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Bragging time. He's what I just started using:

Kang the Decapitator (http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=5958)

Wasn't that a fatality in Mortal Kombat?

Nice, purple is such a lovely color. ;)

Now I want details. I want to know if you got rediculously lucky or lighter pockets to get that. Curiosity, ya know.

OMG! You got the epic shiney! You win!

-2, improper use of "foozle".

Edit: clarification:  foozle is the bad guy.  They are often known to drop the "shiney" which is what I believe Shockeye meant in this case.

Somebody else got lucky, then they got naive. It was on the AH for a mere 45 gold buyout.

Pales in comparison to this. (http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?i=5660)

Yep, epic weapons are nice.  I really want one of the epic daggers or axes.  I've yet to get a purple drop, blues are rare enough in my case.

I want a six demon bag!

Your proportion of damage output to average monster HP at your level has slightly increased!  w00t!!!

Go back to beating up trapped bears for that last .1 tactics.

Piss off, wanker.

Hey, comeon, it's always funny when someone completely devalues a game because of the rarity of an item. WindUp knows full-well how ridiculous UO is...I hope.

I disagree. Foozle has been used many times to denote uber lewtz, as in "I camped the foozle of bumpfuzzling last night."

I've never seen it used to denote npcs, always lewtz.

Goddamnit Sky, you camp the mob that might drop the item - not the item. "I camped the foozle of bumpfuzzling" refers to the mob you were camping that may or may not drop the item. Foozle is most definately a mob or NPC. "The guy over there gave me a quest to whck 10 foozles." Not, "The guy over there gave me a quest to kill those orcs and I get a foozle in return."

Lewt or "Shiny" (shiney is used by many a people, including above - it's not a word)= Item.

Foozle = Miscellaneous baddy. People don't generally call Onyxia or whatever the epic dragon is named a 'foozle.' But everything in the cave leading up to her are 'foozles'

Catass Lewt-Whoring Camper = Righ.

Ok, Big trouble in Little China references pwn.  If only I had seen that before I bought EQ2.  Now I'm all fantasy MMOG'd out.

You are wrong.

Prove it.

Classic.

I got flashbacks of RP Nazis fighting teh ebil of powergamers on UO.com and stratics (wth happened to that place anyway? It used to be a great resource of guides back in the day, now it seems like just another mmog site lost amongst the crowd) forums. Was also fun on the uopowergamers forums when a RPer came to tell us how evil we were for breaking down loot tables and shit.

Then I thought of how much time I spent on a GODDAMN BOAT in the name of powergaming and I got depressed. Damn.

I have an epic bow. Being a warrior I only use it for pulling, and it is nice and fast for that purpose (1.6 second fire, 33DPS). However it really earns it's value in massively irritating hunters that I have it.

Both of your are wrong.  Sky is just more wrong.

Foozle has always been the interchangeable big bad guy at the end of the D&D module.

You do the quest, kill the foozle and get the McGuffin which leads to the next quest.

The big bad guy isn't called a foozle in modern MMOG terms. Foozles are everything except the big bad guy. 3-5 years ago I would have aggreed with you. But the number of people using it the original (not necessarily correct) way have become so few, that the meaning has changed.

"Named Mob" is the new Foozle.
"Foozle" is the new Random_NPC_001.

I'm confused.   Is my husband a foozle or a whore?

He's a lewt-whore. Is your engagement ring +1 dry humor? I bet he got it off the pack of foozles that live behind your house.

Ok. Proving time.

Ok, so that's not the gaming term :) Here's one from gamedev.net (http://www.gamedev.net/dict/term.asp?TermID=666):

Neener.
Then Wiki supports you.

Someone else thinks it means something else:

I think I'll go with the last one, seems most appropriate, eh. But we're pretty much all correct, depending on who you listen to. Or all wrong and it's about screwing up on the golf course.

Heh.

As long as we're using completely un-authoritative wonders of the web. Here's Urbandictionary's.

The first time I saw the term was Computer Gaming World, circa 1994, Scorpia's column.  She explained it as the bad guy at the end of an adventure game.   Your game wasn't exactly considered innovative if the ultimate goal was "kill foozle".  Yea progress?

Anyway, I assumed she coined the term.  But it may go back further than that.  Any grognards (more lingo!) willing to corroborate?

There's nearly always a six demon bag on the AH. Should I buy one of those too? They're only blue. I have lots of blue crap. Most reports are that these bags are totally underwhelming.



I am Harajuku boy. Love my beautiful sweet image.

Unless you've got  a special place in your heart for Big Trouble in Little China, they're essentially worthless.

Hell, half the time I have my skill gain notices turned off entirely.  I refuse to "grind" for anything in an MMOG, which is probably why I don't play any that date later than 1997.

I'll quit living in the past when the present quits sucking so much cock.

There's a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" quest in Uldaman, where you have to get an amulet, and mount it on a staff, and stick the staff on top of a model city, the way Indy found the ark in the movie.  

There's a series of missions in Stranglethorn Vale surrounding an NPC called Col. Kurzen, which are loosely modeled on "Apocalypse Now"

If you fish a lot, you can fish up "The One Ring." Give us the precious!

There's also a Hanzo Sword that you can get. I thought that was beyond cool.

Until you realize that liking Quintin Tarantino actually does make you a certifiable homosexual.

Not quite as good as the 2 ring (Fixed it for you.)

Just to keep flagellating the room-temperature equine, I'm well aware that the muggle word "shiny" is spelled as such.  As a matter of fact, to use it in a sentence, shiney is often shiny.

