Terms In Gaming That You Hate.

[MoganFreeman]

I have friends who routinely use "win" and "fail" as nouns and interjections in real life. None of them are gamers or really closely tied to internet culture.

This just means its spreading. Its a good thing. Sooner or later we'll come up with better things and then they will become cliche. Its an endless cycle. Until the world ends.

I'm not bothered by it due to an elitism thing. I'm bothered by it because using those terms IRL just sounds so forced and awkward, yet they keep using the terms because of the novelty or something.

 

[samuel1380]

I hate it when people put numbers in their name. I mean, come on can't you......DOH! Nevermind

 

[ProfessorLayton]

pwned, noob, epic, fail, epic fail, for the win or FTW (whichever one you like), anyone on teamspeak in a c.s source game screaming "GO,GO,GO!!!!!!" or when the A.I. starts screaming it. and i'm not even going into W.O.W

You. You are so right it's not even funny.

 

[MoganFreeman]

RL, or real life (like some of the people playing even have lives) it is really creepy when people say "RL" over voice chat

I use meatspace when refering to real life. It's not yet been done to death.

Also, reading more of the responses I'm reminded that I HATE internet abrevation and/or 1337 garbage. I'm a pretty tolerant guy but the minute I see someone use the letter u to replace the world you (and it's not sent from a cell phone) my opinion of the person drops rapidly.

When someone uses "u" to replace "you" my opinion of them drops regardless of what medium they are using. Back when I had to text message via a keypad, pre t9, I still wrote in grammatical English,

 

[ProfessorLayton]

it is really creepy when people say "RL" over voice chat

Now HERE is what pisses me off in general: PEOPLE WHO ANNUNCIATE ABBREVIATIONS!
What - the - fuck: it adds an additional layer to the cognitive process, where you have to first divine what the letters stand for, then how that term relates to context. SPEAK ENGLISH, YOU DIP-SHITS!

Also, my friend once complained about people who were discussing Earthworm Jim, but kept vocalizing it as E-J-W.
Earthworm Jim - 3 syllables
E J W - 5 syllables

SO STUPID

This too. Also people who will go out of their way to misspell something. Like, the key that they're hitting is on the other side of the keyboard. Isn't it easier to type "ha" then LMAO or ROTLFLOL??

 

[Simon Hadow]

LOL... is it Laugh Out Loud, or Lots Of Laughs? Choose you damn internet hippies

that would be laugh out loud (i choose)

You guys are just faggots who are to douch-e to realise that 1337 and powned are epic/Xtreme, I should so unload a clip of ammo on you in a FPS on my FTW rig because your all such noobs.I am also the most hardcore casual gamer out there. I am also the most uber gamer out there. pwned.

unless you were trying to be ironic, i hate you

n00b

I respect that, internet hippie

 

[Anarchemitis]

Epic
Cake in the context of a fasehood
Pwn
Own
Sniper
Frag
Noob
Any words with the vowels supplanted with an intentional error, or removed
Any characters replaced with accented letters, characters from other languages used out of context, or numbers.
Any abbreviation of any Civil Defense or Police force in a game. Civil Protection in Half Life 2 had "Civvies", "Cops", "Metrocops" and "CPs", fair enough. But any game in a dystopian world, has to have their own lame name and lame abbreviation of it.
See also: Insulting Me in an online game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1M5VHF3no]

 

[Guerrilla1]

powned...was owned not good enough?

i think its pwnd

 

[blaze96]

teh god I hate the word teh. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to popularize a god damned misspelling. I hate people who purposefully spell THE as teh if for no other reason than it is followed by even stupider speech like teh uber awesomeness.

 

[edinflames]

I think I'll save myself the time it would take to list them and go with "All terms in gaming."

I long for the day where it is mandatory for all players to speak like posh Victorian Englishmen/women.

Sir that day may yet come and we shall be emancipated forthwith from the crushing bore that is contemporary slang.

Good day to you.

 

[Moosey1245]

nub? wtf i know this is supposed to be a term related to noob but c'mon if you say the word phoneticly it is said n-ub ,noob, is noo-b.
ok guys this word should be sentenced to death id be more than glad to kill it for everyone else who hates it!!!

 

[edinflames]

nub? wtf i know this is supposed to be a term related to noob but c'mon if you say the word phoneticly it is said n-ub ,noob, is noo-b.
ok guys this word should be sentenced to death id be more than glad to kill it for everyone else who hates it!!!

