Rules For Getting Owned!

Have you ever been owned by someone? I mean seriously owned, that someone owned you so bad that you basically cried. It could be that you were owned in a video game by a better player, owned by a practical joke, owned by someones quick wit. Was someone around to see it? Was anyone around to hear it? Were you the only person to yell Owned when you think you owned someone? Let’s take a look at the finer points of being owned.

What exactly is getting owned?

Urban Dictionary defines it as:

1.) To be made a fool of; To make a fool of; To confound or prove wrong; embarrasing someone: Being embarrased.

2.) Total and undeniable dominance of a person, group of people or situation as to make them/it akin to ones bitch.

3.) To be defeated in a computer game, causing the winner’s ego to inflate like a party balloon as if such a victory has any tangible significance outside that of his stinking socks-infested dorm room. These people will frequently create animated GIFs of violent sports events where a player gets clobbered by his opponent, complete with blinking neon “PWN3D!” captions, and post them on their blogs to indicate that they should not be messed with.

So once you have been owned, how does the Own”er” make it official to the Own”ee”?

Simple:

1.) The owner must not call owned on his own ownage unless it is PARTICULARLY well crafted and BLATANT owning.

2.) Witnesses must yell “Own3d” within seconds of the Owner owning the Ownee.

3.) Once ownership has been established it is time to do some damage control and see just how much the ownee was owned.

Tips:

• Always continue to make fun of the person who was just owned. For Example: “Dude remember the time you got owned by me? That was sweet.” It really does not need to be more complex than that. The simple fact that you have once again shown your ownership is enough to squelch any rise in confidence from the event.
• People will not always be around to hear your ownership, in this instance it is permissible to tell count the instance as ownership if it was true ownership. No one likes a lying owner, you will have doubters regardless so make sure you carry a tape recorder or some sort of digital recording device to prove the superior ownership of your comments.
• If you are the one getting owned try to reverse the effects by outdoing the owning comment, its the old game of one upsmanship here.

Using owned is pretty much appropriate in ANY situation, there is actually no situation where owned CANNOT be used. Lets take a look at some examples.

• Abortion Doctor After Throwing A Baby In The Trash (To The Baby): “Owned!”
• A Deer Being Hit By A Car: “Owned!”
• Killing Someone In Halo: “Owned!”

There is also a variations of Owned that constitute levels of higher ownage, here are a few:

• own3d
• 0wn3d
• ()\/\//\/3|)

There is one particular instance though that is the highest level of ownage possible and is reserved for very special occasions:

• pwned or pwn3d

Pwned denotes the highest level of ownage possible, it basically means that you have owned someone SO bad that you have no choice but to misspell the word it self because you can’t even think straight. You are so delighted at how hard you just owned someone that you can’t help but misspell it. Pwned almost specifically applies to video gaming and more importantly PC gaming, since it originally came from a PC game, Warcraft. Onceagain from Urban Dictionary.

Pwned:

A corruption of the word “Owned.” This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled “owned.” When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so “has been owned.”

Instead, it said, so-and-so “has been pwned.”

It basically means “to own” or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.

“Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned.”

OR

“That team totally pwned us.”

If you wish to learn more I am sure you can search for it yourself. OWNED!