Fighting game lingo you find annoying

NissanZaxima

As streams get more popular it seems as if players have become more robotic in their vocabulary and just seem to copy one another. So what key words, phrases, or memes do you find particularly annoying and wish would just disappear?

Personally atm the term fraud or fraudulent has been getting used way more than a cheap hookers snatch. Not only is it annoying, but I dont even know what fraudulent is anymore because it seems anything and everything is considered this by everyone.

The 8.95 meme was funny for the hour it started, then it just became stupid as shit.

I use to hate the term MAHVEL when MvC3 first came out but that one has since died down a bit (since people have realized MvC3 does not classify as Mahvel).

Slamtastic

All non explanatory, technical, or taken from the game lingo.

Da Stunna

Real talk, I always thought the term 'footsies' sounded gay as shit.

I don't know how regular SF tournament attendees can go around saying it with a straight face.

PozerWolf

I hate the term 'Happy Birthday'.

I know getting 2 characters at once in Marvel 3 is death, but damn, can we think of a better name than 'Happy Birthday'?
Shit is gay.

ShinkuGadoken

Real Talk. <-- That term is fucking stupid.

konkrete

Technology. It's such a lazy way of describing what a character can do. And it grinds my gears.

M.D.

- Lamed out/Lame it out: Why is it lame to play a keep away game?

- Broken: People forgot what this word means or don't know its meaning.

- Deal With It: This one annoys me because we say this to everyone who cries about stuff, then when developers cater to them, they throw it right back at us. Hypocrisy much.

- Rare footage of Daigo doing something.

- Free/Stay Free: Don't know why a lot of people use this; I doubt most of these ppl could win a MM against any of these players and you can't do money matches over XBL/PSN.

- Random: Another word people don't know the meaning of.

pherai

All the shit that isn't actually fighting game jargon but just EC slang that all the fuckin dorky stream watching white boys have repeated ad nausea.

Ben Perkins

"In the Lab" - I know it has its origins outside of the FGC, I guess, but it still sounds lame as hell. Same for "technology".

Floeface is the best thing ever, though.

NissanZaxima

konkrete, post: 6346407, member: 12482 wrote:

Technology. It's such a lazy way of describing what a character can do. And it grinds my gears.

I should have added this in my original post as I want to pull out my hair when I hear a lot of stream commentators talk about new techonlogy... especially in the mvc3 world...

In the MvC3 world apparently using a different assist for your teleport mix up or using a different assist to extend an OTG combo is considered technology. Blows my mind.

M.D.

Someone mention iPort and iHits?

entrerix

pringles

Ben Perkins

I love Commentator Steve and all, but he has like 3 names for EVERY MOVE IN UMVC3.

It is bonkers.

Warrior's Dreams

I find the use of the term "technology" to be incredibly annoying. Technically it is being used in the right sense in terms of the dictionary definition, but it just sounds weird when its not being applied in a non-engineering sense. Its not like you created new software, you've only discovered how to take advantage of the currently existing one.

I think "run-back" is also annoying because this isn't a football game. What's next? When it's the final round, is someone going to say: its fourth down, here comes the hail mary ultra for the win! omg!

EDIT. Turns out run back is already accepted urban slang.

Zebster

Scrub - because almost no one uses it right.

Kef

Random - Way to explain EVERYTHING the commentators don't know about (which is pretty frequently if girls or top players aren't commentating).

"Mix Up" - James Chen: "Uhh! Nice mixup!." (Player just called an assist and teleported)

Fuck ___ - Any top tier character. Becoming a trend now.

Godlike: I've used it before, and I regret it hard.

Kinniku Buster

yomi, oki, vortex, happy birthday, run-it back (I know this isn't from fighting games but its still fucking dumb), salty

b4k4

"Vortex" kills me.

Lord_Raptor

Vortex and technology for me. Especially vortex, goddamn that shit is stupid and annoying.

