The Weird & Wonderful Language Of Gaming

[@NameExplain]

What are some of your favourite words and terms from video games?

[@pifilixxiv3192]

Honestly, I love the word of "cheesing" and "broken"

[@manasgupta1070]

Gg

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

The acronyms. So many things that can be said so much easier. GG, WP, GL, HF...

[@emperorscoubs2405]

Nerf and GG

[@fabriziomariano1332]

GG, WP, GLHF and laughing in 1111111 (only Age of Empires community will understand)

[@rirukadokugamine1658]

I'm pretty sure that 'salty' came from the taste of tears, actually.

[@darreljones8645]

I thought it was from the expression "salty (i.e., dirty) language)", which salty players would often use.

[@Zwangsworkaholic]

yeah. also... where is salt bitter? it's... salty...

[@wj11jam78]

@@Zwangsworkaholic What? "where is salt bitter"? What does that mean?

[@tristanheaton2127]

Y u drink tears

[@LuanMower55]

@@tristanheaton2127 tasty

[@opDavi1]

A slight distinction: A "Nerf" is usually when the developers make something or someone weaker in a game while a "debuff" is usually when a temporary status effect makes you weaker

[@steamedmacgd228]

*usually*

[@Scaarz]

no i think that it is alwase but i could be wrong

[@brawlstarspro9354]

For example in Mineraft, a debuff is something like poison or slowness, but a nerf is for example when they nerf the strength poiton.

[@ShadowDeus]

facts.

[@ShadowDeus]

nerfing also comes from the toy gun line. it was often done in FPS to OP guns thus making the guns feel more like your shooting spongey toy darts, that are commen with Nerf toys.

[@QuietAsHeimdal]

Ahh, RPG... I love playing a shooter and someone shouts "RPG!" and I think "no dude, it's a shooter" as I explode.

[@Rudxain]

There's a weapon called RPG. But maybe that's the joke and I'm gonna get r/wooshed

[@QuietAsHeimdal]

@@Rudxain That is indeed the joke, my dude. :)

[@WojtekXD-bx7jb]

@@Rudxain Ah yes, old good Rocked propeled granade, insta-kill in every single game, made it into the name of a popular game type...

[@Rudxain]

@@QuietAsHeimdal oh... then I'm gonna r/woosh myself XD @rudxain r/woosh (my username in most sites is rudxain)

[@Rudxain]

@@WojtekXD-bx7jb lol

[@likebot.]

I'm prolly not the only one here who can tell you definitevely that "pwned" has no connection to the word pawn from chess, but comes from someone fat-fingering the 'o' on the keyboard while trying to type "owned". Originally it was pronounced "owned" regardless, but everyone these days call it "pehwned" so...

[@kryllykomar6851]

Naw man, where I grew up we acknowledged it as owned +1, power owned. Granted the more I read the more I feel this may have been limited to my group of friends.

[@doombat04]

Pronunciations change when people who don't know the origin use it

[@Markle2k]

@@doombat04 It's like only reading a word in books, intuiting the meaning so you don't have to look it up, and so, never hear it said out loud or see a phonetic pronunciation. My most memorable was "deign". It never occurred to me that it would rhyme with "reign/rain"

[@PaigeWylderOwO]

@@kryllykomar6851 You observation makes more sense than what I thought, which was that 'pwned' was a portmantgeau of 'pow' and 'owned.'

[@WojtekXD-bx7jb]

In Polish Pwned was actually picked as a youth word, since PWN is the short of the name of the institution that focusses around stuff like publishing books but they also cover all the youth words accepting and stuff. They quite didn't liked some of the suggested youth words, which internet didn't quite liked, in revenge they made another one. Now you can say that you can "sPWNenić" something, which quite literally means worsen or destroy. So in Poland, this word has a different story

[@fnjesusfreak]

I think "pwned" (or "pwn3d", "pwnt") came from a typo, since p is right next to o on the keyboard. (I remember "0wn3d" as the usual form, many years ago).

[@zeroone871]

Came to the comments so see if this was here before I said anything!

[@kryllykomar6851]

Pwned is power owned, it's like owned +1 but it got used so much the two are no longer distinguished.

[@SteamedCraw]

I thought it meant purely owned, but the typo explanation seems more likely.

[@PolyAgain]

Thought it meant pawned

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

@@PolyAgain me too

[@Everfrost1000]

5:45 The word debuff is usually applied to harmful spells that reduce your stats for some period of time. 6:56 Camping is used in MMORPGs too, like when you camp a body or the graveyard to kill someone again when they respawn.

[@Kylora2112]

Yeah, "camping" is "play passively waiting for something to come into the area rather than hunt/chase."

