Project Lore

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.

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