Poll: Spunkgargleweewee

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nohorsetown

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Uh, y'all realize the term is kinda sexist / homophobic, right? The "spunkgargle" part. As in, gargling spunk - it's implied to be a bad thing. Like "cocksucker". Yeah, it's one of the dumbest phrases I've ever heard. Awkward to speak, think, or type. You really should stop using it.
 

Phuctifyno

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I think the real mature thing to do would be to invent a new word to take it's place.

...A better word. A longer word. Less juvenile; less peurile; less infantilizing. A word that puts the ol' sweat on the monocle. A word that makes you look smart and feel smart without actually having to be smart. A word for the glory, for the splendour, for the ages and for all time. A word that ends with "tion", and maybe starts with "re". Effeminate but strong. Rolls off the tongue, but twists it just enough. No g's or z's allowed. Ugly letterz. Fuck them. A golden word that glistens and shimmers while exploding and exciting all at once. A platinum word that gives the ladies erections and makes the boys wet. A diamond word that thousands of teenagers will be naming their shitty bands (that they think sounds like Pantera but actually sounds like Three Doors Down), and misusing in high-school essays for decades to come. A word that we can imagine James Bond secretly uses, when the camera is off lest we learn the truth, to win every beautiful woman's heart and escape every terrifying villain's grip. A word that goes down easy but boils the blood. Smells like roses, but stings like a bee. Dances like a buttefly, but stings like a ...scorpion. A word that unites in awe, while dividing in caste. A word that pushes society forward and paves the way to a universally agreed upon pecking order, decided directly by He who is I AM using only this one word, His gift to us, whose properness of use displays, in purest form, the quality of mind and integrity of soul of the user. For the ages and for all time, but mainly for us, the people. You, the special individual. The tapestry. The snowflake. The word is empty without you. So fill it. Fill it with you. All the you you have.




...Okay, guys, here's my try:

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Are you ready for this? Okay, sit down. ahem:
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Restackidornassifuquation


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n00beffect

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Callate said:
I think the better question might be: "Is your irritation with the phrase directly proportional to the amount of enjoyment you get out of the games it describes?"

It doesn't bother me, but I'm also in the camp that thinks its ilk becoming the workhorses of the biggest video game companies is a net negative for both the medium and the industry, so I might be biased.
Totally behind this guy; he knows what he's talking about.

It's probably not the phrase itself that bothers you, OP person, but the games it is ascribed to. Personally I think get way too emotional about things like that - minutia, that really bears no significance what so ever
 

DirgeNovak

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I prefer to call them gun porn games. I think the term is funny when Yahtzee says it, but YOU'RE NOT YAHTZEE, people! I don't call gun porn games "spunkgargleweewee" (even though I share much of Yahtzee's opinion on them) in the same way I don't call stylized hack-and-slashers "spectacle fighters". These terms work in the context of his show, bit aren't descriptive enough for coomon parlance.
 

MortisLegio

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I don't really like games like CoD anymore, but I do find the term insulting. I'm not even one of those people who is looking to turn everything PC as it were, but I'm also not one to purposefully make fun of them for their taste in entertainment. I don't really like Final Fantasy and think the games (admittedly I've only played 10,10-2,and 13) silly and poorly written but a friend of my really likes them. Should I call the series an insulting term because I don't like it? Yahtzee did it because he is, for better or worse, and insult comic that reviews video game and did it for comedic purposes. When I see other people use it, it comes off more as insulting the games fanbase than the games themselves and find that very distasteful. I see no real point in making fun of peoples choices in what kind of games they play. I can understand analyzing the story or other feature and saying it's bad but the term "Spunkgargleweewee" comes of as actively trying to shame people who don't like the same things as you do. That's why I don't like the term.
 

Twilight_guy

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Pat8u said:
Twilight_guy said:
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)
Because it only become a thing after Yahtzee used it and I've only ever ever seen it used on this site. In addition, a proper shortening of the game is not to remove a few syllables but to using an acronym, such as AC 2, AC 3, AC:R etc. or to use a certain key word in place of the name, such as Creed: Revolutions, Creed 3. That's how ever other game in existence has it's named shortened. An usual name abbreviation combined with its tendency to only be used here and its chronological correlation to Yahtzee heavily implies Yahtzee drones. What's more is that Yahtzee drones don't know they are Yahtzee drones due to their own delusions and wouldn't even recognize their irrational behavior. Watch yourself.
 

sageoftruth

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Personally, I think it's like TV tropes: Fun to use among those who get what it means, but not worth explaining to outsiders. If I'm talking to a friend who doesn't use The Escapist, I won't bother using the term. I think it's also important that we both feel the same way about said genre before I whip it out.
 

scorptatious

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I never found the term funny. If you don't care for military shooters, that's fine. But using that term to describe them doesn't make you cool, edgy, or funny. It just comes off as stupid and annoying.
 

