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* Release Date: [[9 December]] [[2005]] (premiere screenings), [[10 December]] [[2005]] (internet official release) |
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* Running Time: 25:47 |
* Running Time: 25:47 |
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=== Episode 10 - (TBA)=== |
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Dates for the Toronto screening and subsequent web release of Episode 10 are scheduled be announced on Wednesday Feb. 15th. |
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Revision as of 08:18, 12 February 2006
Pure Pwnage (pronounced "Pure Ownage"[1]) is a webisode series by "ROFLMAO Productions". The show portrays the aspects of a "gamer's life", featuring a Canadian self-proclaimed pro video game player named Jeremy. Jeremy reveals what it is like to be a pro gamer through a combination of interviews and situational conflict resolution. Locations for the show include Toronto and occasionally Calgary and Montréal.
The show is filmed from the point of view of Jeremy's roommate and brother Kyle. As of late 2005 he is currently attending film school and will soon graduate. The Pure Pwnage site states that ROFLMAO may go into full time production after Kyle's graduation, and, as of January 2006, is negotiating airing Pure Pwnage on television. A DVD is now scheduled to be released after Episode 12, which is the planned end of the first season.
Most of the information about the Pure Pwnage series comes from a Teamspeak chat public interview, the Pure Pwnage website, the featurettes, and the regular episodes.
The World of Pure Pwnage
Pure Pwnage takes the audience to a fantastic world where the power and importance of video games is revealed to be far greater than the gaming layperson might expect. During an interview, Kyle insists that all of the characters on the show are not acting. He suggests the personalities on Pure Pwnage displaying their true-to-life abilities and eccentricities, and the characters take great pains to maintain that the Pure Pwnage world is simply an extension of the real world.
Pro-gamers vs noobs
In the world of Pure Pwnage, certain elite video game players are quick to judge others based on their ability to master video games. Those with limited ability in a given skill, or otherwise exhibit characteristics of one who is new to that skill are collectively known as noobs.[2]
Persons with abilities that exceed those of others, primarily in video gaming, is referred to as pro. The noob/pro distinction is not mutually exclusive, as a pro may be rendered a noob by a more proficient pro. [3] A complete noob cannot become pro simply through training; this merely results in a trained noob.[4]
Micro
In the world of Pure Pwnage, characters exhibit a fantastic video game playing ability known simply as micro. The neologism micro stems from micromanagement strategies inherent in playing RTS games effectively. One's "micro" ability is applicable to any manner of video gaming, suggesting that any individual function of any given game peripheral may be managed with a significant level of refinement and expertise.
The primary function of micro is to win while playing video games, and otherwise pwning noobs. However, micro can be both practiced, and made use of, in real life, otherwise known as RL. Examples of this include, but are not limited to, dialing telephone numbers efficiently and checking one's bank balance at an ATM quickly.
When a video game player reaches a certain high level of ability, that gamer transcends mere micro ability, and thus possesses Über Micro.[5] In order to attain a high degree of über micro, the gamer must undergo significant physical and spiritual training. This training is conducted under the tutelage of a person with much greater micro.[6]
Those who possess partial or complete über micro abilities are able to practice their micro without the aid of an actual peripheral device. To the layperson, it appears that a person demonstrating über micro is keying and mouse-clicking empty air.[7]
Those who have achieved a significantly high level of über micro may begin to manifest their video game playing abilities in more profound ways while in RL. In this way, characters in Pure Pwnage are not limited by the normal restrictions of reality.[8]
Jeremy on Über Micro
From the December 2005 UK edition of PC Gamer:
Jeremy was quoted as saying that "To have uber-micro is to be completely at one with the controls of the game. It's to have a thought in your head, and never for one moment examine how that's going to get out, into the game. It just flows through you. To have uber-micro is to know that at every moment, all your units are doing exactly what you want. Your brain is flowing straight to your hands. It's sort of like chi, you know. You've got to close your mind to all things, and focus on the micro."
