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Interview with Leeeroy Jeeenkins
The hero of the hilarious (though likely staged) World of Warcraft short movie, Leroy Jenkins, has been interviewed by the online games mag Played.ToDeath. The interview covers his internet fame and the state of his guild, among other things. From the article: " PLAYED: So we have to know. Is this rushing in something you do often? BEN S: The rushing itself doesn't happen too often. It happens a little more now when we are joking around. My "Leeroy Jenkins" yell happens far more often. I've been yelling that for about four years. (laughs) "
this made it on slashdot????
For some reason they won't let me access the site with internet explorer, and I'm at work, so it's not like I have control over it.
I have no idea why they would be so obnoxious as to simply prohibit a browser from accessing their site- I don't really care if it renders imperfectly as long as I can read it.
Really, what kind of idiot does that sort of thing? Some smug, bearded Unix administrator high on the righteousness of open source?
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I don't care what anyone says. I don't care if other people are sick of it, or don't think it's funny. And I don't care in the least if it's staged (which is likely is). And I know a bunch of ya'll will post about how you think it's not funny, or don't get it, or ocmplain that it's here...
But every time I watch that video and I get to that defining moment, I am sent into a fit of laughter.
It's like Bubb Rubb ("It goes... WHOO HOOOOOO!!!"), it never gets old and it confirms the internet's purpose and place in life for me.
-- Primis.
Yes well, for a site that has exactly ONE issue of not much to see, well, yeh. Has a lot to do with who you know at Slashdot.
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Once you hear the leader ask for calculation for a chance of survival, it completely shits on the whole video/skit - otherwise the rest is completely plausible and funny.
There's a fine line between humor & total crap, and I believe that single line about survival crossed it. Luckily the 2 things that Leeroy says manages to save it from being tossed in to the black hole of really bad WoW player movies which are all over the internet.
but the whole Leroy Jenkins video is wayyyy overrated. What's so funny about a guy telling people they're going to burn forever?
PLAYED: Undoubtedly. How do you plan on using your new-found fame?
BEN S: It's been nice, now that more people know who I am. I'm starting to look around the gaming industry for possible employment opportunities.
Yep. That'll work out just fine.
The layout appears to be borked in Safari v1.3 (And possibly in Konqueror? I dunno.) It renders fine in Camino.
Why not fork?
If you know a little about the game mechanics there's no way you could think this would actually happen. The instance they're doing is one of, if not the hardest before you start doing molten core. The idea that a full group of 15 players could all get to level 56+ without knowing simple things like:
1) You never agro anything unless the group leader has appointed you to be the puller.
2) If someone (usually a rogue) agros a mob group way up front and out of range of the rest, you let him die so the mobs don't agro your whole group.
3) Divine intervention sacrifices the life of the paladin and creates a sheild through which NO action can be taken.
4) Fear is never a good idea unless you're 100% certain the mob won't/can't train into another group.
The idea that anybody can get close to 60 without figuring out these basic principles is laughable. 15 people is just downright impossible.
It's still funny though.
Guess the people at "Played" dont get to spend much time in their games. I sure hope they just had some stock filler questions to pass the time/for lack of better questions.
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The best part is when they asked about the devout shoulders. It doesnt seem like they know the devout set is a cloth set.
" PLAYED:Hopefully the level 60's won't pick on us too much. We are all around level 40."
" PLAYED:What occupation is Leeroy currently?
BEN S:He's a miner/engineer.
PLAYED:That's the hardest one, really. "
" PLAYED:Which instance is this we are seeing in the video? Where it is?
BEN S:That was Upper Black Rock Spire. Not too far in - It's called the Rookery.
PLAYED:Were those dragons?
BEN S:Yeah, those were little dragon eggs. PLAYED:What was the mission - collect as many eggs as possible?
BEN S:In the back there is a obelisk that you can interact with. A boss that has a chance to drop the devout shoulders I was looking for.
PLAYED:Did you finally get the devout shoulders?
BEN S:They are definitely level 60 shoulder-pads, I haven't acquired them yet. I'm currently wearing Valor. "
....hysterical. I have never played one of these MMORG's or whatever they are....but man...Leroy..."at least I'm not chicken". The serious attitude of the "leader" sells the whole thing...too funny...although I think they need to get out a bit more!
"We herd sheep....we drive cattle...we LEAD people! Lead me...follow me...or get out of my way!" GEN George Patton
Can anyone tell me what UI modification the guy who did the recording was using?
(And of COURSE it was staged, what kind of people record their entire gaming session?)
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Dunno, that whole planning session got me pretty much on Leroy's side.
From my experience with MMOs, if you can summarize your strategy into a simple sentence like "ok, you pull around this corner, you tank, and you heal the tank" or even "ok, everyone take the boss out first", your chances are probably good.
But moment you actually need to spend 5 minutes describing a plan that requires perfect coordination and timing, it's time to rethink it all or take another mission, because you _are_ going to get wiped out. If not in this fight, in the next one.
Basically you _need_ to have a safety margin for when things don't run as planned. A player loses connection. Or lag hits. Or the whole group is hit by the dark side of the pseudo-random number generator and pulls a string of misses. (Chances are with WoW's population, there's someone somewhere right now missing 20 attacks in a row on an equal level opponent.) Etc. There are _lots_ of things which aren't as deterministic as they may seem.
So IMHO if you can summarize it in a simple one-phrase plan and feel confident about it, chances are you have that safety margin. You have room to improvise and fill in the blank when the feces hits the ventilation device. If you need to come up with a two page plan requiring perfect timing and coordination, you don't have that margin. You can't improvise anything without screwing the plan, anyway.
_Any_ battle that actually requires that kinda planning is a symptom of being in the wrong group. Either you're doomed anyway, or you're grouped with people completely lacking clue. (By that occasionally including the complete control freak team leader who needs to have everyone executing some precise script, even when it's not needed.)
So, well, personally I actually was on Leroy's side there. The whole thing looked like something _I_ might have done in a situation like that.
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I can't help but feel somewhat offended by the fact that he chose a "black" sounding name for his silly WoW avatar.
Or maybe I just need to get a sense of humor. For the record, I was laughing just as hard as everyone else at my office (we're all big dorks) when I saw the video.
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check out the downloads section for Radio iTG www.radioitg.com (casting for all kinds of games online). Their weekly MMO show Weapon of Choice had a nice long interview with Leeroy talking about all kinds of subjects. I believe it was Episode 17 (free registration required to dl, in mp3 format). Great interview, dude is quite a character.
Aw Frell this
Was I the only one that thought this was stupid?
I thought to myself that the parent's claims had to be SO CRAZY as to be IMPOSSIBLE. To see for myself, I actually (omg) started up IE, and copied the link to see...
AN IMAGE OF TEXT. AWESOME!
But it says, more or less:
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