I studdenly got this question while on the shower, could it possibly mean that swear word that starts with F and ends with K?

  • SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It comes from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare where you could interact with a casket in a funeral scene by pressing F.

    “Press F to pay respects” was widely ridiculed and became a meme

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s not “you could”. The game does not progress until you press F, which turns what may have been a somewhat somber act into just a thing you’re forced to do, completely removing the little respect you may have developped for that character in the short time he existed.

    • Quills@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve seen pics of that before but completely forgot about that lol, got answered here with a link to Wikipedia that remembered me of it but thank you!

  • box_chevy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I believe it’s an evolution of a reference from one of the Call of Duty games. In the game you literally press F to pay respects at one point. Pretty sure it was memed to death and then evolved from there

  • CyanFen@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    In the PC version Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare you, as the player, attend a funeral in the game. As it’s your turn to walk up to the coffin, the game prompts you to “Press F to pay respects.”

    It became a meme and now people use F in place of RIP, or to “pay their respect” to something or someone that just “died”, usually in a joking manner.

  • ShoePaste
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    1 year ago

    Nothing. Its the acton button in call of duty i believe. In one of yhe campaigns you had to press f to show respect at a funeral.

  • Dru5k1@lem.dru5k1.com
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    1 year ago

    I thought the “F” meant “Fail”, no idea it’s actually from COD. It makes sense, I remember the cutscene vividly… I’m gonna have to revisit my chats with this new information.