[@monotonexylophone1623]

The second one is specifically called spawn camping

[@Novusod]

Camping comes from old MMOs where you would have to wait for rare mobs to respawn which in some cases could take days. Players would sit on the same spot for days on end to get the mob they needed. This was compared to going camping.

[@generalyido]

It's a nerf if the developers weaken something permamently, it's a debuff if you are temporarily weakened by some other in-game cause.

[@OneLostTexan]

Ah yes World of Warcraft and having your dead body camped by a high level.

[@Fireheart318]

I feel like I should point out that 'Debuff' tends to refer to casting a spell on an enemy/weapon to make it weaker, while 'Nerf' usually refers to the developers "permanently" weakening something.

[@manofcultura]

I’m a bit late to this video but I believe the word “cheesing” refers to the American slang for doing something lame, pedestrian or boring, called “cheesy”. Basically anyone cheesing a game is using a strategy that may deliver results but turns the game from something fun and challenging to something lame and boring. For instance, knowing that there’s a certain part of the screen a boss cannot hit you, so you always go there instead of actually avoiding attacks using intended game mechanics.

[@scronchgoose7403]

The game is the cheese, and you’re falling through the holes

[@squidwardstesticles5914]

@@scronchgoose7403 that’s a perfect way of describing it and I really hope that’s what it actually means

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

That’s why I like watching competition. You can’t cheese against a resisting opponent

[@supremecalamitas342]

wrong, it means to exploit something to either make the game easier or skip a part of the game entirely. It has the side effect of making the game more boring but that's not what it is focused on.

[@tysonrinker5958]

@@scronchgoose7403 I like dat

[@hathest9897]

great video, you didnt seem that out of touch. the only thing is that im pretty sure camping doesnt come from being stuck to the ground, i think its more of a stylized way to say, "Oh hes stayed there so long hes set up a tent, hes camping"

[@adamn7409]

8:40 “Gamers are called *salty* when they’re *bitter* about something in that game” God I hope that was done intentionally cuz that irony is ingenious

[@jahdielwharton2778]

The l my n

[@LithiumProductions]

sweet

[@kylegrefe4399]

unfortunately, it actually refers to the salty taste of tears

[@carlthesanellama3633]

In chile it’s called picao/picado Meaning chopped or sliced

[@fabriziomariano1332]

Meanwhile, the Age of empires community can communicate themselves with numbers: 1=Yes 2=No 14=Start the game (already) 11=Laugh 1111111111111111... = extreme laughter

[@ondrakavan4119]

30

[@daddyleon]

Not yet binary, but they're on their way!

[@samcree96]

and 105 = just resign already

[@the11382]

Numbers are ideograms?

[@daddyleon]

@@the11382 No, there's a menu, in which you can type those numbers, and then an audiofile with that text will play. but it's often faster to just type those numbers in the chatbox. You won't get the sound, but people there know what it means. This is what you could hear: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKOTq6J9n9qfkJY

[@jpburke6326]

Pwned was actually a result of a typo in a video game from the 2000s where the developers meant “owned” but spelled it wrong

[@gaviswayze9696]

That's what I learned as well

[@jessiesargent7212]

Facts, I used to play counter strike 1.5 and it would say pwned instead of owned

[@aidankeys8534]

O and P are right next to each other.

[@teo3066]

I just thought "pwned" sounded like "pound", as in the opponent had been pounded to the ground

[@generalyido]

I also knew so because o and p are literally next to each other on a keyboard. (Unless you are using the abominable F layout and it didn't exist back then)

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

That's like how we bigfoots have our own language

[@Nigu_Flags]

Is it actually bigfoots? Shouldn't it be bigfeet?

[@SkoomaCat]

Heeey

[@fomalhaut_the_great]

@@Nigu_Flags is it humans or humen

[@Nigu_Flags]

@@fomalhaut_the_great Fair

[@adamjones6308]

Ooh ooh aa aa

[@indecisive.325]

Patrick: "The weird and wonderful language of gaming" Every former edgy teenager who played Call of Duty: "What?"

[@reizayin]

too many slurs

[@dave2.077]

ah yes the supreme gaming word "n****r"

[@YataTheFifteenth]

@@dave2.077 epic gamer word

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

𝓝 𝓘 𝓖 𝓖 𝓔 𝓡

[@fitmotheyap]

@@dave2.077 pff weak I will ****** ****** ***** I bet you have never tasted ******* And a few other things

[@lladerat]

Im also quite interested how things like 'kek' become mainstream, words that are spelled wrong in general become widely used. We even say 'kek' in russian sometimes, its really weird.

[@willywonka3050]

When Horde players type “LOL” in World of Warcraft, Alliance players see “KEK.” It was also popularized due to being the name of an Egyptian god, and the Turkish word for cake (specifically the TopKek brand).

