In a comment to the previous post, Razor wrote “IM IN UR P00TER PLAYIN WIF UR BITSEZ”. After I’d written the last post, it occurred to me that while I was very familiar with this meme seeing as it crops up in just about every internet gaming forum imaginable in one form or another, I didn’t know where it originally came from. T’interweb to the rescue.

Rather than being another MMO related term, it actually comes from multiplayer RTS games (reportedly Starcraft but possibly also from Command and Conquer or Red Alert) and is a message sent from player A to player B when player A is destroying player B’s base while player B is ignorant of the fact. The message purportedly goes “I am in your base killing your d00ds” or suchlike. The Encyclopedia Dramatica (CBA2L) goes onto elaborate:

This line can be used in many situations. You can use it to tell your friend that you are fucking his wife, to tell a convenience store clerk he is being robbed, or to your colon right before you shove your severed cock up your own rectum.

Coffee. All over keyboard.

If you look around the lolinternet, you’ll probably come across quite a lot of these sayings in one form or another, especially photoshopped pictures of kittens. The one below tickles me though: