noob: (n) an online slang term for a newcomer, or someone with little knowledge of a given activity or topic. Sometimes considered disparaging. See newbie.
noob moment: (phrase) see below.
While I’m specifically talking here about online games, having a noob moment happens to us all be it ingame or in real life (IRL). It’s when an otherwise intelligent and rational person does something really dumb, so much so that you the observer just scratch your head and think, WTF? Like when you look all over the house for the pen that’s in your hand, or can’t find the Christmas presents for your parents…you know, the ones you put in the car the night before so you wouldn’t forget to bring them.
Going back to Joe’s interaction with WoW:
One thing that was kind of cool, kind of creepy was the way that on both accounts Joe made characters that looked like him. He’s not a vain man, so I know it wasn’t deliberate. For the longest time, we both kept those characters in our list for that server.
His first character was a human paladin. With his grey hammer and his mail, he laid waste to the wolves, kobolds and Defias around Northshire Abbey; four legs or two, red or green, nothing was safe from his righteous wrath. When green items dropped, he was so excited, and would equip them, regardless of the armor type.
I asked him how it was going, and he replied that it was all right but it was getting harder to kill things. Looking at his motley assemblage of cloth, mail, and leather, and his grey hammer still equipped, I asked, “Joe, what are you doing with the quest rewards? Why aren’t you using those?”
He replied, “What are quests?”
He was 4th level.
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