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The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins

westword.com — The local free newspaper for the Denver area The Westword has posted a great little article that discusses a little about the phenomena from World of Warcraft known as Leeroy Jenkins. If you ever wondered who the person really is, and were ever at all curious this article will go a long way.

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  • holzp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Better title:

    The Anti-legend of Ben Schultz

    "Ben is sitting in the cramped, chatchke-filled back room of the house where he grew up in Lafayette, laboring away at World of Warcraft on his mom's Dell computer -- trouncing a spike-bedecked thug named Talon King Isis, obliterating the walking undead to collect their Ghostly Essence -- to take his hitherto Level 60 character to Level 70 as quickly as possible...
    ...when then 24-year-old Ben and his teammates in the World of Warcraft guild PALS FOR LIFE first posted "A Rough Go" on WarcraftMovies.com. "
    • GregLoire, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The real Leeroy actually works in pyrotechnics.
    • rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Everytime I used to run UBRS I'd get all tingly inside.
    • TheBrandman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8They spelled tchotchke wrong. I don't mean to be a grammar Nazi (especially not on a Yiddish word) but that's not even close.
    • SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yeah, definitely a ***** article.
      "Yes," Gogger says. "I have watched the video that gave him his fame."
      I like how the author just makes up quotes, like that one. No one would really say anything like that. What is this, Engrish 101?
    • lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"I'm a reporter," I explain. "Have you heard of Leeroy Jenkins?"

      "Yes," Gogger says. "I have watched the video that gave him his fame."


      So.... I hate to call shenanigans on such a finely written article, but can you really imagine the average WoW player answering in such a polite way? Or would it be something like. "LoLLers!!! PWNED!!!"
    • ArchonSG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think most of you guys who say that this is old or fake are just missing the point. That the events in the video was faked made it all the funnier if you take the time to listen what was being said at the time. "33.2% repeating of course, chance of survival..." said it all. It was a stab at all the people taking the game too seriously and forgetting that the game like everything else in it should be played because you find it fun to do so.
      Leeroy Jenkin's role pretty much portayed what everyone one of us wanted to do on raids like this, screw it all and lets do it already! :)
    • AstralAutomaton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You mean there are people who don't get that the video was satire?
    • CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know, but some people are pretty weird on WoW, grammar tends to go out the window.
  • mdfrancois, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!
    • Lyph4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Least I got chicken.
    • friedcalamari, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'm coming up with 32.3 uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival. Christ!
    • Rcdriver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Omg he just ran in...
    • rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dammit Leroy...
    • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1u forgot... JEENNNNKINNNSSSSS!
    • goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4STICK TO THE PLAN! STICK TO THE PLAN!!
  • chickenselects, on 10/12/2007, -28/+3WoW is for little girls, play vanguard if you have any skill.
    • ThinkingHurts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34@ chickenselects "WoW is for little girls"

      Untrue!! A majority of the hot cartoon female charcters are played by 30+ year old over weight balding hairy men who /dance and /kiss there way to my gold


  • thumperings, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Great article !.... If it were 2003
  • DreamVsPs2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I thought he was a fat little kid. LOL
    • sergeantmudd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I thought Leeroy Jenkins was the name of that homeless black guy that's goes by the alias Chuck Norris and gets arrested three times a week. I've never played WoW, I was hoping some omnipotent character in that universe was modeled off his ways
  • Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8His 15 minutes were over long ago.

    If this is the real guy.....
  • bouche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I dunno why, but that was really funny when I first saw it. I guess it's because of the time and effort gone into planning the assault blown apart by Leroy Jenkins.
  • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He made Wow popular? Are you kidding me? It was already popular even before he came.
    Article is pretty bias...
    • jedicor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You missed the point of the 'made popular' comment. It made World of Warcraft a noticeable entity to things it would otherwise have most likely been ignored by. Jeopardy (albeit the College version) had a question about LJ on it, news stations are doing stories on it. That one video created more WoW-centric publicity than most anything else in the game universe.

      And as for the article, it is pretty fair. It's written from an outsider's perspective of an investigation into this huge world-wide phenomenon of the character from the video. It's pretty clear that the reporter is totally inexperienced with online gaming, but his true purpose is to find out how the video affects other people and how they saw the environment change as a result of it, not to investigate the nature of WoW itself. Read from a gamer's perspective, it's fairly dry, yes. However, this was written for the general audience, not necessarily the gamer. This is an insight for them to see how little things like that affect the whole gaming world, and even some of the real world.
  • Silt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0The most amazing thing about the entire Leeroy Jenkins was how many of the kiddies in the WoW world jumped on the "Leeroy is a superstar bandwagon." Jesus Christ, it seemed like every other post on the WoW forums was about this event and you had damn near every tard on both servers I played on yelling it in game. It was like they idolized the guy or something. Pretty damn sad it was...even sadder people still talk about it.

