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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: UPRC on June 30, 2008, 10:35:22 am
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It is no secret that at GW, we have our own.... GW-isms. Little things we do here that make us unique, things that make us Gaming World members. But what are they??
I think we should come up with a list of GW-isms so that we can poke fun at our stupid habits and maybe even put them on GWiki under a FAD section or something.
So hey!! What GW-isms do you know of which are pretty unique, stupid, whatever? I'll get the ball rolling with...
TYPING IN CAPS: Yes, this is done all over the place, but we at GW are a really special case.. Rather than typing in caps to express frustration or capitalizing a specific word to place emphasis on it, we just capitalize whatever the fuck we want that we write. We SORT OF DO IT like this. Random words which have no reason to be CAPITALIZED are, IN FACT, being capitalized. I'm not sure why MEMBERS OF GW do this, but it's pretty goofy!!!
There is my first contribution. Wat else do we do at GW that makes us unique? What defines the members of Gaming World?
(I was going to post this in the Crap Shack, but I think some real discussion and interesting things may be said so let's give it a go, yeah?)
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Saying whahay at everything and everyone. Oh wait I'm still living 5 years in the past...
I'd say many members of GW have the talent of being really obnoxious and likeable at the same time. I'm not sure how much of a GWism that is instead of just being the result of this environment, but it's definitely noticeable.
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typing in caps is really common everywhere and unless GW is the only site you visit apart from GAIA ONLINE or something you're likely to see it everywhere. I don't get why it's seen as a GW FAD, as it's the most common way of emphasising words on the internet (Bold is too much hard work)
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For the most part, we avoid "owned" and "lol" and "XD" and all that net-crap. People who do use that stupid stuff are usually ridiculed. That's pretty cool.
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typing in caps is really common everywhere and unless GW is the only site you visit apart from GAIA ONLINE or something you're likely to see it everywhere. I don't get why it's seen as a GW FAD, as it's the most common way of emphasising words on the internet (Bold is too much hard work)
Yeah, I kind of said that it is all over the place.. I then said that GW does it differently, we have a different take on which words need to be capitalized and it differs from the norm.
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also we do this also thing a lot
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my favorite gw-ism is
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i know there are a ton like slack grammatical style//fausting (heh fuck you steel) but not much more come to mind right now
actually HEH HEH/FEH FEH are pretty gwish but i guess that's making fun of gay internet laughs in general (bwahahahha, lmao, etc). we also use excessive ellipses quite a lot.
also some people say also too much and then there is the whole satirical typing style thing which i haven't seen at too many other places, unless you count AOL SPEAK SO FUNY which i definitely wouldn't.
maybe jfkjdlafsd asdoaina is one too but that's not too specific to gw.
breaking up posts like this maybe. and also double/triple posting when you are in fact not a retard who doesn't understand forums.
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maybe jfkjdlafsd asdoaina is one too but that's not too specific to gw.
I actually haven't seen that outside of gw. can you give me an outside example?
also double/triple posting when you are in fact not a retard who doesn't understand forums.
mostly p9/11 world/crapshack but yeah.
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idk i just see people going klsajflkfks in frustration a decent amount on other forums. i'm not going to LINK TOPICS soo
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dramatic... posting
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my posts
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Usually there's either a serious or funny post to start with
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and the next post is usually a witty punchline
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and also double/triple posting when you are in fact not a retard who doesn't understand forums.
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Oh I didn't see that
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hehe figures
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please sb
Oh wait, I'm three years behind.
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OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE
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what.
also, s....stuttering...
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maybe jfkjdlafsd asdoaina is one too but that's not too specific to gw.
Asdoaina is a word which represents lkjdfldj or adfsafsa.
it is a pretty fantastic word because it combines the random typing look with a pronounciation that imo accentuates on the -AINA, which sounds pretty distressing.
other words of that time are
beah beah
bouheauhea
(a kind of laugher. to me it is a cocky sort of laugher)
fgono
I am error yesok
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Adding t onto the ends of words sometimes so you come up with stuff like "hellot" which I have seen a few members use around here, I think.
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ah yeah, ending with -r, -s and -e
I used to do that as a targ technique (not with -t though)
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Quoting a post without adding to it, to emphasise a point.
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and also double/triple posting when you are in fact not a retard who doesn't understand forums.
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Even though I don't post much, I still develop habits of using "GWISMS" elsewhere and it confuses people!
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yeah going to other communities with this shit gets kinda weird.
also i don't think many people do that QUOTE, ADD NOTHING thing. that is more of a trend among shitty forums, i would say.
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No man, I've seen it around here a lot! More often than usual lately to be fair but there is a lot of that going on around here.
