Lobsters?

What the hell is with you people and lobsters?


Where did it come from? Why does Firepluk say "lob" every two words? Why lobsters?

lob lob

At first there was noob/newb
which was shortened to nub/nab/neb
throughout the years out of boredom were born various variations such as nabbernaut

One day someone was talking about wub/wub wub on #zk, preliminary related to warrior sounds, but this found another use case :D
Next day we see "wub wubs, wub dubs"

Some day long ago we were trash talking with Svatopluk, something like
Firepluk: neb
Svatopluk: knob
Firepluk: wtf is knob?
Svatopluk: like a door knob, u know...
Firepluk: knobster!
Svatopluk: lobster
Firepluk: :O

So I believe this was Svatopluk who first used lobster in zk context... and then it gone viral though @_Shaman was strongly opposing this

And now we have all possible shortenings and permutations of lobster in use such as lob, lub...

And also let's not forget the famous Pinchy :P


Now go and listen to this song and match it to zk clusterfuck 14 vs 14 context

Keep calm and wait for the next ZK Lobster Party :D Clusterfuck is coming!

Somehow sad that David1995 got ban for his malicious things. However seems its not infinite at least. :/

You are wrong CovertMagic .

The term lobster comes from a russian рак which roughly translates into lobster in english. At the time admins (specifically Klon) were prohibiting calling other players "noobs" hence why a lot of abbreviantions have been made by your usual ZK team players (neb, nab etc) and sfire/ Firepluk specifically started using a term "lobster" which caught on with the others (see his earlier post in this thread). In russian internet speech apparently рак also means noob which might be why it came to Firepluks' mind at the time.

The other phrase of "wubwubwub" came from a duo of smurfs from one 2v2 tournament which just spammed in chat wubwubwub and was also coined because of a legendary wubrior who singlehandedly destroyed a whole base and won one of the games of that tournament. It was quickly picked on by sfire/ Firepluk and so it became very popular for a year or so.

Aaaand pluk just cames from Svatopluk and people trying to impersonate them basically but it also happened at the time there was a server switch and the new protocol doesn't allow renames anymore so pluks are stuck with their names forever (unless ability to rename will be enabled again).

I can confirm it's all true. Lobbawubwub!

Honk!

I just remebered when there was a whole huge clan od [TROLL]s... Lel

A rejected amphib constructor: http://units.tauniverse.com/?p=u&v=2337

I'm not joking about the rejected part.

https://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=12518&p=232178&hilit=pinchy#p232178

quote: I found a minor flaw: I think the origins of the Nano-Barrels are wrong for the Core Pinchy. When they are extended they float in the air...

I can't recall why it was rejected. I suspect that Pinchy was lost as CA transitioned to ZK. We didn't have enough units to have an amphib factory from the start of ZK and when Beherith released the models that we use for amph they came with a constructor.

Order complete!