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Pure Pwnage (pronounced Pure Ownage ) is an internet video series by ROFLMAO Productions featuring a Canada pro gamer named Jeremy. The show is essentially a comical satire of the gamer s life . Settings for the show include Toronto and occasionally Calgary. Jeremy reveals to the viewers throughout the series what it is like to be a pro gamer. He claims to have so-called Ã?ber Micromanagement (computer gaming) (an actual style of video gaming) which he shows to fellow gamers as a way of communication.
The show is filmed by Jeremy s roommate and brother Kyle. Kyle is currently attending film school and will soon graduate. The [http://www.purepwnage.com Pure Pwnage] site states that they may go into full time production after Kyle s graduation. A DVD is now scheduled to be released, somewhere around the region of episode twelve, which is the planned end of the first season.
=Character bios=
In order of appearance:
==Jeremy==
Twenty-something year old Jeremy is what has become known as the stereotypical pro gamer. The main . Jeremy is Doug s best friend.
==Kyle==
Kyle is a year or two younger than Jeremy and a full-time film student. Though you never get to see him, he is an essential character in the series, and according to Jeremy, is a total noob. Always trying to keep Jeremy in check, Kyle is constantly trying to introduce something to replace gaming in Jeremys life.
Throughout the series Kyle strives to remain anonymous, and it is unknown why he would want to do so. A wallpaper available on the [http://www.purepwnage.com Pure Pwnage] site shows Kyle, though his face is hidden behind a camera and a baseball cap. Fans have actually seen Kyle and in episode eight they comment on him saying I thought Kyle would look cooler. No wonder he s behind the camera.
One theory is that Kyle is featured in episode 8, when Doug is training Jeremy how to make a headshot, when the camera quickly zooms into an anonymous person s face. It can be argued that the mysterious wallpaper of Kyle seems to indicate that the two have the same hair color, and there is hint of a small beard on Kyle, something the before mentioned anonymous person has.
==Doug (FPS Doug)==
A fellow pro gamer, Doug is Jeremys slightly psychotic . This was confirmed as true as upon being beaten once in a game of Counter Strike Source, he began to yell angrily and eventually smashed his keyboard.
Doug s catchphrase is BOOM! HEADSHOT!
==Dawei (Dave)==
Jeremys friend Dave is probably most famous for his cooking skills and his sense of humour (or lack of it). He first appeared at the end of episode three, being introduced as a crew member in the Behind the Scenes featurette (whose star moment was holding up a lamp in episode two). According to the [http://www.purepwnage.com/mailbag.html Pure Pwnage] site, Dave is paid three bowls of rice a week for being on the show. He doesn t particularly care about Jeremy and Kyle s antics and is not a hardcore gamer. According to a live chat with the cast, he is apparently pretty good at Super Smash Bros.
==teh_masterer==
teh_masterer is the mysterious master gamer who originally trained Jeremy. You can only see his eyes as he is clad entirely in a ninja outfit. His skill is demonstrated by his ability to play four video games at once. This strategic mastermind claims to have beaten Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue with nothing more than a row of pawns and a single bishop . teh_masterer first makes an appearance in episode 4 and again in episodes 6 and 8.
==Anastasia==
Massively multiplayer online game-playing Anastasia is Jeremys first love. They met up for the first time in episode two (although this was never shown) while Jeremy was trying to pick up girls. In episode six, they meet up again by chance and start meeting up online in World of Warcraft. Anastasia cares a lot for Jeremy but has a different view on games that they should be fun, not just about pwning. According to [http://mmogrrl.blogspot.com her blog], Anastasia was born in the year of the Rabbit (1987).
==deathstriker6666==
deathstriker6666 is an overconfident, arrogant, boasting pro gamer who opposes both Jeremy and Doug. His specialty (as far as it s possible to tell), is . In episode 8, he beats FPS Doug in a one-one Counter-Strike: Source match after which Doug faints. As payback, Jeremy humiliates him in the next match with a knife kill.