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"THERE IS NO FUCKING E IN RIDICULOUS" doesn't work too well in other forums... you get warned...
People don't understand what you mean when your mood is "just ate a pinecone"
:(
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We are unique in the fact that no other forum is called "gamingw".
In all seriousness, we are a very diverse bunch, which appeals to almost everyone in some way or another. Such as whether you want to talk about religion, video games, making video games, vegetarianism, abortions, politics, movies, art, music, weird things, etc! Also, we have people from all walks of life come here? I don't know, I mean I guess there are plenty of fairly diverse forums in that aspect, but this one is one of the more extreme ones I have seen.
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honestly i don't think that empty quoting happens THAT much at GW compared to other places. for example reading stuff like comedy goldmine topics at SA (http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=21) (especially if they are about art) can be really annoying because they are REALLY long but only because about 3/4 of the replies are just quotes, although sometimes there's a short, worthless response like "lol" after the quote.
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Nothing beats the power of 'fafg' and 'you're 13'. Which I use IRL. :)
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honestly i don't think that empty quoting happens THAT much at GW compared to other places.
GW is the only community I attend and I notice it a hell of a lot, mostly in the Crap Shack and Topics of similar nature but it's a GWism of ours to do it in those sorts of boards/topics.
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GW is the only community I attend and I notice it a hell of a lot, mostly in the Crap Shack and Topics of similar nature but it's a GWism of ours to do it in those sorts of boards/topics.
empty quoting happens a lot worse on many other forums I've seen
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empty quoting happens a lot worse on many other forums I've seen
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GW has the unique ability of gathering together for one purpose. for example, the 1st GMJ topic was amazing. everyone knew what was going on simply because they understand GW humor. there was nobody going like "i don't get it??" and "if ur making fun of them than ur mean so stop"
i think it's kinda interesting how some people have a really different persona when they're in the crap shack/post 9/11 world.
and another thing is the nesting of parentheses (like this (i think steel started this? (but maybe not) i'm not sure))
also, i like how we call certain people by things other than their usernames. this kinda just shows how tight-knit our community is, because we remember the past usernames of people since we've known them for years. for example: steel, kaworu, panda, etc...
GW = debate hell. there's always a majority, and then one or two people who see it differently. the majority insults them, and the topic gets locked.
the people of GW are all pretty decent, intelligent people though, which is really cool.
GW's cool because we generally don't type terribly. people know how to spell, use grammar pretty well, etc... and there's not even any exceptions, really. that's cool because now when someone posts with bad spelling/grammar, it's often pretty funny. on purpose.
meh some of those things were a little hard to explain and possibly not all-too-unique to GW but whatever.
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yeah I agree with mkkmypet on the debating. I've never really seen a good debate on this forum becuase the majority of people agree with everyone (or decide not to disagree). Those that disagree in attempt to create a two sided debate get shouted down and told they're a horrible human being. I believe that nothing is black and white and sometimes I think a lot of people here think that they are. like "No. That is wrong. This is how it is." You kind of accept that it's just how GW is. It would be nice sometimes for people to accept that other people may have a different opinion on things and try to understand what's going through their head in a productive manner, rather than being hostile.
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NO, GW is NOT like that, why don't you go and die Lyndon!
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For the most part, we avoid "owned" and "lol" and "XD" and all that net-crap. People who do use that stupid stuff are usually ridiculed. That's pretty cool.
I agree, we're most certainly more sophisticated then most forums :drwily:
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Let's see, some prominent acronyms being used here are "tbh", "imo" and "idk". Then you have the Os in "also" and "so" being drawn out for no real reason, question marks and periods sometimes being substituted with exclamation points, etc. Then of course, there aren't many people here who use emoticons - which is good!
I do agree with Lyndon about the "you're a deplorable human being" stuff, though. While it makes sense if someone is spouting off some racist crap, I definitely see "horrible person" being used for trivial reasons as well. It kinda loses its effect when more than half of GW consists of horrible human beings!
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I do agree with Lyndon about the "you're a deplorable human being" stuff, though. While it makes sense if someone is spouting off some racist crap, I definitely see "horrible person" being used for trivial reasons as well. It kinda loses its effect when more than half of GW consists of horrible human beings!
YOU LIKE MARIO MORE THAN SONIC!?!?!? YOU WASTE OF OXYGEN, GO DIE!!! :fogetangry:
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To be fair most of the debates are more like semi-intelligent discussion until an EXTREMIST comes in. Most of the posters are various shades of gray up until that point and have some backing reason up until that point, until someone gives no real reason for their belief.
