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I always think about that fable when I see Germans voting for that far-right party.
Hikeback is a visual novel horror game based on the story of the scorpion and the frog that I found very moving.
https://clowndream.itch.io/hikeback
e: If you prefer to watch stories rather than play them, I believe this is a full playthrough:
Feels inspired by one of my favourite Tumblr posts
Edit: played through some more paths and those were definitely inspired by the post :)
thanks, that was nice to experience, made me install slay the princess again to finally do the deed
This is the prequel.
No, this is canon.
Is there a joke here I’m missing or is this just you know, what’s written on the page
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It’s a parody of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
O7
007
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.
NO ODDJOB!
Slappers only!
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
I always expect aesops fables to end with the explanatory post script you get in jataka tales but they never do.
They should end in the style of the author’s notes from the fanfic My Immortal instead.
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”
I see I see. I like this version much better. Aesop can suck it.
O7
What is o7? You’ve said it twice.
Was curious, so I looked it up: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/o7-slang
“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.
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”.
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.
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.
It’s an old style ascii salute gesture. In the same vein as
:-)
I am always so glad to see Matt and Ian still at it. Mac Hall were the days.
