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Athera wrote:Considering that I'm playing Fantasy Khorne pretty much exclusively and I believe that I've said so several times, I think you may need to read closer next time.

Which begs the question why you even comment on 40K at all?

Moving thread to 40K Discussions.

I must admit it really @&%$ me off when people start making there on words and stuff up for the hobby. I know its toy soldiers but doesn't mean i want to be reminded off it every time i log on..
But the thing is quite a large portion of the hobbiests are young kids 10-16 and what else would you expect from kids that age, i know i was the same back when i was that age..
jim..

Too much time on your hands nurglich, if this is you biggest concern in life you live a charmed one, maybe you should be angry because a few blades of grass in your lawn are not standing strait up, when the sun is at apex. Enjoy your stroke at 35.

As for things like wolfwing or loganwing, its much faster than saying logan grimnars great company. What you are experiencing is people building efficiency to convey an idea. Heck you did it in your rant when you said 40k instead of warhammer 40000. Look at the forum title dakka dakka, or the ork codex where things are spell phonetically.

I guess my advice is have a beer, see your doctor, have the stick taken out, and get over it, or stroke out early over a pointless irritation.

chromedog wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Double tab is actual military or special forces/SWAT jargon, isn't it?

Police, para-military/military.

To put two rounds downwind into x is "double tapping". Easier to do with modern guns than older wheelguns (lighter triggers, etc).

I only use it around people who know what it means, and only in certain situations (eg, playing a military/para-military or security contractor type in an rpg).

With regard to rapid-fire weapons, it's "this unit, rapid-fire weapons, two shots each into them."
I don't think I've ever referred to it as "double tapping".

Huh, I didnt Know that, thanks for Clearing that up though

I actually dont believe you nurglitch. What are you, 50 years old?

WELCOME TO THE INTERNET!

Here we have [people who swear, internet warriors who want to fight you, 13 year olds who think Black Ops is going to be awesome, and people you cant handle all of the above!

Spehs Mahreens I find rather funny, its a humorous take on an otherwise very serious race. It has nothing to do with insulting the british.

Versing...how can you possibly be insulted by that? Its easier to say "versing" than "fighting against" or "locked in a battle of wits with" I say LOL out loud because people give me funny looks and call me a nerd. I happen to play Warhammer 40,000, I have a right to be a nerd.

Versing is much like using the abbrieviation MC for monstrous creature. MC is not grammatically correct, but everyone knows what you mean.

What gets up my nose is when people say "Game of toy soldiers" first of all THEIR ACTION FIGURES *cries* and second of all, that derogatory nonsense can be applied to anything in life.

At the olympics in a shot put event? ITS JUST A GAME OF THROWING METAL BAWLS! (pun intended)

Playing call of duty and get angry when someone team kills you! Its just a game.

Dakka is still a high grade forum, and in my opinion it is people like you that make it like B&C, dont point out the things you dont like, they will never change. Sure, there are some terrible, terrible things happen on dakka, like the "Who would win in a fight?" Or the "What race should I collect" threads, but they are on EVERY forum.

Also brother SRM, shame on you. DOA was funny, except 3.... you were hailed as a 40k hero.


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Realise, nurglitch, most 40k players are still in school.

For what it's worth Nurglitch, this is probably the one and only time I will be in complete agreement with you.

I will take it a step further and say that (in my opinion) probably fifty to seventy five percent of the people on every internet forum are drooling mouthbreathers who can barely string together a complete sentence, much less be bothered to check their own spelling. And forget about coming up with their own jokes! For some people, repeating funny things they heard from somewhere else is the height of wit. They will do it until the joke isn't funny, and then keep doing it.

The majority of people in the world are stupid, selfish, hypocritical, easily offended, and convinced of their own superiority. The internet is no exception.

That being said, it's like trying to fight the tide, man. Can't be done. I don't run around telling people that their stupid humor and lack of composition skills offend me. It wouldn't solve anything. Every time someone does the 'Spess Mehrens' thing, I wince inside, and try to ignore it.

You can't let this kind of thing get you down, or get you worked up. At our age, you've got to watch your blood pressure.

But as I said, for what it's worth, I know what you mean, and I sympathize.

tgf:

You are aware that Orks are cockney, right?

I'm not really sure why people make such a big deal about the Spess Mahreens thing. When I see someone use it, I immediately understand that the person in question is either:

a) about to make a joke about terrible marine tactics (a la Indrick Boreale's horrendous "Steel Rain" strategy)

OR

b) contemptuously referring to the Space Marine faction based on that individual's personal dislike for them.

Yeah, it's annoying when people use it too much (or when people who obviously don't understand where it came from use it), but I can't understand anyone getting super worked up about the whole thing.

I could just as easily get angry at Nurglitch for his Industrial Tower joke in his sig - the joke is old and overused, and not particularly funny in most contexts, but honestly I can get over it.

Nurglitch wrote:tgf:

You are aware that Orks are cockney, right?

I assumed they were Canadian or Dutch, good to know.

Xca|iber wrote:I could just as easily get angry at Nurglitch for his Industrial Tower joke in his sig - the joke is old and overused, and not particularly funny in most contexts, but honestly I can get over it.

Yea verily, and then he doesn't even mention where we can obtain such space corridors and industrial towers from...

tgf wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:tgf:

You are aware that Orks are cockney, right?

I assumed they were Canadian or Dutch, good to know.

WAAAAAAAAAGGH, eh?

Yeah, way too many unfunny in-jokes on the internet. It's not like 40k is somehow the only ones that do it. WoWfa....ns do it, too.