[@Rocky123698745]

As far as I know, kek came from League of Legends players wanting to indicate laughter (normally lol) without it seeming like they were referencing the game they were playing

[@fonkbadonk2957]

@@Rocky123698745 Oh sweet summer child

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@fonkbadonk2957 you can't just leave ua hanging! If you disagree, give us your proposed story of the word

[@fonkbadonk2957]

@@NoNameAtAll2 willywonka3050 had already given the correct origin story.

[@jriver226]

Always assumed pwned was a typo that just stuck

[@m_hrstv]

I think this is correct.

[@delta-a17]

It is.

[@DrumRoody]

Yup

[@Hyblup]

20 points to Ravenclaw

[@ilovecairns5181]

‘Tis

[@tboy6610]

I think pwned comes from the fact that the p key is next to the o key and was likely a common typo that entered into gaming slang by accident

[@yeezet4592]

I think there was a typo in COD

[@yeezet4592]

@Terminator PlayZz ✅ before 2003?

[@yeezet4592]

@Terminator PlayZz ✅ that might be it

[@thekamakaji]

I thought it was originally from WoW

[@Nijonibi]

i think the phrase Grinding, used in gaming comes from the saying "Nose to the grindstone" and a debuff is a temporary thing in-game, whereas nerfed is a permanent thing changed in game code

[@LARAUJO_0]

3:14 PVE can also stand for "player versus entity" which includes pretty much all kinds of enemies other than human players 4:37 I'd say it links closer to grindstones, a type of archaic machine used to sharpen weapons before belt sanders were invented/widely available

[@InventorZahran]

I always thought the term "grinding" came from how we often describe a monotonous job (in the real world) as "the daily grind". So in a game, grinding would mean doing a boring and repetative task that feels more like work or a chore than fun.

[@PuzzledMonkey]

Buff comes from Buffalo, indirectly. The color of oxhide (from the Latin word for ox or Buffalo) became associated with light brown or caramel color, and also with polishing cloths, originally also made of oxhide but later just soft cloth of the same color. Thus buffing is to polish. In another sense, fire buffs were New York volunteer firemen who wore Buffalo coats, and later buff colored coats. After official fire departments were formed, fire buffs were the enthusiasts who showed up anyway, just to watch, and were denounced in the newspaper as interfering with the NYFD. From this, a buff became any enthusiastic follower.

[@sibulu2878]

Bro i'm high and english is not my native tongue. Wtf should that mean? Am i too high?

[@ChristnThms]

@Ted Stern to continue your progression... Using "buff" or "buffing" as a verb evolved to mean improving something. You'd buff your shoes to make them shiny. That became buffing up on math before the test. It was applied to all sort of things that were improved, and eventually "being buffed up" became simply "being buff." Why this stuck specifically to body building, I have no idea. But it did. And so, we have an evolution of the word from a specific type of leather to meaning increased strength. The next step is simply bad grammar and slang. In game, anything which made you stronger simply WAS a buff. Extending that to debuff was simple utility. Oddly, nobody seemed to notice that the guy passing out buffs was the buffer... in a computer game... that runs on a computer... where buffer has a different and very specific meaning. Nobody noticed. /cry

[@kryllykomar6851]

*stares in confusion*

[@thecoastalcotco.251]

I hear the word “grinding” alot in the terms of working hard like grinding away in the commercial fishing community. You also hear it in hip hop music like in We aint hard to find by Pac, D shot says “Influneced by crime, addicted to grindin”. People also say things like throwing salt in the game, throwing salt on my name, etc.., like throwing salt on a wound? I think its interesting how similar a meaning it is to the gaming “salty” though probably has different origins

[@Wool_Scarf]

Salty in general had a less solidified meaning in the sense that someone sweet is pleasant to be around, and someone who is bitter is unkind or distrusting. Salty just meant angsty/angry/unhappy in a "tantrum-y" manner for a long time before gaming was ubiquitous. Also, the taste of tears :)

[@Dahras1]

Yeah, I feel like grinding is a word that's more popular because of gaming, but definitely existed before hand. Hell, my Dad, who's in his 60's, sometimes says that his job is a "grind", and he's definitely not a gamer. I think gaming just made the term a noun, i.e. an xp grind, an item grind, the ranked grind, etc. And used the term more as well, of course.

[@bagnome]

"The daily grind"

[@Markle2k]

@@Wool_Scarf And it wouldn't be a surprise if it was even older with salty being a term for "rough" language due to association with sailors. So you'd get salty with your language as you get your ass handed to you in a game.

[@Mslc727]

@@bagnome "Putting my nose to the grindestone"

[@teflonravager]

NPC comes from Dungeons and Dragons and predates video games.

[@cpt_nordbart]

The whole rpg mechanics and names i guess.

[@Roy_787]

Then what does it stand for then?

