12-09-2004, 11:56 PM
LochnarITB,Dec 9 2004, 05:23 PM Wrote:*I use baddie in referring to individual monsters. I often see people using mob as the singular for a bad guy. This confuses me. How did mob come to represent this and not a group of bad guys as would be the normal usage when saying something such as "The store was mobbed at 12:01 am when they opened the doors to sell WoW" or "mob mentality"?
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MOB was supposedly a shortening of Mobile Object from early days of gaming/programming. Or at least that's the explanation I've heard most often.
Intolerant monkey.