Post by Pikachu on Nov 25, 2013 13:59:04 GMT -5
Technical jargon might be harder to figure out. That's fine. It takes time. But there are even more esoteric terms we throw around that make absolutely no sense. Fortunately, these are much easier to learn than frame data, so you'll have the back story to all these idiotic jokes, laugh, and participate... all without the need to enter practice mode.
Besides, this section is filled with generally useful things, so I'll happily contribute less useful things, as I do in most cases.
Scrub - If you hear this term in any other genre of gaming, thank the fighting game community for making it happen. Before LoL scrubs, CoD scrubs, and even WoW scrubs, there were just plain Street Fighter scrubs.
A scrub is not just a low-skill player. It is a low-skill player who refuses to improve on very basic things, often accompanied with whining and/or raging. Therefore, a n00b is not necessarily a scrub. One could say that a scrub is a sort of perma-n00b due to controllable factors.
For examples of scrub mentality, check out this thread at Shoryuken.com that displays online hate mail: forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/101756/ssf4-what-other-players-msg-you-after-you-beat-them
Cheap - This is the idea that something is too unfair or unbeatable.
Any human being will be frustrated when unable to find the solution to a problem, particularly after losing to such a problem over and over again. In most cases, the solution exists in out there that could take a little bit of research, advice, or patience in learning. The solution may not even be easy, or your answers may be of small comfort, especially in bad matchups, ridiculous situations, or if the issues lie in your fundamental gameplay. That's just how things go.
And 90% of the time, when something is called cheap, it comes from the aforementioned scrub mentality.
I am not one to believe that cheap does not exist.
In September 2013, Shoryuken polled the community for the most broken fighting game character ever. Some familiar names were mentioned, such as Super Street Fighter II Turbo's Akuma, of SF2: Championship Edition M. Bison. Both of which are definitely true. But the actual results of what cheap and broken really look like are shocking:
shoryuken.com/2013/09/12/ask-srk-whos-the-most-broken-character-in-fighting-games/
Most of the time, a well designed game won't contain actual cheapness. The Marvel series is an exception to this rule, but it's all fair because everyone is cheap.
To sound less scrubby, people may use the term "broken".
Tier Whore - A player who only plays top tier characters. I do this quite often across all games.
Shenanigans - Smoke and mirrors. Cheap tactics which catch people off guard.
Mashing - This is what I do when I play Ken. Or play in general.
Mashing is the uncontrolled pressing of buttons. Two facts escape players in the frenzy of gameplay. 1) Unless the game command demands it, you only need to press a button once in order for your attack to come out. 2) Hitting a button harder does not make the move come out faster or hit harder, although it can make you feel better on the inside.
Written out like this, it's obvious, but controlling it is a different matter.
Mashing should not be confused with piano techniques, plinking, double tapping, or the refined, furious swiping of one's hand across all 6 buttons while playing Marvel 2.
It does include the continuous facerolling of 3 and 4 when playing Eddy, Christie, or Lili in Tekken, even if there is a vague idea that pressing directions will alter the nature of the moves.
Mashing is NOT a missed input or general mistake. It is a general, thoughtless state of mind which disregards what one's buttons do. Mashing does not seek any understanding. It is a mentality of not knowing or caring.
A masher is a form of scrub.
I, Josh, am a scrub.
Pringles - A brand of potato chips which come in a trademark can.
Potato chips generally crumble easily. Players also crumble easily in frantic games such as Marvel vs. Capcom 2. And it was in those days that the term "Pringles" came about when someone cracked under pressure.
This was originally used by IFC Yipes to describe Magneto in MvC2, using the Pringles slogan, "Once you pop, the fun don't stop." Magneto was able to start an infinite from a variety of different situations, and made people wilt under his pressure, and hence the potato chips themselves have become the image of getting rushed down in such a manner.
As a related term, a deep question was brought about by IFC Yipes: Where yo curleh mustache at? (Translation: Sir, where is your curly mustache?)
This was in reference to the face on the Pringles can. Incidentally, Deadpool also asks this question in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as a spoken win quote, in honor of IFC Yipes' immortal query.
Scoops - To be thrown, as if one were scooped up.
Also from the Marvel 2 scene, because too much brainpower is expended to play the game that the crowd's general hive mind devolves in strange ways.
People yelled out, "SCOOPS!" when someone was thrown, because being thrown in Marvel 2 could lead to certain death, and therefore a throw was a bigger deal.
The evolution of this term became...