[@lendonisaaccarino4183]

@@Roy_787 npc stands for non-playable character

[@laurelelasselin]

@@lendonisaaccarino4183 Thought it was Non-Player Character? Similar thing...

[@lendonisaaccarino4183]

@@laurelelasselin That's also another meaning of NPC.

[@ivanmehboob]

This one of the few videos where I literally knew every single terms etymology. I am a professional gamer after all (literally, I'm an esports coach). I feel astho u missed a few terms like button mashing, fps, broken and throw/throwing

[@willywonka3050]

Throw/throwing is a term from sports in general. I’ve seen it used in football, basketball, and many other sports.

[@ivanmehboob]

@@willywonka3050 ok fair, it'll probably be in his universal sports lingo cuz each sport has more than enough terms for them to each be their own vid

[@Xnoob545]

What about OP

[@sgwolfgang4349]

and maybe 'cracked' similar to broken

[@generalyido]

They were some words missing you are right.

[@Sordorack]

Since you mentioned being 'salty', it also reminded me of the term of being 'tilted' which is used in a similar case, tho i dont actually know where it comes from (Also, i think salty could also come from tears of crying people, since they are in fact salty?)

[@nitsguy]

It came from pinball machines! People would physically tilt the machines to gain an advantage, so designers built in a kill switch to punish cheaters. It would stop your game in the middle of playing and blink TILT. In the arcade days, a particularly stinging or sudden loss would put you on tilt, similar to the sudden stop when you tilted a pinball machine.

[@Sordorack]

@@nitsguy OH that makes so much sense, thank you for clearing that out for me :D

[@a-drewg1716]

its also why in say League of Legends someone who is tilted or is tilting is just someone who is using hyper aggressive and un-usual tactics generally after they start losing. It goes back to the pinball machines where a player would in anger start tilting the machine which would instantly cause a loss. Just like how these hyper aggressive strategies just end up giving the enemy team for xp and money which guarantees a loss.

[@legionaireb]

@@nitsguy On an unrelated note, 'tilting' is also the term used to describe knights engaged in a joust.

[@reachthroughreality]

Cheesing came from fighting games. Your friend backing you up in the corner and just keeping you stun locked or juggled and you can't do anything. The worst part of it is they are just button mashing, when you actually have an understanding of the game. ****ing cheezy, man.

[@live4twilight4ever]

I think "salty" was an AAVE word before it became popular in gaming communities, and originally was more of a personality trait than an emotion. A salty person was someone who was quick to get upset or didn't let things go easily.

[@pennyforyourthots]

I've never really heard the term "salty" in AAVE english, but there are Regional distinction between AAVE that often get forgotten, so maybe it's a local expression that spread to a wider group (like "Finna" and "12", which come out of Atlanta)

[@Markle2k]

Way, way back, sailors were known as "old salts" and their vocabulary was primed with swear words. Rough language was known as "salty speech", such as you might use after getting a beat down in a game.

[@lyrisio]

is AAVE the one with "ayo homie u packin' heat? BRAPAPAPA"

[@InventorZahran]

I wouldn't be surprised. Gaming culture is dominated by white teenagers/young adults, who are notorious for appropriating select elements of AAVE into their own slang.

[@forzaf1gtaracingandmore824]

I think that “Noob” & “Newb” Are different Noob: Player that has been playing for a while and hasn’t got any better Newb: A players who is new and has a justifiable reason for being bad, and has potential to get better.

[@fitmotheyap]

Yeah.. they have become that sadly and is used as an insult

[@a-drewg1716]

A Noob is a derogatory term used to insult a player on his skill A Newb is a new player who has just started playing the game

[@generalyido]

Exactly. Newb refers to a new player and therefore is a reason of the player being bad. Noob however is used as an insult most of the time.

[@DevilsRadvocate]

Nobody says newb though, that’s the thing, noob has just became both.

[@trickzclipz5910]

@@DevilsRadvocate no, newbie is used quite often.

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

Pwned also comes from a typo because O and P are next to each other on the keyboard. And I remember being obsessed with the word "pwned" long after it was in its peak, I still use it to this day, and I transmitted the word to my aunt (who isn't a gamer unless you count board games like Scrabble, and wouldn't have otherwise known there was such a word as "pwned") who also uses "pwned" occasionally. I even used "pwned" in school regularly as late as about 2012, got a few of my friends (who also wouldn't have known the word otherwise, as they'd have been about 8-10 when it was at its peak. I just found it on Urban Dictionary and early KZbin videos, which is how I discovered how to pronounce it) to use it. A guy in my class even got into trouble and my friend said "Pwned!" to me as the teacher marched over to the other guy's desk

[@GavinBisesi]

pwned is definitely not related to pawns in chess. It's a deliberate misspelling of 'own', the characters are next to each other on qwerty keyboards. The connotation was originally that someone was so excited that they misspelled things while typing quickly. Similar to "teh" for "the". Source: Was a massive online nerd/gamer in the early 00s

[@MasterDisaster64]

I was thinking this too. It also has a visceral sound to it, like a onomatopoeia.

