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MrGuru101 · Jan 25, 2006, 07:16 PM // 19:16

1. FTW? - I know it stands for "For the Win", but what does that mean anyway? I see people saying, "Yeah, trapping FTW" or "Over-aggro'ed, FTL" For the win, huh? Don't get it...

2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for? What does pwn mean anways? I know saying, "I owned you" makes sense, but "That guy got Pwned"..? Don't get it...

3. Spike (character) LFG....example : Spike Trapper LFG...What does it mean to spike? Does that mean causing a lot of damage at once, like setting 9 traps for a single group of guys?

4. (In Deldrimor War Camp) "LFG for TA or Oro Farming" Everytime I've asked politely in the game, I get, "Go to District 2 you "insert cuss word here" noob."

5. PUGs. This has something to do with real players, not computer players, but what does it stand for?

Thanks for the responses if you have any. I'm not making fun of any computer lingo or whatever, I just feel lost when people say it, and I hear it all the time.

(By the way, I tried the search button but I guess its still disabled)

Feminist Terrorist · Jan 25, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24

4. LFG-Looking for group, FA-Final Assault, which is one of the quests you do at Sorrow's Furnace, and Oro-Orozar Highstone, which is another quest. People go into those quest areas and kill the bosses there, but don't necessarily do the quest.

5. PUG-pick up group-generally all complete strangers, and they're usually riddled with issues and the tanks lose their minds and go rambo on everything. Sometimes I've found good groups there, but usually not.

boxterduke · Jan 25, 2006, 07:35 PM // 19:35

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Originally Posted by MrGuru101

1. FTW? - I know it stands for "For the Win", but what does that mean anyway? I see people saying, "Yeah, trapping FTW" or "Over-aggro'ed, FTL" For the win, huh? Don't get it...

Escatly as it means, trapping FTW means that trapping is so cool and good it rocks.
I would say SS (spitefull Spirit) FTW, since that skill is actually FTW. Got it?

2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for? What does pwn mean anways? I know saying, "I owned you" makes sense, but "That guy got Pwned"..? Don't get it...

I'll let other people answer since I do not know where these came from. But I think pwn is another form of owned

3. Spike (character) LFG....example : Spike Trapper LFG...What does it mean to spike? Does that mean causing a lot of damage at once, like setting 9 traps for a single group of guys?

Spike is using a low energy skill over and over. So this is like using reversal of fortune as many times.

4. (In Deldrimor War Camp) "LFG for TA or Oro Farming" Everytime I've asked politely in the game, I get, "Go to District 2 you "insert cuss word here" noob."

Oro farming is Orozor farming. One of the quests in Surrows Furnace that spawns most if not all of the wanted bosses with nice greens.

5. PUGs. This has something to do with real players, not computer players, but what does it stand for?

Pick up Groups, basically people that you do not know and form a group with

Thanks for the responses if you have any. I'm not making fun of any computer lingo or whatever, I just feel lost when people say it, and I hear it all the time.

Blah blah just to be able to post this.

Savio · Jan 25, 2006, 07:39 PM // 19:39

1. For the win - basically, they're saying that whatever they're talking about is pretty good. (Or else they're being sarcastic; usually they use ftl - for the loss - then.)

2. Pwn - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn (Google is the search). People usually add z's to the other acronyms to be sarcastic. (Well, I hope they're being sarcastic.)

3. Spike - several teammates attack the same target at the same time. Usually the damage overwhelms whatever healing or protection the target could have. Also refers to dealing a high amount of damage, such as the spike from Eviscerate. Or spike healing... spiking just refers to a huge increase or decrease in a short amount of time.

4. FA and Oro farming - by the time they were known by these acronyms, they were already nerfed. Just do the quests and forget about them.

5. PUG - not something you want to do on a regular basis (and still keep your sanity.)

heavy metal rules · Jan 25, 2006, 07:43 PM // 19:43

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2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for? What does pwn mean anways? I know saying, "I owned you" makes sense, but "That guy got Pwned"..? Don't get it...

i couldn't agree with you any more i just don't get the zomg/zomgzorz, is that like someone regurgitating?sp

or a bad case of acid reflux. I'd like to know that as well

darkMishkin · Jan 25, 2006, 10:17 PM // 22:17

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Originally Posted by MrGuru101

2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for?

