The guys below are playing World of Warcraft. For those who have never played, a large team of players are co-operating as a team, online, communicating by microphones.
Everybody is taking it deadly seriously, just like a real combat operation in, say, Iraq.
They spend years building up their players, its very addicitive. People play 9 hours per day. And consequently, their characters become as valuable as real life people to them, so minimising casualties is as real to these people, as it would be in a real life scenario, where a single lost soldier is a disaster.
You begin by seeing them discussing a highly detailed battle plan using various players acting in a precise order to launch individual sorties to drain their opponents' strength before any major engagement, in the room, they are planning on entering, and try to assess the mathematical odds of various outcomes depending on weapons strategies.
Then one 'loose cannon' who has obvioulsy been locked in his room, smoking [a lot] of something for a long time and has a bad case of the munchies suddenly cuts into the commanders plan of attack mid-sentence, and just runs in screaming his own name, like a banzai warrior, at the top of his voice.
LEEROYYYYY JENKINS!!!!!
Theres a pause, then the rest of them suddenly realise what's happening, and try to save him.
It's chaos; its a bloodbath. They are all hacked to death. Everybody dies. Nobody makes it out.
When everybody bollock5 him at the end, he retaliates with the immortal line, 'huh, least I have chicken' before signing off for good.
[video=youtube;LkCNJRfSZBU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU[/video]
This video has become a cult phenomonen, and had over 36 million hits......:Wow:
