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Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Swordfish on December 13, 2007, 11:34:46 pm
heh i thought this was pretty awesome when i read it
link:Clicky (http://www.switched.com/2007/12/10/boy-saves-sister-from-moose-attack-with-skills-learned-in-warcra/)

For the lazy

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Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Grin Tree on December 13, 2007, 11:51:32 pm
Wait, so when was common sense ever acquired from a game?  He just did the most realistic thing he could have done in that situation.

Site isn't working for me, by the way.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Swordfish on December 14, 2007, 12:16:28 am
Woops, did the BB code the wrong way around.

EDIT: your right, it kinda makes kids nowadays seem stupid that they need to be taught common sense by a game.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Mince Wobley on December 14, 2007, 12:22:28 am
LOL almost sounds like it's a scene from a childrens-having-adventures movie but what were they doing in a moose infested area in first place??
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Medieve on December 14, 2007, 12:23:02 am
Since when is taunting a horned animal common sense?
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Jester on December 14, 2007, 12:30:42 am
antler'd*
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Casey and His Brother on December 14, 2007, 12:50:25 am
I'm pretty sure WoW didn't pioneer taunting and faking death so this kid is probably promoting WoW so his parents will pay for his account some more. This is still an awesome story though.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Grin Tree on December 14, 2007, 12:54:39 am
Quote from: Medieve on December 14, 2007, 12:23:02 am
Since when is taunting a horned animal common sense?

Well, obviously the kid had some balls to begin with - something a game couldn't teach you.  I don't care how many dungeons he's traversed.

But common sense would be trying to divert the animal's attention instead of attacking it.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: dragonx on December 14, 2007, 12:55:40 am
im surprised he didnt get up place a trap

seriously, wow didnt invent taunting, or faking death, but still, the kid had guts! Props to him
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: 2beers on December 14, 2007, 12:57:26 am
He should have played GTA and learned how to shoot the stupid animal.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Ragnar on December 14, 2007, 01:09:18 am
Probably someone in Lars' extended family
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Moriason on December 14, 2007, 01:10:39 am
awesome
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Beasley on December 14, 2007, 01:28:07 am
once i wnet to this farm and a boar aproched me. i stabbed it in the back a few time sand i then proceded to rip out its intestins
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Beasley on December 14, 2007, 01:29:13 am
i did this in wow once
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on December 14, 2007, 02:51:35 am
this kid is fucked up if he does something like this and his first thought is THIS IS JUST LIKE WOW
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Beasley on December 14, 2007, 03:07:04 am
Quote from: konix on December 14, 2007, 02:37:53 am
I like how when it's something positive then people are willing to admit that videogames can teach or influence people to do things, but when it's something negative then people vehemently deny any connection.

i wrote a really sarcastic argumentative reply to this, reread your post and realised i misunderstood it.

drat.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Kaempfer on December 14, 2007, 04:33:26 am
I play a lot of Soul Calibur so whenever I am attacked by wild creatures I bend over backwards and crab walk at them, then I lunge at them and explode (I play as Voldo).

I think this kid didn't so much learn how to taunt/play dead from WoW as much as it made him think it would work for sure; a lot of people wouldn't have the balls to taunt the thing and then lay down in front of it. But I guess since he saw it in a video game he was sure he could do it in real life!
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Ash on December 14, 2007, 05:34:16 am
I'm interested if he had an over the top death animation, or he just laid down on the ground.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Sludgelord on December 14, 2007, 05:43:20 am
these wow jokes rule guys  :grin:

keep 'em comin'!  :fogetbackflip:
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: The Penguin on December 14, 2007, 05:44:36 am
Wait a second.  The kid told the story.  That probably means that he exaggerated it, and probably it was like a doe that "attacked" his sister and him.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Xeno|Soft on December 14, 2007, 05:52:24 am
this reminds me of a childhood epic adventure I had in Haiti, I was walking along a narrow path in the forest with my cousin, he was 9 at the time, I was about 12. We were alone, but it was an active pathway with merchants every now and then. Far behind us a merchant with his bulls started to kreep up on us.  I'm not really sure what set one of the bulls into a fright, but it broke out from the group and started charging down the path like crazy. I was scared shitless, but I regained my senses and pushed my cousin into the forest, and the bull came back around and I ran like hell!  It followed me into the forest, but it was just to cluttred for it to travel and I escaped...I must have ran a good half mile before I even thought about stopping.

