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I am not familiar with this project but wonder if the timing of it (1997) and the name indicates it was a fan nod to Diablo? The first boss in that game is such
by the_lonely_road 5y ago
I am not familiar with this project but wonder if the timing of it (1997) and the name indicates it was a fan nod to Diablo? The first boss in that game is such a memorable tagline I can actually still hear it today burned into my brain somewhere. "Ahhh, fresh meat!"
- mkr-hn 5y agoFresh meat is just a term for someone new. This reminds me of when I used the word "zealot" on a forum back in the same era and someone was adamant that it came from Starcraft and wondered why I was making a Starcraft reference when talking about zealotry.
- jonathankoren 5y agoIt’s amazing that first century Jews were playing StarCraft. That game is true classic.
- yakireev 5y agoThis happens a lot with folks who aren't native English speakers. It took me years to find out that "bash", "lisp", "git", "grub", etc are actual words. Also, "tinder" - how the are you supposed to know what that is if you're learning the language in XXI century? It took me way too long to realize that "tinder", "match" and the fire logo are a clever wordplay.
- mkr-hn 5y agoDid you ever play a Sonic game? Miles "Tails" Prower's name is a play on Miles Per Hour. Even a lot of native English speakers in mile-using countries miss it. I try to take a Today's Lucky 10,000 approach to these situations.
- kazinator 5y agoA few weeks ago, while driving, my eyes fixated on some Mitsubishi car's logo, and my mind wandered off: what is this "bishi"? That must just be rendaku from some "hishi"? Wait, I know what that is: hishi is water chestnut, which serves as a metaphor for the rhombus shape "hishigata" (like the word "diamond" does in English). So then it of course hit me: doh, three (mitsu) diamonds (hishi) in the logo.