Kid busted by WoW-playing mommy
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Aug 16th 2005 at 6:00PM }
Blizzard's World of Warcraft is the biggest MMORPG ever. So big, in fact, that everyone and his
mother is playing it… literally.
It used to be that a boy could play his favorite game all night and mean old Mom would be none the wiser about it.
But when WoW's so popular that Mom's playing too, Junior runs the risk of getting busted. In the thread linked below, little boy Brion makes a rather innocent-sounding forum post at 3:30 AM. Trouble is, his mother notices because she reads that same forum. She responds:
"Pardon me for hijacking the thread, here.. But, Brion - if you don't want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning - DON'T post on a forum that she reads. Busted. Grounded."
Sure, she could have just told him he was grounded when she saw him in the morning, but where's the fun in that? Mommies feel the need to dish out occasional pwnage too. It's so much more 2005 to run your family virtually anyway.
"Son, go fetch me a switch… from Burning Woods."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jesse J. Anderson @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
haha, that sucks for him.
JT Mill @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
It's news like this that makes me glad my parents still have trouble logging into Hotmail... after using it for five years.
jc @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
haha, that is funny... but why the pic of the home-made flamethrower?
john @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Isnt Joystiq supposed to be about news? Thats why you dont see this kind of crap on Gamespot or IGN.
Pass
Exbzurg @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
because he is gonna be flamed for this by other pple on that forum and its b/c of his mom who is at his home. duh.
vladimir cole @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
John: we're about video games. Some aspects of gaming are cultural. Gaming is changing our society and the way in which our relationships work.
This is significant. Families in the future will all be playing MMOGs together and what they do in games together may relate to the family hierarchy in ways that surprise us.
We're a blog, we can go interesting places. This may not interest you, but it interests others.
Jesse J. Anderson @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
This was a whole lot funnier than anything put out by games.net
heath @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
nothing like getting verbally castrated by mommy in front of your fellow geeks....and then making news on a site like this, which will perpetuate the humiliation. we live in a great time.
courtney @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
classic, I want that mommy!
kide @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
this isnt news, it was probably some one posing as his mother
scott @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
John,
if it's crap to you, why waste your time posting a negative comment? i see that all the time (no, not from you), and i'm just curious...
I like the varied posts on here, but there are always more than a few i skip over cause i'm not interested in them. just like there are reviews or previews i skip on IGN or gamespot.
this is a blog about videogames. that was a story about videogames. seems logical to me.
keep up the good work, joystiq, and i'll keep silently skipping the stuff that doesn't interest me.
John @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
I agree with you vladimir, however, what you said about families playing MMORPGS more and more in the future, should have been the post. It wasnt even mentioned.
Sure the story is interesting, by why not tell your readers that you are going to see more of this in the future, where its not just going to be little johnny playing computer games but his mom and dad too.
Sorry if I offended anyone, Joystiq is great.
chaoflux @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
I want that mommy too, if you know what Im saying.
Ryuukuro @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Looks like Vladimir and Scott did some owning themselves. Good defenses guys and those WOW board posts are classic!
jc @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
A pic of the flamethrower with the ignition nozzle would be a good idea also... otherwise it is just the super-soaker. (hence the confusion).
Lesbian Ham @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
OWNAGE!!!!!!!!!!!
Otterboyy @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Kide,
That was his mom and she is just that fun. I know the family well :)
CaptSnuffy @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
fuckin owned!
THAT, my friends, is good parenting (and it makes for good news, too).
Colin @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
HHAHAHahahah, I know where that PVC Flamethrower pic came from, yet another world famous forum thread...
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=79c8840c34670edfa603fed22ccf5b38&threadid=1107178&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
Chris McMahon @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Our kids hate the fact that my wife and I know everything about the games they play, and usually before them.
PiratePete @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Ha, my son right now thinks it's cool that I'm such a gamer. Wait till I catch him online on some MMORPG at 3AM in the morning. Can't wait!
Mabuti @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
That is classic.
I guess I would own my son if he did that, but the problem is that I would be up with him playing games like WoW at well past 3am......
I cant wait for him to play games.... (only a bit over a year old)
Pseudo @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
John,
Keep the negative comments to yourself. Articles like this are why I come to Joystiq. Gamespot? Wow. I assumed all people didn't like weeding through 5 dozen ads to get their gaming info. Perhaps I was wrong.
DevinNull @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
HA! Thanks for the good read. IMO-The article is great.
John-Since you have so many good ideas on how to make it better you should give it a shot on your own. Knowing everything like you do it's sure to be a hit! If readers can't grab a theme that's not in the title then maybe the article isn't for them anyhow. Not every thing should need to be spelled out.
MomGamer @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
That is what it's all about. Bravo to the Mom!
I play with my kids all the time. I've never had to ground a kid in-game but I'd do it in a heartbeat if I had to. We do have a running gag where the looser at Halo2 has to use a profile named GrenadeMagnet with purple armor the next day, though. And that hint of the scent of scorched ego wafting past you means that today I'm not the one who has to wear it. ;)
Gaming families are going to become more and more the norm as gaming matures. And there's going to be some interesting adjustments made in games and in the gaming community.
Gorfob @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
http://photobucket.com/albums/a225/gorfob/?action=view¤t=mumowned.jpg
Is a SS if any body doubts it. The post is still active also here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-cenarioncircle&T=145812&P=1
Alyse @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
There are also spouses that catch their significant others cheating....or catch ex's spending way too much time playing games, at hours when they should be caring for their children. Amusing when one doesn't know their ex or someone they know is playing private eye and getting the goods on them, or befriending them in-game only to discover who they really are, years later. First hand experience for me-I was the private eye.
sAMSTER @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Wow lol i play on the server and saw the post good stuff.
Emaline @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Burning Woods is Everquest. Try Ashenvale next time. :D
Blake Jenkins @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
That would SUCK, my dad posts on gaming threads all the time wouldn'nt wanna get caught on the net at 3:00 A.m. either
LUpus @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
:D
One thing though, WoW is no where near as popular as Linneage 1 and 2, and possibly ragnarok.
Blankness @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Here's the actual thread where Brion got PWNED! http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-cenarioncircle&T=145812&P=1
Rick @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Brion is my step-brother. I didn't hear about what happened until this weekend, and decided to see what everyone was saying about it. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal but I guess it was. His Mom really did bust him on it and of course when I was told what he did I had to give him a hard time. =)I think it's hilarious.