. It gets me into the sound of online gaming talk...
If WWII was an MMORPG
Here's an excerpt from the post on 4 Guys from Viewpoint...to get you to click on the link and read on:
(On the linked page you'll see the usernames in different colors, making it a bit easier to follow.)
*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0J0: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]: sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got crap to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: Eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0J0: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Kerinth says in his short post:
"If only tyrants had harmless outlets like pwnage."
Kerinth titled it, "If WWII was an MMORPG"
I learned that it could be something else, from some of the comments after the WWII chat/babble on the original website:
Domenic Says:
July 27th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
That’s amazingly awesomely so totally funny!! I was literally laughing out loud. In the office.
I think it’s more of an RTS than MMORPG though." (emphasis added)
So my next click away was to Wikipedia, for MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is an online computer role-playing game in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a character (traditionally in a fantasy setting) and take control over most of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the game's persistent world, usually hosted by the game's publisher, which continues to exist and evolve while the player is away from the game. This results in a gameworld which is far more dynamic, diverse, and realistic than those of single-player games.
And then to RTS in Wikipedia
... is a genre of computer games characterised by being a real-time wargame ("strategic") in which one exerts direct control over individual units, and resource gathering, base building and technology development are integral gameplay aspects. A common mistake is the belief that any strategic games played out in real time is a "real-time strategy" game, which is not the case since RTS is a particular and specific genre.
RTS titles are strategy wargames which does not have "turns" like conventional turn-based strategy video or board games. Rather, game time progresses in "real time": that is, it is continuous rather than turn-by-turn. While the word "strategy" originally referred to higher-level warplanning (armies, campaigns and entire wars) in RTS games individual units or persons are given orders; also integral to the gameplay of RTS games is production-economic aspects (resource gathering, manufacture and positioning of buildings, production of units, etc), and though combat confrontation is a significant part of RTS gameplay this is most often heavily stylised and relatively little emphasis is placed on realism or the detailed aspects of military tactics (compare with real-time tactics).
Hmmmm... got me. Whatever it is, it's great.
Some of the other comments: An AP history teacher who wishes there were more of it, as does a student before a social studies test.