Z is the coolest letter in the alphabet having replaced X, which is still acceptable but overused by brands corporations [X-Treme! X-citing! X-cetera]. If you wish to be down with the word on the street these days; add a Z.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrGuru101

3. Spike (character) LFG....example : Spike Trapper LFG

Yah the people above me have explained what Spike means as a Verb. However in your example you mentioned Spike Trappers, which are simply normal Trappers using the skill Spike Trap.

P.S. 'Z' is pronouced Zed not Zee. Pwdzerizedorz by teh l33t.

heavy metal rules · Jan 26, 2006, 12:53 AM // 00:53

I'm glad im not down with the word on the street but just wondering what

teh l33t= wtf is that. sorry im not all og widat homes or should it be hommie i mean seriously is everyone just f'n lazy to spell things out the way that they should be.

maybe im just an old school gamer, sorry, (37 yrs. old) yeah i abbreviated years because i know you all know what yrs is..

sorry for my rant just getting it out of my regurgiating system....oh no...zomg..another belch

Jack Lost · Jan 26, 2006, 01:22 AM // 01:22

i believe teh and pwn are just mis-spelled words that became popular

also l33t i think is just a weird way to spell elite

now heres my question whered all the 1337 stuff come from?

mantxi · Jan 26, 2006, 01:42 AM // 01:42

l33t = 1337 = leet

1= l or I
3=E
4=A
5=S
6=G
7=T
8=B
0=O

its something like that

50m3 71k3 1t (i dont though)

MrGuru101 · Jan 26, 2006, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkMishkin

Z is the coolest letter in the alphabet having replaced X, which is still acceptable but overused by brands corporations [X-Treme! X-citing! X-cetera]. If you wish to be down with the word on the street these days; add a Z.

Yah the people above me have explained what Spike means as a Verb. However in your example you mentioned Spike Trappers, which are simply normal Trappers using the skill Spike Trap.

P.S. 'Z' is pronouced Zed not Zee. Pwdzerizedorz by teh l33t.

I've never heard someone say something with an extra Z in it in my entire life. I've never gone to work and said, "Hey what did you do this weekend?" and the guy says, "Had a pretty sick weekend, went to Mexico and saw some Hotzorz girls down at this club, it was awesomezorz!" I'm guessing putting that "orz" crap in words is just some idiotic computer lingo that I'll never understand.

And this brings up another question, what does "teh" mean? Did someone misspell "the" one day and then start typing "teh" instead? Give me a freakin break.

Kamatsu · Jan 26, 2006, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Here's a nice informativce page about leet speak, it's origin's, etc..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

chris_nin00 · Jan 26, 2006, 02:43 AM // 02:43

This thread is almost a foreign language to me.
I almost never use acronyms... The only one I use is 'lol'.

Oh and speaking of 1337...
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx
It's pretty weird. I remember it being posted here a long time ago.

Lateralus · Jan 26, 2006, 03:15 AM // 03:15

I hate the #2, its just annoys me when I hear and when its coming form my team also. 'I OWNED YOU BITCH', its a game man, lets see you saying that when I drop your ass in life.

KitsunE81 · Jan 26, 2006, 08:27 PM // 20:27

ZOMG
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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ZOMG is a derivative of the Internet shorthand term for "Oh My God", OMG. The term is commonly used to express humorously overwrought excitement and as a way of mocking internet slang as a whole, and is most likely representative of pushing the shift key over-zealously and sloppily, thus pushing the "Z" key in the process, on a qwerty keyboard. It has appeared on various websites and message boards, often associated with a "witty" remark or trolling. It is reasonably widespread today in the online anime and gaming communities, and is often used in its more ironic sense on internet pop-culture forums such as the IGN message boards.

Because it is a form of written slang and is not commonly used in oral conversation, there is no standard pronunciation.

