As an amateur tech nerd who stumbled into these posts via Numberphile: It’s no surprise that Uma Musume crept in there, it’s hugely popular. A bestselling mobile game, though the game itself is afaik only available in Japanese. (Why that particular weird token? No idea, I’m only peripherally familiar with the franchise.) Puzzle & Dragons is also a very longstanding popular game, so there’s likely lots of discussion about it. Especially in “gacha” games like P&D and Uma Musume (where you obtain game pieces via essentially a slot machine), you often see that “awakening” phrase to refer to some kind of obtainable upgrade to a character or other game piece.
Oh, and Steve is the name of the default character appearance in Minecraft, so that’s probably the association with Forge.
As an amateur tech nerd who stumbled into these posts via Numberphile: It’s no surprise that Uma Musume crept in there, it’s hugely popular. A bestselling mobile game, though the game itself is afaik only available in Japanese. (Why that particular weird token? No idea, I’m only peripherally familiar with the franchise.) Puzzle & Dragons is also a very longstanding popular game, so there’s likely lots of discussion about it. Especially in “gacha” games like P&D and Uma Musume (where you obtain game pieces via essentially a slot machine), you often see that “awakening” phrase to refer to some kind of obtainable upgrade to a character or other game piece.
Oh, and Steve is the name of the default character appearance in Minecraft, so that’s probably the association with Forge.