21st century
May. 3rd, 2005 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jameydeeAnother in the endless series of "JD catches up with the latest slang."
Having solved the mysteries of "kk", today I learned what "gg" means: "Good going" or "Good gaming."
I'm sure you all feel so much better for the knowledge. :)
I guess being behind is the consequence to my resistance of playing on-line games all these years. It's the shyness thing. In the past, I've only played online against RL friends. We've happily shot at and with each other in oldies like "Descent" to newer games like "Unreal Tournament," and indulged in some bump-n-run in "Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed" (no one drives the Alps like Tedy and Tito, I swear), and adventured in "Diablo." WoW is the first game where I've just kinda let it go, been bold about asking for groups, been daring about joining groups, joined in the general chat, et cetera. As I've said, gaming has its own vocabulary, then you add in people who can't type, people who can't spell, people who speak English as a second language, and, on top of it, the teenspeak of the kids playing on their parent's credit cards...it's quite a linguistic nightmare.
One of the problems with sitting and questing with a bunch of people through a long, intricate dungeon is after consuming a great deal of soda, you're going to need to ask the group to pause a moment at some point. I simply post, "Bio break, BRB." What I find amusing are the kids who feel they must give the more intimate details, "Gotta poo, brb." Uh, didn't need to know that, but thanks for letting us know.
Having solved the mysteries of "kk", today I learned what "gg" means: "Good going" or "Good gaming."
I'm sure you all feel so much better for the knowledge. :)
I guess being behind is the consequence to my resistance of playing on-line games all these years. It's the shyness thing. In the past, I've only played online against RL friends. We've happily shot at and with each other in oldies like "Descent" to newer games like "Unreal Tournament," and indulged in some bump-n-run in "Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed" (no one drives the Alps like Tedy and Tito, I swear), and adventured in "Diablo." WoW is the first game where I've just kinda let it go, been bold about asking for groups, been daring about joining groups, joined in the general chat, et cetera. As I've said, gaming has its own vocabulary, then you add in people who can't type, people who can't spell, people who speak English as a second language, and, on top of it, the teenspeak of the kids playing on their parent's credit cards...it's quite a linguistic nightmare.
One of the problems with sitting and questing with a bunch of people through a long, intricate dungeon is after consuming a great deal of soda, you're going to need to ask the group to pause a moment at some point. I simply post, "Bio break, BRB." What I find amusing are the kids who feel they must give the more intimate details, "Gotta poo, brb." Uh, didn't need to know that, but thanks for letting us know.