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Usage

OMG is often followed by a variation of LOL or by an excessive series of exclamation points trailing into a numerical "1". This last convention implies the typist's ineptitude in creating a simple exclamation mark on a qwerty keyboard. A common addition to the previous scenario is to append the word "one" after the numerical "1", e.g., "ZOMG!!!!!!1111one". On some message boards, this is sarcastically extended to phrases such as "ZOMG!!!!1111onetwoeleventy111". In some cases typists will go to extreme lengths such as typing "ZOMG!!!11!1one!1cos(0)". In each case, the (self-deprecating) implication is that the typist lacks the wherewithal to type correctly.

In gaming communities, ZOMG is often followed by "hax", and cries of "ZOMG hax!" and the like may be heard when a player does anything especially impressive, implying (ironically or otherwise) that the player must be hacking the game to do so well.

Another meaning of the word suggests a usage as an odd child of the two words "Zing" and "OMG". This implies a more humorous nature to the word itself without the necessary implications of surprise that come with the acronym "OMG". Others suggest that "ZOMG hax" originally spawned in StarCraft, if a player lost quickly to a Zerg player, causing the losing player to think his opponent hacked because he won so quickly. Thus, "Zerg, OMG, hax" quickly becomes "ZOMG, hax." This was also used in the Massive multiplayer online game called Runescape.

Another derivation of the word popular among members of the Alien Swarm community is z0mg, replacing the o with a zero. When using the text to speech option that comes with Unreal Tournament 2004, the word is pronounced zee zero milligrams.

As with most pieces of internet slang, the use of "zomg" has subsequently come to be viewed as annoying in some communities, especially among those who were introduced to the phrase in its infancy and exposed to it frequently since. However, in many other circles, the use of the phrase is escalating.

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOMG)

MrGuru101 · Jan 26, 2006, 08:30 PM // 20:30

I shouldnt have asked..

GW Doom · Jan 26, 2006, 09:50 PM // 21:50

lolz

Two April Mornings · Jan 26, 2006, 10:00 PM // 22:00

i love the ZOMG breakdown

gwynnargent · Jan 26, 2006, 10:04 PM // 22:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Two April Mornings

i love the ZOMG breakdown

I've come to believe that it's pronounced "zo-mig," like the medication for migraines, which reading too much of this causes.

And maybe someone could explain BBQ? I understand it if you've been wiped out by a team of fire eles, but otherwise...?

NatalieD · Jan 27, 2006, 03:00 AM // 03:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynnargent

I've come to believe that it's pronounced "zo-mig," like the medication for migraines, which reading too much of this causes.

I always pronounce it "zo em gee". My boyfriend prefers "zoh my god", which I admit has its own appeal.

Quote:

And maybe someone could explain BBQ? I understand it if you've been wiped out by a team of fire eles, but otherwise...?

That's just making fun of the profusion of acronyms. OMG! WTF! BBQ! It's not supposed to make sense.

strcpy · Jan 27, 2006, 09:26 AM // 09:26

A lot of these terms are a cross between some of the jokes from programmers/geeks and idiots (also known as newbs). Also throw in some of the l337 5p34k (leet speak). Once you get used to it it's no big deal, though no gamers can look at you kinda funny if you make a joke using gaming terms (I had a "-1 penalty to ram" stickers on several servers that had a bad blade of ram, I was the only one who found it amusing. Though programming and sys admin humor worked well with them)

If you are bored enough you will note a lot of simularity between these terms and ones from the jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/) which is a bunch of older, and some newer, programming slang.

Jan 25, 2006, 07:16 PM // 19:16	#1
MrGuru101 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jan 2006	Uhh, what do these mean? 1. FTW? - I know it stands for "For the Win", but what does that mean anyway? I see people saying, "Yeah, trapping FTW" or "Over-aggro'ed, FTL" For the win, huh? Don't get it... 2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for? What does pwn mean anways? I know saying, "I owned you" makes sense, but "That guy got Pwned"..? Don't get it... 3. Spike (character) LFG....example : Spike Trapper LFG...What does it mean to spike? Does that mean causing a lot of damage at once, like setting 9 traps for a single group of guys? 4. (In Deldrimor War Camp) "LFG for TA or Oro Farming" Everytime I've asked politely in the game, I get, "Go to District 2 you "insert cuss word here" noob." 5. PUGs. This has something to do with real players, not computer players, but what does it stand for? Thanks for the responses if you have any. I'm not making fun of any computer lingo or whatever, I just feel lost when people say it, and I hear it all the time. (By the way, I tried the search button but I guess its still disabled)

