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General: Boy Saves Sister Using WoW Skills
Szark
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A twelve year old Norwegian boy says he saved himself and his sister from an encounter with a cantankerous moose by using techniques inspired by World of Warcraft.
This 12 year-old Norwegian boy saved his sister and himself from a moose attack using skills he picked up in the online role playing game 'World of Warcraft.'
Hans Jørgen Olsen and his sister got into a spot of trouble when they encroached on the territory of one of these antlered cold weather staples (otherwise known as a moose). When the beast went on the offensive, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was taunt it so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. "Taunting" is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.
Once he was a target, Hans remember another skill he'd picked up at level 30 in 'World of Warcraft' -- he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate Hans and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.
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You made me smile with this, thanks.
So far day is off to a good start...
Yeah I read this yesterday. Simply hillarious.
And they say video games aren't good for you? Pshh.
LMFAO!!!!
That is classic
Countdown for a wow hater to post how wow didnt invent feign death or taunting and "x" game did it better anyways.
You're so wrong... "X" game never had a feign death move...
If only he played Tabula Rosa or Planetside, they would have had fresh moose meat all winter
That's one brave little boy putting himsefl in direct danger to save his sister. Cheers
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Isn't it common sense though?
Real news is hard to come by these days.
Finally a positive mmo news story. Grats Hans!
The kid's a noob...everyone knows you stun-lock the damn thing and then vanish.
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Hopefully Jack Thompson doesn't hear about this. There may be another lawsuit against games since now they are putting people in RL danger from moose, the boy using the WoW skills could have been seriously injured or even killed due to the game company's negligence. I'm sure there's another lawsuit in there somewhere.
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Good thing he used feign death from WoW and not from EQ1 or EQ2. If it were from EQ, there is a good chance it would have failed!
The Norse gods were proud this day!
Such BS PR. I bet this boy was paid to say this, if not how stupid of a story. Can you imagine this young boy talking to a reporter then saying I learned how to taunt from WOW that got it away from my sister then I feigned death.
Give me a break.
Why didn't he just shadowmeld and aim shot, followed by a concussive shot? Oh right, RL nerfed the shadowmeld-aim shot combo.
His sister must have been a really bad priest forcing him to feign death! Better heals from her next time.
That was friggin funny, thank you!
Guys at MMORPG, are you idiots or something? You really mess your reputation by posting not just AOL News but such a lame stupid ridiculous ones. Did Blizzard pay you too? Geez.. World is full of fools.
People have known to do this for millennia out of, hmm I don’t know, common sense, now it takes a video game to teach people to distract an animal from someone you feel obligated to protect, and to play dead to get it to leave you alone.
but cynicism aside, kudos to the kid for having the intestinal fortitude to make a half ton animal aggro him.
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i wish it was that easy in the usa to make up some crud story and make the news.... oh wait! you can!!
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That's the stupidest article I've seen in a long time. I'm speechless.
Since when is common sense common, especially in the mmo world.
Anyways, it's great both them are alright.
-Unshra
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