=The Episodes=
There are currently eight episodes with more planned to be released some time in the future. They re all available for download from the Pure Pwnage [http://www.purepwnage.com website] or via BitTorrent, in a DIVX-encoded avi format
==Episode 1 - The Life of a Pro Gamer==
An introduction to Jeremy s life as a pro gamer. How he eats, sleeps, and pwns noobs. *Release Date: 11 May 2004 *Running Time: 11:36
==Episode 2 - Girls==
Jeremy tries (and fails) to attract girls using his micro. The episode is interspersed with interviews of females displaying their knowledge and opinions of games. The song [http://www.purepwnage.com/media/teh%20pwnerer-teh%20noob%20song.mp3 teh noob song] is featured in this episode. *Release Date: 22 June 2004 *Running Time: 16:08
==Episode 3 - FPS Doug==
Jeremy starts off by visiting two translators who translate a message for all the Germanic and Hollandaise fans of the show. Afterwards, Jeremy comes across his old friend Doug - an FPS (First Person Shooter) fanatic with the catchphrase BOOM! Headshot! and explains the back story of their friendship and how it broke apart. As an ending Behind the Scenes featurette, Dave is shown for the first time. *Release Date: 19 July 2004 *Running Time: 12:00
==Short Featurette - Happy Birthday Jakob==
Jeremy is drunk and has been asked to say Happy Birthday to Jakob - a fan from Sweden. It s not until Kyle tricks Jeremy into thinking that Jakob has cancer that he finally says it right. Jeremy also calls Kyle Adam on several occasions during the featurette, indicating either the real name of Kyle or a trick to make fans believe that this is the case. *Running Time: 3:55
==Episode 4 - Pwn or Be Pwned==
The episode starts off with a spoof of the . The [http://www.purepwnage.com/media/Kyle%20-%20Feel%20like%20pwning%20noobs.mp3 Feel like pwning noobs] song features near the end. *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. Kyle gets angry at Jeremy s reaction to the film and storms off. He decides to start filming Doug instead, but after Doug s somewhat psychotic behaviour, Kyle returns to reconcile their differences. The end featurette shows Dave showing off his pro cooking skills. *Release Date: 6 December 2004 *Running Time: 14:55
==Episode 6 - Imapwnu of Azeroth==
Jeremy s mother has confiscated his computer. He has intentions to visit Dave so he can play Counter-Strike, but instead Kyle persuades him to meet up with Anastasia, a female gamer. At first, they seem like a perfect match, but there is one major problem - she plays World of Warcraft! WoW is a Warcraft game and an massively multiplayer online game, the two things Jeremy hates most in the world. Nevertheless, his want to see her again leads him to purchase the game so that they can meet up in the game world. Jeremy soon falls in love with both Anastasia and WoW, but falls prey to the MMO s spell. This episode features the song [http://www.agsn.ca/funny/purepwnage/Pure%20Pwnage%20-%20World%20of%20Warcraft%20is%20a%20Feeling.mp3 World of Warcraft is a Feeling] .
==Short featurette - Dave Delivers==
Dave goes to an apartment and delivers a shirt to a raging fangirl. A testament to the show s popularity. *Running Time: 1:29
==Episode 7 - The MMO Grrl==
Jeremy has been admitted to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in a coma state, believing himself to still be in the game. It will take a powerful moment to wake him from his trance. At the end, the plot thickens as a mysterious man who has been trailing Jeremy throughout the series sends a worrying email. *Release Date: 30 June 2005 *Running Time: 15:32
==Episode 8 - Lanageddon==
Life is sweet. Everything is back to normal. Jeremy and Doug have started to game together again, just like old times. Lanageddon (a local LAN tournament based in Calgary, Canada) is coming up and after an ominous phonecall, Jeremy and Doug start teaching each other about their respective mastered game genres. Jeremy teaches Doug about real time strategy games, while Doug teaches Jeremy about first-person shooters. At the start of Lanageddon, after making fun of a few noobs, they sign up for a Counter-Strike: Source tournament. They do impeccably, Doug even managing to challenge seven people all by himself and all at the same time. Things are going great for the duo, until they meet the loud-mouthed, over-confident deathstriker6666. After dismissing him as a noob, they then discover that his gaming talents are not overstated. A fierce battle rages between deathstriker, Doug, and Jeremy. Somehow, he manages to put Doug into a trance and fries his computer. However, the masterer orders a new computer for Jeremy, who then goes on to beat deathstriker. The episode features the song [http://www.purepwnage.com/media/Pure%20Pwnage%20-%20Im%20a%20gamer.mp3 I m a gamer] . *Release Date: 19 September 2005 *Running Time: 22:33
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=Notes=
# The word pwnage can be pronounced several different ways. However, the show s creators pronounce it ownage and seem to disdain other ways of pronounciation, in particular pone . See Pwn. # There is one instance where Kyle is mistakingly caught on camera. In the first episode, when Jeremy is talking, there is a mirror behind him, and you can see Kyle holding up the camera for a second.
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