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Does anyone cringe when people use gaming terms in real life?

CoolTrick

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Hanging out in EB to play the demos and talk with the cashiers is getting increasinly annoying. I find myself physically wincing when random teenagers talk about the different graphic effects a game employs.

Nevermind listening to the salespeople educating soccer moms on the different multiplayer functions in a game.
 
What?

I mean, if I walk by and hear someone say, "Holy shit, you totally hadokened that bastard last night!" Yeah, I'd cringe. But when have I ever heard that? Never.

Using game terms to educate a potential customer about a game, however? Please.
 
weird thread

my roommate tries to talk all technical about the consoles but he's almost always wrong. so yea thats irritating
 
I recently told a coworker I was going to "pop your face off the stack"

So hearing people talk about game references doesn't bother me. I make code jokes.
 
If the terms were being used incorrectly to describe the games, I can understand how it would be frustrating but I would never cringe upon hearing the words themselves. Very odd.
 
it's not a gaming term, but I heard some kid actually say "LOL" (multiple times) at a restaurant.

I wanted to go headbutt him until he lost consciousness, but his dad was a 370lb gorilla. I passed on that... and did my best to concentrate on other things, like my undercooked salmon.
 
"wow look at the blue graphics on the sky"

"wow the moving character graphics are awesome"


ugh i dunno i think i hate the word graphics.
 
Suffice it to say that telling a non-gamer how much you 'like skinning models' when they ask you about your hobbies can earn a person some very strange looks. :p
 
Kind of OT, but something that made me cringe at EB so I'll tell it. I went to my EB to trade in some games and some guy in front of me literally had a suitcase of CD's/games/DVD's that he was trading. So while waiting I hear this group of 13-15 year old kids talking about the X360. So the youngest one starts going off about how the 360 needs to be paired with a plasma TV because it was made to look better on a plasma. Of course no one interjects because they probably have no clue nor even care. So he keeps getting louder to make sure everyone knows he's a Microsoft insider and he's making jokes about Bill Gates and how he's so rich blah bla. Well the guy with the suitcase (black guy about 6'2" 280lbs) turns to the little shit and says "sounds like you have you priorities straight." The kid says back "well my family is wealthy and they can afford to buy me plasma tvs bla bla. So the guy explains to the kid that he works in a juvenile detention center where kids his age went because they had to sell drugs to eat. He explained that the kids there aren't as priviledged. And the kid says "well that's survival of the fittest, and those are the people that don't survive in evolution" or some offensive shit like that. I wish that guy would have beat the snot out of that little shit.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
why do you hang out at EB?


I used to live near an EB in a mall, and never encoutered this. Now I live near a neiborhood EB near a residential area, and I see it everytime I'm there. Kids just hanging out, they bring their bikes into the store, they play whatever is on display (and don't give the controls up to paying customers). They're like little hobos (and it's always the same group of kids). Lately when I've gone to trade in stuff I've noticed they keep the consoles off to discourage this.
 
My janitor looked at my PS2 and Xbox and then asked me "which is better, the PS2 or the X-Cube?". I didn't know what to say...
 
I'M IN YUOR COUNTRY, TOOKIN' YER JERBS!!!

I haven't heard any gaming phrases lately, just people who, when they hear or are talking about Street Fighter, will spurt out A-DOOOOken! as some type of homage.
 
My flatmate looked at my GameCube (while I was playing RE4) and said "Oh, that's the new game you got for your Nintendo GameBox?" O_o

Dunno if it has anything to do with the thread... but who cares...
 
I hate the term "gamer."

Just because somebody playes a video game doesn't make them a "gamer"--you know, it's not our profession for god sakes. We just play it time to time. As I shoot hoops time to time, or drive my god damn car time to time to get to places, people don't go around calling me a "driver" or a "hooper."
 
C- Warrior said:
I hate the term "gamer."

Just because somebody playes a video game doesn't make them a "gamer"--you know, it's not our profession for god sakes. We just play it time to time. As I shoot hoops time to time, or drive my god damn car time to time to get to places, people don't go around calling me a "driver" or a "hooper."

Time to time? TIME TO TIME? FALSE! All the time :)
 
Consider me another who hates the terms "gamer" and "gaming".

Then again, I think there are plenty of people who take the whole hobby way too seriously. It's a hobby, not a lifestyle.
 
Not a gaming term, but I know this real irritating chat freak who'll actually say "lolz" or "rofflez" in real life when something funny happens. Makes me just want to go flykick him in the neck.
 
tracky_dacks said:
Not a gaming term, but I know this real irritating chat freak who'll actually say "lolz" or "rofflez" in real life when something funny happens. Makes me just want to go flykick him in the neck.
yeah it's really bad when they started saying "lol" in real life, sometimes without even laughing. Someone says an unfunny joke and another person responds with "lol"
 
Date of Lies said:
yeah it's really bad when they started saying "lol" in real life, sometimes without even laughing. Someone says an unfunny joke and another person responds with "lol"

Thats what people do online though. I can't even count the amount of times someone has told me something lame on AIM and I just give them a "lol" or "haha" to be polite. Same way you give a polite laugh to someone in real life.

