Why is EPIC the only descriptor that people use nowadays?

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Seriously, I can't be the only one who's noticed this trend. It seems everyone has resorted to using epic to describe everything. Epic win, epic loss, epic fail, epic lol, and so on. I once listened to a discussion amongst students at my college (they were talking too friggin loudly, I wasn't eavesdropping) and they used the phrase "epic ______" about a dozen times!

People, we need new words. In closing, http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/epic
 
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Personally I've gotten used to describe any positive event that is about to happen as:

"Legen! ..wait for it... dary!"

I can only guess more people got the word "epic" in their vocabulary after playing World of Warcraft for some time and got hold of some equipment of Epic(purple) quality. And then went on using in other contexts to describe something that is awesome/grand/fantastic or so on.

I also wonder how many of those that use the word so elaboratly know what "epic" actually means?
 
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EPIC WHINE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Its a catch phrase. A secret handshake for internet nerds. What else is there to say?
 
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Epic comes from 4chan. If someone there did something funny or cool in a thread, then you'd get some form of the "epic" thing. I for one thing it's really been overused to the point of pissing me off immensely any time I hear it.
 
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It seems like "epic" is just going the way of "awesome." I don't think anyone under 30 uses "awesome" only to describe breath-taking, awe-inspiring wonderment.


On a related note, I find games' and gamers' obsession with "epic" storylines annoying. Can't we have more nice, reasonably-scaled storylines? Every RPG doesn't have to be about saving the world in 50+ predictable plot twists followed by a final confrontation with anthropomorphic evil, does it?


-- Alex
 
Johnn Johnston

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People use Epic as "a secret handshake for nerds", as ReepNeep said. I heard somebody say "Epic Fail" the other day and I knew at once that he was a fellow nerd.
 
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the_tralfalmadorian said:
EPIC thread.
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ElephantGuts said:
People describe things as epic because things are epic. So why wouldn't you describe it as epic?
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And enter the Douschebag army that adds Epic to everything because they're "Funny" and "Ironic"
 
Johnn Johnston

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I cannot stand people that say "Oh, Epic Win, right? Uhuhuhuhuh" to try to be funny. It's not funny. It's using something out of context, and you have never said it before. You only say it because you have heard other people say it, and found it funny. Acting like other people does not automatically make you a great comedian, it just makes you irritating.

A minor rant, but a good rant in my opinion.
 
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i personally never use epic to describe something as being good, i don't even use epic in it's correctly context

i think it's rather annoying, much like touching base with someone
 
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Pastey Old Greg said:
Epic comes from 4chan.
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Like most crap of the internet.

Is it me, or does anyone else hate those owls? (First person to retaliate with a picture of one will get my boot so far up there...)
 
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