Talk:Polybius/@comment-25021033-20140604025953

Not to go into too much detail, but the game isn't doing anything subliminal, what I think it seems to be doing is "casting" a demon into the player(s), or using something you stare into for hours to do horrible things to you.

poly- a combining form with the meanings “much, many”

-BIUS one that has a (specified) mode (pattern?) of life —chiefly in generic names in zoology  (think PARASITE)

Many types of life... either being cast (many demons cast?) or being cast into (players being cast into?)

The telltale part is the central image that seems to be a pentagon which isn't encased in a circle (five and six cornered stars are pretty much the same thing): those satanic guys put a circle around a pentagram to protect themselves from the demon being cast, so a pentagram without a circle is something that will release something to the player that the player will have no protection from.

This sounds pretty dangerous to me.