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2.04.2008

Who got pwned?

Besides the Patriots?

My Silverlight travels have brought me to an interesting place. I've been tasked with creating a narrative around the word pwned. Now while I was a competitive gamer I still used the word 0wned and it wasn't until my career was nearing it's end that pwned started popping up with frequency. As such, I take this task with a sense of nostalgia. What did it mean to get pwned or to pwn? To pwn or not to pwn, that is the question. Well I did my fair share of pwning. It really was more about the community than the game. I played Unreal Tournament. In that game the weapons are so completely overpowered that it was very easy to destroy your opponents. The real pwnage was the trash talking, or flaming, that happened before and after the matches in chat rooms and on message boards. The remnants of these can be seen still in the archives of teamplay.net.

IRC CHAT ROOM
gamer 2: WTFBSLAG!!!!
gamer 1: d00d, I totally just pwned you on that map.
gamer 2: wtfever, i was ping raped
gamer 1: yeah yeah, upgrade your connect
gamer 2: like i have $$$ 4 that
gamer 1: you need move out of your parents house, l0s3r
gamer 2: d00d
causal observer 1: pwned
casual observer 2: ahhahaaha
casual observer 3: LOLOLOOLLOLL!!!!11!!

That's just one example. Now the question is, how do I translate the essence of that conversion into an animation?

A long time ago I made a video that really personified pwnage! Good vs Evil. We were good and the suckas we b347 d0wn were p0wn3d! It was all about the flame wars. It was a great match up and we ended up on top, but the video makes it look like we completely pwned the other team. That's the essence of pwnage. Complete and utter domination and humiliation.

Time to start storyboarding. Maybe I'll troll the b04rds for some inspiration.
game on! w00t!

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