[@CuzicanAerospace]

"Aggro" is also used to describe aggressive music. Nine Inch Nails, for example, is often called aggro industrial or aggro metal.

[@digitaldwagon]

5:49 Debuff: An in game (usually temporary) effect that makes something less powerful Nerf: A change by the developers to make something less powerful

[@8BitShadow]

One that was coined ages ago that used to be synonymous 'grind' but has recently had its definition changed is 'grindtent', which is simply the word 'grind' and 'content' mashed together with the meaning: "content made monotonous, purely for the sake of monetisation". This basically happen due to micro/macro-transactions becoming a plague on the game scene, allowing players to quickly convey to others weather a game is just grindy because of bad game design or if it purposefully grindy to push people into their their micro/macro-transaction stores.

[@dirt_dert_durt]

A note: the term "pwned" most likely came from the mistyping of "owned" because o and p are right next to each other on a keyboard, and a hyped up gamer might type the wrong letter when boasting in text chat

[@ericthehighlander]

I'd love to see a sequel to this video. It was great and there are still quite a few terms that I enjoy in the realm of video games that I might know but am still on the fence about. Case in point, Tilting (someone so upset that their ability to play well is hindered), Bot (more contemporary derivative of Noob) and probably quite a few more.

[@generalyido]

To get tilted also means raging at the game too. It depends on the context though.

[@keinname9638]

There are occasions where bot isn't an insult though. One occasion I can think of is TF2, which has sadly been bot infested for quite a time now. There are literal aimbots and getting accused of being one can be both frustrating and flattering

[@willmungas8964]

Bot just refers to a program or character that acts or pretends to be a human player, or an intelligent enemy. For example bots can mean the computer enemies in games like call of duty, or specific programs that mimic being a human player, such as Baritone for Minecraft, running in an actual version of Minecraft and controlling the player instead of a human to automate tasks or do things that are impossible (like instant block placement reaction time). Aimbot is a derivative of this idea in that a human controls their player character, but a program assists them by instantly moving their aim onto enemies in view.

[@jonytube]

Bot is/was widely used in many games (with Counter Strike being one of the most notorious examples, if not where the actual slang was coined) as an insult, given that bots aren't good adversaries. TLDR Bot = Noob = Bad Player My age might be showing here as the word could be losing its original meaning tho :)

[@AtLeastThreeCharacters.]

@@jonytube Nope, your age hasn’t failed ya yet. You’re exactly right. Like you said, a bot is an insult because bots in games tend to be pretty bad, so a bot player is a bad player.

[@erdmannelchen8829]

I usually know "nerfing" refering to if a feature is weakened for balancing reasons while I know "debuffing" typically refering to some ingame effect hampering a characters abilities.

[@smolder6366]

pretty sure 1-up's association with extra lives came from the super mario games, I might be wrong though

[@vibaj16]

yeah, that's what i thought

[@dumbdragon2129]

8:20 the term salty in that context has been used as an English slang since the 1800

[@justabitofjunkie2595]

"Pwned" comes from people making typos on "owned". "O" and "P" are next to each other.

[@DinosaurMermaidArt]

I remember being told I was camping in Quake circa summer of 1996. It definitely means that you are taking up residence in that spot, setting up camp because you're going to be there a while.

[@Zwangsworkaholic]

buff / debuff usually refers to status effects - that are often time-limited, where nerf pretty much always is a change made by Devs (most often to balance out roles or spells)

[@zaidkidwai7831]

Bro this was epic, went beast mode. Everyone got pwned scrub.

[@phil4193]

HP, and NPC were used for Dungeons and Dragons (a tabletop RPG) before there were video games.

[@emperorscoubs2405]

It is very interesting where the words came from.

[@WDCallahan]

If your salt tastes bitter, I think you should have that checked. It's supposed to taste salty.

[@m_hrstv]

Try a teaspoon and tell me it's not bitter 😀 I mean, it's salty yeah, but too much of it becomes bitter.

[@WDCallahan]

@@m_hrstv Seriously? Ok... I'll try tomorrow.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Pwnd/Owned, look at the keyboard, O and P are next to each other. The story I heard, it was a Typo that was turned into a cat like "I meant to type that" and the rest was history.

[@lharrowing]

"Salty" can also come from the idea that the person has been crying, as tears are often described as salty.

[@davegreenlaw5654]

@1:11 - "Mokey Hokey!" ^_^ Funny little tidbit about 'pwned' from the old MMORPG City of Heroes. Most of these types of games have numerous badges that players can collect, including location badges. In one section of the city, one such location badge is called 'Pwned', and is located in front of a pawn shop...with a neon sign out front where the 'A' is burned out, so the sign reads 'PWN SHOP'.