Character bios
In order of appearance:
Jeremy (teh_pwnerer)
Twenty-three year old Jeremy is a stereotypical pro gamer and the protagonist of Pure Pwnage. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his brother, Kyle. He spends the vast majority of his time playing video games and "pwning noobs", using the online handle teh_pwnerer ("the ownerer"). He has been playing games since the age of two, when he used to "totally pwn Pong". Due to Jeremy's profound immersion in video game culture, his social skills have atrophied. However, he has also developed the ability to master any video game, and can play competitively against extremely skilled opponents. The most prominent games Jeremy plays in Pure Pwnage are Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour (Zero Hour), Counter-Strike: Source (CS:S), and World of Warcraft (WoW).
Kyle
Kyle is a year or two younger than his brother Jeremy and is a full-time film student. Pure Pwnage is shot almost entirely from Kyle's point of view, so he is therefore rarely onscreen. Kyle determines what events will be filmed, and directs and interviews Jeremy. Kyle occasionally tries to introduce Jeremy to a diversion other than video gaming. According to Jeremy, Kyle "is a total noob" in many ways.
It is intended that Kyle's face is always obscured from the viewer[9]. A wallpaper (scroll down) available on the Pure Pwnage website partially shows Kyle (his face is hidden behind a camera and a baseball cap). One fan filmed near the end of Episode 8 jokingly commented, "I thought Kyle would look cooler. No wonder he's behind the camera."
Doug (fps_doug)
A fellow pro gamer, Doug is Jeremy's boisterous friend and rival. Doug spends most of his time playing CS:S with the online nick fps_doug, and defeats his opponents by skillfully "getting the headshot". Doug has serious anger management issues, and can appear to be a psychopath, obsessed with FPS games to the point that he goes out training and practising imaginary headshots in real life. His triumphant catchphrase, "BOOM! HEADSHOT!", has become a popular exclamation among FPS players and has been displayed on many online message boards. During the Teamspeak interview, Doug states that he has grown tired of this phrase, and now hates when people ask him to say it. In the episode when meeting Doug, he mentions playing America's Army.
Dave (Dawei)
Jeremy's friend, Dave, is notable for his cooking skills and his unique nonchalant sense of humour. His Chinese name is Dawei, although his Canadian peers call him "Dave". He does not particularly care about Jeremy and Kyle's antics in Pure Pwnage. He is first introduced as a crew member in a Behind the Scenes featurette at the end of Episode 3. Dave excels at fighting games such as Street Fighter II and Super Smash Bros..
Teh_Masterer
Teh_Masterer is a mysterious master gamer who trains Jeremy and others in the ways of being a pro gamer. His micro ability is so profound that he can play multiple video games at once, and states that he "beat Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue with nothing more than a row of pawns and a single bishop". His true identity is not known[10], as he is always clad entirely in ninja clothing. He lives in seclusion in a small apartment, but he does have access to a training area. In the Teamspeak chat interview, Kyle refers to this as the "room with no exits".
Anastasia (Tagi)
MMO-playing Anastasia is Jeremy's first love-interest on Pure Pwnage. She is interviewed in the episode Girls, though the audience never sees her meet Jeremy until Imapwnu of Azeroth. She plays WoW under the pseudonym Tagi. Anastasia and Jeremy have differing views about video games: she believes that they should be social, not just about pwning opponents. She used to keep a blog, but has recently discontinued intense video game playing.
The Episodes
There are currently nine episodes, with more planned to be released in the future. They are all available for download in DivX-encoded avi format from the Pure Pwnage website, HTTP mirrors, via BitTorrent, or via Xfire.
- The "Happy Birthday Jakob" featurette can be found at Player of Games.
- The "Dave Delivers" featurette can be found at AusGamers.com.
Episode 1 - The Life of a Pro Gamer
The first episode of Pure Pwnage, introducing Jeremy and Kyle. Jeremy explains why he is making this show, and how he lives. By making this show, he believes that he can help any given person be more like him, and less of a "noob". After this introduction, Jeremy visits an Internet forum, and replies to posts he sees as unreasonable, or foolish. After going out for a meal, he comments on a "Free Tibet" protest, using RTS terminology. Finally, Jeremy resumes playing video games, and introduces his pelvic thrust victory posture.
Episode 2 - Girls
This episode is interspersed with interviews of females displaying their knowledge and opinions of games and gaming terminology. After learning that Kyle had a girlfriend, Jeremy is challenged to prove that he can also attract women. He attempts to attract them with various techniques, which usually have something to do with gaming skills and strategies. After a misunderstanding with a homosexual, he makes one last try and leaves. Back home, he claims to have met a girl who actually kissed him.
