Words that gamers use that make you CRINGE!

[OniaPL]

When somebody beats someone hard online and uses the term "rape".
That's just... not cool.

Big supporter of RINJ, but I'll have to disagree with you there. It is possible to stomp another team hard enough that the term is justified.

I have no idea what RINJ is and I'm too lazy to google.

I'm not sure that the term is justified at any point. Out of all the terms you could use, why do you have to use "rape"? I'd rather not see the term trivialized, there are enough kiddos on Xbox Live screaming "I*M GONNA RAPE YOU OMFG" as it is.

 

[Preacher zer0]

"Toon".

"Dude my toon is level 50 now"

I hate that one...

 

[Ranorak]

Hate.

There is nothing wrong with the word hate it self.
But please put it in perspective.

Hate is the feeling you feel for the man that your wife just cheated on.
Hate is the feeling you feel for the person that just shot your dog.
Hate is the feeling you feel for the man that keeps calling your sister and moans in her phone 5 times a day.

Hate is not the feeling you get when you're slightly annoyed with the way Skyrim plays.

 

[Vault101]

Wonder no more... he totally tried to extol his graphical superiority over my personally-upgraded rig until about ten people nearby told him to stop being a total dumbass.

I mean, come on. The Xbox 360 came out in, what, 2006? Even someone with NO KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTERS can figure out that my 2011 upgrade makes prettier pictures.

wha?.....

and here I was thinking people like that didn't exist

I'll be honest..when I was younger I thought consoles had better graphics because they were "specialised" gaming machines, and our home computer was always "average"

but it really did not take me long to figure it out

 

[VanQ]

BR
Huehuehue
U giv itens plox

This is why I stick to subscription based games. No Brazilians around to be annoying.

 

[ResonanceSD]

When somebody beats someone hard online and uses the term "rape".
That's just... not cool.

Big supporter of RINJ, but I'll have to disagree with you there. It is possible to stomp another team hard enough that the term is justified.

I have no idea what RINJ is and I'm too lazy to google.

I'm not sure that the term is justified at any point. Out of all the terms you could use, why do you have to use "rape"? I'd rather not see the term trivialized, there are enough kiddos on Xbox Live screaming "I*M GONNA RAPE YOU OMFG" as it is.

I'm not going to bother explaining if you can't be bothered typing four letters into a search bar. I just won a PL_badwater without dying once. "we raped them" was totally justified in that case. It's not to be used casually, of course.

 

[debra_ beretta]

"Elitism".
"Casual".
"Realism".

Also, I know that in the case of online gamers a quick response/command is often necessary in the heat of battle, but game-based slang does annoy me somewhat, especially when people use it in regular, off-line conversation.

 

[Starke]

Entitled...

I'm not really sure if it's a gamer thing or just an idiot thing, most times I see someone use it in an argument I just leave the thread and never come back.

Also I've never heard it used outside the escapist (at least how it's used here) so maybe its just a cancer that's infected the Escapist and has yet to metastasize elsewhere.

It's not just here. Though the local population has abused it into a truly horrifying sanction for anything anti-consumer...


...and the Captcha is "make a bee-line" suggesting it somehow knew I almost used the word "drone" in this post.

 

[Starke]

"Elitism".
"Casual".
"Realism".

Also, I know that in the case of online gamers a quick response/command is often necessary in the heat of battle, but game-based slang does annoy me somewhat, especially when people use it in regular, off-line conversation.

Realism in particular earns one of those "that word you are using, I do not think it means what you think it does" responses. I don't think I've seen it used correctly... ever, at least not on the internet or in conversation.

 

[Torrasque]

"casual"
"hardcore"

Yep, I agree with this entirely.

I also hate "entitled" and "art" when talking about games.
Ever since ME3's release, that word has gone from "huh? what does that even mean?" to "I hear it more than I hear 'the' >.>".
As for "art":

"art"

Haha yeah. I mean, I used to think that conversation was sort of interesting, but then it just kept happening.

This times infinity.
Its like when you read a good discussion about sexism in the gaming community... And then see that same conversation a thousand more times with no new development or fresh ideas. Beating a dead horse pales in comparison to the whole "art" discussion.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot "realism". Oh how that makes me cringe...

 

[Vampire cat]

Shortening of words, often by the use of numbers or single letters ment to be pronounced like a word really annoys me. Most of the time the writer saves themselves one or two letters.

GRUAAAGH!

People that get infuriated with you in-game, but still try to sensor their swears with a * dotted somewhere inside a word. I've even had someone call me an idiot, and still feel the reason to sensor the word only he did it like this "id*iot" which KINDA defeat the point! X3 Also, by just sensoring one letter in the word in question you leave NO doubt in the readers mind what you are saying, and it's silly to push the blame of thinking of that word over on the reader. It's like saying "the F-word" or "the N-word" instead of the actuall words (I did it now for demonstration, please let me live!). If your not confident enough to use the actual words you may just as well use others...

