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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Thanks for sharing OP, I hadn't seen the original concept art of Fallout Shelter before.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

needs a trolly problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's missing the Taliban hiper technological caves

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I recognize the Plato shadows on a wall ref and someone commented about Sisyphus. Obviously, Saddam was in a hole. What's the rest? Looks like pick-axe people are part of a 2d video game. I don't get anything other than what I've described.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The gray silhouette in the hole is a nutty putty cave reference. It's pretty horrifying. Tl;dr version, cave exlorer gets so stuck it's actually impossible to remove him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The caption is a reference to "The myth of sisyphus" by Albert Camus. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". Good book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That one is a pretty deep reference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

if the books is any good is the title just clickbait?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

The pick-axe is a "motivational" meme about don't giving up, because the diamonds could be just around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grey downward facing body is from nutty putty cave

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That story is horrifying

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Its missing the vietcongs

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

These State of Survival ads are getting weird...er

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Alas, he will never understand the joys of Hanukkah

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I swear I've seen the grey body on the right somewhere, can't place it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh noooooooooooo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My wife shared me a meme from that image and I asked her if she knew its origin. Let me tell you, she got really sand and guilty about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Already perfectly placed

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the name but it's a depiction of a cave explorer that got stuck like that and died. While there was help at the place to try and get him out they couldn't. If I remember correctly he's still stuck in that same place.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

From the Wikipedia article:

Rescuers concluded that it would be too dangerous to attempt to retrieve his body; the landowner and Jones' family came to an agreement that the cave would be permanently closed, with the body sealed inside, as a memorial to Jones. Explosives were used to collapse the ceiling close to Jones' body, and the entrance hole was filled with concrete to prevent further access.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

This is how the Nutty Putty Cave became the Nutty Putty Grave.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Dang didn't realize that's what it was referencing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

That's the only thing that makes me not want to reshare this image. What a horrible way to die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sisyphus I'll give you $5 to roll that rock back down right now

aaaaanyway, ladies and gentlemen- we got him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That "Mission Accomplished" banner still pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

yeah, it was tone deaf at best, and an outright lie in reality lol