A Comprehensive Guide to noobs!

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Please Note: I did NOT write the following guide, I found it on a different forum.



A Comprehensive Guide to noobs!

Table of contents

A. INTRO

I. What is this?
II. Defining 'Noob'

B. COMMON NOOB CHARACTERISTICS

I. Noobish
II. Where to find noobs
III. Behavior of noobs
IV. Noob religion
V. More about noob habitats

C. AVOIDING NOOBS

I. Make sure you aren't one
II. Major noob avoiding strategies

A. INTRO

I. What is this?

This guide is designed to give you a better understanding of what a noob is,
how to recognize them, some details about them, and how to avoid or get rid
of them. It mostly applies to online forums, which are the main targets of migrating
noobs.

II. Defining 'Noob'

Contrary to the belief of many, a noob/n00b and a newbie/newb are not the same
thing. Newbs are those who are new to some task* and are very beginner at it,
possibly a little overconfident about it, but they are willing to learn and
fix their errors to move out of that stage. Noobs, on the other hand, know little
and have no will to learn any more. They expect people to do the work for them
and then expect to get praised about it, and make up a unique species of their
own. It is the latter we will study in this guide so that the reader is prepared
to encounter them in the wild if needed.

Noobs are often referred to as n00bs as a sign of disrespect toward them, and
it's often hella funny, but I will refer to them as noobs during this reading.

* Usually the topic at hand on an internet forum.


B. COMMON NOOB CHARACTERISTICS

I. Noobish

Often, but not always, noobs will attempt to communicate in their own primitive
language, known as noobish. It is a variant of the hacker language that exposes
them as having little intelligence or will to learn. Here is an example of some
noobish. Do not attempt to comprehend it: it cannot be discerned without professionals
at hand.

s*** /\/\an, i r teh r0xx0rz liek emin3m, u cna go tO EHLL OR ATLE4St help m3
wit hthIS!!111!!!!!!!1~~1!!``!! LOLLOLOLLOLOLlOoLLOlollLLl u n00b

Although you may find this unbelievably funny and/or annoying, it is best to
restrain yourself and keep from talking back to them, as they are very territorial
and easily angered. This will result in their attempted verbal abuse of you,
possibly backed up by other noobs, because they work in packs when doing offensive
tasks. It is not an easy task to learn this language because our intelligent
accent will keep it from sounding quite right when spoken. You can write some
simple noobish of your own, however, by slamming your face into your keyboard
repeatedly.

II. Where to find noobs

On the internet, noobs make their colonies on forums. They migrate in waves,
usually on weekends, and proceed to clog up bandwidth with stupid questions
and sometimes even stupid answers. If you happen to be unfortunate enough to
be on a board large enough to attract migrating noobs, there will hopefully
be authority in charge who is smart enough to take extermination measures before
they can make nests and larger colonies.

Larger colonies can result in the mutation of some into spammers. Not commercial
spammers, but pointless spammers. A noob can become one of these at any point,
but the larger the amount of noobs, the more chance pointless spammers will
appear.

Off the internet, noobs appear anywhere the focus is on learning or discussing
something specific.

III. Behavior of noobs

Since noobs are basically ignorant bas****s, they have a lot in common. The
most often seen characteristic is their fluency in noobish, which is why it
got its own section. They will also be very self confident as if they were the
absolute best at what they are in fact the worst at. Also, they are quite agressive
and self-centered, and tend to laugh a lot using many L's and O's in rapid sucession
(the noobish word for laughing like an ultimate retard).

It is their instinct to assemble in packs for defense, and they often attempt
to organize packs that they call teams. Unfortunately for them, teams usually
result in a total loss of communication and they can often begin to fight amongst
each other. These teams are quite unlike those formed by non-noobs.

Noobs have difficulty reading english and cannot comprehend the idea of authority.
Therefore, they have an all-out disregard for rules, basic or not. A good way
to identify a noob (bad) vs. a newb (good) is to tell them (or have an authority
tell them) which rule they are unknowingly breaking. If they respond with an
apology and fix it, they are probably not a noob. If they react by insulting
everything around them in rapid noobish and causing general mayhem, it is because
they are a noob and have had a small seizure due to their inability to understand
what is happening.