Saying LOL in real life isn't something should be doing though, you're cock blocking yourself with that.
 
Grizzlyjin said:
Thats what people do online though. I can't even count the amount of times someone has told me something lame on AIM and I just give them a "lol" or "haha" to be polite. Same way you give a polite laugh to someone in real life.

Saying LOL in real life isn't something should be doing though, you're cock blocking yourself with that.
actually, if you dont say anything instead of saying "lol" to be polite, the person might realize that what he or she said wasn't funny and stop instead of being encouraged to continue with some lameass jokes.
 
C- Warrior said:
I hate the term "gamer."

Haha, reminds me when I was little and I hated when my mom referred to my action figures and legos as 'toys'. Recently my wife made a comment something along the lins of "I can't believe I married a gamer." and I quickly explained to her that I wasnt a gamer but a Racing Sim Enthusiast. Her: "Whatever!"
 
Tain said:
Consider me another who hates the terms "gamer" and "gaming".

Then again, I think there are plenty of people who take the whole hobby way too seriously. It's a hobby, not a lifestyle.

Speak for yourself. IT'S A DAMN LIFESTYLE TO SOME.
 
Wafflecopter said:
Speak for yourself. IT'S A DAMN LIFESTYLE TO SOME.

Hey, when you don't shit a brick over review scores, sales figures, release dates, and all the usual drama and politics, it's a rather comfy lifestyle. Then again, I like "simple."
 
Hey, when you don't shit a brick over review scores, sales figures, release dates, and all the usual drama and politics, it's a rather comfy lifestyle. Then again, I like "simple."

And this is more or less reading my mind.

That tends to be the first thing I think of upon hearing the word "gamer": going nuts over review scores, having bizarre senses of loyalty, and so on. It's not how I'd like to be labled simply because I really enjoy playing games.
 
Draft said "It's all in the delivery", and he's right.

If some creepy nerdy looking guy with very little social skills goes "lol" when a cute girl says something, yeah it won't work, but when someone who's competent at life says "roffle" at the right time with the right people (girls included, they love AIM), the result can be extremely funny.

I also think that the people who've mentioned that "gaming" should be nothing more than a hobby are being pretentious. How many people consider themselves "movie buffs" and surround themselves with people who love movies? Books? Similar music? It becomes more than a hobby and it might not be considered a "lifestyle", but is certainly something that they love to a point where it becomes important to them on a level more intense than "hobby".

And before anyone goes "but lol, girls like movies and books and music, but not games lol get a life :lol ", that's bullshit. Anyone can successfully balance their passions (be it games, movies, music) and the ability to function with other people.

Life Draft said, it's all in the delivery.
 
Pretty much most of my freinds are tech-geeks, so most of my everyday conversation is dominated by such talk, no problem when all parties involved have at least a faint clue of what they're talking about, but when it's just a ill-informed group of teenagers, yeah it's annoying, but I can pretty much tune it out. What's really annoying is working with less technically inclined people who don't understand what they're doing, and mess something up, and then try to pass their personal mistake off with a technical sounding excuse (the programs broken and it's all the computer's fault, all I did was delete some....what is it...dll file). That's probably a bad example, but it annoys me to no end when people try to pass an obvious mistake off using tech-esque vocabulary they obviously don't understand. I'm generally a very patient person, but somehow that gets on my nerves :lol

I've definitely been there myself in my teenage years though, but in general, I try not to talk tech unless I know what I'm talking about (or unless a more knowledgable freind is educating me on a particular tech.)

I've seen LOL starting to pop up in public venacular lately too, even a few ads that actually printed out the word lol:-(
 
Harmonica said:
If some creepy nerdy looking guy with very little social skills goes "lol" when a cute girl says something, yeah it won't work, but when someone who's competent at life says "roffle" at the right time with the right people (girls included, they love AIM), the result can be extremely funny.

really? im not buying it.

how does one become competent at life?
 
I have a friend that keeps calling people noobs. I've told him to stop it a few times because he sounds like an idiot. I may need to use more extreme measures.
 
It becomes more than a hobby and it might not be considered a "lifestyle", but is certainly something that they love to a point where it becomes important to them on a level more intense than "hobby".

I guess it's just a matter of definition, then. Even if someone derived entertainment from games and NOTHING else, I'd still consider it a hobby to them. An important one, no doubt.
 
Himuro said:
I said "owned" irl, like,"Wow, you totally got owned." I figure it can be used beyond the net, but nothing else.

I say "Pwned" in real life.

Stealing the last chocolate chip cookie from the snack room is considered hax

Going outside and its too bright is considered "too much fable"

I could go on and on.....
 
Lately my friends have been using pwn3d in real life, they pronounce it "powned", I don't really use too many of those terms.

Whenever I hear the term "gamer" I usually think of one of these people who play Counterstrike and mostly FPS games for hours on end and drink Mountain Dew and are all extr333m! Like how I picture annoying kids on Halo to look like...
 
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