Let us see your Quincy, show it to us

by Justin McElroy on Dec 23rd 2008 9:20AM

By now, we imagine that you've heard the Quincying episode of the Joystiq Podcast, read all about Quincying or, like a quarter-million people, watched the Quincying video. Yes, Griffin McElroy's "Quincying" is a horrifyingly real, worldwide phenomenon.

Though the premise is universal, the "Quincy" is not. Each person must endeavor to make their own man-beast for their Attractive Female Avatar to transmogrify into. But, unlike the rest of the Home community, we want to see your Quincy. Load a single picture of your AFA and your Quincy and post a link in the comments below. We'll put them all in a photo gallery, sure to be a disturbing collection of monstrosities that avatar moms tell their avatar children about, just to scare them into behaving.

Tags: home, ps3, quincying

Reader Comments (50)

Like i mentioned in a previous thread, i was lucky enough to witness a double Quincy.

2 hot girls dancing, surrounded by clueless prey. I say "i smell a quincy", they pull the switch, the prey run away as if chased by a bear.
And they say Home is no fun!

..."2 hot girls dancing"

I'm sorry, but that is sad to me.

Another really fun game is to run around shouting FOLLOW ME endlessly until someone complains or says they reported you, so then you just harrass them for the next 30 minutes (by raving/FOLLOW ME'ing at them). It's really fun.

Oh and....
Since The Quincy, i've noticed that AFA's are chased around Benny-Hill style by stalkers FAR less now.
I'm amazed how much girls can walk around freely now, unless they entice the unaware with a dance and flirty "guns" move.

Nice one Justin, standing up for female avatar rights!

If you can't type anything intelligent, then cut your fingers off.

I heard that on the 360 you can download movies. Gay Xbox owners should be playing games instead!

No AFA, just all ugly.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juicebytim/3131098798

That looked like Tom Nook.

fanboyish and homophobic in the same post, wow

I like Popsicles.

What's a quincy? I still don't get it.
And what's a AFA?

did you even read???

I have to admit. I don't really get it either. I think it has something to do with a bait and switch of a hot female with what appears to be some horrendous character from an 80's cartoon

What's Google?

Quincy has to do with Bleach or something.

You people are ridiculous. There is this big icon on the top with a picture of that AFA that says Quincy, it links you to the article.

Since you are retarded.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/12/how-to-perform-quincying-in-playstation-home/

That was actually bugging me as a long time Bleach fan. Why the name 'Quincy' of all things?

Since you don't know sarcasm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

There's no actual explanation, just a bunch of twats who think you should know all the references in the world. Even after reading the original post it doesn't fully explain the details behind it.

In other words. Let them play out their weak attempts to create a meme, have it fail and then go back to waiting for the next PS3 game.

@Lee

Lol.

It's not our fault that you're literally too retarded to figure out what the term means.

Also, the video currently has 222,628 views - with five brand new posts using 'Quincying' in the title.

Our conclusion is two-fold:

1. This meme has legs.
2. You're a tool.

to everyone involved:

www.amishrakefight.org/gfy

The only thing I don't understand is why the term "Quincy" is used. The only thing I ever think about when I hear that is Bleach.

Alijah did you get Alpa Chino's new album?

Your gaydar is really accurate by the way...Where did you get yours from? Mine didn't go off reading this post. It just looked/sounded like people having fun to me.

It's all explained in the How-To post: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/12/how-to-perform-quincying-in-playstation-home/

Since it's really tl;dr, AFA is attractive female avatar, and a Quincy is a hideous male avatar.

Argh, that was aimed at Patrick. Damn you, Refresh button!

It's sad that this is the most entertaining part about Home.

It really is. You think they would have a bit more going on with the launch... but no. I do find it interesting how bad social behaviors are self correcting (female avatar harassment....Quincy).

Actually, I think walking up to a code terminal in the Uncharted room, accessing the terminal, then dancing in front of it while stopping others from using it is worth the price of admission

So basically it's only entertaining when you're griefing.

But let's be honest; where else can you watch girls morph into ugly dancing guys?

i disagree, walking into a circle of people chating and commmenting "Get a whif of this", then bowing is just as, if not more entertaining.

A strip club when the real lights come on?

You people actually SEE female characters walking around? I just see ghosts, until i decide to stand next to people playing pool for 5 minutes until i finally see some textures appearing.

it appears you are the PS3 Home Ghost Whisperer.

Tell them to go into the light.

Upgrade your internets... I only wait two minutes!

Why did Haggard get voted down? That was a valid response pointing out a flaw in the retards logic.

Home=Like real life, but even more lame...

Well one good thing about home is that most of all the women or supposed women are hot(for avatars). And when you see one that wanted to be honest and make herself fat like in real life its like oh man walk around this one. I know im a jerk, but an honest one.

you're just asking to get Quincy'd, aren't you?

That, or the one with the "hot" avatar is actually fat in real life and hiding that fact on the internets, and the one with the "ugly" avatar is actually hot in real life and avoiding the advances of douche bags.

Sarcasm detection is hit and miss on the internet.

then again, what would you expect from somebody who brought us such classics as:

"white people are the worse, first barrack obama now soulja boy. any cheese with that wine"

and who could forget this classic from the archives?

"that is what happens when you excluded / maybe bungie can get their dicks out of there ass and make it available to everyone"

If there was an award for Best Commenter, the winner is you!

Why would PS3 people even do this? Internet culture is really lost on them.

Thank you Thank you, first off, there is nothing valid about haggar comments. I am not ragging on the PS3, but the PS3 owners not all just most of you fanboys. Reasons being it took time to go through such BS. and Moptimus Slime could you please explain what this (Quincy) term means by the way. Logic, give me a break. use the internet it might be useful for once in your life.

Thank you Thank you, first off, there is nothing valid about haggarcomments. I am not ragging on the PS3, but the PS3 owners not alljust most of you fanboys. Reasons being it took time to go throughsuch BS. and Moptimus Slime could you please explain what this(Quincy) term means by the way. Logic, give me a break. use theinternet it might be useful for once in your life.

i never knew what quincying was until now, but that's what me and my friends did like the first day the Home beta came out. we'd invite guys back to our apartment and then change into a dude in front of them. good times.

ooo i like the apt. idea even better, so far i've only seen dancing on the street, has a bit more creepiness to it

Jeez 45 posts and only one person has contributed? Jerks i say!

http://i40.tinypic.com/1z3v3h5.jpg

I have yee a quincy.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8071/quincyjr9.jpg

I quincy'd a guy.
he hung around, so I changed back to a girl and said lol.
he then asked if I was actually a girl, I said yes and told him that I used to be a man. He still hung around.
I was quite weirded out by this time.
we then started to dance again.
the inevitable. QUINCY'd, He's still there, and I get a Roflmao from him.
Change back, he asks me my name I say Jo (even though my PSN name features Joe in it). I then quit home leaving this poor, gullible child to cry alone (or masturbate, whatever) I then recieve atleast 15 stalker like messages over PSN saying "I miss you xxx"
and "where are you. xxx"
I then blocked the guy.

It was either EXTREMELY clever reverse psychology or he was troubled.

Brief Description of my Quincy:
Red Mohawk and Red Beard
Fat and Short
Freckles and Wrinkles galore

Let us see your Quincy, show it to us

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