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When talking about Halo, why do people say they are going to pwn instead of own someone or something? I see this all over the place and it has got me curious. One more quick question, what is Bungie's deal with the number seven? Is it just something they did, or is there some significance behind it?

  • 09.21.2004 3:33 AM PDT
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Oops. Nevermind. This post was never here.

[Edited on 9/21/2004 4:51:05 AM]

  • 09.21.2004 4:49 AM PDT

bah

[color=black]7[/color][color=#101010] is darker.[/color]

Or in my case, all bright and glowing with waves of fire.

[Edited on 9/21/2004 6:30:17 AM]

  • 09.21.2004 6:29 AM PDT
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7 is very significant, for it has many tru7hs

  • 09.21.2004 9:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: Two Dragons
When talking about Halo, why do people say they are going to pwn instead of own someone or something?


idk, people always say it on XBC though.

  • 09.21.2004 10:05 AM PDT

bah

Because some bad speller most likely typed pwn instead of own. No one really knows, although many will claim to have evidence one way or another.

  • 09.21.2004 10:20 AM PDT
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Here's what the encyclopedia says about it:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Pwn

  • 09.21.2004 10:25 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Here's what somebody with Macronedia skills and too much free time says about it.

--Sgt. Smith accepts no blame for the contents of the above.

  • 09.21.2004 10:59 AM PDT
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pwn is just a gamer term. I think someone just made it up, it sounded cool, and just stuck with people.

  • 09.21.2004 6:23 PM PDT
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0wned" — completely dominated (in a game); hacked into (of a computer), in the past tense, this is "0wnz0r3d". This word may also be used as a non-leet, conversational slang term. This term is sometimes spelled pwn or pwnz0r3d, and the origin of this variation is said to have derived from a typo (although this explanation is probably apocryphal): a user-created Warcraft level included a message sent to all players in the event of a player's defeat: (player name) has been owned. However, because P and O are side-by-side in the QWERTY layout, the message is said to have been (player name) has been pwned, and when the level was released, pwned entered the l33tsp33k vocabulary. Another explanation states that "pwned" arose from "Pistol Owned" or "Pistol Ownage" in the popular online game "Half-Life Counter-Strike", when a player was beaten by a lightly armed foe, and for the sake of brevity, was shortened to simply pwned.

  • 09.25.2004 5:19 PM PDT
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I hate it when others refer to gaming culture as "Sub"culture. I take offense to that, and if so many people are frequent gamers, what would be "sub" about it.

  • 09.25.2004 6:54 PM PDT
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GT: Greg Is So Hot

pwning > owning

  • 09.25.2004 7:54 PM PDT
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GT: Greg Is So Hot

Posted by: Woc Cixelsid
I hate it when others refer to gaming culture as "Sub"culture. I take offense to that, and if so many people are frequent gamers, what would be "sub" about it.


Gaming is a "subculture".
Because it's a part of a larger culture...
I guess

[Edited on 9/25/2004 7:55:36 PM]

  • 09.25.2004 7:54 PM PDT