Infrequently updated
musings vaguely inspired by my PhD project.
So they thought they could mainstream gaming, study it and lay bare all its secrets? Thought they could clean it up and make room for newcomers who would be judged on their merits alone? Well, they thought wrong ('they' often do).
As always, the old-timers find ways of remaining exclusive. As is often the case this happens by inventing slang or even entire codes that only the initiated can negotiate safely.
Leetspeek had to happen.
Here's
this blog in Leetspeek, courtesy of
The l33t Surfer.
posted by Jonas Heide Smith # 28.10.04