(Teh_Masterer provides the voiceover for the interviewer in the episode Girls.)
- The song "teh noob song" is featured in this episode.
- Release Date: 22 June 2004
- Running Time: 16:08
Episode 3 - FPS Doug
Jeremy begins by visiting two friends that are from "Europia or whatever" who translate messages for all the "Germanic" and "Hollandaise" fans of the show. Jeremy complains about EA, the company that develops and produces his favorite game, Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. Jeremy expresses his disappointment that EA discontinued support for Zero Hour. Afterwards, Jeremy comes across his old friend Doug (a.k.a. FPS Doug) in a parking lot, who is fending off imaginary adversaries. Jeremy explains the story of their childhood friendship, and their subsequent falling out. As a "Behind the Scenes" featurette, Dave (Dawei) is shown for the first time, as the crewmember who held a lamp in Jeremy's room in Episode 2.
Short Featurette - Happy Birthday Jakob
Jeremy is surly when asked to say Happy Birthday to Jakob, a friend from Sweden. It is not until Kyle suggests that Jakob has cancer that Jeremy finally cooperates.
- Running Time: 3:55
Episode 4 - Pwn or Be Pwned
The episode starts off with a spoof of the machinima Red vs Blue using Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. After this, Jeremy loses to a noob in Zero Hour and must then visit the mysterious master gamer known as Teh_Masterer. Teh_Masterer provides Jeremy the next level training, in which the student learns a valuable lesson: "If one wants to truly pwn, one must pwn in all games". A parody of Kill Bill ensues and the episode reaches its climax with an epic micro battle. This is a turning point in Jeremy's pro gamer life, and his t-shirt message is mysteriously upgraded from "Übergamer" to "i pwn n00bs". At the very end, Jeremy is seen walking into a store to purchase Half-Life 2
- The song "Feel like pwning noobs" is featured in this episode.
- Release Date: 14 September 2004
- Running Time: 20:57
Episode 5 - M8s
Jeremy "graciously" lets Kyle show a short film he made in film school, titled "Strong man, angry man". After viewing the short film, Jeremy laughs and sarcastically mentions to Kyle that the film was "pretty good." Next, Jeremy insults Kyle's camera skills, and claims that Kyle's films will never pwn. They end up having an argument, causing Kyle to depart with his camera. He decides to start filming Doug instead, but Doug loses to a noob and develops a tantrum. Escaping Doug's somewhat psychotic behaviour, Kyle walks away to consider his dispute with Jeremy. Kyle realizes that their friendship is more important than creative differences, and they remain friends, or "mates" as the title implies.
- Release Date: 6 December 2004
- Running Time: 14:55
Episode 6 - Imapwnu of Azeroth
Jeremy's mother has confiscated his computer, so he has intentions to spend the night playing CS:S at Dave's place. However, Kyle wants him to meet up with a girl named Anastasia before going to Dave's. Once he meets her, he realizes that she is the girl who kissed him in Episode 2, only nobody believed him at the time. After their second encounter, Jeremy has a strong desire to see Anastasia again. Despite his strong disliking of Warcraft and MMORPGs, he decides to buy World of Warcraft in order to meet up with her in the game world. Jeremy uses Dave's computer to play, and soon falls in love with both Anastasia and WoW.
- The song "World of Warcraft is a Feeling" is featured in this episode.
- Release Date: 25 March 2005
- Running Time: 20:24
Short Featurette - Dave Delivers
Dave goes to an apartment and delivers a shirt to a local fangirl.
- Running Time: 1:29
Episode 7 - The MMO Grrl
Jeremy has been admitted to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in a comatose state, believing himself to still be in the game (WoW). He has flashbacks of his experience playing WoW with Anastasia. Jeremy has a gaming-related epiphany and awakes from the coma. At the end, the PP friends innocently hold a barbecue, and all seems well. However, a mysterious man, who has been secretly following Jeremy throughout the series, sends a troubling e-mail.