Tuck

I don't like when people talk at all during a match, it's distracting and disrespectful. It should be more like tennis where you can politely cheer, but only after the point (round in this case) has concluded.

Kinniku Buster

Tuck, post: 6346677, member: 42027 wrote:

I don't like when people talk at all during a match, it's distracting and disrespectful. It should be more like tennis where you can politely cheer, but only after the point (round in this case) has concluded.

Comparing fighting games to tennis is fucking retarded. People should be able to get hype and get excited when something indeed hype or exciting happens.

rukawa_kaede

meaty attack

Vorkosigan

Jesus is there any term you people DO like?

M.D.

Some of these are not lingos BTW.

Sensei Rouzu

Vorkosigan, post: 6346858, member: 24066 wrote:

Jesus is there any term you people DO like?

cross-ups

NissanZaxima

M.D., post: 6346864, member: 9219 wrote:

Some of these are not lingos BTW.

Lingo probably wasnt a good term to put in the title. I just sort of wrote it very fast after reading some posts and the term fraudulent constantly popping up over and over.

I should have said fighting game lingo, terms, and memes that you find annoying.

TomatoPancake

all of them are stupid. you can't see a headline from iantothemax without seeing "technology" in it, he sounds like a 15 year old that wandered into the room and desperately wants approval. "Get hype" has always been stupid and probably moreso more than any other term because of the mouthbreathing attempt at forced grammar negation. and if any of these terms are said now, it's not by whoever came up with it, so it makes everyone that uses them sound like a plagiarizing faceless retard.

Ben Perkins

Vorkosigan, post: 6346858, member: 24066 wrote:

Jesus is there any term you people DO like?

Dat Mango Sentinal

Caleb_G

Tuck, post: 6346677, member: 42027 wrote:

I don't like when people talk at all during a match, it's distracting and disrespectful. It should be more like tennis where you can politely cheer, but only after the point (round in this case) has concluded.

Do you even have friends that you play with in real life?

zeech

Anyone who posts in this thread, for every term they mention, need to provide an alternative term that is acceptable to them.
And then we can see everyone else hating on that term too :P

Slamtastic

Vorkosigan, post: 6346858, member: 24066 wrote:

Jesus is there any term you people DO like?

Ones in the instruction manuals of the games in question.

St. Minority

M.D., post: 6346432, member: 9219 wrote:

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- Free/Stay Free: Don't know why a lot of people use this; I doubt most of these ppl could win a MM against any of these players and you can't do money matches over XBL/PSN.

I so agree with this one.
-"Hype" and "get hype"

And "salty." Nothing and no one should be called salty unless they are my McDonald's fries.

LivewireX

As much as I don't mind Justin Wong, it's started to bug me lately when some commentators have used his name as a Verb. And yeah, that "Happy Birthday" thing's just weird. Can't they just call it like a "Two-For" or something?

xEGAxBeastkingx

Godlike
Free/stay free
Using low tier/mid tier/high tier to describe something
Anything that comes out of that James Chen guy's mouth
Random - what my opponent calls out when I activate Ultra between the time I hear Guile shout "sonicboom" and him actually doing it

Squire Grooktook

technology
shout outs
calling Mvc3 Mahvel

piskooooo

Swagless morons with like minor Tourette's pretty much killed swag for me.

Sleazoid

when people say they've been developing "technology" it reminds me of how the waterboy tells his mom that he's a "water distribution engineer"

Theautophobia

yomi, oki, vortex, option select, tiers (unless the person is performing at 100%" is that a computer/japanese player" consistency with everything the character has along with the other player doing the same, tiers mean close to shit.)

those as they are always used to flaunt knowledge that the person doesn't have because they use them incorrectly EXTREMELY often, but numero fucking uno

SCRUB | SCRUBBY
also calling every dropped combo a reset, if thats the case im a reset master.

