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Appetite4Deduction has Nuclear Throne

Oct 17, 2016 @ 3:10pm

Origin of "It's not fair, it's not right"

Random Observation: I think I have an idea where the "It's not fair, it's not right" credits song lyric (and random byline during stage loading) came from.

Philip K. ♥♥♥♥, "Dr. Bloodmoney", Chapter 13:

"What more could be asked of us? ... It isn't fair, this thing now. It isn't right at all. We have our horses to protect, our crops, our lives...."

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paugus

Oct 17, 2016 @ 3:37pm

I always thought it was Rami coining a phrase preemptively so that when he went on his 'vacation' people would have something catchy to chant as they wept and gnashed their teeth.

Penguin-chan has Nuclear Throne

Oct 17, 2016 @ 5:53pm

I'm surprised people don't know this yet. The origin of the phrase is a well-known and popular short story called, "The Lottery." You know, the original story written in the 1940's where the winner of the lottery got stoned to death.

The last line of the story:
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

paugus

Oct 17, 2016 @ 6:04pm

Originally posted by Penguin-chan:
The origin of the phrase is a well-known and popular short story called, "The Lottery."

written in the 1940's

Something popular or well-known made in 1940s isn't necessarily well-known or popular almost a century later.

Also, I like my version more. :D

Penguin-chan has Nuclear Throne

Oct 17, 2016 @ 6:29pm

Originally posted by paugus:
Originally posted by Penguin-chan:
The origin of the phrase is a well-known and popular short story called, "The Lottery."

written in the 1940's

Something popular or well-known made in 1940s isn't necessarily well-known or popular almost a century later.

Also, I like my version more. :D

Sorry, but if you ask anyone who's worth their salt in American literature, even an amateur reader of classics, they would at least have heard of The Lottery before. It's near the same level of prominence as Of Mice and Men.

paugus

Oct 17, 2016 @ 6:56pm

Originally posted by Penguin-chan:
Sorry, but if you ask anyone who's worth their salt in American literature, even an amateur reader of classics, they would at least have heard of The Lottery before. It's near the same level of prominence as Of Mice and Men.

American literature is a passion that very few people have.

And it's 'near the same level' of Of Mice and Men in the same way that I'm 'near the same level' as horheristo. We're both technically NT players, but most people (not just English majors or high school students) have only heard of one of us.

Appetite4Deduction has Nuclear Throne

Oct 17, 2016 @ 7:24pm

I guess there could be multiple inspirations. That line from Dr. Bloodmoney, of course, was spoken in response to fears that conflict would break out again, and from a person who had survived a nuclear holocaust.

You would be surprised how similar Nuclear Throne's backstory is to this novel; it probably has a better claim as source material. Although the mutants in Nuclear Throne are supposed to be silly; in Dr. Bloodmoney, not so much.