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Yeah I've known its meaning for as long as I can remember, doesn't seem obscure to me or anything.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:diablo 2 was released in 2000, but no, an M-rated game with "devil" imagery would not have been the most mainstream game in the 90s, an era when the satanic panic hoax was still believed by every parent in america Apparently for quite a while it held a Guinness World Record for sales speed. So it was kind of a big deal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_II#Sales
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People in junior high school couldn't shut the gently caress up about diablo That said I'm pretty sure that at least half of the people in this argument have lost the thread of what was being argued about in the first place
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Frankly, I think your average American is about as likely to be familiar with the City of Pandemonium as they are to enjoy a sitcom reimagining of/response to No Exit which contains several dialogues about philosophical concepts.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:diablo 2 was released in 2000, but no, an M-rated game with "devil" imagery would not have been the most mainstream game in the 90s, an era when the satanic panic hoax was still believed by every parent in america Hahahaha
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qirex posted:The word pandemonium, while Milton coined it, has been in common use in English for centuries. Quoted because I can't believe people in this thread are acting as if this isn't the case. Google books shows it peaked in the 30s but has remained pretty much at the same level of use from the 60s to the present.
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The question isn't "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used in everyday speech," it's "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used by Milton, i.e. the name of a city of demons." The answers to those two questions are very different.
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ulex minor posted:There's a thousand other ways people would get that reference apart from having literally sat down to read Paradise Lost. It is in no way obscure. Yeah I learned about from Hellboy Comics
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Lutha Mahtin posted:diablo 2 was released in 2000, but no, an M-rated game with "devil" imagery would not have been the most mainstream game in the 90s, an era when the satanic panic hoax was still believed by every parent in america quote:By April 2001, Diablo II had become one of the most popular online games ever. Major factors that contributed to Diablo II's success include what fans found to be addictive hack and slash gameplay and free access to Battle.net. Diablo II may be played as a single player game, multi-player via a LAN, or multi-player via Battle.net, with the latter being the most popular. It has also become one of the top thirty best selling computer games ever. Including Diablo II, the Diablo series has sold 17 million copies. Doom (which *was* released in the 1990s) also sold millions of copies and sure people complained about the violence and demonic imagery but that did not stop it from being an incredibly popular game. Toast Museum posted:The question isn't "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used in everyday speech," it's "do people know the meaning of pandemonium as used by Milton, i.e. the name of a city of demons." The answers to those two questions are very different.
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I’ve never heard before this thread that it has any Hellish connotations, and I have certainly played Doom, and have been generally aware of Hell all my life. I’s just a simple country boy though
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pwn posted:I’ve never heard before this thread that it has any Hellish connotations, and I have certainly played Doom, and have been generally aware of Hell all my life. I’s just a simple country boy though Right. Somehow made it through high school and college without learning the word meant anything other than “poo poo hit the fan here”
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i'm a terrible person and must post that i'm giggling about the idea of this show having a story arc that incorporated 1990s pc gaming edgelords
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Hilariously it never occurred to me to split it up - Pan = All. Then Demon. The word literally means "All the demons are gathered here" or "COME GET YER DEMONS AT DISCOUNT PRICES!"
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BioEnchanted posted:Hilariously it never occurred to me to split it up - Pan = All. Then Demon. The word literally means "All the demons are gathered here" or "COME GET YER DEMONS AT DISCOUNT PRICES!" No just all the demons named Ium
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Jamil proves she is amazing once again. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFl4ODFu7s/
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Nov 13, 2018 15:15
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I just want you all to know the animal training company that was used for this episode is called Paws for Effect.
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Mokinokaro posted:Jamil proves she is amazing once again. https://twitter.com/taxmanwesman/status/1062025304414261248
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Here Comes DOUG
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FUCKIN MICHAEL MCKEAN
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MICHAEL MCKEAN!?!?
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Chuck!
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holy poo poo what a casting choice
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Michael's fanboying lol
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Nov 16, 2018 02:33
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Gosh, Michael's gonna get disillusioned, isn't he?
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Nov 16, 2018 02:35
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Lmao this is literally how I played pool at like age 5 oh jason
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Aww, Doug 
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Michael McKean was a great choice.
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they're going to break doug
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Jason and Chidi playing pool may be my new favorite thing this show has done.
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Do they know if Doug actually has enough points?
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OH NO
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BORTLES Well played Shawn
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Oh no, the Molotov cocktail failed
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flatluigi posted:they're going to break doug Doug's already broken, man.
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What a great demonstration of the extreme logical extension of the point system
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how is this episode only half over
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"...AND I drank his piss!"
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WHAT THE gently caress
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JANET
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Yeah Janet!
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