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This is pretty funny if you play WoW…
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nagoya, Japan • 日本 名古屋市
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Join Date: May 2000
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Ugh. People use that pathetic acronym language on WoW too? Great...I was hoping to experience some actual "role playing". Must be a new idea people haven't caught on to yet heh.
Anybody remember how on the MUDs of the early 90s, people actually learned how to type really fast instead? What once was, "oh my god, I DEMOLISHED you with my backstab!" is now "omg u r 0wn3d!"
I think I'm getting old...
(Last edited by darcybaston; Oct 18, 2005 at 12:27 PM.
(Reason:my radspeak is horrible))
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Don't worry; 90% of the folks you'd normally run into type reasonably well. The Dogcows on Whisperwind, for instance, only toss out the occasional l33tspeak when being a) silly, b) silly, c) silly. Some of the more common acronyms (lol, rofl & such) that have been around for net-ages are about all that show up in regular chat. Most of the other folks I've grouped with/interacted with are also pretty much of the same sort. Any more, that sort of typing is becoming a self-referential mocking of the "ub3r d3wdz" who try to pass themselves off as "kewl." =)
G Barnett
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Life is like a clay pigeon -- sooner or later, someone is going to shoot you down and even if they miss you'll still wind up shattered and broken in the end.
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Very glad to hear it. Thanks!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Some of the people playing WoW are quite young. How they write varies a lot. You'll get some people who talk like, "omg u fkn noob. y u not ss dat ork?" Then there are other people who are more like, "WTF was that guy talking about? i didn't catch a word of it." It's almost never pristine and acronym-free, but it varies from completely idiotic to fairly normal with a few well-understood slang terms thrown in (WTF, mez, rez, DOT, POM, etc.).
It's not nearly as bad as that makes it out to be, anyway. That thing is just taking the piss.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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I can imagine there being plenty of jargon. I've done my share on Diablo II.  I'd definitely welcome and jump into the learning curve on those.
Just waiting for new Powermac announcements, then a delivery delay and then I'll be able to have a go at WoW finally!
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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Well, once you get your new toy and get WoW, consider giving us a look-see over on Whisperwind; I'm sure the Dogcows there would welcome another MacNN'er. Of course, if you choose to play Horde (we're Alliance), not sure which Mac-guilds have a large horde presence; ours is on the Frostwolf PvP server and is anymore a bit of an afterthought after the majority of the Frostwolf Dogcows merged with another guild.
Mind you, more than a few of us are quite, quite mad....
G Barnett
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Life is like a clay pigeon -- sooner or later, someone is going to shoot you down and even if they miss you'll still wind up shattered and broken in the end.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Originally Posted by G Barnett
ours is on the Frostwolf PvP server and is anymore a bit of an afterthought after the majority of the Frostwolf Dogcows merged with another guild.
Mind you, more than a few of us are quite, quite mad....
Yeah and it means a lot coming from me since I put in awfully lot of time designing the dogcows website but I saw this as a necessary to survive in the long term. I was severely burned out doing strath, scholo and ubrs over and over.
Bottom line is if you're not planning on raiding high end contents, you're going to quit the game after several months.
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Originally Posted by Adam Betts
Yeah and it means a lot coming from me since I put in awfully lot of time designing the dogcows website but I saw this as a necessary to survive in the long term. I was severely burned out doing strath, scholo and ubrs over and over.
Bottom line is if you're not planning on raiding high end contents, you're going to quit the game after several months.
Sorry, by "mad" I mean in the insane sense. Suppose I shoulda put a smiley of some sort in there. As far as the merger, we (or at least I) fully understand the reasoning behind it.
G Barnett
(Last edited by G Barnett; Oct 19, 2005 at 08:13 AM.
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Life is like a clay pigeon -- sooner or later, someone is going to shoot you down and even if they miss you'll still wind up shattered and broken in the end.
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nagoya, Japan • 日本 名古屋市
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Originally Posted by G Barnett
Don't worry; 90% of the folks you'd normally run into type reasonably well.
Yes, while the subtitles in that gif/video make good fun of the leet-speak stereotype, there are plenty of Wow players who type in a more literate manner.
If you really want to avoid broken grammar and spelling, though, sign up on an RP (role-playing) server instead of the usual EVP servers.
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