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kingandyFollowing today's Penny Arcade comic I had a quick look into Dante's Inferno. Skim-reading through the "plot" it seemed mostly daft; though I was a bit put off by the use of Cleopatra as the Demon Regent of Lust, it wasn't until Gluttony that I really lost interest.
Cerberus is a worm now? Come on, that is not even something you have to research. Never mind the muddled confusion of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christiam mythology; fair enough, abusing real-life personages or not knowing who Phlegyas is. But Cerberus? That's just lazy.
"There he must face the 'great worm', Cerberus, a mass of worm-like stomach protruding from a open maw."
Cerberus is a worm now? Come on, that is not even something you have to research. Never mind the muddled confusion of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christiam mythology; fair enough, abusing real-life personages or not knowing who Phlegyas is. But Cerberus? That's just lazy.
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