I started to read this thread, then I realized I'd rather go play with my Spess Mehreens in their METAL BAWKSES with their magic bullets.

You play with plastic soldier men. It's not exactly a serious endeavor from the start.

Yeah, that's my point: You never go full slow.

Look, we're not all as witty, or smart, or perfect as you. Sorry. But please, let us at least pretend to have at least a tenth of your gloriness.

Locclo wrote:

tgf wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:tgf:

You are aware that Orks are cockney, right?

I assumed they were Canadian or Dutch, good to know.

WAAAAAAAAAGGH, eh?

thats what its aboot guy

tgf wrote:
thats what its aboot guy

Hey, he's not your guy, buddy!

daedalus wrote:

tgf wrote:
thats what its aboot guy

Hey, he's not your guy, buddy!

I'm not your buddy, friend!

Ogh, why not just feel like I feel when online gamers or WoWers or MtG players or Trekkies or any other group that I look down upon (I'm looking at you LARPers!) starts babbling their jargon... cool as hell.

Cool Story Bro

It doesn't bother me in the least, if I see a joke like that, I'll just ignore it.

Look we can go back and forth till the end of time debating this topic but I think in the end it boils down to:

"To each his own".

"To each his own"...Did you know that in Germany, the Central Jewish Council protested vigorously against Shell using that sentence in one of their advertisements? Apparently, it was written on the entrance of a concentration camp in WW2 or something like that and therefore is a statement of purest evil!

Yeah, that wasn't THAT related to topic, but at least the topic is roughly related to language in general, so I thought I'd ninja-godwin it (ha, Jargon again!) before going to bed.

I personally don't mind it, unless someone is doing "HAHAHA we iz pwning ur d00ds!" with every post. Once in a while, it's not bad, but every fething post is annoying.

I myself use jargon every so often, and I find Metal Bawkses kinda funny, along with Spehss Mareens!

You know, I once used LOL as a word in a conversation. I immediately said I would be back in a second, and went and took a bite of soap. Stopped playing the MMO I was on at the time for a month, too. Of course, that was when I was like 14, and didn't have to work so I was playing the game 10 hours a day...

I'm gonna have to agree with most people on this thread that I hate any sort of shorthand period. Whenever I write something I use the full word and only use short hand where I think it is plainly obvious.

Good example is HQ we all know that means Headquarters and is even used by the game Warhammer itself.

What I hate is when people use terms like BRB or PotMS. I agree with some of you that without the forum translator I would be very lost, and if I didn't play Space Marines I would be lost too.

I have made the transition into what you may call adulthood (college tends to do that) and so I hate all the little kids that pronounce things like Spehs Marenes or however the heck you spell it and I can't stand some of the humor on here its just not funny. The funnies thing I ever saw on here was the "You know you play to much 40K when" that was really funny and worth a read. I suggest looking it up on here if you can.

Also I'm not sure what a verse is or how you use it I have never heard it used before could someone tell me?

Sanguinis wrote:Also I'm not sure what a verse is or how you use it I have never heard it used before could someone tell me?

People in my generation seem to think Versing someone is the same as playing a match against someone. I used to have a friend who said it during Pokemon R/B, but he isn't my friend anymore (for different reasons.) It was always annoying, and it's one of the few slangs I just absolutely hate, and in my experiance most people who say "We are versing eachother" in all seriousness usually lose really quickly. Be it video games, Warhammer, sports, or what.

It would be me saying "I'm gonna verse you!". it's just stupid.

Slarg232 wrote:

Sanguinis wrote:Also I'm not sure what a verse is or how you use it I have never heard it used before could someone tell me?

People in my generation seem to think Versing someone is the same as playing a match against someone. I used to have a friend who said it during Pokemon R/B, but he isn't my friend anymore (for different reasons.) It was always annoying, and it's one of the few slangs I just absolutely hate, and in my experiance most people who say "We are versing eachother" in all seriousness usually lose really quickly. Be it video games, Warhammer, sports, or what.

It would be me saying "I'm gonna verse you!". it's just stupid.

Unless of course you were about to put a tale of their exploits into immortal song!

Memes are just a side effect of the internet culture.

I agree that they can be annoying, but I generally only get peeved by endless short hand (hey m8, wht you b doin 2moz lol?), I don't even use short hand in SMS that much, let alone forums. However this is entirely seperate from jargon, as mentioned leafblower/loganwing etc are just commonly used phrases/words to sum up the concept (Does Gunline upset you? How about Mech?)

Anyway, I find some "lolcats" amusing, and alot of the Kharne/Eldrad/Abbadon type stories are pretty decent the first time round, most of them aren't terrible written either.

So... this is the new 40k humour thread, right?

Slarg232 wrote:

Sanguinis wrote:Also I'm not sure what a verse is or how you use it I have never heard it used before could someone tell me?

People in my generation seem to think Versing someone is the same as playing a match against someone. I used to have a friend who said it during Pokemon R/B, but he isn't my friend anymore (for different reasons.) It was always annoying, and it's one of the few slangs I just absolutely hate, and in my experiance most people who say "We are versing eachother" in all seriousness usually lose really quickly. Be it video games, Warhammer, sports, or what.

It would be me saying "I'm gonna verse you!". it's just stupid.

I use it in real life as 'We are VSing each other'

Too many beat-em-ups played in my short life time.

Dudes, 3 pages...

Little toy soldiers are little toy soldiers...< or is this offensive as well, heh.

Friendly banter is what most of it is about.
It also identifies in a group who spends too much time on the internet and those that are freshmeat and have virgin eyes.