WOOT OFF

[Chili]

It's on like Donkey Kong.

[thekahoona]

damn!  i missed the bag o' crap!

[spiral97]

yeah me too.. and I caught it just as the server crashed so my click went unheard...
lots of speculation of whether the BOC was the last item or not because the blog contains two more items after the BOC (ladies seiko watch and hitachi cordless drill) but at the same time the lights aren't flashing anymore.  Ahh well.. methinks the server crashed so hard they had to terminate the woot off a bit early (quickest woot-off in history I think).

[thekahoona]

fyi - just got the inside scoop...(75% accuracy) -- woot off set for tomorrow (friday, october 5th)

[dwaderoy2004]

did you happen to get the scoop from here?

http://www.woot.com/special.aspx?k=vipzune

[Chili]

perfect for a friday.

[spiral97]

It's on again like a chicken bone!

[77ncaachamps]

SOLD OUT...



BTW, I've heard some good stuff can come out of the bag o' crap. Anyone here actually get a bag AND get something decent?

[Chili]

SOLD OUT...



BTW, I've heard some good stuff can come out of the bag o' crap. Anyone here actually get a bag AND get something decent?

I've gotten it before...I got some "interesting stuff" but some people have gotten 60" tv's, PS3's and other high end items.

[spiral97]

on again.. only 3 weeks after the last one.. is it me or they slowly moving towards a woot-off every week?

[🏀]

DAMNIT! If I wasn't playing Halo 3 I would have been all over the Woot! off tonight. So disappointed in myself.

[spiral97]

sounds like an episode of big bang theory 

[🏀]

It happens. Life choices.

[spiral97]

agreed.  my game of choice was world of warcraft tonight. I am sure that in a month or so I will be playing Call of Duty 4 with a vengeance   Not sure on halo 3 yet.. guess it depends on whether it came out on pc or xbox only (which I don't have).. or maybe it depends on whether I get an xbox in the bag of crap that I hope to get

[🏀]

Halo 3 has been stellar. The story was a B+. But online multiplayer has gone above and beyond Halo 2. The levels are perfectly crafted, once you think you have THEE spot in a level, there is that one spot that has the dead-eye lock on it. They spent a lot of time of the design of the levels that I haven't quite seen before.


COD4 is also very well put together. Story is a B. Multiplayer is a B as well.

Now if I can get my hands on someone's copy of Assassin's Creed...

[SoCalwarrior]

It's on...

[🏀]

It's on...

[TallTitan34]

I was wandering around Wikipedia and found this tidbit:

During an average two day Woot-off, Woot's sales typically exceed one million dollars.

[SoCalwarrior]

Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t'
Winner in Merriam-Webster's Online Word of the Year Poll Something for Gamers to "W00t" About

By STEPHANIE REITZ
The Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.

Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t."

"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.

Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.

"It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said.

Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.

For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.

Purists of "l33t speak" often substitute a "7" for the final "t," expressing a "w007" of victory an "in your face" of sorts when they defeat an online gaming opponent.

"W00t" was among 20 nominees in a list of the most-searched words in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and most frequently submitted terms from users of its "open dictionary."

The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say "w00t."

"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.

The 2006 pick, "truthiness," also has its roots in pop culture. It was popularized by Comedy Central satirical political commentator Stephen Colbert.

Some also-rans in the 2007 list: the use of "facebook" as a verb to signify using the Web site by that name; nuanced terms such as "quixotic," "hypocrite" and "conundrum"; and "blamestorm," a meeting in which mistakes are aired, fingers are pointed and much discomfort is had by all.

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