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you are a terrible human being
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i guess this is about posting styles too and i have to say a newer but awesome posting style that i really like is the "naive, oblivious, possibly aspergers" style.
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isn't that just s4d?
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No I know Chef does it a lot (he does it pretty well) and I think adeline has done it rather successfully as well (his game jokes topic is where i kind of first noticed this style)
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oh i thought you meant the by nature kind. nevermind!
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yeah nesting parentheses is a good one. i don't think it was steel that did that one but it's barely even a THING so it might've been no one in particular. i think a lot of posts sort of go off on tangents that end up having multiple branches to them, so it might be a product of that.
also excessive question marks although i guess that falls under the category of excessive ellipses too. just EXCESSIVE PUNCTUATION all around, really.
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and yeah i'm inclined to agree that when there are two people in a debate vs all of gw and they are being insulted it is probably because those two people are really fucking dumb and the issue is something only an idiot would argue (gay: right or wrong???)
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GW = debate hell. there's always a majority, and then one or two people who see it differently. the majority insults them, and the topic gets locked.
the people of GW are all pretty decent, intelligent people though, which is really cool.
No, it's actually mostly the same as with any other forum. That is, some people (with a minority viewpoint) can apparently not defend themselves and end up complaining about being treated unfairly.
I had to reply to you because this place is actually better than any other place I know as far as (political) debates go. The discussion here is often very deep and refined, and we mostly owe that to a few very active members. You should really see some of the longer topics we've had here and you'll get what I mean. I do agree that topics get locked too quickly these days, though. I used to deliberately let them continue even if things became a little personal.
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i think gw is a pretty good site because we've basically weeded out the kind of people that are responding to gamesmasterjasper videos (who are pretty much the kind of people you would expect on gw). i also like that a lot of us don't care about rpg maker or even video games.
gw is also about the least internet site on the internet.
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we havent really weeded them out. its just that they dont post in general (hm GD)
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also really long run on sentences. i tend to use them a lot and i have notice this trend among many members. gw sometimes read like some goddamn stream of vconsicousness experiment, especially with all the targ and pseudo targ, run on sentences, and slack grammar
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ive noticed that typing without capital letters or punctuation is sort of okay here now. back when i first registered, i was ridiculed and called stupid for typing like this
now its cool and hip huh
assholes
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i think gw is a pretty good site because we've basically weeded out the kind of people that are responding to gamesmasterjasper videos (who are pretty much the kind of people you would expect on gw). i also like that a lot of us don't care about rpg maker or even video games.
gw is also about the least internet site on the internet.
i don't really feel like they were such a huge presence to begin with. like i can't remember a time when gw really had any large amount of awful awful videogame nerds with no social skills whatsoever. also we are LESS INTERNET than other shit like sa/4chan but it's not like we don't get our own gay memes.
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also really long run on sentences. i tend to use them a lot and i have notice this trend among many members. gw sometimes read like some goddamn stream of vconsicousness experiment, especially with all the targ and pseudo targ, run on sentences, and slack grammar
i've noticed the run on sentences too. i'm pretty guilty of using them occasionally as well, but i don't mind.
ive noticed that typing without capital letters or punctuation is sort of okay here now. back when i first registered, i was ridiculed and called stupid for typing like this
now its cool and hip huh
assholes
yeah
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ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff is used a fair bit to express frustration.
What are you talking about fffffffff god damn
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GWisms.... WE"RE GETITNG :ganja: THIS FOR PIPS! Smoke a toke (lol smoke) toke a toke.
Also (heheh) we have couch.
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also lots of exclamation marks to emphasize sentences or points!!!!!!!
it is usually paired with slack grammatical style in debates!!!!
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Not sure if this counts but whatever happened to Porcupine Tree mania
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I believe drama ensued in the forums and irc until several members (fanboys) finally left.
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned foget smilies. :fogetbackflip:
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Saying whahay at everything and everyone. Oh wait I'm still living 5 years in the past...
Whahay? We used to do this? That is badass. That can totally replace who/what/when/where/why/how guys we can totally do this. Think of how efficient it'd be.
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couchfeid
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conchfield
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We also like to quote things that haven't ACTUALLY been said by someone and react as if they HAD said it, just to cause general MAYHEM and CONFUSION.
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I like to munch cocks. Cocks cocks cocks.
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typing in caps is really common everywhere and unless GW is the only site you visit apart from GAIA ONLINE or something you're likely to see it everywhere. I don't get why it's seen as a GW FAD, as it's the most common way of emphasising words on the internet (Bold is too much hard work)
I've never seen it the way GW does it anywhere other than here. If anything, most other internet communities I've seen do go through the "trouble" to bold their posts. But that's just my experience.
