flamingdog

Machinima
Product
Zerged
Meme
Pwned
Robust
Games or consoles 'hitting'
Ganked

Anything to add?

CityOfAngels

Hey; Product is the name of my brother's band. Don't hate.

Hmm, I'm with you on Machinima, Pwned (I seriously think I created this phenomenon; but since it's so widespread I also seriously think I didn't), and Ganked. I hate these words, too:

Farming
Camping
N00b

Gilda

I think this is the first time in my life I've ever seen the words machinima, zerged, ganked, or a game/console hitting.

I've heard "robust economy" quite a bit. It seems as if that's the only available variant of strong writers have available to them.

Meme: I find this useful in certain situations, and haven't seen it overused lately.

Pwned: I'm at a loss as to how this is pronounced, and it has frequently been a marker for me of a lack of maturity when used in any manner other than satirical.

Product: Can't fathom why this would bother you unless it's being misused to mean "service", which annoys the hell out of me.

Gilda

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flamingdog

Oh man, N00b needs to go.

Hey man, what kind of band is it? Anything out there I can apply my ear to?

Edit:

Gilda: I mean 'Product' in the sense of 'output'. They use it on Penny Arcade a fair bit, talking about games as a whole as 'Product'. It just seems a very business-orientated view to take of something that, at its root, ought to be about fun and playfulness.

'Robust' is used in the sense of specific features in games being well-designed. Again, it has a corporate flavour to it that makes me want to go and brush my teeth when I hear it. Like, one might say the costume creation engine in City of Heroes (which is arguably the best thing about the game) is very 'robust'. Grrrr.

'Meme', well it's not a gaming term as such, but it's definitely touted around in gaming circles. One of my most ill-advised pastimes is trawling crappy Livejournals in a masochistic orgy of angst and bitterness. Those surveys that people circulate to be filled in and posted on your 'blog'. It's overused in certain places, for sure.

'Ganked' and 'Zerged' are MMOG terms that just need chopping off at the knees and then machine gunning for good measure.

And Machinima, I have no clue what it means, but if you read gaming blogs, you'll see it EVERYWHERE.

Willravel

If I never hear these words again, it'll be too soon:
-actually (actually, you don't need to say actually every 3 minutes)
-proactive
-negativity (thanks, MTV for stealing another one of our smart words and ruining it)
-"I feel" phrases ("I feel like lately you've been drivijng 50 minutes a day." I feel statements are used to convey feelings (opinion) not facts.)
-irregardless (Question: how can you be without being without regard? Answer: it's a double negative!)

the_marq

If you have never heard the word "Machinima" then are you are clearly a N00b and are destined be PWned when the new product hits the market. All the robust gamers know the Memes.

Last time I got Zerged I found a Gank in my pants.

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flamingdog

Do people really say 'irregardless'? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. EVER.

feelgood

God, that word has lots its meaning. It's plauging fark.com as if nobody really knows what it means

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MontanaXVI

acronyms that everyone uses to no end and annoy me,

LOL
IMHO
ROFFLE
and any other little made up on the spot variation of ROTFL
LOLLERRZZZZ
ROFFLMASOBBQ and the such all need to go.

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sadistikdreams

Machine + Cinema = Machinima

It's stuff like Red vs Blue, basically just videos made with video games.

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Randomfunk

The only word I 'hate' at the moment is 'like', like, people just seem to use it all the time like, when its really not mean to be said...like...

Not quite as annoying to me in written form as it is when it said...

CityOfAngels

flamingdog - I'll PM you their myspace page when I'm done typing this. As much as I would like to tell everyone about my bro's band, it's not my intention to spam.

Here's the reason why I think I created the term, "pwned.":
I was playing Counter-Strike waaaaay back when I was in high school (probably 10th grade; I graduated in '02). I forgot the name of the map I was playing, but I remember it had this hallway the CT's could access by running up stairs towards the beginning of the map, shooting a vent, and hopping in. There were balconies to snipe people from, and I remember towards the middle of the map, you can duck down and walk underneath the building to the other side. Might've been called inferno but I'm not sure.

I sucked at Counter-Strike. I STILL suck at Counter-strike but that's besides the point. I got "ganked" (which was a term unknown to me at the time; I don't think they use it in CT anyways) and, trying to stay in a happy spirit, I typed, "Man, I just got owned!" Thing is, when I typed the "o," I accidentally hit "p" instead, so it came out like, "Man, I just got pwned!" The room would not stop laughing at me. They were like, "He said pwned! Haahahahaha! What a dumbass!" and "pwned? WTF is that shit?"...etc. Months later, I find "pwned" has encompassed the internet as a whole, sucking it into its void of mind-numbing laziness.

The reason I, at the same time, DON'T believe I created it, is because anyone could've had the same exact experience, and it could've been coined THEN.

Slavakion

Zerg isn't originally a MMOG term. It's from Starcraft, an RTS. One of the races/civilizations was called the Zerg, and they could mass produce weak units to overwhelm the other team with numbers. Any sort of rush attack has now become "omg ZERG RUSH" or somesuch.

I've never heard of "gank" before.

