FTW

I’ve been visiting the World of Warcraft message forums a bit lately. I’ve seen this “FTW” comment many times, there. I have seen it occasionally at other message boards and sometimes in online game chats, but I never knew what it meant. Well, actually, I had an idea what it meant, but my definition didn’t make sense in the context of the messages I was seeing.

Way back in my teenage life, I knew a guy who had “FTW” tattooed on his arm. It mean “F— the World.” I heard or saw that phrase once or twice more through the years.

So you can imagine my confusion over message posts such as:

“4 paladins in the same party, FTW!”
“Carrot on a stick, FTW!”

This term seems to be all the rage at the WoW forums. I don’t think you can read 10 posts without seeing it at least once.

But I have now learned what it means in computer gaming contexts: “For the Win.”

The more you know, the more you grow!

Bullgrit
bullgrit@totalbullgrit.com