HNUUUURGH!

A thread in any gaming forum with the title "[insert game]: Why all the Hate?" I swear this thread has been up for ANY slightly controversial game a hundred times, and the biggest "sinner" by far is Call of Duty. NO, I don't enjoy the latest Call of Duty games. I used to like the franchise, but the later installments haven't exactly left me hungry for more, I did not for example buy Black Ops or MW3.

FAH-SYYYYDH! (yes, this is how I break up my texts now, forget the old ----)

This is in no way exclusive to gaming culture, but seeing as it goes hand in hand with internet culture most of the time, this particular word had to make it's way into gaming, and the word is of course "bro" or "bra", however you wana say it... It's what bothers me most these days cause the images conjured up in my mind are images from the 80's and early 90's, when those words were "it", and they are not pretty images... I have tried to live with it but I can't, for some reason it burns my ears when someone calls someone else "bro" or says things like "chill bro", "u ok bro", "u mad bro" and so on... You know the drill. Even worse is bra cause at first it got me really confused! Why the hell is underwear slang now?! I use it to keep breasts in check, not address my "homies"!

BLUUUURGH!

*ahem*, no that was all. Just needed one more sound.

 

[Piorn]

"Killerspiele" (german: killer games)
Not only is it a derogatory term, used only by politicians and soccer mom's to describe any game that isn't Tetris, it's also abused in every discussion about videogame violence, often with "current examples" like Counter-Strike or WoW(seriously?).

 

[Sexy Devil]

More of a phrase but "pick up". HOW DOES THAT TRANSLATE INTO BUYING SOMETHING DAMMIT?!

 

[Torrasque]

"Killerspiele" (german: killer games)
Not only is it a derogatory term, used only by politicians and soccer mom's to describe any game that isn't Tetris, it's also abused in every discussion about videogame violence, often with "current examples" like Counter-Strike or WoW(seriously?).

To be fair, Germany had DOOM and Wolfenstein banned for how many years?
I'm not gonna say Germany is as bad as Australia, but the few Germans that I know, really hate the (anyone who doesn't play games and/or actually understand how they work)'s opinion of games.

 

[Tarminuus]

"Casual", because if a game is "casual" then that means that there must be games that are "hardcore" and whilst I do think that games are a powerful art form that will shape the face of modern media, I'm not THAT much of a nerd that I'd ever describe one of my hobbies and making me "hardcore".

 

[JohnDoey]

When people say a game is poorly made, if the game is actually badly made fine but they usually mean they just dislike the game.

 

[Scrustle]

Most of this stuff doesn't bother me at all. And the stuff that does doesn't really make me "cringe", it's usually people just using terms incorrectly. Like "epic" or "boycott". They've become dirty words because of their misuse, but I don't hate the words themselves.

I guess I do have something more closely resembling a hatred towards the terms "casual" and "hardcore". Again, casual is more of a misuse that's turned the word in to a taboo. Casual shouldn't be used as an insult, it's just a way of describing the attitude someone has towards their gaming habits. It shouldn't mean that they are somehow less worthy or have bad taste. Heck, I could even be called "casual" for some of the attitudes I hold towards gaming. Using "casual" as an insult tells you more about the person making the accusation than anyone else.

But "hardcore" is something completely different. It seems linked to the type of person who would use "casual" as an insult I think. It's so childish to feel the need to create this dichotomy between "casual" and "hardcore", and to use the latter to bolster your ego and look down on others. And for something which is essentially a similarity between the two parties. They both enjoy the same thing, just in a different way. Also the word is just terrible. "Hardcore" brings up images of 14 year old skateboarders from the 90s who think they're changing the world and "sticking it to the man" by listening to Blink 182 and pulling off a kickflip.

 

[SecondPrize]

"Boycott" A boycott is one of the few ways consumers have of getting their voice heard by companies in any meaningful way.
A boycott is not a word you wave around on an internet forum because game company X made some design decision you disagree with. Threatening a boycott, and never following through, for any little thing just cheapens the term and makes it less likely that any publisher or designer gets faced with an actual boycott capable of affecting their practices. This is a real shame in an industry where the games you love often come with bodycounts in the form of suicides and stress related medical events during crunch time, and where many developers have a pattern of excessively long crunch periods followd by layoffs when the game ships.

far less srsly
Hai
any1
loose
turrent god damn turrent. where the hell did this come from?
oh almost forgot the worst one. Vs. Vs stands for versus. There is no verse. It's not a fucking verb. The only way you can verse things is by reciting poetry at it.

 

[verdant monkai]

Any ass hole who starts giving orders like "ok you cover our left flank, you get on that turret and I'll grab the shotgun and take them head on" basically any ass hole who starts barking out commands as if he has is some kind of sergeant or something.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

People saying "lol" instead of actually laughing. IT. DOES. ME. IN!

One of my friends does that, but even worse she actually says "facepalm" IRL.

OT: Fanboy/girl