Trivia / Pure Pwnage

• Banned in China: Presumably for featuring the Tibetan flag/Tibetan independence protest.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Everyone associates FPS Doug and his "BOOM HEADSHOT" catchphrase with Counter-Strike, but when he first shows up, in Episode 4, he's actually talking about America's Army. It's only in Episode 5 that Counter-Strike shows up.
• The Character Died with Him: Halfway through filming season two of the original web series, Troy Dixon, who played T-Bag, was tragically involved in a car accident and killed. Naturally, this stopped the series cold for a good while, although the website continued to publish news and articles, until the series was picked up for television.
• Technology Marches On:
  • These hardcore gamers have massive CRT screens, which is a technology that was obsolete by the mid-2000s.
  • It's also an example of a time period where the internet was widespread but before smartphones, which didn't come into the mainstream until the first-generation iPhone in 2007.

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