Like it's been previously mentioned before, the whole TYPING IN CAPS in random parts of statements. At the most, GW does it the most more than any other place by far.
Also, the whole asking questions without actually putting a question mark at the end. Example;
"So has anyone seen that new movie Hancock."
I always thought that was pretty weird, because if you're willing to put a period, why not put a question mark as not to make it look funny as fuck, but hey, who cares.
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yeah I agree with mkkmypet on the debating. I've never really seen a good debate on this forum becuase the majority of people agree with everyone (or decide not to disagree). Those that disagree in attempt to create a two sided debate get shouted down and told they're a horrible human being. I believe that nothing is black and white and sometimes I think a lot of people here think that they are. like "No. That is wrong. This is how it is." You kind of accept that it's just how GW is. It would be nice sometimes for people to accept that other people may have a different opinion on things and try to understand what's going through their head in a productive manner, rather than being hostile.
I disagree here. It's basically as panda said, we only get really hostile when the minority is people who are arguing some incredibly dumb point. I think that a lot of people on GW are much more vocal than elsewhere and sure, insults are pretty commonplace too but it doesn't really distract you from the debate, at least not usually. I actually think GW has lots of great debates and people are good at debating and well informed on various subjects. I don't frequent many forums but I do read some random topics here and there and I think GW is much more better and interesting than majority of the forums I have seen.
Also I think it's really difficult to explain the whole deal about GW's posting style. I think it's unique to GW but it kind of consists of many little things which might not feel all that unique but GW really has its own style.
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yeah the perception that because there's another point of view, it's equally legitimate, is one that really doesn't exist on gw. luckily, it also doesn't exist in real life, unless you genuinely are one of those people who nods their head calmly when the taxi driver says ALL NEGROS SHOULD BE SHOT AND KILLED and say "well that's a very interesting opinion thanks for sharing".
the difference is we don't have to live with you so if you say something like "all immigrants should be deported" in real life, your roommates just kind of look at each other, where as here we can say "what? what? are you stupid?"
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cos of gw i often find myself getting into a fix over whether or not i should say something when people say awful stuff like get the blacks out no more blacks cos obviously here i will but in real life when i have done so at the end of the conversation/whatever i just feel like a bit of an idiot and in a worse mood than i did before i said anything so i dunno.
but that is a good thing about gw - the low tolerance for aggressive stupidity - because any whining about how you aren't allowed to express you opinion only comes from idiots who are like "i hate gays shut up i'ts my morals pal.", and that stuff isn't warranted or justified so who cares those people stink they stinkers.
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typing in caps is really common everywhere and unless GW is the only site you visit apart from GAIA ONLINE or something you're likely to see it everywhere. I don't get why it's seen as a GW FAD, as it's the most common way of emphasising words on the internet (Bold is too much hard work)
Some imbeciles I knew used _this_ for emphasis because CAPS was not POLITE.
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I've never seen it the way GW does it anywhere other than here. If anything, most other internet communities I've seen do go through the "trouble" to bold their posts. But that's just my experience.
Like it's been previously mentioned before, the whole TYPING IN CAPS in random parts of statements. At the most, GW does it the most more than any other place by far.
Also, the whole asking questions without actually putting a question mark at the end. Example;
"So has anyone seen that new movie Hancock."
I always thought that was pretty weird, because if you're willing to put a period, why not put a question mark as not to make it look funny as fuck, but hey, who cares.
because sometimes people ask questions in a way that makes them sound like statements, and the period instead of the question mark is to indicate that difference in tone, and the lack of your voice raising at the end of the word or whatever.
wife: honey, i've been having an affair with mike for the past four months.
husband: WHAT.
see? him saying WHAT? wouldn't have the same connotation.
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WHAT!?
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That's pretty much what the interrobang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang) is for.
Too bad it's not easier to input.
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yeah but "WHAT." implies that your face is kinda blank and you're in disbelief.
"WHAT?!" makes me picture a more surprised face. and it doesn't end as abruptly as the other one.
also there is this thing!
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Witnessed above, is a so called GW-ism taking place
Gaming World nitpicks
Also seriously... this? --> ‽
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i COMPLETELY AGREE with the capitalization thing ...oh and the smileys too
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we call a lot of people faggots around here. i don't think we'd get away with it in real life.
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because sometimes people ask questions in a way that makes them sound like statements, and the period instead of the question mark is to indicate that difference in tone, and the lack of your voice raising at the end of the word or whatever.
wife: honey, i've been having an affair with mike for the past four months.
husband: WHAT.
see? him saying WHAT? wouldn't have the same connotation.
