"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Two Dollars said:
I used to hate that one, but I’ve gotten used to it, and even caught myself saying sness since it’s so much easier than “ess en ee ess” and “Super Nintendo”.
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N.e.s. definitely sounds better than "es en ee es" which is why we never used the initials for the snes, only for the nes. We always just called it the "super"
Two Dollars said:
. I think of a “shooter” as a 1st/3rd person shooter, while a “shoot em up” is an autoscroller like Gradius or R-Type. It’s like the distinction between fighting games and beat em ups.
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I'm the only one who does this, but when I hear "shoot em up" games I think of fps or 3rd person shooters. I like the name shooters better for games like r-type or vertical shooters like blazing lasers or m.u.s.h.a. Also, some tend to wanna shorten the term "shoot em ups" to shmups, which also sounds lame. Not as bad as cute em ups, but still annoying.
Two Dollars said:
They’re already playing Cotton and Parodius, might as well go all in I guess.
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Which is whatever, ya know? If you like playing that sort of thing, that's your business, just don't call them cute em ups if you're an aging, obese man. If a hot 20 something broad wants to call them that I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it's creepy hearing old men call a video game a "cute em up".
 
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Caesare said:
More game terminology:

I hate when people call the N.E.S. the ness. It's annoys me for some reason. Another one that I don't really hate, plus I acknowledge that it's an accepted name for these type of games, I just personally don't like using the term "shoot em ups". I'd much rather just call them shooters.

This one is annoying to hear though, the term "cute em up". Mostly old guys play shooters or "shoot em ups" if you prefer, so it's always some old fat man on YouTube talking about a "cute em up", Yuck. It almost makes you cringe hearing some old, fat fuck using terminology like that.
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Two Dollars said:
I used to hate that one, but I’ve gotten used to it, and even caught myself saying sness since it’s so much easier than “ess en ee ess” and “Super Nintendo”.

I’m gonna have to disagree on that one. I think of a “shooter” as a 1st/3rd person shooter, while a “shoot em up” is an autoscroller like Gradius or R-Type. It’s like the distinction between fighting games and beat em ups.

They’re already playing Cotton and Parodius, might as well go all in I guess.
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"Cute 'em up" is fine, what else would you call them, "cuters"? The word "shmup" is heinous journospeak.
 
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CoC + the often repeated lie that a code of conduct only means "don't be an asshole" while it's usually a thinly veiled communist manifesto. It's gotten to a point where if you express skepticism of CoCs there immediately assembles a cohort of angry people ready to crucify you for blasphemy.
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It USED to be as simple as that. Now, who defines misconduct and how?

The term "trans" used in political theater sends me up a wall.
 
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The Empirical Bogey said:
"Cute 'em up" is fine, what else would you call them, "cuters"? The word "shmup" is heinous journospeak.
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We agree on the word shmup. Horrendous "game journalist" (yuck) speak. But just call cute em ups, shooters. That's what they are. Just because they have a lighter aesthetic doesn't mean they need an entirely different title.

You have FPS games with a more jokey atmosphere like Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem, and we still call them FPS games, the same as more serious titles like Battlefield or Call of Duty. We don't need all these alternative, cutesy names. They're invented by idiotic games journalists to justify their meaningless jobs/lives.
 
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Caesare said:
We agree on the word shmup. Horrendous "game journalist" (yuck) speak. But just call cute em ups, shooters. That's what they are. Just because they have a lighter aesthetic doesn't mean they need an entirely different title.

You have FPS games with a more jokey atmosphere like Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem, and we still call them FPS games, the same as more serious titles like Battlefield or Call of Duty. We don't need all these alternative, cutesy names. They're invented by idiotic games journalists to justify their meaningless jobs/lives.
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But shoot-‘em-ups and their derivatives are something entirely different than shooters like COD or Gears of War, not because of tone but because the very gameplay is entirely different. Compare Gradius or Touhou to any FPS, and that will show how they are different. It would be like calling God of War a fighting game because both technically include hitting things and using combos.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
But shoot-‘em-ups and their derivatives are something entirely different than shooters like COD or Gears of War, not because of tone but because the very gameplay is entirely different. Compare Gradius or Touhou to any FPS, and that will show how they are different. It would be like calling God of War a fighting game because both technically include hitting things and using combos.
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You're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying that shoot em ups are the same thing as FPS.

In an earlier post I acknowledge that shoot em ups is the modern, recognized term for shooters. I just prefer the classic terminology for shoot em ups, which is "shooters". This term was used from the very beginning and is used by many people, myself included, today.

People incorrectly mistake the old term, "shooters", with modern day FPS games when the term is referring to a completely different genre. There were no FPS games when shooters first came about and got popular. But because they were called shooters, some people now mistakenly think that term is somehow referring to FPS just because first person shooters has the word "shooters" in the name.

To possibly make this sound even more confusing, in an earlier comment, I said that I personally think the term "shoot em ups" is a good description for FPS games, but in that same comment I said that this is something nobody else does but me. It's one of my idiosyncrasies that has nothing to do with reality, it's just a thought I had one time.

I wasn't trying to say that shoot em ups were anything like COD or GOW. I was saying that the term "Cute em ups" is lame and unnecessary.

Just because so called "Cute em ups" are different in tone than traditional shoot em ups, we don't need a different name for them. They should just be called shoot em ups, or shooters like I prefer because despite their sillier nature, the genre is still the same.

The comparison I was making was between games like Duke nukem/shadow warriors compared to games like battlefield/COD. All of the above are FPS games despite the former being less serious in tone than the latter. We don't assign games like Duke Nukem a differently named genre because it doesn't take itself as serious as a COD type game because it's still a FPS.

That's the analogy I was comparing the "Cute em up" title too. It's unnecessary because it's the same genre as the classic shoot em ups that take place in space or whatever.
 
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"Reach Out/Reached Out" - As in "We've reached out to contact...." etc. instead of saying "We've Contacted". I don't know why, but hearing that just boils my piss.

Also mentioned in other posts, the "Could of" instead of "Could have", and "Could care less" instead of "Couldn't care less".

People putting the word "Like" in random points of sentences, for example "Like, It's too much for me to, like, do on that day because I, Like, already have plans".

"I literally can't even".

"I don't have the spoons for that".

There are loads of others, but it's about 5:30am here and I've really got to try to get some sleep.
 
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Just a boring name said:
"Reach Out/Reached Out" - As in "We've reached out to contact...." etc. instead of saying "We've Contacted". I don't know why, but hearing that just boils my piss.
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Lol, yeah I get it. It's sounds like they're making a big deal out of a simple thing.

You called me and I didn't call you back. That's it. You didn't organize an intervention for me that I skipped out on, you sent an email or dialed a phone number.
 
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