It's not fun, on occasion. You get a lot of people who don't type coherently. And half of those who do are really, really good trolls with no intention of befriending you, and every intention of griefing you mid-match. And probably post-match, too. All the same, to cope with this Liam and I have developed a lot of inside jokes.
The most recently is SHOWERBATS, and the most distant of which was probably developing SNRK, SNRK, SNRK as an onomatopoeic sound for uppity laughter. Another pretty good ongoing one is KHEZU, which you see often-illustrated in this blog's Tag-Listing.
Let's talk about 'em. After typing this, I realize this is a terrible idea, because jokes are never funny explained, but I'm already half-invested:
"So you're sitting there. It's getting sort of late at the gym and your work-out has long concluded. You're nervous. You pan your eyes from left, to right, to left again making certain you're alone, and it would see you are. You slip out of your clothing and into a towel, tip-toeing into the showers. No sooner do you lose the towel do you notice that you're not, in fact, alone. There's that creepy guy who's been watching you work-out all day. He's bigger than you. Stronger than you. and he pins your dainty and naked frame into the tiled corners of the shower. You slump down trying to be free, but he rapes you while you're down instead."
Such is life in GetAmped 2 and this is more or less the explanation of SHOWERBATS. SHOWERBATS is a fond nickname for a pair of primitive clubs you can use as a fighting style. They're large stone bats with the ability to hit people while they're down - a useful, annoying, fatal, and quite rare ability in GetAmped 2. Its ability to rape players on the floor much akin to a shower-prowling rapist explains our gag.
KHEZU is sort of a mean joke. Or at least it is when I use it most often. Liam and I share a talkative friend who often can't take hints as to when a change in topic would be nice, and he tends to take his gaming a bit too seriously at which point he looses a colossal, extended rant. If you give him an ear you give him a mile, and suddenly he's on a podium trying to lead Deutschland. KHEZU was invented to slightly cure that. With quiet giggles. If you're not familiar with KHEZU, it's the most-awesome monster to ever grace the Monster Hunter franchise. It looks Something like a colossal uncircumcised penis crossed with an equally large leach. With legs. A ways back, I spent a good deal doodling, enjoying, and talking about Khezu. While trying to do so, our friend began to rant about games:
- "Cripes, I really hate it when people use intentionally-bad classes."
- "Oh yeah. Khezu does that all the time. He's actually really good though."
- "And fuck Sun Rings."
- "Khezu uses a set of those, too - but he's a Top Ranker, so I think he can get away with it."
Needless to say, KHEZU is not a person, nor does he exist. It just became an ongoing joke that KHEZU is perpetually-relevant. Much like fart-jokes. Or political promises from floundering candidates. There's a slight variation of this inside joke shared by Emily and I called HORNED-KID. HORNED-KID was the character of a very experienced modder in the Skyrim Community. We didn't know his character's name, but the character was an adorable small little boy with a pair of curling ram's horns. And he did everything from posing lazily chewing the end of a wheat-stalk, to charging into fights, to nursing his horns self-consciously when people asked if he were evil.
It began with "...You know who I bet is doing something awesome right now? HORNED-KID." and continued to manifest into KHEZU-like relevance. Sadly, we've seen very little work since of the modder that brought us our charming little horned child, and the joke has slowly started to grow cold...
I don't really know why I felt compelled to explain these, but I have.
Now please excuse me - I must escape to the Gym and get my cardio in.
Also Frosted Flakes? GRRRREAT! start to any morning.
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