A Few (Really) Good Men: Guide to Ashdod

[WraithLord]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Interesting note:

The Israeli port city of Ashdod was attacked today. (According to AP).
And there is an all girl band named... Nehalim.


Synedoche... weird eh?

Great guide.

I find it amazing that this city stands for more than 3000 years. Still bearing the same name. After being razed and rebuilt numerous times.

[WraithLord]

Oh and your quote really tugs at my memory (I'm now in house of chains). I remember finding Q. Ben's encounter with the crazy duo quite witty and humorous. Can you please translate it to english?
I refer to this:
Bauchelain - "Qwik Ben iz uzin wallhax! HAX!"
Quick Ben - "lol pwned"

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by WraithLord

Oh and your quote really tugs at my memory (I'm now in house of chains). I remember finding Q. Ben's encounter with the crazy duo quite witty and humorous. Can you please translate it to english?
I refer to this:
Bauchelain - "Qwik Ben iz uzin wallhax! HAX!"
Quick Ben - "lol pwned"

Oh! Leet-speak is just mangled English used by adolescents and hackers. "Wall hacks" in first-person shooters like Quake let someone move through walls to attack from unexpected directions. "pwn" means to "own" someone completely, as in, have complete mastery over. LOL stands for "laugh out loud."

The joke is to trivialize QB and Bauchelain's encounter. Does that "translation" help?

-Max

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

The joke is to trivialize QB and Bauchelain's encounter. Does that "translation" help?

I think he didn't want explanation of leet-speak, but to know how the discussion went in English. If WraithLord didn't, I do!
I haven't read Memories of Ice or any Eriksson, but I've liked that quote for a long time. Whatever it was, it must've been good, because it was 1) translated and 2) even the translation sounds great.