CityOfAngels

gank means to kill; specifically when a high level character "ganks" a noob just to send him to the spawning point with whatever the penalties the game may give for dying. Doing so usually gives the high player no gain other than an extremely small amount of experience, and an evil sneer.

flamingdog

Yea, I only recently found out where 'Zerged' came from. Still pisses me off though.

Reese

Teh zerg rush pwnd j00!!!oneoneeleven

First!
This is the most annoying for me. I hate digging through a page of FIRST! posts on large forums to get to anything worth reading.

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flamingdog

Man, forums are a whole other cesspit of bad words and irritating people. We are very fortunate here.

Siege

-all the variations of noob
-gay
-ganked
-owned
-pwned

Pretty much all non team chat comments. I honestly wish battle.net had a squelch all function.

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Gabbyness

You know - I'm getting sick of the colon titles.

You know what I mean.

Grand Theft Auto: blah blah
Star Wars Episode XIIAI: yadda yadda

It seems like every damn piece of current media has a colon in the title. Can't we just simplify?!

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CityOfAngels

Just be happy they use that colon rather than the goa.tse.x colon. (To all the 'noobs', DO NOT GO TO THAT SITE EVER! Treat it as if it would give your computer a virus and make it explode. You have been warned).

Suave

I don't know, but the word "w00t" is clearly not used enough anymore. I almost never see it.

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tspikes51

One that gets me is gg, but I also find it unnerving when somebody doesn't say it.

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flamingdog

Actually w00t should have made my original list.

Siege

It irks me when people say it at the wrong times.

-Some guy kills someone else in a game of cs "OMGLOLROFL GG!!" Uh, game isn't over yet buddy.

-A game of DotA is ruined by mass leavers in the beginning. "Aw man, gg" Uh...no, it wasn't a good game. We didn't even really play.

Makes me wonder if these people actually know what gg means...

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krazykemist

FTW and FTL have made my overused gaming terms list.
Also a word that has been irking me since I first saw it was "smexy", "smecksay" or however else these preteen emo children choose to spell it.

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Siege

What does FTL mean? I found out what FTW meant like... a month ago

Please don't tell me FTL means for the loss... haha

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Suave

Yeah. Or when it's used in a weird sarcastic way (eg. "omg u nubs dun have kits. gg")

And yeah, FTL is for the loss (or for the lose, whichever). More stuff I learned from WoW players: cmn (cry more newb), qft <- not sure, but my guess was "quite ____ true" from the context.

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Da Munk

QFT = quoted for truth

The WoW forums made me hate "O rly?". It was almost funny the first time it was posted, not so much when there isn't a single thread of the boards that doesn't have it.

CityOfAngels

I say w00t whenever I feel like being annoying.

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flamingdog

It's not a bad strategy, if annoying's what you're going for

t3m3st

FTL is Faster Than Light, no?

Yeah, I'm sick of seeing games called Killer Appz. It is a game, not an application. A consoles "killer app" is that it plays the games.

Alot of gaming blogs and posts on message boards, and even gaming print magazines, have sentences that start with "Personally, in my opinion, I think..."

Why not just say I think? If you tell us it's what you think, then we know it is your opinion. You have already referenced that it is personal by stating "I" think. Better yet, instead of saying "Personally, in my opinion, I think that the new XBox blah blah...", just say "The new Xbox blah blah." We know it's your opinion, you are saying it.


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no kidding. Here's to the mods and maturity of the TFP

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flamingdog

IMO, it's worse when they pepper their text with abbreviations, IMO. Especially IMO. If you're writing it in your blog, or on a forum post, we can sort of take it as a given that it's your opinion, surely? IMO.

Suave

The thing is though, you can't necessarily. You may take it for a given, but I try to be completely clear as to when I am stating an opinion (not necessarily as bluntly as saying "in my opinion") because a lot of the time I will throw out what I can best describe as "facts". Information obtained as objectively as possible from as objective a source as I can muster.

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t3m3st

Then you can say "I think..."

And another one for the list, AdictING

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hulk

Ugh, it's worse when someone makes an argument, and some nitwit can only counter it with 'But that's your opinion.' No shit, it's why they posted it, so come up with an opinion otherwise! I assume all postings are opinion unless expressely stated as fact, because that's what mine are. So there. :P

A nice, albeit long (otherwise I'd post it), article on another word to hate, Convergence, makes a good read.

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t3m3st

I love Danc's writing. It's refreshing to read about videogames in an intellectual manner, without plugging games and spewing stuff out of a PR handout, and without having to worry about fanboys and such.

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flamingdog

Something else I'm noting on forums (fora?) a lot lately, though nothing to do with gaming is people writing 'rediculous', as opposed to 'ridiculous'. It's getting to the point where I'm worried the correct spelling might die out or something.

Gatorade Frost

ORLY makes me want to kill people. I don't think people understand; seeing ORLY? makes me want to take out a gun and start shooting people.

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hulk

ORLY? *ducks*

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Derwood

Any and all intentional misspellings of words on the internet, or words that are vaguely (or entirely) leet-ish:

w00t
evar
moran (yes, I know where this comes from)
pwned
teh
n00b

I also have always hated all acronyms for "laughing out loud", etc. (I refuse to type the acronym, because I have vowed to never, ever use it ever ever ever)

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