Mikeyfell

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Childish name-calling aside the "Modern military shooter" genre does need to be separated from the "real shooter" genre.
And hell? Why not give it a title that adequately reflects the maturity of people who like those kind of games?

It could be more streamlined, like everybody knows what you mean when you say Roll Playing Game (Like Mass Effect!) NO! Fine all the genera titles are clunky and unspecific so I vote to leave it Supnkgargleweewee.
 

Doom972

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I like this term because I like First Person Shooters but hate Spunkgargleweewee. This term helps differentiate between the two.

Mikeyfell said:
Childish name-calling aside the "Modern military shooter" genre does need to be separated from the "real shooter" genre.
It doesn't refer to modern military shooters. Arma 2, for example, isn't Spunkgargleweewee. It doesn't hold your hand from cutscene to cutscene to QTE.
 

major_chaos

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Mikeyfell said:
Childish name-calling aside the "Modern military shooter" genre does need to be separated from the "real shooter" genre.
And hell? Why not give it a title that adequately reflects the maturity of people who like those kind of games?
Yep I liked Battlefield 3 and Black Ops 2, guess I'm shit, gonna go drink me some YEAGER BROS, FUCK YEA AMERICA /sarcasm

OT: Its a term used by people who subscribe to the "people who like things I dislike are inferior to me" school of though and that annoys me, but the Escapist tends to have an over abundance of those people especially on the topic of shooters so the term isn't going anywhere unless they come up with a even more condescending way of saying it.
 

CManator

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88chaz88 said:
You know what's worse than "spunkgargleweewee"? Entire threads dedicated to complaining about the phrase.
And even worse than that? People who walk in to a topic they're not forced to enter, complain about the existence of said topic, and contribute nothing. And every topic has one. Pehaps a new term to describe these people is necessary.

Deadweightcynicbuttholes.

OT: The shock factor made it mildly funny the first time Yahtzee said it, but imo it's up there with "pedophile burglar" in the list of terms that shouldn't ever catch on. That said, I can't be bothered to care if someone else uses it. No respect lost, but none gained either.
 

Berithil

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Subscriptism said:
It should definitely be kept because it is perfect for describing those types of games. They are the jersey shore of the gaming world and need to identified as such.
I disagree. I think Zynga games are the Jersey Shore of the gaming world. Modern Military FPS's are more like high budget Hollywood 'splosion fests. Good for some mindless entertainment, but that's as far as they go.

Anyways, I really don't care. I see the term as slang for MMFPS's. If people want to use it, fine.

Though I am seeing a bit of a forced meme status. On the Escapist, that is.
 

ninjaRiv

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Kirov Reporting said:
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.

Yahtzee says a lot of funny and a lot of less-funny things, so how has this throwaway term been appropriated above all else, and seemingly parroted every time someone seeks to validate their dislike of a game style by invoking the apparently sacrosanct word of Croshaw?

Does the use of this term annoy you also, Escapists, or should I get back in my box?
You must be a blast to have around.

Nah, I get it. It's dirty and stupid. But, way I see it, sometimes you need that in comedy. You can't only enjoy witty, clever and sophisticated comedy' sometimes you need to enjoy something a 2 year old would say. As for using it in conversation, though, I see what you mean. It loses that immature, silly joke quality when people start using it in a conversation.

I like the word, though.
 

Pat8u

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Twilight_guy said:
Pat8u said:
Twilight_guy said:
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)
Because it only become a thing after Yahtzee used it and I've only ever ever seen it used on this site. In addition, a proper shortening of the game is not to remove a few syllables but to using an acronym, such as AC 2, AC 3, AC:R etc. or to use a certain key word in place of the name, such as Creed: Revolutions, Creed 3. That's how ever other game in existence has it's named shortened. An usual name abbreviation combined with its tendency to only be used here and its chronological correlation to Yahtzee heavily implies Yahtzee drones. What's more is that Yahtzee drones don't know they are Yahtzee drones due to their own delusions and wouldn't even recognize their irrational behavior. Watch yourself.
Ah I see THe thing is I didn't even know yahtzee said it, I say it because I really can't spell Assassin
 

Lugbzurg

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Kirov Reporting said:
This term comes up really quite a lot around here...
I just typed "Spunkgargleweewee" into YouTube. I got a lot of results. On Google? Plenty more. And not just Escapist links, either.
 

jackinmydaniels

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Yes, it didn't even get a chuckle out of me when yahtzee said it and it's only gotten increasingly more cringe worthy with time.