has nothing to do with cucumbers, but there are jokes. “Enumbrance” is a video game term defined in The Long Dark Wiki as “a player statistic that represents the total amount of weight the player can carry.”
A riddle was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on February 2, 2021:
Q: Why can’t you carry unlimited pickles in video games?
A: You’re over-cucmbered.
“Over-cucmbered” is probably a typo of “over-cucumbered.”
The Long Dark Wiki
Encumbrance is a player statistic that represents the total amount of weight the player can carry.
Players can see the total weight of the items they are carrying on the Backpack screen from the Status game menu. This will include items they have equipped as well as those carried in the inventory. The Backpack screen truncates the amount of weight to two decimal places.
Twitter
Mädeº for Breäking
@angiem577
hm—the word “encumbrance” looks like a cross between “embrace” and “cucumber” lol 😛
1:42 PM · Nov 14, 2009·Twitter Web Client
Twitter
Liz
@lizzysometimes
Encumbrance (n) - Too many cucumbers given to you by people who grow cucumbers and they don’t know what to do with the cucumbers.
10:42 AM · Mar 25, 2011·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
engineer27
@engineer27
Replying to @engineer27
My char (gnome fighter/illusionist): “I’m eating a cucumber.”
DM: “WHY do you have cucumbers?”
Me: “Remember, I bought them in the village since I had some room left below my enCUMBRANCE limit.”
Whole table: “Groan.”
#DungeonsAndDragons
11:45 AM · Jun 17, 2018·Twitter for Android
Twitter
Owl-Bear Camus ☭ Ⓐ
@disquietingcalm
Jeremy Corbyn invented encumbrance and limited sprint abilities in video games
6:19 PM · Nov 10, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
nina DINO MONTH
@GyuchanHater
IM CRYINGGGG I ASKED ROSE IF SHE KNEW WHAT ENCUMBRANCE MEANT AND SHE COMMENTED A PICTURE OF A CUCUMBER.
9:12 PM · Jan 11, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Reddit—3amjokes
Posted by u/jrm2003 February 2, 2021
Why can’t you carry unlimited pickles in video games?
You’re over-cucmbered
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