Oh no, I get why a lot of people here do it, and for the verbal example, I do that a lot. Its actually pretty interesting to see it in text.
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GWism's... hmm i can't think of one, well OK actually i do have one. We have our own GW dictionairy like Steeling or Targ (i think) as in things that ONLY having gone to GW would know what it mean.
We also have our weird ass humour like in the GMJ incident (unless its already been mentioned (has it?))
EDIT: awww crud, i'm first on the new page.
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here is a famous "gamingworlds catchphrase" for you coolcats out there
are you thirteenn
yout ar thirten*
thirten are you**
you thirteen***
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because sometimes people ask questions in a way that makes them sound like statements, and the period instead of the question mark is to indicate that difference in tone, and the lack of your voice raising at the end of the word or whatever.
wife: honey, i've been having an affair with mike for the past four months.
husband: WHAT.
see? him saying WHAT? wouldn't have the same connotation.
also i think we usually leave the question mark out of rhetorical questions. maybe that's not it specifically but i know i do it all the time
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i think if it's rhetorical i just use like four question marks actually but that seems to be mostly me
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I find a lot of new members just add question marks randomly?
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We're probably the only community that discourages women from posting their photos in the Picture Thread (or at least goes out of its way to yell at members for making "b.....booobies"-type comments)
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well ugh forums are terrible for females. In all others I've been in, everytime a gggirl posts a photo, it is literally 20 pages of WOO LOOKING CUTE. Like people register an account just to hit on the mythical GAMERGIRL.
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it's the worst because 99% of the time they are always just SIMPLY OKAY looking.
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Yeah we are one of the few (not female-centered) forums that don't get all bent out of shape about girls.
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it's the worst because 99% of the time they are always just SIMPLY OKAY looking.
and 99% of the guys would have no idea what to do anyway
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99% of guys on gaming forum's experiences with girls is going on a date with aeris in FF7 (which is extremely apparent if you've ever tried to play an average rpgmaker game).
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Standing 4 feet apart staring straight ahead, saying very little and then being attacked by soldiers?
That's how all of my dates have gone.
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*sweat drop*
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There's one I really dislike:
Changing nicks all the time. I know there's a topic for keeping up with it, but it's still pretty annoying to have to always "oooohhhh.... uh ok! Kaworu!"
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There's one I really dislike:
Chaning nicks all the time. I know there's a topic for keeping up with it, but it's still pretty annoying to have to always "oooohhhh.... uh ok! Kaworu!"
Yeah, I don't even know who the hell some people are anymore. Changing your name is basically changing your entire identity here if someone does not really know you well enough. There are people who I know changed their names over a year ago and I still have no idea who they are.
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Chaning nicks all the time.
I hate this.
This pisses me off.
I dislike this.
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yeah the name changing thing does make it difficult to keep track of who is who a lot of the time. i think there are a lot less active members here than i notice because the names keep changing, i just can't keep up. i mean if there is a topic made like "haha i changed your names!" as a joke, then that's different but i dunno why people feel the need to change their names all the time. if your old name was dragonrpgmaster0284 then you have a good reason but i dunno.
it isn't really the main guys who i talk to that do it now that i think about it, it's more the guys who are around but don't really stand out and i bet the name changing thing is the cause of it or at least is making it a lot worse.
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Well, according to many people here, the name changes aren't confusing at all assuming you know absolutely everyone, and the insinuation is that if you can't follow the name changes you're not part of the community/a faggot.
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i hate it when people like mog go apeshit over trying to BRIDGE THE GAP, then do absolutely nothing! then they leave gw for awhile and come back only to use every topic as an opportunity to point out the...gaping flaws.. in the gw system.
honestly you're annoying as fuck, bro.
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Yeah I'm with Ryan here. Since you have made your shocking return you have pretty much posted very little but abuse!
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RMnetwork where gamin is still real
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lets bridge dat gap
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RMnetwork where gamin is still real
yea word on dat bro
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lets bridge dat gap
this is really funny.
coming from you, especially, who was the most annoyingly gungho FIX GW GUY ever. now all you do is whine and complain!
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this is really funny.
coming from you, especially, who was the most annoyingly gungho FIX GW GUY ever. now all you do is whine and complain!
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/36282/kelvin3.bmp)
Anywho, no need to derail the topic on account of me. Let's get back on topic, guys.
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also lots of exclamation marks to emphasize sentences or points!!!!!!!
it is usually paired with slack grammatical style in debates!!!!
Yeah, but it doesn't always have to have a lot of exclamation marks. Used almost as an question mark, but it's more sarcastic. I can't think of a good example though.