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.
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:
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.
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.
Fair enough. I hadn't noticed any uptick myself, but I might be lucky, or you might be unlucky.
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.
Has been for awhile. Between lawsuits and cyberattacks it's been a helluva year for them.
Oh, don't worry about that, that was just your past life before your isekai adventures as a 'Murican Murder Machine.
Better it be your brain speeding up and your pineal gland suddenly injecting a larger dose of DMT than usual than the... esoteric alternative.
Doing a Nate the Rake playthrough?
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?
