Poll: Spunkgargleweewee

[repeating integers]

Like many other things, it's only funny when Yahtzee does it.

 

[Talaris]

Whilst a lot of Yahtzee's jokes and use of idioms do make me laugh, this term never did it for me. It's obviously a personal term only applied once or twice to generate a little immature humor. Anyone else taking the term and applying it to something themselves, rather than just merely referring to the episodes it was used in, is an uncreative idiot.

 

[Angie7F]

slang and new words are created for a reason. I think as much as I wont be using it much myself, it describes game genres well

 

[floppylobster]

It's done. Put it away with "my Wii is gathering dust".

 

[WanderingFool]

Oh I had a giant soap box I jumped onto when people started to use this term and they WEREN'T using it ironically (like PC Master Race).

Where oh where did I leave that...

Ah ah! Here is it (in a thread about "broadening" the term because the OP evidently thought that a stupid joke needed to be broadened):

No, this is the stupidest term that has ever attempted to break out of a ZP episode into "regular" talking; it needs to be eliminated completely, not broadened. The "term that does not even deserve to get mentioned" is a term used by people who want to look down on modern FPS's but don't want to sound like they're an anti-fanboy. This term is the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard.

I love quoting myself. It's like forum masturbation

Stop that, you'll go blind...

But I believe I agreed with you in that thread also, so I agree with you in this thread too.

It (not even giving it the benefit of being typed) was a one time thing that Yahtzee may use every now and again. Its nothing more, and the massive use of the phrase by people is really fucking annoying... almost as much as the fact that whenever something happens (ME3, Feminists vs tropes, gun bans), the Escapist latch to it until the next big thing comes around.

*Edit*

like a lawnmower on crack...

I cracked up at this, no I gotta use it in conversations...

 

[Pat8u]

I don't say it to other people I say it to myself when I see a game that fits the description of a "Spunkgargleweewee" game

Eg: hmm what am I in the mood of playing Uncharted...no BAttlefield 3? well I havent played a spunkgargleweewee game in a long time so... may as well
I personally like the term but it sounds silly in ordinary conversation

also Im not insane before you get that idea

 

[Pat8u]

The use of the term annoys me. It causes the same sensation that using the term 'ass creed' does for me. I instantly loss any respect for the person, see them as the kind of Yahtzee zealots that get banned on his video's every week and ignore them completely.

Ass creed is simply a shortening of Assassins creed or at least thats what I use it for so why does the use of this term annoy you (Also Assassin is tedious to spell)

 

[Jhooud]

Yes please - put it to rest. I understand and appreciate the distain Call of Duty has inspired among the forum faithful...but the term always came across as being pretty juvenile. Honestly, I expect a higher-quality level of snark from Mr. Croshaw than that.

Little triple-cu...wait. Nevermind.

Ahem.

So yes, let's get rid of that one and move on. Water under the bridge and all that.

 

[Nazulu]

Nope. I like it. If it pisses you off, GOOD! It's meant to. I'm so fucking sick of hearing about COD every year and all the absolute garbage that copy's it, but when I hear SGWW it makes me smile. A gross immature name for a gross immature genre. A parody for every thing those games stand for, because you gargle that shit.

I'll tell you what, when Activision stops getting away with it, then the term should go out the window. Until then, I really don't care any more. The fact they can make so much money of the same game over and over is the real problem. Complaining about this term is the only silly thing I see, especially when I hardly see any one use it. I haven't even had the chance to use it yet!

 

[DJjaffacake]

Where's my 'I don't mind either way, it's just a bloody word' option?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I think it's a good word that accurately sums up the genre it's meant to. It's not showing disdain, but an immature and borderline offensive term used specifically to describe an immature and offensive genre, (or rather, an immature and offensive game, since everything that falls under that definition is basically a photocopy of COD with little new or relevant added).

Seriously, describe a few game genres to a non-gamer. Shooters, platformers, racers... spunkgargleweewee. Action games where you play a character with a gun, games based around jumping and physical challenges, games based around racing and being fastest... and games based around joining a fictionalised representation of possibly the biggest army in the world and fighting far weaker enemies designed to resemble real people but actually a patchwork of racist stereotypes designed to reflect the xenophobia and fears of a certain corner of society (who still often come off a sympathetic simply due to being far less well equipped than you and need to be characterised almost as cartoon villains to work as antagonists at all) and committing mass murder upon them on a regular basis with the best equipment in the world, usually completely unironically to a rock soundtrack and an undercurrent of "we're awesome" all designed specifically to appeal to people's power fantasies.

So yeah, I think classifying it as a sub-genre with a hugely immature title is entirely appropriate.

I didn't know that Russians were "far weaker" enemies. When did that happen?

at some point during the early 90s when russias military got cut down a bit. they did no longer need an army that could plow through europe like a lawnmower on crack, now they just needed one juuuust big enough so attacking russia wasn't worth it.

today, the u.s. has accumulated:

- twice the number of manpower reserves
- four times the strenght of aircraft
- about five times the helicopter strenght
- about 5-2 times the mbt strenght, according to who you ask
- and ten times the strenght in aircraft carriers

so yeah, all those scenarios where russia attacks america are a rather unrealistic jingoist gunwank revenge fantasy.

Though it's worth noting that the Russian Mafia is wealthier than us, politically untouchable, (it's bought entire banks. BOUGHT. BANKS.) and has purchased nuclear weapons. So maybe all they need to do is make them the villians instead of the Russian government proper?

iiiii don't think that thing about nuclear weapons is accurate. is there any non-tinfoilhat sources for that?