Episode 8 - Lanageddon
Jeremy and Doug have started to play video games together again, just like they did before their feud. Jeremy recives an ominous phone call, forshadowing events to come. Faced with the approach of LANageddon (a LAN tournament based in Calgary, Canada), Jeremy and Doug teach each other about their respective mastered game genres: Jeremy instructs Doug about RTS games while Doug returns the favour by informing Jeremy about FPS games. Eventually, they arrive at LANageddon where they sign up for the CS:S tournament. The two easily win each game, and are destined to meet each other at the finals. However, they encounter a confident, loudmouthed adversary known as "deathstriker6666", whom they discover very quickly to be no noob.
- The songs "I'm a gamer" and "Building a Computer (For teh_pwnerer)" are featured in this episode.
- Release Date: 19 September 2005
- Running Time: 22:33
Episode 9 - The Story of Dave
The beginning of the episode is a Call of Duty 2 skit, featuring FPS Doug and Jeremy playing as soldiers. After the skit, Kyle decides to do an episode solely centering around Dave, because of his online popularity. The next scene involves FPS Doug receiving a new weapon from a friend of Teh_Masterer, and it parodies several scenes from the film Taxi Driver. Back to Jeremy and Dave, they encounter Anastasia, who is on a date with a guy who is a jock, which aggravates Jeremy. After a heated exchange, Jeremy storms off, clearly very angry.
After a while, the trio are confronted by a crowd of unknown micro warriors, who attack them. During the middle of the battle, the action cuts off to an important flashback of Dave's past in China, revealing his gaming history. Suddenly he breaks, and comes to the rescue, helping to drive away the attackers. Jeremy and Kyle immediately consult Teh_Masterer, who orders Jeremy to find more pro-gamers. Upon arriving home, Jeremy finds a sad note left by Dawei on the table, indicating his apologies and exit from the show.[11]
- Release Date: 9 December 2005 (premiere screenings), 10 December 2005 (internet official release)
- Running Time: 25:47
Episode 10 - (TBA)
Dates for the Toronto screening and subsequent web release of Episode 10 are scheduled be announced on Wednesday Feb. 15th.
Miscellaneous
Trivia
- The four games that Teh_Masterer is playing simultaneously in Episode 4 are (in order from top-left to bottom-right): The Legend of Zelda, GoldenEye 007, Super Mario Bros., and Super Metroid. He beats the level he was playing in each game simultaneously.
- Jeremy can execute a shoryuken, as seen in Pwn or Be Pwned.
- In the beginning of Episode 6, several scenes are shown that appear to be future scenes in the series. One of them includes the LANageddon scenes, where deathstriker6666 is challenging Jeremy. There is also a scene of a young woman with short dark hair, whose identity remains unrevealed.
- It is not until Episode 8 that micro becomes a truly prominent force in the show.
- In Episode 9, one of the supporting characters states, "It doesn't come from here; it comes from here," and points to his head. This is a reference to several old martial arts films that have the same motto.
- On several occasions throughout the show, Jeremy makes conscripts and movements towards the creation of a gamer army at the behest of Teh_Masterer. It is not until Episode 8 when Doug mentions it that the viewer truly knows Jeremy's intentions, which explains the odd phone calls made to Jeremy through payphones.
- Jeremy, according to the Teamspeak interview, in his early childhood played text-based adventure games, but later became utterly obsessed with competitive play as video games evolved. He is more concerned with gameplay than graphics. His favourite game designer is Shigeru Miyamoto.
- Jeremy should not be confused with a "Professional Video Game Player" whose primary source of income comes from winning video game tournaments. Rather the implications of "pro" in Jeremy's sense refers only to relative skill level. Jeremy spends the majority of his time playing video games, and therefore lacks any kind of gainful employment. In the Teamspeak chat, Jeremy stated that due to this lack of income, he cannot travel to competitions as much as he would like.
- Kyle does his best to emulate classic movie directors such as Martin Scorsese, and according to an interview, he desires to be like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
- Dave makes a reference to ice cream more than once, which seems to be his weakness.
- Dave is the only Pure Pwnage character to have his head on an official PP t-shirt,
- Many of the pro gamers in the show seem to have some of their own unique skills they attain. These skills can be taught to one another, it would seem. While most micro is simply the ability to pwn and even throw some energy balls around, micro can be really interesting. For example, Doug's micro allows him to instantly center his aim on an opponent's head.