Haagen-Dazs - Just because this is ice cream, and ice cream comes in scoops. One, in retrospect, might have expected a Raisin Bran reference instead, but one cannot explain the Marvel 2 community.
Fraud - An oft used term. I am a fraud.
The term "fraud" came about to describe self-proclaimed fighting game professionals who really turned out to be not-quite-a-scrub-but-far-from-actual-greatness. Nowadays, it is extended to describe scrubbier gameplay (or a gamer) that still manages to pull out some wins.
More jokingly, people will call each other frauds as if calling someone a scrub, although the insult is diminished. (e.g. Screw you vs. Fuck you)
A related term is "Fraud Alert", which is occurs in the game Dive Kick, when a player is about to lose 5 straight rounds.
Expose - One exposes frauds in criminal cases. Therefore, when someone is exposed, they have been shown to be a fraud.
Salty - Feeling mad about losing. The term salty pre-dates the fighting game community, to describe someone being grouchy or angry about something. However, we have taken it to describe the emotion of a frustrating loss, particularly if one felt it was undeserved.
"Sodium" is also a descriptor for salty.
Free - An adjective to describe little to no difficulty. Traditionally, if someone misses a Dragon Punch, it is easy to punish them for doing so as they landed. This became colloquially known as a free punish.
It has since been extended to refer to people who are easily beaten; such players give free wins.
Body - Here it is used as a verb, as in to body someone, occasionally for free.
The OG portion of the fighting game community has a fascination with The Karate Kid movie (not the remake). In the final bout between the Karate Kid and his nemesis, one of the nemesis' friends yells out, "Put 'em in a body bag! Yeah! Hehehehe!"
To be bodied is to be beaten.
Godlike/GDLK - Self-explanatory, but often used on streams to describe a good player. It is also used to refer to broken moves.
Download - To figure out a person's playstyle and use it against them.
Peed On/R. Kelly - To pee on someone is to get a perfect on them. This comes from the "P" which shows on a player's win counter upon a perfect. R. Kelly peed on someone, so his name is also used to express this idea.
No homo - Slightly popularized in culture through the internet, this term has its origins in the fighting game community.
Because the community is online and a sausage fest, expressions of endearment and friendship needed to be clarified as platonic, rather than an instance of aiming of one's penis at another man's butthole.
An example usage would be: Thanks for holding and cradling my drunk ass as I was puking everywhere and not drawing dicks on my forehead. That's what a real friend does. I love you, man. No homo.
Besides, this section is filled with generally useful things, so I'll happily contribute less useful things, as I do in most cases.
Scrub - If you hear this term in any other genre of gaming, thank the fighting game community for making it happen. Before LoL scrubs, CoD scrubs, and even WoW scrubs, there were just plain Street Fighter scrubs.
A scrub is not just a low-skill player. It is a low-skill player who refuses to improve on very basic things, often accompanied with whining and/or raging. Therefore, a n00b is not necessarily a scrub. One could say that a scrub is a sort of perma-n00b due to controllable factors.
For examples of scrub mentality, check out this thread at Shoryuken.com that displays online hate mail: forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/101756/ssf4-what-other-players-msg-you-after-you-beat-them
Cheap - This is the idea that something is too unfair or unbeatable.
Any human being will be frustrated when unable to find the solution to a problem, particularly after losing to such a problem over and over again. In most cases, the solution exists in out there that could take a little bit of research, advice, or patience in learning. The solution may not even be easy, or your answers may be of small comfort, especially in bad matchups, ridiculous situations, or if the issues lie in your fundamental gameplay. That's just how things go.
And 90% of the time, when something is called cheap, it comes from the aforementioned scrub mentality.
I am not one to believe that cheap does not exist.
In September 2013, Shoryuken polled the community for the most broken fighting game character ever. Some familiar names were mentioned, such as Super Street Fighter II Turbo's Akuma, of SF2: Championship Edition M. Bison. Both of which are definitely true. But the actual results of what cheap and broken really look like are shocking:
shoryuken.com/2013/09/12/ask-srk-whos-the-most-broken-character-in-fighting-games/
Most of the time, a well designed game won't contain actual cheapness. The Marvel series is an exception to this rule, but it's all fair because everyone is cheap.
To sound less scrubby, people may use the term "broken".
Tier Whore - A player who only plays top tier characters. I do this quite often across all games.
Shenanigans - Smoke and mirrors. Cheap tactics which catch people off guard.
Mashing - This is what I do when I play Ken. Or play in general.
