Online gaming's lexicon of smack talk.

[Azrael Strife]

I found this interesting, and gave answer to my confusion when seeing "pwned" or similar. (note I'm not a native english speaker, hence my confusion)

 

"Pwned" - A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned." Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned." May also be used to your friends when they lose their keys, drop a cell phone or spill coffee on their new pants.

 

"W00t" - "w00t" was originally a truncated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in videogame communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement and extreme nerdiness.

 

"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot"

 

"Teabagged" - A traditional saying in shooters, after you get killed or owned, the enemy begins to crouch up and down on your dead body, whether over your head or other preferred area of the corpse. Makes great kill-cam footage.

 

"You got served" - Another way of saying "You just got owned" or "Pwned" or "You suck at breakdancing"

 

"ZOMG HAXX" - Two separate words, 'zomg' is derived from 'omg' meaning oh my god. 'zomg' puts an extra ZO in it, so it sounds like ZOH-MAI-GOHDUH. 'Hax' is commonly used on the Xbox Live world as a defense mechanism for people with low self-esteem who need to justify getting beat by accusing the opposing player for cheating. In conclusion, 'ZOMG HAX' means to be incredibly excited/confused/depressed about losing a game or your pathetic life, in general.

 

"N00b" - An insult term referring to someone who is new to a game - but is more widely used as a general insult. Usually gets spouted by an elitist, or bad players that can't accept losing (and calls everyone else 'noobs' for beating him). The videogame world's version of a rookie.

 

"Kekeke" - It's what some Koreans say in online games, usually signifies joy, or sometimes it's like a war-cry. You'll see this from an enemy if he is killing you, he is Korean, or both.

 

ATTACK THE BASE! KEKEKE!"

 

"Suxxor" - Modified version of the verb "to suck", and the meaning is roughly the same. There are two main uses, as a verb ("Dude, that suxxorz") and as a noun ("You are teh suxxor."). They appear independently. The verb version is antonymous to roxxor ("to rock"), and a noun could be considered as a counterpart to "haxor" ("hacker"). The pronunciation is "suck-zor". Contrary to some claims, EverQuest's spell "Succor" has nothing to do with that word (actually pronounced "Soo-kore"). This is one of the early uses of the -zor word-ending. Don't say this to your girlfriend.

 

"Base raping" - When a team has captured all of the bases but one. Members of that team surround the last remaining spawn point and decimate the team with additional kills, insults. Note: Being base-raped sux.

 

"Ridicapwned" - When someone pwns someone....but it's ridiculous.

 

"Janitor" - Someone who avoids the main battle and cleans up on wounded survivors to finish them off.

 

"Muhahahaha" - Evil laugh.

 

"The Rocks" - Rocket launcher in Halo2.

 

"Bring a baggie fo ya teef - You just got assassinated.

 

"Boomstick" - Shotgun.

 

"Blue Screen Bitches" - Quitters.

 

"No-scoped" - A single shot sniper kill without the use of sights or a scope.

 

Gotten from IGN

[Kernel]

Wikipedia has a lot of info too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak

[FullAuto]

I found this interesting, and gave answer to my confusion when seeing "pwned" or similar. (note I'm not a native english speaker, hence my confusion).

 

I am a native English speaker, and this sort of thing contributed to me never playing online games. While amusing to analyse, it's retarded. Especially when people construct entire sentences from leet speak.

[Kernel]

I am a native English speaker, and this sort of thing contributed to me never playing online games.

 

Well don't play on the same server's these idiots play on then.

[FullAuto]

I can't seem to find one without them.

[Kernel]

Well I guess it depends what games you play... but you can have some fun on the server at the expence of the idiots.

I remember games where everyone else on the server ganged up on the single idiot who kept TKing and flooding the channels with messages. I don't think he was alive for more than 2 seconds each time he spawned, he left shortly after and then the game continued as normal. Of course the admin could have kicked and banned him but it was more fun this way.

[Praetoris]

Seeing people writing some of these while gaming can be understandable, using them while speaking is just embarassing. I have some students going on like this...dear god. The word lol for instance has no meaning any more, it's meaning has changet into something more like "oh, that's actually a bit funny ..and my life sucks"

[Bomb Bloke]

Most people out there don't understand where some of the terms originated from.

 

The "Zero Wing" quotes are still floating about. "All your base are belong to us" is sometimes used by the winning side, and "someone set up us the bomb" by the losers. By this stage of the game, the victory is so assured that people have time to type this sort of stuff out - during play, real gamers tend to stick to acronyms.

[Azrael Strife]

Seeing people writing some of these while gaming can be understandable, using them while speaking is just embarassing. I have some students going on like this...dear god. The word lol for instance has no meaning any more, it's meaning has changet into something more like "oh, that's actually a bit funny ..and my life sucks"

Do people actually use Lol while speaking?

[Kernel]

Do people actually use Lol while speaking?

 

Sadly, yes.