Boy Saves Sister from Moose Attack with Skills Learned in Warcraft Video Game

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Xeno|Soft

#21 December 14, 2007, 05:52:24 am

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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.

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Paragon

#22 December 14, 2007, 07:00:37 am

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this one time this dog looked real mean at me so i casted magic missile

edit: curses a relapse into reflex jokes

Last Edit: December 14, 2007, 07:46:03 am by Paragon

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Neophyte

#23 December 14, 2007, 07:43:46 am

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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.

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Sarhan

#24 December 14, 2007, 07:51:55 am

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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.

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Lars

#25 December 14, 2007, 11:03:51 am

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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(

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LORd

#26 December 14, 2007, 03:56:57 pm

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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

Last Edit: December 14, 2007, 07:13:53 pm by LORd

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Lars

#27 December 14, 2007, 04:14:27 pm

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LORd you are underestimating childrens ability to think abstract and convert concepts from one setting to another. They are pretty adept at that!

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thejackyl

#28 December 14, 2007, 04:59:25 pm

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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

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Verne

#29 December 14, 2007, 07:01:38 pm

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More proof that video games are evil! Oh wait...

Maybe the moose will sue Blizzard for missing a perfectly good training target!

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EvilDemonCreature

#30 December 14, 2007, 08:54:39 pm

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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.)

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#31 December 14, 2007, 09:05:46 pm

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Quote from: Mario Do'Urden on December 14, 2007, 05:43:20 am

these wow jokes rule guys

keep 'em comin'!

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

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Supra Mairo

#32 December 14, 2007, 10:07:37 pm

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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.

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TrickLobster

#33 December 14, 2007, 10:50:13 pm

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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.

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Sarah

#34 December 14, 2007, 10:55:58 pm

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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.

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jman00

#35 December 14, 2007, 11:39:15 pm

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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...

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Supra Mairo

#36 December 14, 2007, 11:56:01 pm

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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.

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Rone Rivendale

#37 December 15, 2007, 01:36:07 am

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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?

Peace and Love

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Eternal l3lue

#38 December 15, 2007, 03:51:36 am

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WoW saves a life! o.O

How did I get here? D:

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Standard Toaster

#39 December 15, 2007, 04:10:24 am

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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.

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Eltee

#40 December 15, 2007, 04:21:46 am

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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.

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