How do you pronounce PWN?
Me? Pone. But I have no idea if I totally made that up or if it's how it's supposed to be pronounced.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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amych - Jun 08, 2011 7:38:57 am PDT #11644 of 26134
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2011 7:42:09 am PDT #11645 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's how I pronounce it too.
sj - Jun 08, 2011 7:48:13 am PDT #11646 of 26134
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That's how I pronounce it too.
Me too.
Rayne - Jun 08, 2011 9:22:33 am PDT #11647 of 26134
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I used to pronounce it Pawn in my head, but got mercilessly made fun of when I said it out loud, so yeah, I'm going with Pone now.
-t - Jun 08, 2011 9:52:47 am PDT #11648 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I say it as if the w were a u with an umlaut, sort of, with a little bit of a 'wuh' in there, but only inside my head where no one else can hear.
Laga - Jun 08, 2011 11:21:00 am PDT #11649 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
In my head, it's "poon" but whenever I go to say it out loud it turns into "own".
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 08, 2011 11:04:42 pm PDT #11650 of 26134
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
From a little while ago...
Pete (Husband of Jilli), do you play Magic, and if so, do you have a self-themed deck with Unhinged cards like this one? [link]
Nope, I started playing with Alpha, stopped playing with Fallen Empires, and finally quit collecting around the time of Invasion.
I quit playing CCGs because I was lousy at deck construction and spent an inordinate amount of time deck building only to see them crushed by my opponents. So, not so much fun.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 08, 2011 11:05:30 pm PDT #11651 of 26134
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Yes, PWN rhymes with own. That's kind of the point.
ThomasW - Jun 09, 2011 1:36:33 pm PDT #11652 of 26134
Anything for a weird life.
Started at Alpha. Hmm ... I don't suppose you still have any of those cards, do you? :D
What kinds of decks did you make? Silly combo things that just weren't consistent enough to be workable? Or just aggro decks that had the mana curve wrong somehow?
(Sorry, I'm a huge Magic nerd and I like to know things, thus all the questions. Feel free to tell me to settle down if I get irritating.)
Also, Nth-ing "pwn" rhyming with "own", as that's what it came from.
megan walker - Jun 09, 2011 8:58:52 pm PDT #11653 of 26134
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Loved Magic back in the day. Oddly enough, although I never took it very seriously, the fact that I have a complete Revised set still makes me inordinately happy.