In popular media the idea of besting the devil to like, win something cool, is pretty common and a hallmark of the trope is that the devil always wins. You know, to teach people a lesson or whatever. A fact that makes the song, The Devil Went Down to Georgia kind of unique, given that in that song the devil gets his shiny red arse handed to him by a bona fide fiddling genius who not only doesn’t learn a lesson, but spent a decade calling the devil a cloven-hoofed bitch. Something we know thanks to the fact the song has a sequel where the exact same thing happened again.
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That Time They Put Telepathic Snitch Chickens in Skyrim
A common trend of roleplaying games is the inclusion of some kind of morality system to disincentivise players from being a huge swaggering bellend and just up and killing everyone they encounter and stealing all their shit. For example the game Skyrim will penalise any player caught committing an immoral act by having a tireless, steel-plated digital cop try to slap them to death with a broadsword. Cops it turns out have an entire network of chicken snitches.
The Cast of The World’s End Had to Learn How to Act Drunk
According to a lot of actors, one of the hardest things to portray convincingly is being absolutely and completely shit-faced. In fact, some actors would argue it’s the hardest thing to do. Which is presumably why before a single second of footage was shot for The World’s End each member of the principal cast had to learn not just how to act drunk, but specific levels of drunk whilst also suplexing a robot alien.
That Time Cadbury Invented a Whole Chocolate Bar in Secret
Conservative estimates value the snack food industry as being worth at least several hundred billions dollars with a good chunk of that cash being invested directly into R&D. As you might expect companies are very keen is prevent the competition knowing exactly what they’re up to. Which is how you ended up with a company in the 1980’s delivering a chocolate bar to stores nobody knew existed until they started stacking it on shelves.
That Time The Sims Gave Players Lethal Guinea Pigs
The Sims is a series defined by the vast amounts of creative freedom afforded to players who can, if they so choose, create a near-flawless digital facsimile of themselves they can then immediately drown in a pool surrounded by tiger skin rugs. One thing you can’t do though is mistreat a digital guinea pig, not without risking unleashing a game-ending plague that is.