Do it, do it now.

 

[hotacidbath]

pwned, noob, epic, fail, epic fail, for the win or FTW (whichever one you like), anyone on teamspeak in a c.s source game screaming "GO,GO,GO!!!!!!" or when the A.I. starts screaming it. and i'm not even going into W.O.W

You basically summed up everything I was going to say.

 

[Slayer_2]

epic, fail and n00b.

 

[Moosey1245]

with the power vested in me by the country of Australia* i hereby stricken Nub from everyday use and from the gaming language dictionary, if such dictionary exists...

*Please note i do not have any power i am just a 18 year old who hates that word soooo much, so so so so much!!

 

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

'Clip'

It's a MAGAZINE goddammit! Call it a 'mag' if 'magazine' is too long, but clip is INCORRECT.

Movies do this also...

I've noticed that too. Annoying, but ignorable.

As a kid, gun ammo being termed a "magazine" set my imagination alight with the possibility of "Hey, do you fellas want a REALLY MANLY MAGAZINE FOR MEN? Try HOT LEAD MAGAZINE, This ain't your sister's Cosmo, it's BURLY! You'll grow chest hairs JUST LOOKING AT THE FONT!"

The whole "Powerthirst" routine. Keep in mind at the time I was a kid growing up in 1997 (I was seven years old) and I didn't realise the SNAG movement was at its peak and quick decline. So back then I thought of manliness as something that happened to other guys who were tougher, because I certainly didn't fit in with the other boys who measured their manliness by how much their Pokemon levels were highly trained and tricked out compared to all the other kids. Looking at it now, I only laugh and think "Oh. My. God. We seriously thought Pokemon evolution and training was more important to being a real man than having luck with the ladies?"

Ok, tangent police. What term do I really hate in gaming?

Casualtard. That really annoys me. Especially since I only hear it on the internet mostly, or when I play online. And it certainly doesn't help with the "tard" addition to the term because frankly, there are reasons kids called me a retarded loser as a child and it makes me VERY annoyed that "tard" gets thrown around a lot to describe things that don't live up to people's expectations. It's not the freaking Spartan era, we don't discard babies who happen to be born different. In many cases they grow up like everyone else, and hey, some of them even have FAMILIES when they grow up, raising children who have the same disabilities they have but dammit, at least those new kids parents understand what hell their children will go through, just like them. The "retard" connotation in gaming (and on the Internet) is even more offensive to me than being called a "casual gamer". Because really, I've been called worse than being a "casual gamer, both online and off.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

one guy on COD4 today kept shouting 'boo-rah'

before the match began... during the match whenever he got a kill and after it

wanted to climb through the phone cables and strange him...

 

[Clashero]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Rig (as in a gaming PC).

You do not understand! Just like the XBox was called a Halo Machine because many people bought it just for that game, so is the PC called a Rig, in reference to the only game worth playing, Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing.

I think I'll save myself the time it would take to list them and go with "All terms in gaming."

I long for the day where it is mandatory for all players to speak like posh Victorian Englishmen/women.

I was about to say "WoW RP server", but most people there are quite ignorant of how to speak English, with examples "I SHALL SMITE THOU WITH MY AWESOMETH AXE OF OWNING", and "it appears I has lost your myspace, and i need to see your hawtness".

Then, "gay" as a universal derogatory, "awesome" or "cool" as a universal praise, 1337, pwn, epic, any form of unnecessary abbreviations (that is, IIRC is acceptable, but "lol" makes me cringe)

Epic
Cake in the context of a fasehood
Pwn
Own
Sniper
Frag
Noob
Any words with the vowels supplanted with an intentional error, or removed
Any characters replaced with accented letters, characters from other languages used out of context, or numbers.
Any abbreviation of any Civil Defense or Police force in a game. Civil Protection in Half Life 2 had "Civvies", "Cops", "Metrocops" and "CPs", fair enough. But any game in a dystopian world, has to have their own lame name and lame abbreviation of it.
See also: Insulting Me in an online game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1M5VHF3no]

Is that really you? I always find American voices a little annoying, but yours is surprisingly pleasant. Funny video, too ^^

 

[Valiance]

Hardcore and casual.

/thread

This, this, this to the tee, and I can't believe it wasn't mentioned earlier.

God damn I hate this generation.

To contribute: "PC gaming", since I thought "gaming" was good enough to encompass me, though it's not to separatists who need the PC and the Console split apart. ;/