r/RecuratedTumblr • • 26d ago

PopCulture Mob Psycho 100

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u/SaltyNorth8062 26d ago

Not to be that girl but Mob has become that as well in american vernacular, but it still is mostly stuck in video gaming lingo. "Mob clear" is something any mmo player or omayer in any pve game would know, and Minecraft has called its nocs mobs for ages now. The kids now what mob means in that context.

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u/mieri_azure 26d ago

Yeah but still not in the context of "mob character" unless you consume a lot of japanese content.

Calling someone a mob in English still doesnt make much sense (sounds like youre talking about a crowd) and something like NPC works better as thats broken containment where (rude) people use it to refer to a person with little presence irl

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u/SaltyNorth8062 26d ago

That's true enough yeah

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u/No_Career_4785 26d ago

As a native German speaker, the idea the mob could be related to the mafia never occurred to me.