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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Nov 9, 2004 15:28:37 GMT
All right, I'll bite. What exactly does "w00t" stand for?
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Post by Black Cat on Nov 10, 2004 2:33:56 GMT
All right, I'll bite. What exactly does "w00t" stand for? Thanks, I was too scared to ask...
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Post by Banedon on Nov 10, 2004 11:31:00 GMT
w00t doesn't "stand for" anything...it's not like the "w" stands for a word, then the "0"'s, then the "t"...
It's actually a fairly common word abong (some) computer geeks, I have even said it in real life sometimes. It derives from the word "root," meaning the super-user in a Unix-based system. Hackers several years ago would use the word "woot" whenever they hacked into a root account by stealing the password or whatever. Now, it usually means "cool" or is used to indicate that something good happened. It is spelled either as "w00t" or "woot," but never "wOOt" with capital "O"'s. It is also never spelled with an initial capital "W," even at the start of a sentence.
There are many false etymologies for w00t circulating on the Internet, such as "wonderful loot" and "we owned other team," but I believe the above is correct.
Whoa, that was a lot of quotation marks.
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Post by The Tagazin Poodle on Nov 10, 2004 15:43:35 GMT
Thanks, I'd been wondering about that.
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Post by Zipp on Nov 11, 2004 1:43:22 GMT
Wow. History lesson. I always just used the thing. For me, it borders on sarcastic enthusiasm, but I guess that's how you say it.
I picked it up from my computer friends (to be honest, I know next to nothing about computers myself) and from Megatokyo.
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Post by HuntingWolf on Jun 11, 2005 23:12:46 GMT
Joe could have figured out a way to make it for both genders. That would've been cool.
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Post by North Star on Jun 15, 2005 12:23:06 GMT
Other than blatant Naziranim magic on the thread, I presume you mean that Joe should have written the entire series depending on whether you had chosen to be Lone Wolf or Lone Wolfette? That is perhaps the most infeasible idea I've heard in a long time.
NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 15, 2005 16:11:33 GMT
I'm with NS on this one--I think you give Joe a bit too much credit. It's not that he's not a talented author, but rather that it's very difficult not to establish gender in a main character in a concrete setting. It's awkward enough that your character in the NO books doesn't have a definite name. Altering the books to apply to either gender would be about as simple as altering the books so that you play either Lone Wolf or Banedon--id est, it would require an entirely different version of the book.
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Post by Zipp on Jun 15, 2005 21:18:32 GMT
You know what's interesting, though. The Choose Your Own Adventures rarely established male or female (well, if you ignore the illustrations) and worked just fine.
Then again, they weren't getting as in depth with the plot.
I actually think Lone Wolf CAN be played as both male and female. He never does anything blatantly male, and there are very few references to him as a "him." Being a female player myself, I can say that I never felt strange playing as Lone Wolf.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 15, 2005 22:54:01 GMT
As an aside, are female Kai Initiates still called "Kai Lords?" I mean, "Kai Ladies" just doesn't have the same connotation. Then again, perhaps I'm just being sexist about it, and should shut up. Even so... I guess Lone Wolf doesn't do anything overtly masculine, but it would certainly force the books and dialogue to grow more generic.
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Post by Zipp on Jun 15, 2005 23:17:49 GMT
A Kai Lord is a Kai Lord, regardless of sex. Although there are certain organizations who can provide you with a Kai Mistress for a night, for a price.
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Post by Dusk Fox on Jun 15, 2005 23:59:15 GMT
I'd be intrigued, save for the nagging suspicion that it would just be Qinefer showing up and critiquing everything I do, somehow doing my job better than I can, and ultimately leaving saying, "You have chosen your path of the keyboard and the beer bottle, and I have chosen mine. We must part now." And then she'd leave with my money and I'd be much, much happier that she was gone.
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