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Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:12 pm
by Xenon
The helicopter idea is quite funny ^^

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:31 pm
by Tobbe
is roflcopter ffs! :pascontent:

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:33 pm
by Xenon
Yeah, that's what I meant.
I always thought it originated from the R3 powerup 'Throttle Copter', but clearly I was wrong.

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:36 pm
by Tobbe
urbandictionary wrote: roflcopter
2242 up, 420 downlove ithate it

Invented by a Blizzard moderator on the Warcraft III forum. There is always much whining going on on those official forums, much sucking up to moderators and an awful lot of 'BLUE!!! PLZ REPLY!!!1one' (Blue = color of moderator posts), so when a mod posts something, you can bet there'll be thousands of people jumping on it, if only to spam 'BLUE FIX GARGZ PLZZZZ' or 'first reply woooot!' after it in the vain hope that the mod will read it and react.

So when one invented this new buzzword, it was grabbed and squeezed out and spread like a virus across all of the Blizzard forums and from there over the internet.

The word is derived from a unit in Warcraft III, the gyrocopter (flying machine). Your immediate response when someone masses gyros (to be funny, ruin the game, mess around or whatever) is to rofl for ten straight minutes until the copters of doom and destruction have pinpricked 1 of your 20 farms to death with their uber godly bombs.

Now mostly used in Blizzard circles as a leeter version of rofl.
'...and this guy said I could reduce lag by up to 100% by hitting alt-F4. I did and the game closed on me. This is griefing, admins plz ban'
'ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!!!!!'

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:29 pm
by Tings ffs
Xenon09 wrote:Yeah, that's what I meant.
I always thought it originated from the R3 powerup 'Throttle Copter', but clearly I was wrong.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:42 pm
by Xenon
Come on, the two names sound very similar, added to which I first heard the term 'roflcopter' on a Rayman forum.

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:21 pm
by Tobbe
How many forums were you a member of before RZ?

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:25 pm
by Xenon
Forums? None. RaymanZone was the first forum I joined.

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:13 pm
by Tobbe
No wonder that was the first place you heard it, then...

Re: Ranks

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:10 pm
by Xenon
I first heard the term in 2006, by which time I joined many forums.

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:33 am
by Shawn
I am........MR. DARK!!
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Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:22 am
by Hunchman801
Already? I thought it would take you a week xD

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:12 am
by Holy Crap
Congrats.
Awesome sig Jman!

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:24 pm
by Joshua822
Hunchman's signature is nice to :).

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:53 pm
by Hunchman801
Yeah, made by th31 8)

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:39 pm
by Tings ffs
edit your sig Jman your boonscore is now 9 :pascontent:

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:14 pm
by Hunchman801
Why is that?

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:30 pm
by Matyuv
he abused his mod powers :pascontent:

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:03 pm
by Xenon
What's the point in having a boonscore in your signature?

Re: Ranks

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:23 pm
by Matyuv
the people who aren't boons (unlike you) are proud of their scores :)