However; I don't think Final Fantasy VII had anything to with that (the game I was inlove with at the time)

My cousin even beat me home...I stayed inside for the rest of that vacation.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Paragon on December 14, 2007, 07:00:37 am
this one time this dog looked real mean at me so i casted magic missile

edit: curses a relapse into reflex jokes
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Neophyte on December 14, 2007, 07:43:46 am
Quote from: Xeno|Soft on December 14, 2007, 05:52:24 am
this reminds me of a childhood epic adventure I had in Haiti, I was walking along a narrow path in the forest with my cousin, he was 9 at the time, I was about 12. We were alone, but it was an active pathway with merchants every now and then. Far behind us a merchant with his bulls started to kreep up on us.  I'm not really sure what set one of the bulls into a fright, but it broke out from the group and started charging down the path like crazy. I was scared shitless, but I regained my senses and pushed my cousin into the forest, and the bull came back around and I ran like hell!  It followed me into the forest, but it was just to cluttred for it to travel and I escaped...I must have ran a good half mile before I even thought about stopping.

However; I don't think Final Fantasy VII had anything to with that (the game I was inlove with at the time)

My cousin even beat me home...I stayed inside for the rest of that vacation.
Dude, you should have used the "Repel monsters" potion that the merchants were carrying.

Come on now.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Sarhan on December 14, 2007, 07:51:55 am
Quote from: Paragon on December 14, 2007, 07:00:37 am
this one time this dog looked real mean at me so i casted magic missile

edit: curses a relapse into reflex jokes

Funniest joke so far.

As for the kid, I think most people would have done the same in his situation. I know I'd have tried to grab his attention. I probably wouldn't have faked death out of fear though. The first thing to come to my mind would probably be "oh shit run!" and that's what I would have done. It probably wouldn't have ended well, due to the difference in speed and all.

Then again, I could cast haste.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Lars on December 14, 2007, 11:03:51 am
For all you nay-sayers out there, sure playing dead and taunting an attacking animal to avoid it hitting another target might be common sense to anyone who has learned this. Especially if you're in areas that have a lot of wild animals and you're required to learn stuff like this. I've met moose a few times in the woods nearby and when you do see them, you don't think "ok what's common sense to do right now?". When I was a kid and encountered them I'd mostly just stand there wondering what the fuck I'm supposed to do, or try to run away.

The stuff this kid knows might not be invented by WoW, but the fact is that WoW made it part of his routine when encounteering "creeps", or wild animals. He had gone through the simulation countless times and knew what he had to do in order to make it change targets and how to make it lose interest in himself, because that's what he's been doing for 50+ hours in a game. It might be common sense, but if you've gone through a simulation you're able to think clearly about what you're supposed to do in a similar situation. That's why we're taught over and over again how to approach situations of fire and similar incidents. I mean come on... >8(
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: LORd on December 14, 2007, 03:56:57 pm
Wait wait wait. Does WoW really have situations like this? Granted, I can appreciate the usefulness of a taunt ability to draw monsters away from weaker party members and the play dead skill to dissuade the beast's interest in the wonderful world of MMORPGs, but this is enacted on a computer screen with armored cartoon bull-men and giant scaled lizards, not in front of your eyes with your little sister and a fierce moose. You maintain that he made the connection? That just conjures up the absurd image of him trying to remember that move the funny little animated guy does when you click the Taunt button.

Imo the article seems pretty retarded. I'm guessing he just learned the trick somewhere and decided to recount the story to his parents through WoW parallels and the reporter ate it up.

