At PAX East, geek hero Wil Wheaton decided to check which generations the thousands of people attending his keynote were from by testing some gaming one-liners. People roared for each one.
āIt is very darkā
āYou have died of dysenteryā
āRoll initiativeā
āShots do not hurt other players ā¦ yet.ā
āEnchantment? Enchantment!ā [Update: Thanks, DeanBMV for showing me where this is from Sure sounded like Enchompment to me!] āEnchompment? Enchompment!ā [Note from Stephen: Or did he say āEnchantment with a funny accent? A laā¦ āEnchaaaaantmentā?]
āI play Dark Ritual and Black Lotus and summon a Sengir Vampire.ā
āOur princess is in another castleā
āon see yend, uh tard, el hee-umā [Update: Several readers, including Jason Paul Bartlett, informed me that Wheaton was speaking the Oath of Enmity, which he used during Dungeons & Dragons podcasts for Wizards of the Coast. Thanks!] [Note from Stephen: Someone, please help! That is the phonetic spelling of whatever it is he said. I have no idea, but tons of people were howling for it.]
āGame over, moonpieā
Honestly, I felt like less of a gamer after hearing the crowd lose it for all of those, because I never head of some of them. You?
