scrub skirts in the OR

[jdh71]

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From everything I've seen, it came from WoW... I never played it, but that's whats mentioned. I've never heard of CS being particularly associated with starting it.

Hm. One of us can google it later.

 

[Gilakend]

From everything I've seen, it came from WoW... I never played it, but that's whats mentioned. I've never heard of CS being particularly associated with starting it.

Interesting. When would it be used in WoW? PvP / Duels? I haven’t played WoW in years and years, but I don’t remember being able to talk to other factions in PvP, I guess I would understand for Duels but most duels were pretty chill/not super serious.

 

[ThoracicGuy]

Hm. One of us can google it later.

Interesting. When would it be used in WoW? PvP / Duels? I haven’t played WoW in years and years, but I don’t remember being able to talk to other factions in PvP, I guess I would understand for Duels but most duels were pretty chill/not super serious.

According to the known repository of knowledge, UrbanDictionary:

Urban Dictionary: pwned

A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."

Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."

It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
"Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned."

OR

"That team totally pwned us."

 

[Lawpy]

Hm. One of us can google it later.

According to the known repository of knowledge, UrbanDictionary:

Urban Dictionary: pwned

Well we can probably agree that pwn is a typo of own that got popular. The exact origins are hazy and lots of fake news and weird theories are out there suggesting pwn came from pawn in chess (which got rejected by those who actually played chess). Others think it's a combination of ping + owned. Ping is the amount of delay between a server and client, and spikes in ping often happen in FPS games like Counterstrike. This causes a delay between player's computer and server resulting in player being unable to avoid an attack and thus get owned because of the ping or ping owned or pwned.

 

[jdh71]

According to the known repository of knowledge, UrbanDictionary:

Urban Dictionary: pwned

Urban dictionary . . . I'm not sure how I feel about the source. I suspect it's more accurate than not though. It did educate me on the "rusty trombone" and the "blumpkin" . . . (don't look those two up at work kids)

I first saw it on CS. Confirmation bias perhaps?? Circa 2000 AD

 

[sella.turcica]

I like it how this thread went from religious dress code in the OR to slang used in the gaming industry

 

[Gilakend]

According to the known repository of knowledge, UrbanDictionary:

Urban Dictionary: pwned

Wow, the more you know

 

[deleted87051]

Apparently no more scrub skirts in marathons either. 3:08 very respectable...damn

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[Newyawk]

I for one think that more skirts in the OR would be a great thing

Classic. I miss this guy

 

[MisterKitty]

Those scrub skirts are ridiculous looking. I legit cackled first time I saw one. Thought it was a fashion statement instead of religious thing though