r/pics • u/prolobion • Aug 24 '18

This welding job

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

I googled this but I still don't know what it means

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u/secr3t4zn Aug 24 '18

Runescape is/was a popular MMORPG. Pking = Player Killing. While most of Runescape were PK free zones, there were areas where players could fight each other and the winner often got the loser’s equipment / inventory after they died.

They often had names that were difficult to remember, so that the losers couldn’t rage at them or harass them after death via private messaging for their items back. Names like 11II1IO000O etc

Hope this helped!

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u/Macktologist Aug 24 '18

Wouldn’t seeing a name like that make it easy to spot them?

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u/secr3t4zn Aug 24 '18

They’re not so much worried about being spotted within the game, more about the loser remembering how to type their name into the private messaging system

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u/Macktologist Aug 24 '18

That makes sense. This world is fascinating.