{"id":762,"date":"2009-10-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2009-10-06T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:00:05","slug":"pwiioccupied-i-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Pwiioccupied: I winning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. <em>v.<\/em> To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/winning.gif\" alt=\"I winning!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pwiioccupied<\/strong>:  \/<em>pw\u00c4\u201c\u00cb\u02c6\u00c3\u00a4ky\u00c9\u2122\u00cb\u0152p\u00c4\u00ab<\/em>\/ Wendell is pwiioccupied with gaming. He Eats, breathes and sleeps a video game life. He thinks his Wii Fit app has improved his wiiflexes, his wiiaction time. His friends think it has made him a social wiitard. Those friends are planning an intervention to get him into wiihab. It*s all wiidiculous. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  preoccupied (dominate or engross the mind of someone to the exclusion of other thoughts) + Wii (home video game console released by Nintendo) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Pwiioccupied:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-10-02: 10:06:00<\/em> <br \/>poifect<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-10-02: 11:01:00<\/em> <br \/>wiitty woid, you wiiascally wabbit!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Wintendonitis<\/strong>:  \/<em>win ten do nye tis<\/em>\/ Buster played his video games morning, noon and night to the consternation of his parents. He was so intent on winning each game, he was oblvious to the need to rest, eat and hydrate himself. He could barely move his hand or arm anymore, as he was developing wintendonitis. There was always a pong coming from his room, his nickname was Gameboy and he thought Mario and Luigi were his real brothers. His parents could not wait for September, when Buster would go to school and apply his energy elsewhere. It would be hard for him to hold a pencil or crayon, unless they could surgically remove his hand controls. Grade One was going to be a tough year for Buster!  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious) &amp; Nintendo (Video game system made by the Japanese Nintendo Co.) &amp; Tendonitis (inflammation of a tendon due to over-use, such as in thumb, elbow, shoulder,etc) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Wintendonitis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-10-02: 10:12:00<\/em> <br \/>ecin <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mariopia<\/strong>:  \/<em>marr-ee-oo-pee-a<\/em>\/ Clyde suffered from Mariopia and it ruined his life. It started out with a simple Gameboy&#8211;black and white screen, bad graphics. Yet he was compelled to conquer it, and was willing to let his life fall into shambles around him. Today, Clyde is so destitute that he has taken to hanging around Best Buy looking for some kid who he can convince to &#8220;test drive&#8221; Mario Kart on the store&#8217;s demo Wiis. The scene usually ends with the kid crying, Clyde taunting and security escorting him off the premises. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Mario, the ubiquitous gaming brothers, combined with suffix &#8220;opia&#8221; which means affecting vision. <em>Created by:<\/em> Nuwanda.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Mariopia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-10-02: 23:32:00<\/em> <br \/>A Mario made in Heaven&#8230;good word<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Videowiiality<\/strong>:  \/<em>vid &#8211; eee &#8211; ooo &#8211; wee &#8211; al &#8211; et &#8211; ee<\/em>\/ No one could get Jonah&#8217;s attention for the past two days.  He was clearly in videowiiality and we were all worried.<br \/>\nWe thought he was becoming dehydrated and it looked like his game system had become his new hallucinogenic. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  video, wii, reality <em>Created by:<\/em> mweinmann.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Videowiiality:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=artr\">artr<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-10-02: 12:22:00<\/em> <br \/>Don&#8217;t tell me Jonah forgot his energy drink!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=winning\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=winning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. A state of hyper-attentive focus combined with WBT (Whole Body Twitching) and IEE (Ignores Everything Else), which commonly afflicts video game players. v. To get so caught up in a video game that you cannot stop. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Pwiioccupied: \/pw\u00c4\u201c\u00cb\u02c6\u00c3\u00a4ky\u00c9\u2122\u00cb\u0152p\u00c4\u00ab\/ Wendell is pwiioccupied with gaming. 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