Age of Empires is a long running real time strategy series that began in 1997, built around historical battles, base building and siege warfare with rams, trebuchets and cannons. Long time no siege riffs on that identity, turning a normal reunion greeting into a joke only RTS players fully get. Short pun clips like this circulate on soundboards and in Discord chats because they are instantly quotable, need no context beyond the game, and fit the series enduring culture of taunts, memes and playful multiplayer banter.