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[-] casmael@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago

Is there a joke here I’m missing or is this just you know, what’s written on the page

[-] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 106 points 1 week ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago
[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[-] trslim@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

Thats the map Fort Knox from 007 Nightfire, and is one of the games I grew up with. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.

[-] Sadrockman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Goddamn I miss that game. Me and my kids spent so many hours on it. Good times. BTW,obligatory MAN DOWN! MAN DOWN!

[-] trslim@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

SEND IN RED TEAM AND TAKS HIM DOWN! That level was so cool.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

Reference to an Aesop fable. In the original version, the scorpion stings the frog and both of them drown. The moral is that some people are intrinsically harmful, even against their own self interest

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

I always expect aesops fables to end with the explanatory post script you get in jataka tales but they never do.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They should end in the style of the author's notes from the fanfic My Immortal instead.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

There's an old fable about the frog and the scorpion.

Paraphrasing, the scorpion asked the frog to be carried over the river, because otherwise he'd drown. The frog was reluctant, saying "but you'll sting me".

To which, the scorpion says, "but then I'd drown! so I won't do that".

Persuaded, the frog agrees. As they were crossing the scorpion stings the frog, and the frog asks, "Why would you do that? now we both die!"

and the scorpion replied, "because it's in my nature"

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

I see I see. I like this version much better. Aesop can suck it.

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 week ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago
[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

What is o7? You've said it twice.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"o7" is a saluting text emoji. The 'o' represents a head, and the '7' is a raised arm. It's usually used in internet culture when a fictional character dies, or when one dies in a video game.

Similarly, there's the "Press F to pay respects" meme, which appeared as a quick time event in a video game cut scene (Call of Duty, I think?), and was adopted into sarcastic use by the internet, so "F" and "o7" are kinda used interchangeably.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, I don't think those are interchangeable. o7 is used like "I salute you" or like "roger that", while "F" to pay respects is more like "my condolences".

And to be a tad pedantic, it's an "emoticon" or "emote", not an "emoji".

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, that's pretty pedantic. xD

Text emoji is kaomoji, which is the Eastern branch of emoticons, so you're right, technically it wouldn't generally include o7, but that's kinda splitting hairs.

You're also right, o7 has more broad uses than F, but they do both get used in a usually tongue-in-cheek "condolences" manner. So you can almost always use o7 in the place of F, but not necessarily the other way around.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It’s also used in Elite: Dangerous as a radio sign off, “Oh-Seven, Commander.” When you’re leaving the station and a few other scenarios.

Just tossing that out there because that was the first time I came across it.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It’s an old style ascii salute gesture. In the same vein as :-)

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