It’s actually probably intended to be a triple pun (I always read it as “Diagon Alley”==“Diagonally”==“Diagonal Ley” (punning on Ley Lines, given the close arrangement of lots of magical stuff in a line)).
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Yeah, me too.
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i read The Colour of Magic when i was in my teens. i figured out “in-sewer-ants” fairly quickly, but it took until my early twenties before i finally figured out what “reflected-sounds-of-underground-spirits” meant.
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A month or two after Giant Bomb started doing their DBZ podcast, I was driving home from school, not doing or listening to anything that’s related to that podcast at all, and my brain randomly makes the realization: “Ohhhhhhh! It’s called ‘All Systems GOku…’”
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I only realized that Voltorb is a portmanteau like a week ago.
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same for knockturn alley - nocturnally!
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The truth of Ekans & Arboc made me feel incompetent.
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“Other M” is an anagram of “Mother”
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He’s literally the second Mew. Mewtwo.
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Goddamnit this is the first one on the list I’d never gotten.
Wow.
Both an anagram and an acronym: M.etroid O.ther M.
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Diddy’s Kong Quest.
Not Diddy Kong’s Quest
Diddy’s Kong Quest.
Wait, “down”, as in “feather”? Shit…
I thought it was “Phoenix Down” like “the phoenix is down (and needs to come back to life)”.
I just realized the other week that Sonic Boom is not called such only because Boom is a catchy subtitle.
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No it refers to the type of feather: Down feather - Wikipedia
It’s also a reference to the theme song of Sonic CD, which I misunderstood as a kid to be a reference to Street Fighter.
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Phoenix Wright is full of these, and I’m a fan of bad puns.
Winston Payne. Winced in pain.
That took me waaaaaaaay too long.
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Luke Atmey. Luke Atmey!
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In new vegas, I somehow didn’t catch it the first time that the big empty in Old World Blues is actually the Big MT as in Big Mountain. God damn I’m stupid.
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Not a game, but Dragon Ball Z, it took me an embarassingly long time to figure out Bibidi, Babidi and Buu.
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I just realised that Yoda is Ghandi. Little bald guy with sticky out ears, going on about fear and hate. That’s Ghandi.
I was pretty okay at the ones in the original trilogy, but Spirit of Justice had some which eluded me until the last like 15 minutes of gameplay.
I was convinced Datz A’rebal was “That’s horrible” until somebody else saw me playing and said “Oh, is he a rebel? Clever”
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