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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Torches in this context are flashlights.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] get_off_the_phone 2 points 11 months ago

You gotta remember that in the Old World, 100 years is not a long time. It's only like 30 years. So in the 90s, they were 100 years ago and hadn't invented flashlights yet so they used torches instead.