Actually; for the record; I hate leetspeak used in any non-comedic sense; and am an RP type person.
However; in the defense of RP people; liking RP in no way means you can't enjoy pvp <^,~> I <3 PVP; and if you look at WoW; so do a great many people there; just before I quit that game (the devs... really ticked me off in some ways) they added several RP PVP servers.
So... just as a thing; just because you like/hate leetspeak, or like/dislike pvp; has no bearing on you liking/disliking RP in my experience.
I think leet is only a problem in the context of serious discussion; like, where meaningful information needs to be exchanged.
Ex: Your team is dead on the floor and someone is comming back, you wish to remind them to get awakens for everyone.
'Hey; could you bring us some awakes please?" (I'm nitpicky about shorthand too... 'hey cud u get sum awakes plz' bugs me as well >.>
Or
"d00d g3t sum 4\/\/4K3NZ plzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!111111111111"
>.> I prefer the first.
I guess its just a matter of context to me; like when its acceptable to use the f' word in conversation; things like that. I dunno <o.O>
Then again, I'm an english major and I took Semantics a year ago... if you want to spend 3 days discussing the word 'just' as used in various contexts, thats an incredible class. >.> (Actually it was fun; our professor tossed a garbage can and other things when getting empathic about a point; neat guy.)
So its possible that my view on all this is extremely skewed >.>; But hey, skewing makes neat line effects in photoshop; so somehow that applies to this and we're all ok. <. .>m
Oh; and '1 w1l1 pwn u in p\/p d00dz' err... that is all <. .> lol >.> (sorry!) <-- has all the l33t skillz of uhm... something without them... uhm... ... ...
<leaves the thread while people stare awkwardly>
1337 has been around for far longer than most think.. it predates instant messaging and was mainly used by hard core hackers (again back when a hacker was a programmer not a malicious cracker the correct term for them). My friend was a programmer towards the end of the hacker/1337 era when AIMers took it over and combined it with chat-speak to type things in the shortest amount of time. This is when 1337 became over used and seen as idiotic. Someone in this thread referred to it as a Cant and i believe that's what i was originally used for by "true" hackers.... unfortunately it's been tainted to be a method used mostly by egotistical power-gamers to try and look special... 'course they fail utterly in that but hey at least you know to bail from a group when you see someone utter it
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