Modern gaming terms that annoy you and make no sense

MartinPrince · 1 May 2019 at 21:19

weldon855 said:
Along with pwned and rekt

Yep, this have always irked me.

Psycho Sonny · 2 May 2019 at 12:09

pestt said:
Ez.
Usually spouted by the **** at the bottom of the board with a 5-20 score.

you don't understand the point of this?

it's to bait the other team and make them salty throwing them off their game.

last time i played on faceit we had 2 swedish kids baiting everyone on their own team. one of them bit and they just harassed him for the full game causing him to rage quit like 4-5 times before finally rage quitting for good.

it worked. they didn't care if they lost or were going to lose badly all they cared about was trolling this guy and tbh it was hilarious how salty he got. it made me join in.

pestt · 2 May 2019 at 12:36

Psycho Sonny said:
you don't understand the point of this?

it's to bait the other team and make them salty throwing them off their game.

Lol! Right over my head.

Epoch · 2 May 2019 at 12:46

Tombstone said:
When people in a fps say GG for good game, at the end of a round which one side won by an absolute landslide, which is the exact opposite of a good game imo, a good win yes but not a good game.

I compare it to a football match, a 5-4 win is a good game imo, a 5-0 win is a good win but pretty dull in terms of its rating as a game.

I always thought of it as more being sporting and meant to convey 'thanks for the game' than an actual comment on how good or bad the actual game was.

Psycho Sonny · 2 May 2019 at 13:05

Epoch said:
I always thought of it as more being sporting and meant to convey 'thanks for the game' than an actual comment on how good or bad the actual game was.

i say gg to wind up the other team if we win the first round of a first to 16 match compromising of 30 rounds. i will then progress this to 16-0? if we go 4-0 up. then say easy gg with every win and use weapons which make them even saltier like the auto sniper. the auto sniper isn't worth using as a weapon but the amount of salt it causes which puts the other team off is completely worth it. even better if you end up killing a lot of them with it.

Rezident · 2 May 2019 at 13:27

twitch - WTF?
Discord?
Noob

Everything kids say nowadays, like: 'Mort!' (apparently it means 'mortified', too lazy to even finish the word...)

MegaPinches · 2 May 2019 at 13:34

Rezident said:
twitch - WTF?
Discord?
Noob

Everything kids say nowadays, like: 'Mort!' (apparently it means 'mortified', too lazy to even finish the word...)

We got this lad at work who describes everything as "peak", good or bad its peak

Anyone who says "Muh" deserves violence

sinwave · 2 May 2019 at 13:51

Rezident said:
Everything kids say nowadays, like: 'Mort!' (apparently it means 'mortified', too lazy to even finish the word...)

To be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand Ric and Mort.

willhub · 3 May 2019 at 09:27

I really miss "GG", brings back memories of the UT 2004 days when you could actually play with humans.

Amatsubu · 3 May 2019 at 09:49

willhub said:
I really miss "GG", brings back memories of the UT 2004 days when you could actually play with humans.

Well, in Tekken it's GGs all the time

Or a load of salt

Tombstone · 3 May 2019 at 10:06

Rezident said:
twitch - WTF?
Discord?
Noob

Everything kids say nowadays, like: 'Mort!' (apparently it means 'mortified', too lazy to even finish the word...)

Lol....Mort annoys me just as much as when people say Fam. The other thing which irritates me , and this isnt a gaming thing, is when my kids say 100%. So annoying.

Tek81 · 3 May 2019 at 11:21

Not so much a term as a statement, but the blurb Ubisoft put at the start of their games annoys me tremendously. "This game was created by a team from different religious, sexual and ethnic backgrounds...." Blah blah blah. So?

Karathez · 3 May 2019 at 11:49

"Super" sick of hearing this in dev blurb/hype these days, on stream "I'm super excited to be here", "I'm super happy to be working on this project", etc etc, idk why but it just triggers me, (maybe me saying triggers will trigger someone else

).

uncle_rufus · 3 May 2019 at 14:07

Here's one that hasn't been covered...

Using "RNG" (i.e. Random Number Generator) as a noun or to describe any vaguely randomised element of a game... hear it a lot in speedruns... "oh that's just bad RNG" "this boss is very RNG"... I don't know why but it annoys me!

As for gg in my mind (and from it's roots in Starcraft) it's what the loser says at the end of the game when they are admitting they lost fair and square, like standing up at the end of a chess match to shake your opponents hand... compared to the modern day usage of being the victor and jumping up on top of the chess board to point in the loser's face and berate them

DaleTheWhale · 3 May 2019 at 14:54

Rezident said:
twitch - WTF?
Discord?
Noob

Twitch and Discord are apps, they aren't gaming terms. Similarly noob has been around for years, not exactly modern!

Free-lo is probably the only one that annoys me, just an extension of "git gud".

Kiyoshi · 3 May 2019 at 15:01

People that say 'super <adjective>' and 'triggered'.

Double07 · 3 May 2019 at 15:02

uncle_rufus said:
Here's one that hasn't been covered...

Using "RNG" (i.e. Random Number Generator) as a noun or to describe any vaguely randomised element of a game... hear it a lot in speedruns... "oh that's just bad RNG" "this boss is very RNG"... I don't know why but it annoys me!

As for gg in my mind (and from it's roots in Starcraft) it's what the loser says at the end of the game when they are admitting they lost fair and square, like standing up at the end of a chess match to shake your opponents hand... compared to the modern day usage of being the victor and jumping up on top of the chess board to point in the loser's face and berate them

That RNG in Starcraft 2 with SCVs building structures though! I've got him, oh no wait hes popped out the other side of the building, oh no wait hes back on the other side now, AAAAAARRRRHHHHH

Tombstone · 3 May 2019 at 15:07

tek81 said:
Not so much a term as a statement, but the blurb Ubisoft put at the start of their games annoys me tremendously. "This game was created by a team from different religious, sexual and ethnic backgrounds...." Blah blah blah. So?

They probably do that now so that nobody tries to sue them for being racist or sexist or homophobic or something like that in the storylines.

Yaayuh! · 3 May 2019 at 15:07

Just modern gaming in general.

I'm old, at 32, bitter with how gaming has turned out.

Still, I tolerate it with a twitch in one eye, hate in the other and nostalgic memories of what once was with a shred of hope hanging on.

Soon time to go AFK and face reality.

Thekwango · 3 May 2019 at 15:27

Psycho Sonny said:
last time i played on faceit we had 2 swedish kids baiting everyone on their own team.

Psycho Sonny said:
they didn't care if they lost or were going to lose badly all they cared about was trolling this guy and tbh it was hilarious how salty he got. it made me join in.

you joined in with 2 kids to bait one of your own team? you (and the other 2 scrotes) are the disease that needs eradicating from online gaming.