[@johnzengerle7576]

I thought of AAA as coming from AAA-rated bonds as being a good financial investment.

[@Markle2k]

The use of letter grades goes far beyond financial ratings in North America.

[@generalyido]

AAA is mostly used to refer to the budget of a game rather than the quality. If it was used for quality we would have AAA indie games lmao.

[@Nulono]

The word "aggro" is typically used as either a noun ("drawing aggro") or a verb ("don't aggro the monsters yet") in my experience.

[@m_hrstv]

'Pwned' was actually a typo that stuck just because it sounded cool. Don't know the source, but I've seen this story around.

[@TheZenytram]

i never so that thing even owned is somewhat a decade that i dont see it.

[@m_hrstv]

@@TheZenytram Are you having a stroke?

[@TheZenytram]

@@m_hrstv hahahahahah my english brain got bugged. "i never saw that thing (pwned), and even Owned has been a decade that i dont see it.

[@Drakonus_]

@@TheZenytram Dude, you're still not making any sense. Are you alright?

[@pentalarclikesit822]

Interesting the switch from the original tabletop RPG version of NPC and Non-Player Character, i.e. controlled by the GM, to Non-Playable Character really shows one of the most basic differences between the two.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

I'm really enjoying the A.D. History podcast. Keep it up!

[@Alexus00712]

Iirc, I've heard cheesing may have origins from a 2d sonic advance game where Cheese The Rabbit is a playable character, and makes the game very easy because of the small flickies that follows her around and attack enemies, essentially, cheesing the bosses and enemies in the game

[@mariofun21]

You got it somewhat wrong the rabbit's name is Cream, Cheese is the name of the Chao that follows her which can, well, cheese bosses due to not having to run up to the boss and jump into it

[@maxquayle2519]

in a Terry Pratchett book cheesing is defined as (aprox.) "cheesing is like creaming but longer" maybe that is were it came from

[@legionaireb]

That expression is literally the making of cheese.

[@Richie_P]

"[Nerfed] is a really clever use of language, and one I enjoy immensely!" 😂🤣 I thought that was just me!

[@TailorBlaze]

Cheesing also could mean "oh, you mean when you eat 342 cheese wheels in Skyrim while fighting dragons and just taking hits and eating wheels of cheese to heal"

[@blzb1219]

And there are so many more like COOP, FPS, FpS, DpS, DD, Tank, throwing, smurf, stack, day 1 patch, lag, bug, ult, LMB & RMB, CD and so on

[@tylerhall1021]

C Deez nuts

[@emosewasikcin]

i think triple a refers to the status of the development studio. Sort of parallel to a credit rating.

[@darreljones8645]

Or levels of minor-league baseball teams here in the USA.

[@mimikal7548]

I heard that pwned came from a mistyping of owned (p is next to o on the keyboard). Mistyping was/is common in video games as to type something in chat requires you to momentarily lose control and focus on the actual gameplay, so players try to type as fast as possible to minimise the chance of something requiring an immediate reaction from happening while they can't respond. Another video game word is min-maxing, which means trying to play optimally (especially when customising something). I think it derived from the minimax algorithm. More recent additions to the lexicon include F and L, which are used when someone has lost or failed. F pays respect, while L mocks them.

[@rustymustard7798]

You forgot Smurfing lol!

[@willywonka3050]

I learned the origin of that one from Casually Explained

[@jamesgabor9284]

PVP and PVE may also come from literary terms to describe the plot of a book, with what the protagonist and antagonist are, in books they are ‘person vs person’ and ‘person vs environment’, but there are also things like ‘person vs society’ and things like that

[@InventorZahran]

In literary analysis, we usually use the term "character" instead of "person" when describing the four types of conflict, but the general meaning is still there. Character v. Character, Character v. Society, Character v. Environment, or Character v. Self.

[@nonamelol5038]

3:14 I always believed PvE meant "player versus entity", am i alone in this?

[@bluekirby_64]

I thought the same.

[@willmungas8964]

I thought it was player vs enemy but I just realized that doesn’t distinguish between human and npc enemies lol

[@mattynek2]

@@willmungas8964 PvE Plants vs Enemies lmao

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

They're pretty interchangeable, but player vs environment accounts for non sentient challenges as well.

[@darkychao]

I'm not sure I've ever heard someone use "debuff" in the same way as "nerf". usually "debuff" is used in the context of "a negative effect applied to a player or character". whereas "nerf" more often means "to make a character/item/strategy less effective in an attempt to balance a game". they're both antonyms to "buff" but diffrent definitions of the word.

