Epic!

[Righ]

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

Kang the Decapitator

[schild]

Kang the Decapitator

Wasn't that a fatality in Mortal Kombat?

[Calantus]

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.

[Shockeye]

OMG! You got the epic shiney! You win!

[Jayce]

OMG! You got the epic foozle! 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.

[Righ]

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.

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

[Rasix]

Pales in comparison to this.

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.

[Shockeye]

Pales in comparison to this.

I want a six demon bag!

[WindupAtheist]

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

[Rasix]

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

Piss off, wanker.

[schild]

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.

[Sky]

OMG! You got the epic foozle! 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.

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.

[schild]

OMG! You got the epic foozle! 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.

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.

[Murgos]

Pales in comparison to this.

I want a six demon bag!

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.

[Sky]

You are wrong.

[schild]

You are wrong.

Prove it.

[Calantus]

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

Piss off, wanker.

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.

[Kageru]

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.

[Murgos]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Signe]

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

[schild]

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.

[Sky]

Ok. Proving time.

vb. n. {Foozling}.] [Cf. G. fuseln to work badly or slowly.]
To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play
unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

Ok, so that's not the gaming term :) Here's one from gamedev.net:

A foozle is an object which a player must acquire and give to an NPC or use in a certain area to advance the plot.

Neener.
Then Wiki supports you.

Generic creature in a game that you kill (also known as MOBs) while on a levelling treadmill. Most famous are the bunnies of Asheron's Call (AC). Most infamous are the slugs of Fallen Age (FA). Also see mongbat for the UO variety.

Someone else thinks it means something else:

The Foozle definition breaks child violence down into behaviors we can recognize and work with. What are they?

jeanne's lecture notes on one plausible response:

There are Foozles named after each of the following behaviors:

blaming
bossing
getting even
grabbing
hitting
lying
making excuses
making threats
name calling
not listening
teasing
whining

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.

[Sky]

Sky
Foozle

Heh.

[schild]

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

1. foozle
 
Generic title of the final boss character in any game, although most likely used when describing a game that is generic or cliche in nature.
So I collect these 8 crystals and kill the big foozle? Damn, so much for an innovative RPG...

[Jayce]

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

1. foozle
 
Generic title of the final boss character in any game, although most likely used when describing a game that is generic or cliche in nature.
So I collect these 8 crystals and kill the big foozle? Damn, so much for an innovative RPG...

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?

[Righ]

Pales in comparison to this.

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

I am Harajuku boy. Love my beautiful sweet image.

[Rasix]

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.

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

[WindupAtheist]

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

Piss off, wanker.

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.

[Litigator]

Pales in comparison to this.

I want a six demon bag!

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.

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.

[schild]

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.

[SurfD]

If you fish a lot, you can fish up "The 1 Ring." Give us the precious!

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

[Jayce]

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

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".

[Calantus]

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

Somebody shouldn't be allowed to play with colours.

[El Gallo]

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

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