FWAK
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A FWAK — false wisdom and knowledge — is a bogus FAQ, generally written on the subject of a particular video game for the purpose of humor but sometimes also to deliberately mislead (and often both). The name FWAK is a play on the pronunciation of FAQ (fwack versus fack).
The first use of the term FWAK likely occurred in January 1996 in the Usenet newsgroup alt.games.final-fantasy (AGFF), when a contributor wrote elaborate, complicated, and false instructions for bringing General Leo back to life in Square Co., Ltd.'s computer role-playing game Final Fantasy VI. The concept gained popularity for a time and FWAKs were written for other games such as Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger and posted to AGFF.
By popular consensus within AGFF, the term FWAK was decreed to stand for "Furry Widdle Animal Kilts."
Earlier, FWAK was also the name of a Dweezil Zappa song on the 1991 album Confessions. The overlap is conincidence and the usages are unrelated.
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- FWAK UseNetWiki's Glossary. Retrieved May 7th, 2005
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