[@FurryCombatWombat]

3:45, isn't Aggro commonly used as a noun or verb? As in "I have aggro" or "I'll aggro the boss"

[@derwoodbowen5954]

The term "buff" I am pretty sure comes from games like Everquest. When someone cast a spell on a player (say increased strength) the symbol on the screen was of a person making a muscle (flexing their arm). That naturally led to calling the effect a buff.

[@mollow_]

What’s the meaning of “literal dog water” 😂

[@hippugamer6689]

What if i dont tell you

[@blindmelon2007]

Usually tap water given to dogs

[@williamwilson836]

I always assumed dogwater was just water that a dog had drank parts of. Generally gray or gross, indicating being unwanted. Similar to "trash"

[@skelet8337]

Bad quality like dog food

[@aaronking2020]

Disgusting hot dog water

[@merp9610]

5 seconds in, your accent already got me to like and subscribe EDIT: Completely worth it lmao, I love your content!

[@Max_Flashheart]

Day 1 Patches, Loot Crates, Micro transactions, Meme sponsors Pay to win

[@LukeBunyip]

Mods (both for community moderators, and fan made software add-ons), Bots and botting, and AFK

[@a-drewg1716]

@@LukeBunyip AFK is just another acronym meaning Away From Keyboard

[@DarkElfDiva]

Noob and Newb actually mean two similar, but different things. A Newb is someone who is new to the game, and may not know how to play properly yet. A Noob is someone who is NOT new to the game, yet plays as if they are, either having not bothered to learn, or not caring, possibly expecting their team to 'carry' them. Somene who should know better, but doesn't.

[@JoshuaC34]

Just imagine, a father walks by his sons room only to here him yell "I'm coming, I'm coming! I've got 2 guys on top of me!"

[@SeekerGoldstone]

2:22 AAA is a reference to meat grading systems. Part of the reference is that it wasn't born naturally... that it was "farmed"or came from a "game factory". It's a top of the line product... but it's a product.

[@tasosltss1988]

You know you are an mmorpg player when you knew all the words from these games, but not of the other games xD

[@Kylora2112]

"Pwned" probably started as a typo, since the "p" and "o" keys are next to each other, similar to zomg (where you mean to type "OMG" but hit the "z" key instead of the left shift key). "Grinding" in an MMO means to just kill monsters out in the open world for raw experience points rather than do quests/objectives or other forms of content. "Farming" is doing things (killing monsters, gathering resources, etc.) with a targeted item in mind (usually a specific rare item that can be found in the area, or to acquire resources or currency to make or buy gear and consumables). "Camping" is waiting in a specific spot for a rare creature to spawn or event to happen because there is a piece of loot or reward associated with killing the creature or participating in the event).

[@firudu]

my favourite sentence ever said in the realm of gaming is still "my name is tomatoanus, and this is speedcucked" alternatively, "bucket strats" from skyrim speedrunners

[@CrimsonFox36]

Correction. "Debuff" is a game mechanic term that describes making the player or enemy temporarily weaker. Whereas "Nerf" refers to when the developers make something weaker for game balance. The two are not necessarily synonymous

[@keriezy]

Grind... I think you got it a bit wrong. 'The Grind' refers to doing your daily work over and over without change without a break. I hear your meat reference but I think you're too literal in this case.

[@willywonka3050]

But where does the original work-related usage come from? I imagine it has to be related to some kind of literal grinder.

[@devin5891]

That’s where it came from bruh

[@eruvanna]

@@willywonka3050 "Nose to the Grindstone"

[@munchie_gov]

might be redundant due to similarity but i always thought aggro was derived from aggression as in "drawing aggression"

[@Bullminator]

KEK

[@InventorZahran]

In Minecraft, "aggro" (as a verb) usually refers to the act of provoking aggression from an otherwise neutral NPC.

[@lemob182]

Str41ght Pwn'd lol

[@AnthonyBoutdavong]

Cheesing is like doing something over and over bc it’s effective, instead of mixing things up. In competitive games it’s called “spamming” but it’s mostly used in RPGs when you’re at a place a boss can’t get you so you just stay there and kill them

[@eeshtarr]

Some of your 'acronyms' are not acronyms. Rather many of them are initialisms. Maybe an idea for a video about the difference between these? :)

[@TexasGI47life]

Your comment got posted an hour before mine, but I will continue since I have examples you might approve of.

[@icedteacatfish]

10:22 it’s literally bc o and p are next to eachother on the keyboard and it sounds funny

[@melanyebaggins]

I was waiting for 'QQ', Lag, 'press F in chat', and PUGs, but alas. Maybe a second part?

