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Guess I'm an internet boomer... (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did you ever play sa:mp or is the trout slapping more common than I thought?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It was a default user command in the IRC client mIRC, that's why it's such an iconic phrase. Old school coders, including the ones that became game developers back in the GTA San Andreas days likely came up through the demo scene or similar, because there weren't really "game dev" educations, so they all sat on IRC at one point.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh that makes sense.

    I played sa:mp on a RP server and there was this one guy who always did

    /me slaps x with a large trout

    He also was Norwegian and I think trout is pretty big there (or I know salmon is at least) so I thought he'd come up with himself lol. This was nearly 20 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nerds in the USA and the UK used to almost unanimously be Monty Python fans. I'm fairly certain it is a reference to the Fish Slapping Dance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Ah yeah, I never watched too many of those sketches. Loved Holy Grail and Life of Brian and of course I never expect the Spanish Inquisition, but I think that’s pretty much all my Python knowledge. What has Monty Python ever done for us?

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