Mashing is the uncontrolled pressing of buttons. Two facts escape players in the frenzy of gameplay. 1) Unless the game command demands it, you only need to press a button once in order for your attack to come out. 2) Hitting a button harder does not make the move come out faster or hit harder, although it can make you feel better on the inside.
Written out like this, it's obvious, but controlling it is a different matter.
Mashing should not be confused with piano techniques, plinking, double tapping, or the refined, furious swiping of one's hand across all 6 buttons while playing Marvel 2.
It does include the continuous facerolling of 3 and 4 when playing Eddy, Christie, or Lili in Tekken, even if there is a vague idea that pressing directions will alter the nature of the moves.
Mashing is NOT a missed input or general mistake. It is a general, thoughtless state of mind which disregards what one's buttons do. Mashing does not seek any understanding. It is a mentality of not knowing or caring.
A masher is a form of scrub.
I, Josh, am a scrub.
Pringles - A brand of potato chips which come in a trademark can.
Potato chips generally crumble easily. Players also crumble easily in frantic games such as Marvel vs. Capcom 2. And it was in those days that the term "Pringles" came about when someone cracked under pressure.
This was originally used by IFC Yipes to describe Magneto in MvC2, using the Pringles slogan, "Once you pop, the fun don't stop." Magneto was able to start an infinite from a variety of different situations, and made people wilt under his pressure, and hence the potato chips themselves have become the image of getting rushed down in such a manner.
As a related term, a deep question was brought about by IFC Yipes: Where yo curleh mustache at? (Translation: Sir, where is your curly mustache?)
This was in reference to the face on the Pringles can. Incidentally, Deadpool also asks this question in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as a spoken win quote, in honor of IFC Yipes' immortal query.
Scoops - To be thrown, as if one were scooped up.
Also from the Marvel 2 scene, because too much brainpower is expended to play the game that the crowd's general hive mind devolves in strange ways.
People yelled out, "SCOOPS!" when someone was thrown, because being thrown in Marvel 2 could lead to certain death, and therefore a throw was a bigger deal.
The evolution of this term became...
Haagen-Dazs - Just because this is ice cream, and ice cream comes in scoops. One, in retrospect, might have expected a Raisin Bran reference instead, but one cannot explain the Marvel 2 community.
Fraud - An oft used term. I am a fraud.
The term "fraud" came about to describe self-proclaimed fighting game professionals who really turned out to be not-quite-a-scrub-but-far-from-actual-greatness. Nowadays, it is extended to describe scrubbier gameplay (or a gamer) that still manages to pull out some wins.
More jokingly, people will call each other frauds as if calling someone a scrub, although the insult is diminished. (e.g. Screw you vs. Fuck you)
A related term is "Fraud Alert", which is occurs in the game Dive Kick, when a player is about to lose 5 straight rounds.
Expose - One exposes frauds in criminal cases. Therefore, when someone is exposed, they have been shown to be a fraud.
Salty - Feeling mad about losing. The term salty pre-dates the fighting game community, to describe someone being grouchy or angry about something. However, we have taken it to describe the emotion of a frustrating loss, particularly if one felt it was undeserved.
"Sodium" is also a descriptor for salty.
Free - An adjective to describe little to no difficulty. Traditionally, if someone misses a Dragon Punch, it is easy to punish them for doing so as they landed. This became colloquially known as a free punish.
It has since been extended to refer to people who are easily beaten; such players give free wins.
Body - Here it is used as a verb, as in to body someone, occasionally for free.
The OG portion of the fighting game community has a fascination with The Karate Kid movie (not the remake). In the final bout between the Karate Kid and his nemesis, one of the nemesis' friends yells out, "Put 'em in a body bag! Yeah! Hehehehe!"
To be bodied is to be beaten.
Godlike/GDLK - Self-explanatory, but often used on streams to describe a good player. It is also used to refer to broken moves.
Download - To figure out a person's playstyle and use it against them.
Peed On/R. Kelly - To pee on someone is to get a perfect on them. This comes from the "P" which shows on a player's win counter upon a perfect. R. Kelly peed on someone, so his name is also used to express this idea.
No homo - Slightly popularized in culture through the internet, this term has its origins in the fighting game community.
Because the community is online and a sausage fest, expressions of endearment and friendship needed to be clarified as platonic, rather than an instance of aiming of one's penis at another man's butthole.
An example usage would be: Thanks for holding and cradling my drunk ass as I was puking everywhere and not drawing dicks on my forehead. That's what a real friend does. I love you, man. No homo.