Topic: GW-isms (Read 4971 times)

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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.
<Drule> I can play the didgeridoo actually
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<Drule> come to think of it
<Drule> it was pretty gross how I played on his didgeridoo

so wrong...
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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
I love this hobby - stealing your mother's diary
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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?

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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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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


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what.

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