[@jackscrivens9520]

What about overworld? What about power up? What about tea bag? What about metroidvania? You could make a part 2 :)

[@WorthlessWinner]

I always thought "salty" was a reference to the salt in tears

[@kayseek1248]

3:57 can confirm, my mum used to call her friend’s vicious Rottweiler “Aggro” instead of Astro (which was the dog’s name).

[@JuliETrevA]

Camping can also be used in an MMORPG sense, usually does have the connotation of standing in a place but it has the divergent meaning of standing in a place to grind something. "I'm camping goblins to make gold." It is pretty much used as an interchangeable term to Grinding. I do have to note it seems to be a term I've noticed more prominently being used in Sandbox MMORPGs (think RuneScape) over Theme Park MMOs (World of Warcraft) I'd guess the divergence in term usage is due to sandbox mmos being much more focused on over world activities in which you can stand still much more while theme park mmos are focused on instanced activities like raids and dungeons that are separated from the over world and limited in players to a party.

[@Bengtssonsan]

As a gamer, this was very nice to listen to. A few thoughts though: 1. You did mention this, but only in passing and not very firmly: The words "debuff" and "nerf" are used in very different contexts. While a "buff" can be an increase in power either from player actions in game or by developers changing how the game works, the counterparts are strictly separated. "Debuff" is only used for in game player actions, while "nerf" is only used about changes to the game. (I have in a few cases found that a "nerf" has been referred to as a "debuff", but I feel like this is rare mistakes rather than common use) 2. "Noob" and "Newbie" have started to separate into different meanings. A "Newbie" is as always a player who is very new to a game and therefore tends to make mistakes that experienced players find silly. A "Noob" on the other hand is a player who is (or at least is presumed to be) a long time player but still plays with a proficiency that is on par with a "Newbie". 3. This might just be my local variant of "owned" and "pwned", but they seem to be used slightly differently. "Owned" is the general term for defeating an opponent with ease, but "pwned" is more commonly used when it comes to games with physical violence. When someone is "pwned", their in game character is quite litterally beaten up, while "owned" can be used for any type of game.

[@Guus]

I believe cheesing comes from a combination of the word cheap and strategy. It is used when your opponent (in an RTS) uses a strategy based on a gamble, one that is sure to win if your opponent didn’t prepare for it. But if he did prepare for it you are sure to loose yourself making it a cheap strategy

[@CoolAsFreya]

Train nerds (aka "gunzels" "anoraks" etc) have our own unique language! Some of my favs: "spark"-an electric train, "SPAD"-signal passed at danger, "foamer"-slur for someone particularly young who overly obsesses

[@nitsguy]

Pwned was just a typo of Owned! In the DOTA mod of Warcraft III, if you were on a kill streak messages pop up, and one would be OWNED! One patch had it typo'd as PWNED! and it stuck because it was just really funny lol. I distinctly remember noticing the typo one patch and making fun of it with my friends. It sounds like pwned may have had several origins, but modern useage as a gaming term definitely started here, no question.

[@Someone72663]

notes: a debuff is usually meant for a harmfull effect which lasts for a while. like posion, fire, venom, etc, its never used to describe a nerf, and a buff also tends to be a temporary boost, like damage , speed, accuracy, defense, etc , but something GETTING Buffed means its now stronger , Camping can also reffer to getting super close to the spawn point of an enemy and killing them on Sight this is known as Spawn-camping,

[@liamfidller4319]

Something i saw in titanfall 2 a lot in the months before it died was "GLHF" meaning "good luck, have fun".

[@JKaiper_01]

Amazing Video. While i was watching, i kept thinking how these terms are transformed through other languages, because although the soul ideia remains the same, sometimes the pronunciation or conjugation are changed to fit in the new language. For exemple, in portuguese we say thing like: Buffar Nerfar Grindar These are the same terms and often maintain the exact same use, but are transformed to easy pronunciation or more natural daily use. Nice.

[@mint_gd4633]

Triple A is actually an insurance quality indicator, and it kinda just transferred into game quality as well

[@SendyTheEndless]

I always thought pwned started as a mistype - p and o are next to eachother. The p also makes it more fun to shout : )

[@GENeralGremory]

I thought cheesing came from the term "cheesy" as in using a cheap tactic. And here I thought it's "pwned" because o is next to p in the keyboard and every player just memed it

[@irisinthedarkworld]

4:28 I think that's funny because that's also pretty much the origin of the word "boring"

[@jjkthebest]

Huh. I never consciously realised that that we use the same word for both meanings of "buff" but use different words for "debuff" and "nerf".

[@willmungas8964]

Debuffs are normally temporary negative in-game status effects, while nerfs are balance changes in the code that make something less powerful or effective, often permanently (unless another update retracts the change)

[@willmungas8964]

Maybe this is what you meant already but the way you worded it isn’t very clear :)

[@jaydenli8089]

the way this video is presented kind of makes me feel like an animal documentary explaining gamers xD