Have y’all been following the Leeroy Jenkins phenomenon? (TK heard about this from Julian Dibbell.There’s a very funny video floating around the net that is ostensibly a multi-user online gaming battle that someone has captured from the game World of Warcraft. A bunch of game players are about to enter the lair of some monsters and hash over their complicated strategy to avoid fighting all the monsters at once and getting slaughtered. Then, one of the players ignores the strategy and rushes into the cave, shouting his name as a battle-cry, ruining the plan.
I’ve read that the video was scripted and not a real game, but it’s hilarious either way. Check it out, man!
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2671154?htv=12 (Click "Skip Ad" to get to it)
(Check leeroyjenkins.net for other video files if this one doesn’t work for you) I think this video’s got a real central european ex-austro-hungarian sensibility to it:)
Apparently Leeroy Jenkins has entered the popular consciousness already. He was in a question on Jeopardy!
(http://tinyurl.com/8ytor)
You needed to know this.
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