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In a rare instance, I agree with #1 being #1.
Ice cube I assume is just him using some magical ice shield to protect him from the tanks. Dunno about the cobwebs unless there’s some trope of just throwing cobwebs into an otherwise clean environment to depict age.
My guess on the cobwebs in the bathroom is they’re showing that no one in an RPG ever needs to take a dump. I don’t think that’s true however, I remember that in on of the Half-Life games you could pick up a couple of health points by using a toilet.
Ah, I guess the fact that it was otherwise pristine (aside from some MS Paint webbing) made that go past me. I thought the joke was in the juxtaposition of the clean/webs and not just the disuse.
I think it’s a reference to the spell Ice Block in World of Warcraft, which immobilizes the caster and prevents him from casting spells, but makes him impervious to oncoming damage. In other words, he was blocking the tanks but making it so they couldn’t hurt him.
I was wondering if that was it as well, but if he had just used the Ice Block graphics from WoW it would’ve been instantly recognizable (well, at least to any WoW player) - now you can’t tell if it is a gelatinous cube or an ice cube or what.
“Gelatinous Cube” was my first thought. I think that picture fails because it’s too game-specific; I’ve never played WoW, so had no way to recognize the reference.
I’ve been playing WoW since about 6 months after it came out and I didn’t get the reference until it was explained here. Well, I might have, eventually, but it didn’t jump out at me.