Poll: Gimped or nerfed?

[The_Echo]

I use neither. In general, if something gets worse, I usually use some sort of expletive.

Ex: *Playing God of War: Ghost of Sparta*
*Low on health, last remaining enemies almost gone*
*Those flipping armored cyclopes come into play, trollfaces and all*
"FUCK MY EAR." (Or something equally obscene or odd.)

I've never used "nerf" or "gimp." Nerf just reminds me of the toy, and gimp just reminds me of the software.

 

[Eumersian]

?but recently everybody seems to be saying 'gimped.' Believe me; that's not what a gimp is.

Actually, I heard the term "gimp" thrown around by a group of friends in my high school as the name that they called the girl with the crutches. It's possible that it's gained another meaning. Doesn't matter to me though. I use "nerf" all the time.

 

[clockout]

Gimped makes it sound like you crippled something. Nerf makes it sound it's been pussified.

 

[zehydra]

I never use either term. I just say "it's worse now."
(This is partially because I've never been a part of a game community where this has been an issue [nerfing, that is])

 

[Cazza]

I have only heard one person used the term "gimp" and that was that random dev for BO say they gimped quickscope. When did this whole gimp thing start?

 

[Trull]

Perhaps it depends on the age group
Nerfed for kids
Gimped for adults

 

[katsumoto03]

Gimp reminds me of crippled people and bondage, thus sounds stupid when use it in that context.

Besides, all us cool MMO people use nerfed.

 

[Alexnader]

I think are both perfectly acceptable, and can also tell you what kind of games a person enjoys.
In my experience, people who say "Gimped" are primarily FPS players who don't branch out much, and people who say "Nerfed" have a greater variety of games they enjoy.

Really? I've never heard the word gimped on the TF2 SPUF. I mean I only play shooters and I've barely heard the word gimp used in this context, although admittedly most of that shooter-time goes into tf2.

Although I do play Pardus(space MMO) in which the players whine about balance all the time and I haven't seen the word gimp.

 

[Rainboq]

*sigh*

[HEADING=2]GIMP IS THE POOR MAN'S PHOTOSHOP[/HEADING]

Seriously, the hell guys?

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Nerfed... who says gimp?

*sigh*

[HEADING=2]GIMP IS THE POOR MAN'S PHOTOSHOP[/HEADING]

Seriously, the hell guys?

Uh yeah did you read the OP? What are you talking about? And who cares that it's free. It still works. If you can make something with it, who cares what it was made on?

 

[Geekosaurus]

?but recently everybody seems to be saying 'gimped.' Believe me; that's not what a gimp is.

Actually, I heard the term "gimp" thrown around by a group of friends in my high school as the name that they called the girl with the crutches. It's possible that it's gained another meaning. Doesn't matter to me though. I use "nerf" all the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_(sadomasochism)

 

[Ophiuchus]

Honestly, neither. Wrecked, ruined, screwed... any of those is preferable and easier for anyone to understand.

 

[j0frenzy]

I think I used to have some different definitions between the two, but I never stopped and thought about the use of the word gimp. Now that I think about how offensive that is, I am going to have to try and take that out of my vocabulary.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I dunno what the proper term is, but I always say 'nerfed'. mostly cause it sounds right. and 'gimped' reminds me of my first boyfriend, which isn't cool. lol

 

[Sephychu]

Different terms. Gimp means made useless in regard to everything else, nerf is made weaker.