IV. Noob religion

Noobs follow a variation of the 1337 (sometimes 7331) religion, in which they
worship the number in odd rituals and put altars in their forum avatars and
signatures. They often call themselves 1337, which experts say is somewhat like
calling themselves godly in a human language. It's best to not interfere with
their religious fantasies and practices because that can lead to a noob uprising,
which can turn a forum to mush in less than a week.

V. More about noob habitats

Noobs often attempt to maintain their own web pages. Some common features of
these lairs are a terrible lack of content, background music, lots of pointless
animated gifs, and pages that say some variation of 'tHEir isnothinG H34r yEtt
LOLLOLOL!111!1!!~~~!!`! 13371337', which means 'Nothing here yet' in noobish.
They will also have large, seemingly infinite marquees of 88X31 affiliate buttons
replaced with red X's scattered here and there, and possibly a hit counter showing
a number less than 100. These habitats are numerous but fairly easy to avoid
because only noobs link to them. So if you can identify a noob, don't go to
its homepage. Simple as that.



C. AVOIDING NOOBS

I. Make sure you aren't one

Note: This section is bilingual so even noobs can make the discovery if they
haven't already.

English (T4lk)-
Read the above parts of this guide carefully. If you find yourself unable to
comprehend any of it but are instead beginning to think about how great you
are and how awesome 'teh 1337' is, you might want to take one of the many available
online quizzes to check your noobancy.

Noobish (133713371337)-
Liek, u gott4 re3D teh gudieCAREFUl1y and tehn OMG LIEK I AM R0XX0RZ ya anD
ify 0u turn into teh reTARDED u gota go 2 MY WEBP4GE LOLLOLOL!!111~11 ad check
4 warez n stfuu. if u r a n00b go2HELL LOLLOLOlROFLMFAO11!!!11!!!! a/s/l pos
gtg n00b suxx0rz ur b0xx0rz OLOOOLOLLLL HELP HELP HELP 1337133713371337

II. Major noob avoiding strategies

The main factor in attracting migrating herds of noobs is a large, active forum.
If you find one of these, look to see if it has the management to avoid noob
infestation. If not, look for a small or mid-sized forum that covers the same
topic so you can enjoy your time there before the noobs find it.

Another way to keep noobs from interfering with your life is to become part
of the authority on one of these forums. But that's often hard to do so you'll
probably be better off avoiding larger forums first off. If you do manage to
become part of the authority, however, take full advantage of it and establish
extermination policies so that normal people can have a nice time without noob
infestations.
 
husky_003 said:
Another way to keep noobs from interfering with your life is to become part
of the authority on one of these forums. But that's often hard to do so you'll
probably be better off avoiding larger forums first off. If you do manage to
become part of the authority, however, take full advantage of it and establish
extermination policies so that normal people can have a nice time without noob
infestations.

Note that this does not actually do what the part I bolded suggests. Trust me, it only gets worse.

:P
 
By "noob extermination policies" he doesn't mean kicking the noobs, thats just picking the wound. you want to make things noobs won't like, so they don't want to annoy you.
 
AgentPaper said:
By "noob extermination policies" he doesn't mean kicking the noobs, thats just picking the wound. you want to make things noobs won't like, so they don't want to annoy you.

But if the noobs don't like the stuff, then they'll annoy you with stuff along the lines of "OMG UR ______ IS TEH SUXOR!!!11!!1"
 
One idea I really like is a bot, that emulates a n00b personality and goes around arguing with people who say stuff like "teh roxxors" and stuff like that, just to see how long they rant at it. :P
 
Noobish Translation

Wow, that was a great battle, you really did well, but it seems that I have bested you.

In Noobish:

Ph4k y34!11!!!1one!! i 4m t3h roxxors in j00 boxxors!!!11!!1!!1one!1!! j00 c4no0t st4nd t3h l33tne55 o0f m4h 5ki11z!!!11!!!2!!!!11!!1 l33t l33t l33t l33t i5 t3h m4!11!!!!11!!111!!!one!!!!!1!1!1!1!111!1!11111111!!!!!1!!!two!!!1!11!1!!1111!1!11!11!!

