A legendary buffoon of the gaming realm, with an uncanny ability to consistently steer into chaos and absurdity, while miraculously blaming every other player within a 50-mile radius. This rare specimen possesses the unique skill of transforming their own relentless incompetence into the fuel for epic tirades aimed at their fellow gamers.
Dude, did you see that guy yelling at his teammates for his own fifteenth death? Classic Eptic Gamer move! Now if only he could master turning left instead of right into that bottomless pit... Maybe then he could unlock the magical power of winning a single game without having a meltdown.
(1) Eckel-eptic subjects are aware of their condition, but when confronted about instances of severe eckel-epsia subjects respond with a blank open-mouth look while in what seems to be a brain-dead state (thought to be attempting to develope an acceptable reasoning for instance in question....no one really knows, process never completed).
This is a condition that can happen to a person who has recently purchased an Apple conputer. To them, the world seems a little duller, a little more nonsenseical. Simptoms include: Long blank gazes at the Apple's interface and/or hardware design, shutting out of external stimulous such as telephone, email or personal contact and in extreme cases the user may stop eating.
Oh man, it's not looking good. Geoff's been in Apple-eptic Shock since he got his new 12" PowerBook with superdrive and iPod at no extra charge.