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Subject: The tru7h..what is it?
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As long as I have been reading speculation on Halo and searching the Bungie forums there were a few things I have been confused about...
1. Why is the word tru7h spelled with a seven and what is the significance of the number 7.
2. Why do people write pwned instead of owned.

  • 08.17.2004 6:52 PM PDT

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1. Because 7 is darker.
2. Because people are dorks.

  • 08.17.2004 7:08 PM PDT
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Thanks but i'm still sooo confused....I didn't think I would get a real answer for the whole tru7h thing but I at least figured I could get a straigt answer for the pwned thing...sigh

  • 08.17.2004 7:11 PM PDT
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waht? 7 is darker?, thats funny i always thought 7 was a lucky number ,.....cloud 7...blah blah,......... so in our cult its a dark number?, then 13 will be our lucky number,...no make that 14....

  • 08.17.2004 7:17 PM PDT
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what the -blam...this is driving nuts

  • 08.17.2004 7:22 PM PDT

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If you want a "real answer" to the "pnwed" thing, look at where the "p" and "o" keys are on a QWERTY keyboard. Now think of typing in a chat comment in a hurry, with weak typing skillz and a big ego.

Multiply by several hundred times and it gets picked up on its pwn.

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  • 08.17.2004 7:22 PM PDT
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I realized that whole keyboard thing way back when on my own but I started to doubt that as the reason when I played agains someone on XBC and his name was I Pwned U

  • 08.17.2004 7:26 PM PDT
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http://marathon.bungie.org/story/seven.html

  • 08.17.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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People say "pwned" because in one of the UT games, there was a taunt where you would say "owned!" but it sounded like "powned" and it stuck, people now just replace the "o" with a "p", this is not fact, I've on l've heard this.

  • 08.17.2004 10:00 PM PDT

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waht? 7 is darker?, thats funny i always thought 7 was a lucky number ,.....cloud 7...blah blah,......... so in our cult its a dark number?, then 13 will be our lucky number,...no make that 14....


Uhm - That's cloud 9...

  • 08.18.2004 12:57 AM PDT
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I never knew the whole "pwned!!" thing arose from Unreal
I just thought it was a mistake made by people with the typing skills of a dyslexic chimp

  • 08.18.2004 1:09 AM PDT

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[Edited on 8/18/2004 2:27:10 AM]

  • 08.18.2004 1:53 AM PDT
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pwned did *not* arise from UT. It's older than that. I want to say it was warcraft, but it could have been some other RTS. Anyway, someone made a custom map for it and at the end it was edited so when you get beaten, instead of saying, "You have been beaten." It would say, "You have been owned." But he typoed the map so it said "You have been pwned" And it kinda stuck. That's the truth of it. If you google for "pwned" you can find this story corroborated many, many times.

  • 08.18.2004 3:59 AM PDT

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  • 08.18.2004 5:20 AM PDT