NBC Tackles WoW Lingo
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iTZKooPA on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 67 Comments Tags: Glossary, gamer lingo, lmfao, mainstream coverage, mainstream media, misinformed reporting, nbc, nbc bay area, rofl
iTZKooPA on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 67 Comments Tags: Glossary, gamer lingo, lmfao, mainstream coverage, mainstream media, misinformed reporting, nbc, nbc bay area, rofl Being the repressed, socially-awkward gamer who lives in his mother's basement and fears the sun, I watch a lot of TV. To be honest, only one of the cliche descriptions fits me. I will leave it up to the Internet Sleuths to figure out which. My point is that no matter how many people continue to sign-up for World of Warcraft, or snap up those Nintendo Wiis, gaming, especially on a computer, is still largely seen as a nerdy hobby that should be shunned.
Enter in the mainstream media's latest attempt at "understanding" gamers with NBC's take on our "secret society." Nicole Riley is the women in charge of the horribly misinformed and unintentionally hilarious person piece. I don't mean to rag on her reporting, but I highly doubt she thought it was going to win any awards. In actuality, she, and her boyfriend, probably had some fun putting the clip together. Especially the boyfriend.
Riley claims that Jay Hollanda, her beau, is "ranked in the top ten out of 12 million" players for World of Warcraft. What? Where did that stat come from? Assuming I just may be out of touch with the PvP leagues or sponsored PvE guilds I did a quick Google Search for Jay Hollanda. You know what I found? Links to the same video above, or to discussions about how ridiculous it is.
Sounds to me like Jay may be playing himself up so he can stay home and cruise by on Riley's career.
It gets better, way better. Riley sits down to play the game and quickly realizes that she needs help. Hollanda informs her that "I need help" in WoW-speak is really "LFM 25 Nex 2 more tanks 2 more DKs." Lawlz.
Personally, it seems that I - and ProjectLore's Glossary - need to work on our WoW, because I have never heard the reference to a "Timmy" in WoW or seen pwnzer spelled in such an odd fashion. Perhaps it is just his server, or he's so good at the game that everyone follows his lead. Hollanda isn't playing his girlfriend entirely, he does seem to know a good amount about our favorite MMORPG.
In all fairness, much of the piece was probably trumped up by production, like a good reality show - get this, they aren't real! It's obviously true that we do have our own lingo, but doesn't every hobby? Either way, this is a must see for all WoW players, so be sure to send it to your friends and post it in your guild forums. Whether they meant it for a laugh or not, it certainly got me ROFLing. Just check it out and let us know what ya think.
At least none of my family lives in the Bay Area. If they did, I would expect my grandfather to call and try to speak "gamer" to me...
Edit: It looks like YouTube had to take the video down, but we've updated with the video from the NBCbayarea site.
Reader Comments (67)
Okay seriously i have a hard time believing he's in the top 12 million out the 12 million WoW players.
i only use one of the things he said.
Ugh, watching that was like chewing tinfoil...painful.
wow talk about pro gamer lol....well do what ever makes you feel happy. I always thought people look like total nerds, but he looked normal. Also his wife look fine lol and house looks awesome.
haha, omg. never ever heard about a Timmey, xD and
one of u guys form project lore got that birdie too, soo
WOOT that guy is a human pally! :)
Think the "Timmy" is a reference to the boss from vanilla strat (live side) that spawns in market square and /shouts TIMMY. This was around the time that Timmy was introduced on south park as well
Hahah omg he called AB in 2 mins... that is soo fucking hard... 40Man WsG!"? omg that is awsome lmao dumbass
shit im the dumb ass now.. capped not called
The most hilarious thing about this vid is that sooo many on this thread atually think theyre serious about him being one of the top ten players, why do you think all facts are wrong?
Why do you think theyre filmin it like a spoof?
Why do you think theyre not serious?
Come on timmys, get a grip of irony and self distance and stop your kewkewing mmmkaj?
TIMMY is classic...
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=10808
l2p nubs
One does not simply talk like that to a 'normal' person unless you've substained some kind of braindmg x_O.
Although a positive thing about this is that many of the biased ppl out there will think all the WoW-nerds are linguistic retarded ... which is good caz itll highen the chances of us nerds to get a date(?) yay lol?
Were you guys seriously just paying attention to the wow stuff? i was too busy looking at his hot girlfriend! LOL
WoW, this guy is a little full of himself. I like how he thinks he's cool cuz be wears his hat backwards.... WHAT A REBEL!
First yes he has a hot girlfriend and 2 how much u wana bet that he got the ashes after wrath came out and after he was lvl 80
I live in a small area and work at one of the TV stations in the area. If they can't come up with a better story I'm shocked. In all fainress this was maybe a kicker story for the end of the news, but those are shorter than that. It seems that whenever media tries to cover "gamers" they always seem to find the shady people who put us in a bad light. I got hit twice by this, being a fellow NBC affiliate employee this hurts but the gamer in my is crying because our reputation just got "ponzered".
LULZ lol it was a joke so guys please calm down and leave him alone if you cant tell its a joke and take it seriosly then calm down :P im 13 and i can tell its just a joke for lulz this was after the super bowl :D so calm down
Wow... That girl is a spaz...
I hate it when they show women like that. As a girl gamer it really ticks me off to see all of my progress being undone by some Brainless Beach Bunny who happens to work at a TV station... -_-