In other news, the word "pwn" actually starts with an o and not a p, and Lewt is spelled with two o's in the middle rather than "ew".

Saw this on a WoW.com thread and thought I'd point it out. It's an orc wearing most of the epic hunter set (missing boots) so it sorts fits here and It's not worth a new thread.

Mmmm, fruity (http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img125&image=clown1yq.jpg)

Somebody shouldn't be allowed to play with colours.

We need some idiots like that on Lothar.  I'm paying more than 45g for a Twig of the World Tree there.

We're all Foozles, you know? ;)

Which maks us, by schilds difinition, named mobs.

"You've ruined your lands, Signe. You'll not ruin mine!"

Did I not say I had you all titled "Generic_NPC_001" before I made it foozles? I do believe I did. Or at least something like it.

Oh no no, you completely missed the point. I should elaborate though. I don't have a problem with accurately misspelled words. But lewt and loot are completely different. You can't lewt a house. But you can loot a house. You see, lewt is what you'd get from looting a house.

Pwn and own are also 2 different things. See where I'm going with this? Shiny and Shiney aren't. The second is just a fucked up internet way of spelling it.

Edit: Removed a Gollum reference. Wasn't funny.

Like nubcaek?

I'm sorry.  I tried to read your posts but all I saw was

I don't know if she coined it, but she certainly popularized it. That was the first time I had heard it when she started using it in her reviews.  Ahh, the good old days of CGW...

AFAIK Foozle was the name of a wizard in a very old DnD game (possibly pnp dnd).

So it was questing to kill foozle, and then as internet vocab trends are wont to do, many retards heard some one use it, and then tried to use the same word, with out knowing the origin, and ended up getting it wrong, but then  some one else heard them use it, and so on. Now foozle means random_npc_001.

So I guess you guys can all hug, and have the satisfaction of knowning that, yes, you are right. And just like mommy told you, you are also special.

Being a named mob was kind of cool.  Being a random_npc_001... not so much.  I have a headache.  Hug me and I'll bite your face off.

This thread isn't very epic at all.

You're right, it's not epic.  It's not even pointy.

How does Frank Zappa taking a dump represent you (http://forums.f13.net/viewtopic.php?p=52266&highlight=#52266), Signe?

EDIT: You're scaring me on a whole new level now.

When I think of something clever to say, you will SO regret throwing my words in my face.

I think this is more fitting for your attitude as of late, Signe.

(http://www.f13.net/schild/zappa.gif)

Don't be an avatard!

I have a wonderful attitude... it's everyone else here who has fallen down the crapper, of late.  Between the SirBruce poll, which has turned into the silliest thing I've ever seen, and the DV/TW (are they "together"?) boring blog insanity,  I'm surprised everyone isn't sporting mass murderer/serial killer avatars.  Oh... and let's not fail to mention the great steaming piles of poo the Oscar thread has turned into... quite a gem we have there.

Yes, I think your choice of avatar for me is pretty appropriate, too.  I just like mine better... it's more artsy fartsy.  Crapping all over f13 or flinging boogers at it with my fuck you finger is all pretty much the same idea, anyway.

Not that I mind so much.  I'm just sayin'....

I think this decline is partially attributable to the season.  We're in the post-release winter doldrums, when there are few new games on the immediate horizon.  People are irritable from the short days, and there is a full moon.  The great "WoW vs. EQ2" debate has been resolved firmly in favor of Blizzard, and everybody has settled into the everyday gameplay routine, aiming for their WoW epic quests or whatever.

All in all, a good time to get some real life work done.

Actually I heard that UO won.

I heard everyone gave WoW the win until the ability to login was removed as a "feature."

How good can you feel about a win when you get it by virtue of the fact that you suck less?

I don't know a better way to say it.  WoW is the best fantasy mmog released to date.  It won the title primarily by sucking less than those that came before it.  As a reward, I imagine the genre will continue to see the same shitty constructs piled into derivatives with more shiney and less suck.  Seems like a death spiral to define the quality of a game by how much less of the suck it had than the games before it.  Here's hoping that there are still some investors willing to back a good idea (i.e. take a risk) rather than staying with formulaic, watered-down mass appeal with less suck.

Is the glass half empty or half full?

As George Carlin once said: "The glass is twice as large as it needs to be."

Is this an obtuse reference to myself?  As I've said before, my MMOG tastes will advance beyond 1997 as soon as MMOG gameplay does likewise.  It sure is a long wait.

But yeah, if the class/level paradigm EQ popularized is your cup of tea, then I daresay WoW does it better than anyone else.  Here's a really shitty and tortured analogy:

UO is a taco stand, while every other mass-market MMOG is a burger joint.  WoW has the best burgers in the world, while UO's tacos are oftentimes chewy with wilted lettuce.  But you know, some of us just don't want any fucking hamburgers at all, and nobody is even trying to make a better taco.

I didn't think it was obtuse.

(http://swisscharts.com/cdimg/carly_simon-youre_so_vain_s.jpg)

BEST.CARLY.SIMON.REFERENCE.EVAR!1!

OMG ME = PWNED!

But hey, nobody else here talks about UO besides me, so go figure...

Yes, shocking that nobody discusses UO in the WOW FORUM.

Cram your nostalgia with walnuts.

By "here" I mean this website, not that I give up my divine right to spew about UO anywhere and everywhere.

A quick search for threads containing the terms "UO" or "Ultima" produced this:



You aren't the only one.

Bring the noise.
Cheers.............

I do.  Because I'm fucking epic.  



That's super, but why do you keep trying to communicate with the present?  You could fuck up the space-time continuum.  Stay back there.

Good point.  +1 sidereal