(the above was adjusted to be remotely understandable to non-noob, the following is the exact copy)

hygtfrdefnjhmju8itrgfcv xyuhjujiioy76uyh gbhrtfv g jui65y7uui8ijhuny5rgtf6e4w3serdfujiolpiu7yty6tgt5r6fiu8jyt67yoii mjnhhnbj tb6y mn mjnh ghbtv h l.l
 
well, to be more exact, first is english (normal) second is simplified noobish(most popular) and last one is traditional noobish(rare but exists)
 
N00b vs. NewB
The Story

Chapter 1: A session of Footman Frenzy

n00b has entered the game.
newB has entered the game.
Player 1 (red): Remember this is pro only.
newB: Ehm... Sorry, this is like the first time I play this, but can I play with 2 pros then?
n00b: I'm pro.
n00b: How do you play this?
Player 1 (red): Sorry, we can't do that, please leave and find a game that's not pro-only.
newB: ok...
n00b: OMG!!11!! I r0xXx000rzzzzz! !1111 !! 1 M3 P4Wn Y4 4Ll! 1 N0B0 Dy 0Wnzzzz TeH R000XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX0000000rzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 !! 1! I 133713371337 11!
Player 1 (red): *kicks n00b*
n00b has left the game.
newB: I think I'll leave then.
Player 1 (red): Well, nvm, just join me and teal, we will learn ya some.
newB: Thanks!
n00b has entered the game.
n00b: OMFG!!11!!!11!!11 Y d1D Y0u sUxXx00000rz k1ccck M3????????? !! 11 ! ! 11 Ul1 R3gr3T th4t y0u fUx000rz! 11! 0WnZ3r G0nN4 w1n TEh G41m!11! !!! 1!
Game starting in 5...
Game starting in 4...
Player 1 (red): Argh pressed the start game button just after that ****ing n00b joined...
Game starting in 3...
Game starting in 2...
n00b: Muh4h4h4h4h4!!1!1!! M3 P4wnZ0rS tEH g41M!!1! ! !! 1! !!1
Game starting in 1...

*Loading*

Team 1:
[Allies]newB: Woah that loading took long! Who's computer was that?
[Allies]Player 1 (red): Must be n00b's =)
[Allies]newB: Lol

Team 2:
[Allies]n00b: How do you choose a hero?
[Allies]n00b: OMFG!1!!!1! H0Ww M3 cH0os3 h3r0??? 44Nw3R Y0u N000B4S!!1! !!1!!11!!!
[All]n00b: WTF OMFG!1!!!!1!11!!1!111!!!!!!!1 H0 w d0 Y4 Cho0s3 a h33rO 1n Th1S g41M y0U sUXXXXXXx000rz????!!1!!!11!1!!
[All]Player 1 (red): Just click on the button in one of the hero taverns?

*1 minute later...*

Team 1:
[Allies]newB: So we gotta fight with those spawning footmen right?
[Allies]Player 1 (red): Yep
[Allies]Player 1 (red): You concentrate on hero-killing, we will deal with their armies, ok?
[Allies]newB: Ok.

Team 2:
[All]n00b: m3 p44WnZ00rzzZZ Y444ll !!1!! !!!111!! !!1!11! T1hS HE3r0 0000000WwwwnZZz!!1!1 !!!111! !1!!

*n00b's Hero gets owned because he just maneuvered it right into the middle of newB's army...*

[All]n00b: OMFG!!1! !!!!111! !1 !1111! WTF!!!11! 1 1 1!1 111!11 H4444XXXXXX00000RZZZZ!11 1 ! !!! 1 ! ! 1 ! ttH1S m4pP 1S r1111gg3D YYy0u FffUXx0rZ! !!!!1! ! !11! !!1! !11! T3Hy N3rrF3d M3 H333r0!1!1!!!1! !!1!!1!11

n00b has left the game.

*newB and friends have a good match...*

To be continued...
 
Sounds like every game of CoD I have ever played.
 
heres a replay i found that is hilarious if youve read the guide. i forget when the noob starts complaining but its pretty funny. i think its a little more than half way when it starts.

its a replay of DotA and the argument is between this one guy who went 10-2 against the actual noob who went 5-6 i think.

enjoy :D
-hobo218
 
it is because they are a noob and have had a small seizure due to their inability to understand what is happening.

rofl :) :D :shades: :P :shades:

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why does it keep saying that??
 
bah! can't watch it cause I dot have dota, could you attach that too or make it into flash?
 
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