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Oth said:
Where exactly did the "Ask not for whom the Baja blasts, it blasts for thee" line came from? Memory claims that Baja Blast is a soft drink, however did it end up in a Shakespearean quote?
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No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.​

John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
 
evildice said:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.​

John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
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Interesting, heard of the famous line but not the full poem. Message of humanity and compassion, seeing the loss of others as not "external" outside of our own monkeyspheres.

Baja Blast continues to confound though.

ADD: In the old STALKER games, was the famous meme line of "cheeki breeki" actually used in-game, or was it a misremembering of the actual expletive cyka blyat by American audiences?
 
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Oth said:
Interesting, heard of the famous line but not the full poem. Message of humanity and compassion, seeing the loss of others as not "external" outside of our own monkeyspheres.

Baja Blast continues to confound though.
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Look, the original line got misremembered or deliberately shortened into "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee". After that it became a meme format:

Ask not for whom the (noun) (verb), it (verb) for thee.

And you just go from there.
 
Oth said:
In the old STALKER games, was the famous meme line of "cheeki breeki" actually used in-game, or was it a misremembering of the actual expletive cyka blyat by American audiences?
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It was one of the random lines the Bandit NPCs would say while bumming around a campfire, if I remember correctly. It's part of a children's rhyme.
 
たすけて！私のスマホのキーボードは日本語です！

Just kidding. Or at least, it's a joke now. My phone's keyboard was stuck in Japanese for a bit earlier, but I figured out how to switch it back.
 
Is "Bemused" a trope nowaday? an Inside Joke? For this entire week, I kept seeing "bemused" in place "amused" should be.
 
MIR2077 said:
Is "Bemused" a trope nowaday? an Inside Joke? For this entire week, I kept seeing "bemused" in place "amused" should be.
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I would assume someone in a popular story used it in front of people who didn't know it means something different, and it just caught on.

At least it's not the literal opposite of the meaning.
 
TanaNari said:
I've been seeing people use 'bemused' wrong for at least twenty years at this point.

Not sure what brought on your sudden noticing of it, but it's been a thing for a while.
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I have been seeing it for years as well, at least since the pandemic started when I had a ton of free time to read, but this week, I was ambushed at least once per day, so its more striking.
 
TanaNari said:
I've been seeing people use 'bemused' wrong for at least twenty years at this point.

Not sure what brought on your sudden noticing of it, but it's been a thing for a while.
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Gregor stared at the nonplussed Jane. "Did you read the files?" He asked, bemused. "I perused them," she answered, feeling chuffed at his insistence on the subject. "Well, what do you say then?" He asked her, now curious for her opinion. "It's egregious, honestly..." she grumbled.

it's joined the glorious ranks of contranyms at some point :V
 
Arc-on-Fire said:
That urge to hallucinate an entire life as a Vietnamese Rice Farmer that dies of pancreatic cancer after smacking my head against a log.
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Oh, don't worry about that, that was just your past life before your isekai adventures as a 'Murican Murder Machine.

Happens all the time.
 
I've hit a new level of tacticool in Fallout 4. Got an FN P90 with 1 suppressor, 4 flashlights, 2 laser sights, an Outer Heaven sticker, and a big 'ol high tech night vision scope.

I'm just sad there's no bayonet I can get on there too...
 
R.A.G. said:
Doing a Nate the Rake playthrough?
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No, I was just messing with the P90 at a workbench and noticed that it had an option to add four more rails to the gun, so I went for it. I mean, why not, right?

Sadly, while it does have one flashlight produce light when I hit the light button, it doesn't actually use all four.

Also, I think it's bullshit that no gun in the game or in any mod I've seen lets you have a suppressor and a bayonet at the same time.
 
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