Jan 25, 2006, 07:39 PM // 19:39	#4
Savio Teenager with attitude Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]	1. For the win - basically, they're saying that whatever they're talking about is pretty good. (Or else they're being sarcastic; usually they use ftl - for the loss - then.) 2. Pwn - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn (Google is the search). People usually add z's to the other acronyms to be sarcastic. (Well, I hope they're being sarcastic.) 3. Spike - several teammates attack the same target at the same time. Usually the damage overwhelms whatever healing or protection the target could have. Also refers to dealing a high amount of damage, such as the spike from Eviscerate. Or spike healing... spiking just refers to a huge increase or decrease in a short amount of time. 4. FA and Oro farming - by the time they were known by these acronyms, they were already nerfed. Just do the quests and forget about them. 5. PUG - not something you want to do on a regular basis (and still keep your sanity.) __________________ People are stupid. Last edited by Savio; Jan 25, 2006 at 07:43 PM // 19:43..

Jan 26, 2006, 03:15 AM // 03:15	#13
Lateralus Krytan Explorer Join Date: Oct 2005 Profession: W/Mo	I hate the #2, its just annoys me when I hear and when its coming form my team also. 'I OWNED YOU BITCH', its a game man, lets see you saying that when I drop your ass in life. Last edited by Lateralus; Jan 26, 2006 at 03:17 AM // 03:17..

Jan 25, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24	#2
Feminist Terrorist Desert Nomad Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Oh Noes! The 'burbs!	4. LFG-Looking for group, FA-Final Assault, which is one of the quests you do at Sorrow's Furnace, and Oro-Orozar Highstone, which is another quest. People go into those quest areas and kill the bosses there, but don't necessarily do the quest. 5. PUG-pick up group-generally all complete strangers, and they're usually riddled with issues and the tanks lose their minds and go rambo on everything. Sometimes I've found good groups there, but usually not.

Jan 25, 2006, 07:43 PM // 19:43	#5
heavy metal rules Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cape cod, ma Guild: {bkr} bad karma ressurection Profession: W/	= 2. zomg/zomgzorz/pwn/pwnzorz - I see the omg, and the pwn, what are the z's and orz's for? What does pwn mean anways? I know saying, "I owned you" makes sense, but "That guy got Pwned"..? Don't get it... i couldn't agree with you any more i just don't get the zomg/zomgzorz, is that like someone regurgitating?sp or a bad case of acid reflux. I'd like to know that as well

Jan 26, 2006, 12:53 AM // 00:53	#7
heavy metal rules Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cape cod, ma Guild: {bkr} bad karma ressurection Profession: W/	I'm glad im not down with the word on the street but just wondering what teh l33t= wtf is that. sorry im not all og widat homes or should it be hommie i mean seriously is everyone just f'n lazy to spell things out the way that they should be. maybe im just an old school gamer, sorry, (37 yrs. old) yeah i abbreviated years because i know you all know what yrs is.. sorry for my rant just getting it out of my regurgiating system....oh no...zomg..another belch

Jan 26, 2006, 01:22 AM // 01:22	#8
Jack Lost Academy Page Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: forest of living nightmares Guild: peacekeepers of tyria[PKOT]	i believe teh and pwn are just mis-spelled words that became popular also l33t i think is just a weird way to spell elite now heres my question whered all the 1337 stuff come from?