Ps: I would appreciate it if you could cut down on the one-liner wow joke posts please
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Lars on December 14, 2007, 04:14:27 pm
LORd you are underestimating childrens ability to think abstract and convert concepts from one setting to another. They are pretty adept at that!
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: thejackyl on December 14, 2007, 04:59:25 pm
since when are simple thing like Taunting and playing dead learned from video games?

Seriously, playing dead is one of the first things you're supposed to do when attacked by an animal, and the taunting was so he could save his sister (who had less chance of surviving a moose attack, maybe)

Seriously, did the kid actually SAY he learned the moves from WoW, or do we have somebody equal to Jack Thompson in retarded-ness supporting Video Games?

Either way, someones a dumbass
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Verne on December 14, 2007, 07:01:38 pm
More proof that video games are evil! Oh wait...

Maybe the moose will sue Blizzard for missing a perfectly good training target!
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: EvilDemonCreature on December 14, 2007, 08:54:39 pm
Eh, when it comes to handling animals in the wild, nothing beats the experience gained by watching a bunch of episodes of the Dog Whisperer. (You just have to make sure not to assert dominance on anything that can gore you.)
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: big ass skelly on December 14, 2007, 09:05:46 pm
Quote from: Mario Do'Urden on December 14, 2007, 05:43:20 am
these wow jokes rule guys  :grin:

keep 'em comin'!  :fogetbackflip:
Did you delete a lot of these wow-joke posts in this wow-related thread

because if not there was like one :fogetbackfliop:


Also:


the kids a noob lol if that was my sister I'd have pulled the thing with Misdirection on her HAHA
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Supra Mairo on December 14, 2007, 10:07:37 pm
This sorta stuff is taught in like elementary schools and prolly at homes too. If there's a bear or whatever and you can't run away, your best bet is to play dead. I'd say the same can be applied to mooses etc.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: TrickLobster on December 14, 2007, 10:50:13 pm
Quote from: The Penguin on December 14, 2007, 05:44:36 am
Wait a second.  The kid told the story.  That probably means that he exaggerated it, and probably it was like a doe that "attacked" his sister and him.

and in WOW doe's are neutral and don't aggro! THIS EXPLAINS IT. LIES.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Sarah on December 14, 2007, 10:55:58 pm
Quote from: Supra Mairo on December 14, 2007, 10:07:37 pm
This sorta stuff is taught in like elementary schools and prolly at homes too. If there's a bear or whatever and you can't run away, your best bet is to play dead. I'd say the same can be applied to mooses etc.
I don't know where you live but even here in Canada they don't often teach us DEALIN' WITH MOOSE 101.

The kid took a big risk and got lucky, that's all.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: jman00 on December 14, 2007, 11:39:15 pm
God, I almost ran into a Moose in the car in the middle of the night, that was a night I'll never forget, I was sleepin' and fell out of the seat when it happened, my mom and my aunt told me it was a fuckin' moose... >>;

But as for this, wow... just wow...
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Supra Mairo on December 14, 2007, 11:56:01 pm
Quote from: Myke on December 14, 2007, 10:55:58 pm
I don't know where you live but even here in Canada they don't often teach us DEALIN' WITH MOOSE 101.

The kid took a big risk and got lucky, that's all.
Well I don't know if you live in some big city or just a city, but if you live in some backwaters town in the middle of nowhere then this shit is pretty mandatory to know.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Rone Rivendale on December 15, 2007, 01:36:07 am
Too much attention to the video game tie in, and not enough attention to the fact that this kid is a Grade A Hero.

Honestly, how many of us would be willing to risk our lives to save another?
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Eternal l3lue on December 15, 2007, 03:51:36 am
WoW saves a life! o.O
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Standard Toaster on December 15, 2007, 04:10:24 am
Quote from: Eternal l3lue on December 15, 2007, 03:51:36 am
WoW saves a life! o.O
replying to l3lue-post.


Also it doesn't really matter if wow invented those things or not, the fact that he learned those things from wow does.



