…and, of course, apropos nothing; when one writes that one has “pwn3ed” someone “again”, it implies that one has “pwn3ed” that person in the first place, ever.
If that’s not in evidence, then the whole statement is rather silly.
Unless I’m falling behind on my just-behind-the-curve pseudo-hipster lingo, and “pwn3ed” now means “made that person think I was a gabbling cretin”. Then you’d be accurate.
Again, apropos nothing.
That is all.
Ok, for those of us here who are further behind the trendy curve – what the heck does pwn3ed mean? Please someone translate….
Dog,
I just gotta be a smart ass for this.
There’s a neat little service available… just go to Google or Wikipedia (for its sins) or Urban Dictionary.
Enter “pwn3ed” and click Submit.
You’re welcome. 😉
Thank you Badda!
(FYI – the urban dictionary site has yet to define pwn3ed, but along with wikipedia and google searches, reference the term – I hesitate to consider it an actual word – in usage but don’t provide a definition.)
I can infer at least a general idea from the context; my interest is waning.
I’d rather peruse the news for more info on NY AG Cuomo’s AIG subpoenas, and his premise for pursuing AIG for fraud, invalidating the compensation contracts that resulted in the payments to executives.
Apparently… it is illegal for a corp. to agree to contractual obligations to pay compensation when they don’t happen to have the money to do so. Which AIG did not, necessitating their bailout request.
Which in turn leads me to wonder why it is that the feds had a problem with those contracts being ‘carved in stone’? Maybe they are not?
If he pulls it off, separating the greedy AIG execs from taxpayer cash, this will provide Cuomo billions of $ worth of political capital. Or would that be capitol? Cuomo presumably has greater ambitions than AG.
Badda, DG et al –
Here’s a better resource:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pwn3d
That worked better for me Foot – thanks much for the link.
I had a good chuckle over related gaming and computer slang, including the subtle differences between uber, ober, and alpha. (Alas, I cannot figure out how to get this particular keyboard to provide umlauts or other appropriate accents.)
I’m partial to ‘alpha’ myself, for a variety of reasons. I’m accustomed to being pack alpha dog – with actual dogs; but the gaming definition isn’t a bad fit either.
Back to multi-tasking, I have to confirm an appointment with a client with two aggressive pitbulls that need sorting out. A prospect that puts some of the more rambunctious exchanges by blog commenters in an interesting context.
It’s a term that has mutated over the last few years from the computer/internet gaming culture. It started out as being “owned”, as in “Oooh, nice head shot! You OWNED him with that one!” Then as a play on the original internet gaming typo (“the” mutated to “teh”), owned became “pwned” because the o and the p are next to each other. Then it further developed with substituting similar shaped numbers for letters (E=3, A=4, O=0, L=7). The first number/letter switch came from “elite” (used in the context “extremely skilled gamer”) being shortened and misspelled to “leet”, which then became “l33t”, and finally “733t”. Pwned became pwn3d. Along those same lines, substituting ones for exclamation points started as a way to mock people who were in such a frenzy, they couldn’t keep the shift key held down long enough to finish their exclamation point string!!!!!11 Moving on from there, the natural progression brought the following developments: !!!!!111!1!1!11111oneoneone!!1eleven!!one!!11!1eleventyone
You forgot to put an OMG before that 1337, Bill C.
I am admitted to the circles of the L337 Haxxors. Mess with me and I will hurt you. Bad.