Jan 26, 2006, 01:42 AM // 01:42	#9
mantxi Krytan Explorer Join Date: Oct 2005 Guild: Hell Lambs [HL] Profession: Mo/Me	l33t = 1337 = leet 1= l or I 3=E 4=A 5=S 6=G 7=T 8=B 0=O its something like that 50m3 71k3 1t (i dont though)

Jan 26, 2006, 02:41 AM // 02:41	#11
Kamatsu Moderator Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia	Here's a nice informativce page about leet speak, it's origin's, etc.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Jan 26, 2006, 02:43 AM // 02:43	#12
chris_nin00 Dun dun dun Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Reddit Guild Profession: R/	This thread is almost a foreign language to me. I almost never use acronyms... The only one I use is 'lol'. Oh and speaking of 1337... http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx It's pretty weird. I remember it being posted here a long time ago.

Jan 26, 2006, 08:27 PM // 20:27	#14
KitsunE81 Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Netherlands, The Guild: Bambis Dont Say [Meow] Profession: Me/	ZOMG From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZOMG is a derivative of the Internet shorthand term for "Oh My God", OMG. The term is commonly used to express humorously overwrought excitement and as a way of mocking internet slang as a whole, and is most likely representative of pushing the shift key over-zealously and sloppily, thus pushing the "Z" key in the process, on a qwerty keyboard. It has appeared on various websites and message boards, often associated with a "witty" remark or trolling. It is reasonably widespread today in the online anime and gaming communities, and is often used in its more ironic sense on internet pop-culture forums such as the IGN message boards. Because it is a form of written slang and is not commonly used in oral conversation, there is no standard pronunciation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usage OMG is often followed by a variation of LOL or by an excessive series of exclamation points trailing into a numerical "1". This last convention implies the typist's ineptitude in creating a simple exclamation mark on a qwerty keyboard. A common addition to the previous scenario is to append the word "one" after the numerical "1", e.g., "ZOMG!!!!!!1111one". On some message boards, this is sarcastically extended to phrases such as "ZOMG!!!!1111onetwoeleventy111". In some cases typists will go to extreme lengths such as typing "ZOMG!!!11!1one!1cos(0)". In each case, the (self-deprecating) implication is that the typist lacks the wherewithal to type correctly. In gaming communities, ZOMG is often followed by "hax", and cries of "ZOMG hax!" and the like may be heard when a player does anything especially impressive, implying (ironically or otherwise) that the player must be hacking the game to do so well. Another meaning of the word suggests a usage as an odd child of the two words "Zing" and "OMG". This implies a more humorous nature to the word itself without the necessary implications of surprise that come with the acronym "OMG". Others suggest that "ZOMG hax" originally spawned in StarCraft, if a player lost quickly to a Zerg player, causing the losing player to think his opponent hacked because he won so quickly. Thus, "Zerg, OMG, hax" quickly becomes "ZOMG, hax." This was also used in the Massive multiplayer online game called Runescape. Another derivation of the word popular among members of the Alien Swarm community is z0mg, replacing the o with a zero. When using the text to speech option that comes with Unreal Tournament 2004, the word is pronounced zee zero milligrams. As with most pieces of internet slang, the use of "zomg" has subsequently come to be viewed as annoying in some communities, especially among those who were introduced to the phrase in its infancy and exposed to it frequently since. However, in many other circles, the use of the phrase is escalating. Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOMG)

Jan 26, 2006, 08:30 PM // 20:30	#15
MrGuru101 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jan 2006	I shouldnt have asked..

Jan 26, 2006, 09:50 PM // 21:50	#16
GW Doom Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Sep 2005 Profession: W/N	lolz

Jan 26, 2006, 10:00 PM // 22:00	#17
Two April Mornings No Luck No Time No Money Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Amherst College, MA Guild: Scars Meadows [SMS] Profession: Me/	i love the ZOMG breakdown

Jan 27, 2006, 09:26 AM // 09:26	#20
strcpy Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: One of Many [ONE]	A lot of these terms are a cross between some of the jokes from programmers/geeks and idiots (also known as newbs). Also throw in some of the l337 5p34k (leet speak). Once you get used to it it's no big deal, though no gamers can look at you kinda funny if you make a joke using gaming terms (I had a "-1 penalty to ram" stickers on several servers that had a bad blade of ram, I was the only one who found it amusing. Though programming and sys admin humor worked well with them) If you are bored enough you will note a lot of simularity between these terms and ones from the jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/) which is a bunch of older, and some newer, programming slang.