Or was LORd said.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Eltee on December 15, 2007, 04:21:46 am
Shit, hide your scrabbles.


If you take out the fact the kid claims to have learnt this from WoW, I would say he is my hero.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Farren on December 15, 2007, 07:19:30 pm
I hope he runs into a bear and tries that shit.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Lars on December 15, 2007, 07:32:24 pm
Quote from: Harry Manback on December 15, 2007, 07:19:30 pm
I hope he runs into a bear and tries that shit.
I hope he runs into a serial killer/child molester and tries that shit.

...????  :fogetshifty:

i dont there are too many bears in norway these days tho
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: DeltaHybrid on December 16, 2007, 06:09:57 am
I wouldn't want to party with him, damn kid draws too much aggro.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Jayce on December 16, 2007, 05:51:23 pm
Provided these new 'skills' learned don't encourage him to go into the woods and slaughter animals/people in order to level-up, I'll sleep easy.

I did it, I killed ManBearPig
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Bujiro on December 16, 2007, 08:32:57 pm
Quote from: Grin Tree on December 13, 2007, 11:51:32 pm
Wait, so when was common sense ever acquired from a game?  He just did the most realistic thing he could have done in that situation.
I agree, people should know shit like this, and not have to learn it from a video game.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Craze /!\ on December 16, 2007, 09:16:20 pm
Okay guys, stop repeating each other. It's kind of annoying!

Anyway, I think that this is pretty cool. The whole "taught by WoW" thing doesn't make me like videogames any more than before (lol rhyme) but hey: it possibly saved his/his sister's life. That thar's deserving of some kudos.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: UPRC on December 16, 2007, 09:23:41 pm
Quote from: Myke on December 14, 2007, 10:55:58 pm
I don't know where you live but even here in Canada they don't often teach us DEALIN' WITH MOOSE 101.

The kid took a big risk and got lucky, that's all.

GTFO.... of Ontario.

You learn things like this when it's around you. :fogetrite:
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: JakeyZombie on December 16, 2007, 11:25:26 pm
I didn't know that a moose could be so dangerous.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: EvilDemonCreature on December 17, 2007, 02:15:06 am
Quote from: JakeyZombie on December 16, 2007, 11:25:26 pm
I didn't know that a moose could be so dangerous.

Yeah, turns out moose are nothing like elephants in that respect.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Eltee on December 17, 2007, 05:48:34 am
Obviously whenever you meet a huge fucking animal, you always have the chance of being rammed to death by it.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: hero_bash on December 17, 2007, 06:46:25 am
I hope he would be shouting a skill name and performing it in front of the moose
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: LORd on December 17, 2007, 02:31:40 pm
Quote from: Harry Manback on December 15, 2007, 07:19:30 pm
I hope he runs into a bear and tries that shit.
Wait, isn't this also what you're supposed to do on a run-in with a bear?

And Lars that may be! I myself find the translation absurd, but perhaps I've just lost that gleaming shine of innocence. I just hope he's not going to pick up similar things from other games where he may have gotten lucky with WoW.

Ps. NP what did your post mean the beginning in particular was somewhat esoterically worded.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Farren on December 20, 2007, 07:40:12 am
No damnit, you don't taunt a fucking bear

bears don't take no shit and if you taunt them and play dead they will re-kill you.

Fucking mooses are dumb, they're like the cows of the forest. And anyone that fakes death to get away from a cow is a fucking pussy.
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: LORd on December 20, 2007, 08:06:37 am
Oh yeah sorry, taunting bears is definitely a bad idea, but I was taught in primary school that playing dead is the best way to evade a bear. this was actually the first time I heard it could be applied to moose as well!
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: Dragon Fell on December 20, 2007, 09:51:38 am
I knew I should've learnt that before I went into the woods...

I think you'd be stuffed if the Bear knew you were faking it...
Title: Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game
Post by: FQGamer on December 23, 2007, 06:14:53 pm
take that jack thompson