    Course...Leeroy did make it on Jeopardy as question/answer....maybe he was a superstar.
  • mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty good article... It's cool to see how much this thing actually affected his life... and to see a story behind the character.

    Also, it's kind of interesting... he's a rock star in the game, a nobody outside...
    • Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"a nobody outside..."

      I don't think his family and friends would agree with that. "A nobody" sounds a little harsh. Maybe "virtually unknown" would be more apt.
    • mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Szandor
      You're right... poor choice of words on my part.
  • DarkReign16, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13My neighbor by a similar name (Leroy Johnson) had sex with my neighbors lamb. When he was caught in the act by our neighbor, he simply said, "okay, you caught me, I'm just tryin' to ***** your sheep".

    He was talked about on Leno, Conan, etc. From time to time I have premium lamb chops delivered to his doorstep.
    • mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2as one who apparently lives around sheep, can you answer a question for me?

      ...are they really that attractive? i'm just wondering, because it seems that in our entire civilization's history there have been more sheep-***** jokes than probably anything else.
  • silent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"To even begin to understand "A Rough Go," Shakespeare would first have to wrap his mind around the concept of "machinima," the emerging form of filmmaking in which movies are created entirely inside video games."

    This article... This is how jokes get ruined.
    Are you kidding me?

    At the time of the video there were millions of people running UBRS OVER and OVER and OVER.
    It was a joke... it WAS funny to the people who played the game.
  • jlbraun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4The greatest part about the video and this guy's celebrity... is that it was all faked by Pals For Life.

    http://www.gamegrene.com/node/496

    I thought it was faked before I read some of the analyses, the tone of voice of the players gives it all away.

    I don't play WoW, but I found out about the hoax soon after I saw the video.

  • Smalldude76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2PTD magazine did an interview with him a while back too for those interested:
    http://ptdmagazine.com/2006/features/ptd-interviews-leeroy-jenkins/
  • nurbed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0haha... i'm on a different server than leeroy, but one of his real life friends was in the guild i was in. last summer leeroy visited his house and popped onto our ventrilo to say hi and do the line for us. we said that he had blessed our AQ20 run. it's funny how such a geeky thing can impress us. :D
  • cbergeron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Alright Chumps, LET'S DO THIS !

    LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY JJJJJJJEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRNNNNNNNKKKIIIIIIIINNNNNS!
  • SP420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very well written article. Of course it's the usual reporter who is not quite in tune with the gaming culture, but he does a good job of relaying the pertinent information to us. The way he describes his time in the game doesn't make it feel like some silly video game, but a legitimate world that 8.5 million people have delved into and continue to.
  • Dustin00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Laughing Skull is going to hate this article.
  • davodavo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"A character named "Leeroy's Apprentice" wanted to hang out with Leeroy in the game -- all the time. "He was kind of crazy," says Ben nervously, before quickly switching the subject."
    I wasn't aware you could have 19 characters in your name. Didn't know you could have spaces, either.
    • eviscerator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it might just be possible that the reporter is using information gained from a normal interview with Ben, and since it's been stated many times already, the reporter doesn't know anything about the game, he wouldn't know about what characters were allowed in names and those that weren't...
  • rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i hate role playing games but this was fun to watch.
  • Brewin1100, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This article reminds me of why I stay away from WoW. :)
  • oemguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Leroy Jenkins is very famous in Ohio as a "born-a-again" type preacher who got in various troubles over the years. Sort of like Jim Baker.
  • badken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Leeroy Jenkins is only a legend in his own mind.
    • Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Except for digg, WoW, howard stern, spike tv, conan, etc....
  • Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I always thought he said "At least I ain't chicken."
    • k1down, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He did say that. This article is retarded. Buried.
  • Sjfireworks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1who here actually read all 6 pages
  • havesometea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Faked or not it was funny. I laugh every time I see it
  • theboozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That video is the axis between all that is good and bad in the world of nerddom. Leeroy Jenkins is the patron saint of 'Shut up and just play.'
  • chubbybubba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This has got to be the saddest thing I have ever read.
  • bortis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Leeroy Jenkins once sowed a pair of socks from pubic hair collected from underneath the benches of his backyard observatory. Nice!

  • Nightfire117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a look at the true leeroy. awsome
  • DracoLord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, that article took a depressing turn in the last two pages.
  • katbytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"omg, he just ran in - oh jees, keep it clean!"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
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