Easter eggs
Easter eggs in the episodes:
- Jeremy seems to address Kyle as "Adam" on several occasions during the featurette "Happy Birthday Jakob", indicating Kyle's real name or it is perhaps a trick to make fans believe that this is the case. This happens at 1:16, 1:55, and 3:22. In the last occasion, Kyle can be heard whispering "Kyle" to correct Jeremy.
- On one occasion in the same featurette, it appears as if Kyle referred to Jeremy as "Matt", but he immediately changed his sentence. This occurs at 2:04.
- In Episode 4, when Teh_Masterer is playing 4 games at once, he has only 5 energy tanks, 5 missiles, 5 super missiles, and 5 power bombs in Super Metroid. While possible, it would be extremely difficult to pull off.
- During a shot of Doug playing CS:S in m8's at 8:51, a BOOM HEADSHOT spray can be seen on the left wall. The spray can be downloaded from the Fun Stuff section at the Pure Pwnage website.
- At the start of Episode 6, a binary number is displayed on a blackboard behind Teh_Masterer's head. When translated into decimal, it reads as the number 1337. Then changes to "Its too late" the next shot.
- During Episode 6, when Kyle answers the payphone, Teh_Masterer (the caller) wants to speak to Jeremy. As Kyle hands the phone to Jeremy, one can faintly hear Teh_Masterer as he commands, "Put that noob on the phone." Teh_Masterer is possibly referring to Jeremy's inability to play games at that point in time.
- There is a Spirit Healer on the computer screen during Jeremy's "death scene" in Episode 6, indicating that Jeremy has died in the game as well.
- In Episode 8, when Teh_Masterer calls his contact to get a new computer, he purchases one of the Omen series, by Voodoo PC. Omen is defined as "a phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign," which seems to be an appropriate name, considering how Jeremy defeats his opponent.
- In Episode 8, when Doug is competing against 7 other Counter Strike players, one of his victims is "f4tality". This is a nod to Jonathan Wendel, a professional FPS-gamer who goes by the name "Fatal1ty". Early in his career Wendel played CS before he resorted to single-player games like Q3A, and recently Painkiller. By the fact that in the episode Doug defeats "f4tality" it is made unmistakably clear to the audience "in-the-know" how much Doug "pwnz", as Wendel is deemed to be one of the best players worldwide.
Continuity errors
- In Episode 4, when Kyle walks into Jeremy's room after Jeremy "loses to a noob", Jeremy is holding a liquor bottle. However, in the next shot, the bottle is nowhere to be seen.
- In episode 4 at the end, Whe Jeremy walks into a game store we hear him say "I'd like to like buy Half-Life 2." Implying he is adressing a clerk on the other side of the counter. He is still walking into the store however.
- In Episode 5, after Doug gets headshot in CS:S, the monitor is not even on. As well, the keyboard that he subsequently smashes is not the same keyboard that he uses to play, which can be distinguished by their shapes; the keyboard which Doug plays with is a natural keyboard, while the smashed keyboard is standard rectangular.
- In Episode 9, when the two teenagers attack Dave's sisters, one of the sisters can clearly be heard speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin, which was spoken by all the other characters in that scene. (Cantonese is spoken in the Guangdong province mostly, and not in Shanxi where they speak dialects of Jin and Mandarin, which this scene takes place in.)
Phrases used or popularized by the show
- Über Micro – Jeremy's superior micromanagement skills. Micro itself is a term that is fairly extensively used by the community of RTS players.
- Three Dozer Build – A tactic often used by newbies in the RTS game Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour.
- noob/Newbie – Someone who is "new to gaming" using the latter word, but means that someone just plain sucks using the former word. This term is used commonly in the show by Jeremy as an insult or taunt. Jeremy's ratification for calling even skilled gamers noobs is because "everyone is a noob compared to me."
- BOOM! HEADSHOT! – A taunt used by FPS Doug when he has killed an opponent with a headshot, almost exclusively in FPS games.
- LOL! – Stands for "Laughing Out Loud", an acronym commonly used by internet users signifying that what an internet user or gamer has typed, shown or done is funny. Used by Jeremy in real life. He actually says "LOL" (pronounced "lawl") when he laughs.