Hawkingbird

I never liked when derogatory sexual terms are used to describe whats happening. I cringe when someone says that a dude got raped when the other guy won convincingly.

UnshapedOrkRandomNumber

Does the Floe face count as fighting game lingo?

Kef, post: 6346625, member: 19928 wrote:

"Mix Up" - James Chen: "Uhh! Nice mixup!." (Player just called an assist and teleported)

I always thought "mix-up" meant mixing up high attacks and low attacks, while "cross-up" was the term used for left-rights.

Ben Perkins, post: 6346957, member: 55198 wrote:

Dat Mango Sentinal

Actually, every single Yipes joke from that Marvel 2 video or the second Marvel 2 video. They've been repeated ad nauseum by people who aren't funny.

Say what you want about mix-ups, footsies, meaties, or happy birthdays, but at least those mean something; Mango Sentinel is spammed everywhere, no matter the topic.

Pablo_the_Mex

pherai, post: 6346439, member: 4897 wrote:

All the shit that isn't actually fighting game jargon but just EC slang that all the fuckin dorky stream watching white boys have repeated ad nausea.

Fo realz son that shit sounds mad corny already, let alone hearing it in person from fat nerds walking around all sweaty with their neck beards and hentai themed arcade sticks. Way to act like a fucking mark.

Also, nowadays everything on the SRK front page is full of lame ass lingo. I just shook my head the first time i heard of "technology". Why is the new gen so lame?

Ben Perkins

UnshapedOrkRandomNumber, post: 6347114, member: 56893 wrote:

Actually, every single Yipes joke from that Marvel 2 video or the second Marvel 2 video. They've been repeated ad nauseum by people who aren't funny.

Say what you want about mix-ups, footsies, meaties, or happy birthdays, but at least those mean something; Mango Sentinel is spammed everywhere, no matter the topic.

Mango Sentinel MEANS Mango Sentinel :<

axsprime

Zebster, post: 6346615, member: 20670 wrote:

Scrub - because almost no one uses it right.

This right here

evilj

"Mahvel" basically used for people who got into mvc2 late or have no idea how to play the game or what they are watching. People who say "it's mahvel baybee" just use it as a way to get hype without actually knowing wtf is going on the screen. Not everything that happens on the screen is crazy.

"blown up"
"chucking plasma" AKA we from norcal.

"New technology" to refer to new combos or properties for moves or simply new tactics? That's stupid. If anything it should reference a glitch or exploit in the system like DHC glitch, CvS2 roll canceling, Sentinel's unfly mode, something that was not necessarily intended.

Chachi

Anything besides proper grammatical context. Fuck you guys for trying to add flavor to my oatmeal.

orka

Vortex
Technology
Anime

Da Stunna, post: 6346328, member: 17494 wrote:

Real talk, I always thought the term 'footsies' sounded gay as shit.

I don't know how regular SF tournament attendees can go around saying it with a straight face.

'Footsies' is actually a martial arts term describing fighters vying for position using legs and feet contact, usually in judo, BJJ and aikido. I'm not sure how the term came about in U.S. fighting game scene, and the way it's used in describing fighting games is rather incorrect, but I won't be surprised if it came directly from the martial arts tie.

soraky

I get why some of the words here would be annoying, but what in the world would you call cross-ups and mix-ups if not those? I don't think you can get more condensed than that.

entrerix

i move to replace pringles with juice
juice with jazzy
and jazzy with pringles

i also move to replace swag with sauce
sauce with boppin'
and boppin' with creamy

so at the end of the day we have salty cream being the last word in fighting game retard vernacular

Alenth

When people talks about what game is an "anime game" in a derogatory manner.

Amazing Funbags

-Vortex
-TOD
-In The Lab
-Technology
-Fuzzy/Chicken Guard(WTF?)

Sektor

Theautophobia, post: 6347100, member: 48022 wrote:

also calling every dropped combo a reset, if thats the case im a reset master.

That's more of a joke really. Especially in MvC3