It's actually more likely than you think. I don't know if the Russian Mafia is specifically involved, but decommissioned Soviet era nuclear materials have a notorious tendency to, er, fall off the truck on the way to being dismantled. I think if the Russian Mafia is involved (and let's face it, they'd be bad businessmen if they weren't controlling this trade), though, it's more likely that they're the ones selling the stolen material than the ones buying it.

http://www.cfr.org/weapons-of-terrorism/loose-nukes/p9549

 

[Andy Shandy]

It's a daft term used by daft people who want to feel clever by copying Yahtzee.

So yeah, I'd wish it would stop, but I don't see it happening any time soon unfortunately.

 

[Kathinka]

I think it's a good word that accurately sums up the genre it's meant to. It's not showing disdain, but an immature and borderline offensive term used specifically to describe an immature and offensive genre, (or rather, an immature and offensive game, since everything that falls under that definition is basically a photocopy of COD with little new or relevant added).

Seriously, describe a few game genres to a non-gamer. Shooters, platformers, racers... spunkgargleweewee. Action games where you play a character with a gun, games based around jumping and physical challenges, games based around racing and being fastest... and games based around joining a fictionalised representation of possibly the biggest army in the world and fighting far weaker enemies designed to resemble real people but actually a patchwork of racist stereotypes designed to reflect the xenophobia and fears of a certain corner of society (who still often come off a sympathetic simply due to being far less well equipped than you and need to be characterised almost as cartoon villains to work as antagonists at all) and committing mass murder upon them on a regular basis with the best equipment in the world, usually completely unironically to a rock soundtrack and an undercurrent of "we're awesome" all designed specifically to appeal to people's power fantasies.

So yeah, I think classifying it as a sub-genre with a hugely immature title is entirely appropriate.

I didn't know that Russians were "far weaker" enemies. When did that happen?

at some point during the early 90s when russias military got cut down a bit. they did no longer need an army that could plow through europe like a lawnmower on crack, now they just needed one juuuust big enough so attacking russia wasn't worth it.

today, the u.s. has accumulated:

- twice the number of manpower reserves
- four times the strenght of aircraft
- about five times the helicopter strenght
- about 5-2 times the mbt strenght, according to who you ask
- and ten times the strenght in aircraft carriers

so yeah, all those scenarios where russia attacks america are a rather unrealistic jingoist gunwank revenge fantasy.

Though it's worth noting that the Russian Mafia is wealthier than us, politically untouchable, (it's bought entire banks. BOUGHT. BANKS.) and has purchased nuclear weapons. So maybe all they need to do is make them the villians instead of the Russian government proper?

iiiii don't think that thing about nuclear weapons is accurate. is there any non-tinfoilhat sources for that?

It's actually more likely than you think. I don't know if the Russian Mafia is specifically involved, but decommissioned Soviet era nuclear materials have a notorious tendency to, er, fall off the truck on the way to being dismantled. I think if the Russian Mafia is involved (and let's face it, they'd be bad businessmen if they weren't controlling this trade), though, it's more likely that they're the ones selling the stolen material than the ones buying it.

http://www.cfr.org/weapons-of-terrorism/loose-nukes/p9549

oh there is no doubt that security is often very lackluster, and that important material connected to nuclear research and such was stolen before. but the claim that actual nuclear weaponry has been bought or stolen is just absurd.

 

[Eternal_Lament]

I view it like this:

When Yahtzee used the term, I really didn't care either way. I don't have a vested interest in these games (I enjoy the local multiplayer for BLOPS 2 with my friends, which indecently is what we did a lot for Christmas break) so I wasn't particular hurt when he said it. I did think that, if anything else, it was going for the low-hanging fruit and wasn't particularly funny. Like any term though, it can wear it's welcome if used too much. The problem I have is that it wasn't even that it was being overused in his videos (which it sort of was), it was that everyone just latched onto the term and overused it for him.

Now if I see someone use it, I actually lose respect for them and treat the rest of their argument with less respect. It's one thing to simply copy a term rather than to come up with something yourself, it's another to go for a term that wasn't even that funny. It makes me think that the person has no real though except to parrot what they've heard, thinking that it makes them as "edgy" or "witty" as Yahtzee.

Why can't we just accept that the games that these are used for are FPSs? What's the worst that can happen? That they might be associated with shooters that you like? Then just call these games that you don't like "Bad Shooters", not this hipster/anti-maintstream bullshit that just makes you come across as insecure. God forbid that we describe games in a genre you like as being "bad", instead let's just single them out into a single genre. Yeah, that will show them, "These games weren't bad FPSs, they're spunkgargleweewee games! They're totally different, and totally more shit! Can't you tell by their name how shitty they are compared to other games? You know what, these aren't even games, because that would give other games a bad name!"

 

[Deacon Cole]

This term comes up really quite a lot around here, and quite honestly, I think it's puerile and foolish in the least entertaining way.

Just like the games it describes.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh I had a giant soap box I jumped onto when people started to use this term and they WEREN'T using it ironically (like PC Master Race).

I still can't believe people missed that.

My operating theory is that Yahtzee says some of these things to see how many people will parrot him in saying some really stupid things. Spunkgargleweewee is definitely one of those.

 

[UniversalRonin]

To echo some of the other people here, it doesn't bother me, and I don't especially enjoy it, and have never used it on a forum or any other place. I don't really play COD or any of it's siblings in the FPG genre, I much prefer strategy games.

But again echoing other people on here, Modern Military Shooter seems like the best title for them. And it makes sense to have the label for that type of game, look at RPG's, they come in JRPG flavour as well. MMS could be a sub genre of FPS. Maybe even MMFPS? Who knows. But still, I chose to vote 'No, I like it' because there wasn't a 'I honestly couldn't care less.' option.