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It's been 12 years since one of the defining pieces of internet culture came to light.
Back in May 2005, a video was uploaded to World of Warcraft fansite Warcraft Movies. The video featured a guild of WoW players about to enter a dangerous area, discussing strategies, calculating percentages and generally taking the whole thing quite seriously.
Then out of nowhere comes Leeroy Jenkins. Who is Leeroy Jenkins? Leeroy Jenkins is a maverick, a loose cannon, a force of nature. While his compatriots are crunching numbers and plotting their next move, Leeroy shouts out his own name and charges into the fore.
His fellow players, momentarily stunned, decide to run in after him, and everything goes to pot. And so, an internet legend was born.
Honestly, if you've never seen Leeroy Jenkins, you need to correct this right away. If you've already seen Leeroy Jenkins, why not relive the magic of one of the internet's earliest gems?
Now it's worth mentioning that this isn't the original video; that has been lost to the corridors of WoW cyberspace. Nor is it even the first YouTube version - that one is sitting on over 46 million views, but we like HD, so we're giving you HD... or something close to it.
It doesn't matter what definition you're watching Leeroy Jenkins in, though. What matters is that you have your sound on and that you wait for it. It's so worth it.
Hard to believe it's been 12 years.
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Ah yes. I saw people talking about celebrating this yesterday. I'm kind of surprised how big its all become. I always looked at it as just another funny internet video, but for a lot of people it seems to define something much bigger.
I don't really get it, but no matter how tired this becomes I still find it chuckle worthy.
I have done some DDO raids and Star Wars Galaxie Raids with large groups that went bad due to some donkey-cave bum rushing at some point and drawing mega aggro. This blows those all away! Even if it is staged.
There's a Cleric in my Neverwinter guild, and her spirit animal is indeed Leroy Jenkins. She rushes ahead, draws all the aggro, and somehow manages to debuff all the enemies to the point of being able to just kill them herself with little effort.
Oh yeah, she heals too, on the occasion she remembers where the rest of the party is.
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LordofHats wrote: Ah yes. I saw people talking about celebrating this yesterday. I'm kind of surprised how big its all become. I always looked at it as just another funny internet video, but for a lot of people it seems to define something much bigger.
I don't really get it, but no matter how tired this becomes I still find it chuckle worthy.
Leeroy Jenkins was the video that expanded beyond just WoW players; even people who didn't play the game found it hilarious. While it may seem a strange thought now, when Leeroy first hit WoW was pretty much unknown beyond PC gamers. It's also a video that really helped put youtube on the map (another strange thought, I know).
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I think you're right. I use youtube so much these days I forget that way back in 2005 it was still this totally new thing.
I did just recently learn the YouTube started out as a model for a dating site but couldn't get any users so the people running it just posted videos of their cats, spawning an entire generation of internet memes XD
I was quietly relieved that at least some of the undergrads were at least somewhat aware of this.
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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I always felt the "Many Whelps" craze was funnier than Leroy, but Leroy was funnier for the average citizen non-gamer. Whereas 'Many Whelps' was kind of frightening if you didn't know how hardcore some people were in the early WoW raids*.
Leroy even made it to Hollywood. It got a reference by Mclovin in a deleted scene from the Year One movie.
Spoiler:
*offtopic, but Haven't played the game since the xpac with Arthas, but it definitely seemed like raiding was getting less hardcore the further the game went on. Thats my observation at least. It was probably me just falling out of love with the game, though.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Leeroy Jenkings was the Avatar of the movement of making Videogames "mainstream"
They should teach him in history class.
kronk wrote: I have done some DDO raids and Star Wars Galaxie Raids with large groups that went bad due to some donkey-cave bum rushing at some point and drawing mega aggro. This blows those all away! Even if it is staged.
If I remember correctly, the video was a recreation of a real event that happened without previous preparation.
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Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
ERJAK wrote: Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.
Couldnt breathe when I first saw this, was a brilliant piece of craziness.
Even friends who hadnt got a clue what warcraft was or what the actual mechanics were thought it was funny.
Kudos leeroy and crew.
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Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
Ratius wrote: Couldnt breathe when I first saw this, was a brilliant piece of craziness.
Even friends who hadnt got a clue what warcraft was or what the actual mechanics were thought it was funny.
Kudos leeroy and crew.
Yeah, I was never into WoW, but when I first saw this vid I was in tears I was laughing so hard. Something about all that planning that was taking place amongst a group of people set on a difficult task just torn to shreds by a dude who didn't give a feth and just wanted some action. Plus the voice he used was just too much.
I think when this video hit, a bunch of my friends/Co-workers were losing themselves in the WoW world. Like they'd be at work everyday as zombies because they didn't get any sleep because they were up playing WoW night after night after night. So the Leeroy Jenkins bid hit at just the right time, when people were taking this game way too seriously.
Agreed, it kind of defined the warcraft era at the time. Even uploading to video sites was in its infancy at that stage. Had youtube even been launched in 2005?
Was a fun period of gaming for me.
Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
I always liked how the video was a double parody: making fun of the brainless, impatient idiot who rushes in and ruins everything for everybody, and also making fun of the over cautious people who over-plan the hell out of everything.
"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds: Fire, walk with me." - Twin Peaks
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Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
ERJAK wrote: Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.
nels1031 wrote: I always felt the "Many Whelps" craze was funnier than Leroy, but Leroy was funnier for the average citizen non-gamer. Whereas 'Many Whelps' was kind of frightening if you didn't know how hardcore some people were in the early WoW raids*.
Leroy even made it to Hollywood. It got a reference by Mclovin in a deleted scene from the Year One movie.
Spoiler:
*offtopic, but Haven't played the game since the xpac with Arthas, but it definitely seemed like raiding was getting less hardcore the further the game went on. Thats my observation at least. It was probably me just falling out of love with the game, though.
Many whelps was pretty dam funny but less so to non-WoWers. Leeroy has a number of snippets for WoW players at the time ('it'll help him heal better he'll have more mana') but the core was just so dam funny to anyone.
Wow... I was only 5 years old when all this was already happening. You guys are so ancient. Just like World of Warcraft. It is hard to comprehend that it is that old, that people were already playing it when I had just learned to walk...
Easy E wrote: Twelve Years! How long ago was ... "Until I took an arrow to the knee?"
6 years in december. Oh boy, how time flyes!
Time flies? Nah, Skyrim has been around since like forever.
I remember the day it came out. I was such a completely different person back then, it seems like an entirely different life.
Always found it interesting how computer games could sometimes define an era/period of your life.
Like I remember the old Megadrive/SNES pre secondary school, Amiga days starting secondary school, then the N64 around late secondary/early college, WoW and online gaming when I started my first job etc.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And all of the memorable games that went with them.
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Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
Ratius wrote: Always found it interesting how computer games could sometimes define an era/period of your life.
Like I remember the old Megadrive/SNES pre secondary school, Amiga days starting secondary school, then the N64 around late secondary/early college, WoW and online gaming when I started my first job etc.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And all of the memorable games that went with them.
For me, Golden Eye on N64 and Rome: Total War have to be yp there. I can't think of other games I spent more time with, though Skyrim might have come close. Me and my roommates just played the crap out of Golden Eye in my college days, and then after school I spent (wasted?) untold hours of my life on Rome: Total War and the fan expansion Europa Barbarorum.
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Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
ERJAK wrote: Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.
The kids showed me the Leeroy bit. Yea that was awesome.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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