- ROFLMAO – "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off", an acronym with similar use to LOL.
- (My/your) micro – Phrase used as a humorous parody on how gamers demonstrate or perceive each other's micro skills. That is, executing a pseudo-micro with neither a mouse nor a keyboard. For instance, it can be done in the air or other platforms irrelevant to gaming, such as a public phone or an ATM.
- And stuff, right? – Used frequently by Jeremy. Gramatically, this replaces "et cetera", and adds a confirmation-request tag question.
- To School/To make one "ride the school bus"/To take one to school – To display one's superior skill to an opponent, thus educating them in an otherwise unknown tactic.
- To pwn (pronounced "own") – See below.
Notes
- ^ The word "pwnage" can be pronounced several different ways. However, the show's creators pronounce it "ownage." Jeremy justifies this pronunciation and claims it is correct one with the following statements: "when people say '/poʊn/', they sound like a complete fag, and I'm not cool with being a fag, so I pronounce it 'own', and: 'pwn' was originally a typo of 'own', because the 'P' is near the 'O' on the keyboard; the person is still trying to say 'own'." --Jeremy, TeamSpeak chat, 13 December 2005.
- ^ In the episode The Life of a Pro Gamer, Jeremy refers to himself as pro, based on his superior video game playing skills, and refers to inferior gamers as noobs. He also cites Kyle's inept social skills and camera work as those of a noob.
- ^ In the episode Pwn or Be Pwned, Teh_Masterer explains the nature of noobs vs. pros. Moreover, pros such as Jeremy and FPS Doug are defeated and temporarily rendered noobs, or "noobified" in Girls and Pwn or Be Pwned. Other evidence of the relative relationship between pros and noobs is clarified in the "Jeremy's mailbag" section of the Pure Pwnage website. An October 2nd 2004 letter from user "ID Project" asked about Jeremy's new t-shirt. Jeremy responds "lol it sez i pwn n00bs bcuz evry1 is a n00b compared 2 me rofl". This clearly suggests that pros may become noobs when faced by superior pros.
- ^ Jeremy explains the trained noob phenomenon in Pwn or Be Pwned.
- ^ The episode Girls suggests that only pro gamers such as Jeremy possess über micro. Examples of his superior micro ability are apparent in every episode.
- ^ The episode Pwn or Be Pwned shows Jeremy enhancing his micro with training by Teh_Masterer. Teh_Masterer certainly displays micro capabilities greater than Jeremy's, in multi-genre gaming. Teh_Masterer is also seen training lesser video game players in The Story of Dave. In the episode LANageddon shows Jeremy and Doug training each other in their respective genres, as each man possessed substantially greater micro than the other in their individual games before the training session.
- ^ Jeremy shows his micro to Teh_Masterer in Pwn or Be Pwned, without the use of a keyboard. The latter, being an experienced video game player, comprehends Jeremy's micro ability. In Girls, the non gaming persons do not comprehend his micro demonstration.
- ^ In The Story of Dave, many characters clearly demonstrate abilities that transcend the boundaries of reality. Most notable is the ability for various pro gamers to use their micro to physically combat each other in real-life. Kyle being knocked to the ground by a micro attack during the micro battle shows that micro can also be effective against non-gamers.
- ^ There are some instances where Kyle is caught on camera. In the episode Girls, when Jeremy is talking about the one time he pwned, the mirror behind him gives a presumably accidental glimpse of Kyle filming. In addition, Episode 9 gives a third person shot of Kyle filming when the group is ambushed, but his face, as usual, is hidden behind the camera.
- ^ In the Pure Pwnage forums, a forum member's post pointed out a physical resemblance between Teh_Masterer and a musician named Geoff Lapaire, based in Toronto. The presence of a link to the Pure Pwnage site at the bottom of Lapaire's website suggests the possibility that he is the actor who plays Teh_Masterer and/or is Pure Pwnage's music producer. A later post in the same thread confirms Geoff Lapaire's association with Pure Pwnage, as the purepwnage.com domain name is registered under Geoff Lapaire. However, his connection to Teh_Masterer remains unconfirmed.
- ^ During a Teamspeak interview, it was confirmed that Dave's departure from the show was due to his new job, leaving him unable to help out with the show.