{"id":17,"date":"2007-03-16T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-03-31T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T20:25:18","slug":"i-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"I winning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/lists\/images\/jimage\/winning.png\" alt=\"I winning!\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Levelupsy<\/strong>:  \/<em>Lev-ell-up-see<\/em>\/ Patient S is the first documented case of fatal levelupsy. S had a history of chronic gaming; patient was discovered convulsing upon couch, ignoring symptoms of asphyxia while playing a common console game. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Level up + epilepsy. Epilepsy: a chronic nervous system disorder causing seizures. <em>Created by:<\/em> Discoveria.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Wiitusi<\/strong>:  \/<em>wee-TOO-see<\/em>\/ When Brandon pops in Mario Party 8 and begins his crazy wiitusi, nothing is safe. His mom finally gave up and just removed all the remaining unbroken Hummels from the family room. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  wii (vid game) + watusi (the dance, not th e tribe).  I am probably dating myself with this one&#8230; <em>Created by:<\/em> Alchemist.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Videoverdrive<\/strong>:  \/<em>vi-dee-oh-vur-drive<\/em>\/ At first glance, I thought my son may have Tourettes Syndrome, but when I saw that he was playing a game, I realized he was just in videoverdrive. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  video, overdrive <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><strong>Gamertose<\/strong>:  \/<em>gay-merr-tose<\/em>\/ there was no point trying to contact Allan between 5 and 11 in the evening as he was always gamertose <em>Etymology:<\/em>  gamer, comatose <em>Created by:<\/em> rikboyee.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=winning\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=winning<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">Be Creative,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">James<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Levelupsy: \/Lev-ell-up-see\/ Patient S is the first documented case of fatal levelupsy. S had a history of chronic gaming; patient was discovered convulsing upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I winning!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}