Video Gamers Podcast - History Of Gaming Terms – Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and Ace dive into the world of gaming terms and the wild origins behind the phrases every gamer uses without even thinking about it. From “GG” to “tilted” we break down where these iconic sayings came from, how they exploded across gaming culture, and why they’ve become such a huge part of video games today. Whether you’re a casual player or a hardcore gaming veteran, this episode is packed with fun stories, gaming history, and plenty of laughs along the way. If you love video games and have ever wondered why gamers talk the way they do, you won’t want to miss this episode of the Video Gamers Podcast!   Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser, Dettmarp and Night Wizard63   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder, Bobby S.   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/h2cHKAvSmu Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠    Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GLHF fellow gamers and welcome to the VGP. Gaming lingo in terms have been around for decades, but what do some of them mean? Well, on today's episode, we're breaking down some of the most common gaming acronyms in terms and giving you insight you need to be up to date on all the lingo. So don't go AFK and lock in because this episode is going to be awesome. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh, and joining me, he may not be the best DPS, but his tank play can be clutch. It's Ryan.

What's up with all these random shots at me all the time? These DPS shots. I gave you a compliment. I'm a good DPS or player. I gave you a couple. I said you were your tank play can be clutch. Ryan. Do you not know what clutch means?

maybe you don't. And that's what this episode is about. We'll find out today. Yeah. I like how I give Ryan a compliment. And then he's like, what the, what the, all right, see, this is why we do this episode. That was a backhanded compliment. No, it wasn't. Yeah, whatever.

Okay, I said, okay, it literally says he may not be the best DPS. Do you, are you arguing that you are the best DPS? No. Okay, well, there we go. See? So then the other half was a compliment that you decided to just completely, Ignore. And joining us also, Josh, also maybe not the best DPS. Very true. Very true, especially lately. Getting better at support though, man. But we love him anyways. Yeah. And joining us,

he never has to ADS when he plays support, but I do know he gets tilted whenever he gets wrecked by the enemy team. It's ace. What are these strange words you're saying to me? I don't know, Ace. Quickly, someone get a millennial in here. I need a deciphering. I had to look all these up on that, that, what do they call that? The Google, the Google engine? Yeah, the Google machine.

The Wikipedia? Well, welcome in everybody. You know, there's some people that are going to be like, we know all these terms. Apparently we thought everybody knew these terms too until we started talking about, hey, what game are we playing? where we were like, hey, watch the ads. Somebody go get the ads. And somebody was like, what's that? What does that mean?

And then we were playing Nightbrain. You guys said, get the ads. And I said, what the heck are ads? Yeah, it was you. It was the ace. Oh my goodness. That's right. I said, what the heck are ads?

And you guys are like, you know. That blows my mind. That still blows my mind. Summons? Additional combatants, bro. Yeah, that's right. See, Riot knows. So we thought it would be fun.

to do an episode where we kind of break down some of the gaming lingo, some of the acronyms. We actually have a little bit of like history of where they came from and stuff like that as well. Here's a shocker, guys. Almost every gaming term originated in the 90s. Like legitimately, like almost all of these originated in the 90s.

So it's like, it's funny. But yeah, this will be a fun episode. Even if you know or you think you know all the gaming terms, this will be a fun one for you. stick around with us. You might just learn something. And even if you don't learn anything, you're going to have a good time anyway. So before we get to that, though, guys, this might be a record with how many episodes in a row that we have had to thank people. And I am here for this. Let's keep this going. Let's make sure that we don't have an episode where we're like, well,

we don't have anybody to think this time. What did it thank today? Yeah. But we do have two awesome new supporters of the show to thank. So a huge shout out to Tom Mitchell for signing up for rare status. One of the rare people in the world that has two first names as their name. So I always think that's fun when you get to have two first names. And then honestly, I kind of love this name because it just flows. And a huge shout out to Garrett Glick for signing up for rare status. I'm a big fan of alliteration. Yeah, that's really good allureation. So like, yeah. And so Garrett Glick is an awesome name, man. I love it. Thank you, Garrett, for signing up for rare status. Tom, Garrett, thank you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Very much appreciated. And listen, if you're not supporting the show, now is the time so that we don't have to have that sad episode where we just don't thank anybody. Okay. It's in your hands. It's in your hands at this point. Ace, if somebody was like, okay, well, tell me how to support. What's the easiest way for them to do that? Give him the lazy man's version.

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It is through the generosity and grace of our listeners that we're able to continue to do this podcast. So if you love it, maybe think about supporting it. If you can't support it, we understand you can still do a lot of things to help out. You can tell a friend. You can tag us on social media. You know, any number of things to help spread the word is also awesome. And so thank you to everybody out there that does that. Do you know what else they could do, Josh?

What could they do, Ryan? I think that they could do something like maybe leave a review. Oh, yeah. But Ryan, why should I leave a review for the show? Like, what's in it for me? Well, you know, if you leave a review, we try the best that we can to read them all. And we're going to read one coming up here in a second. And we will read it live for you guys, for everybody in here.

And you can be famous. You can show your mom. And then she'll love it and say, look at you, honey. You're on the radio. Word for word. I'll be honest. The people have up their game on these reviews because. This review that you're about to read is freaking fantastic.

And I legitimately love this like, this like, I'm going to write the best review. And then it's like, okay, we're in. And if you do, guess what? We're going to read it on the show. So there's a little bit of built-in competition here as well. So what do you got for us, Ryan? All right. This is another amazing five-star review from Drusky.

It is titled Awesome and Down to Earth, which I would agree. We definitely are. Yeah. And it reads, it's hard to explain how happy I am that. I found this podcast. At first I thought I just stumbled upon a good quality, easy to listen to podcasts hosted by three dudes that are down to earth and love video games. But boy, was I wrong. Instead, what I found is a community full of awesome, like-minded people that we all share the common interest. After years of thinking maybe I'm just not as into gaming as I once was,

this community introduced me to what I was missing. A bunch of awesome people to enjoy games with. chatting in the Discord, hanging out during a live stream, or trying the best to survive in Rust, is some of the funnest times I've had in gaming since I was a teenager. I just want to say thank you to Josh, Ryan, and Ace for all the work you've put into making this podcast and giving people like myself a place to enjoy what we love. Rest in peace, Frederick the Chicken.

That was a fantastic review. That was an amazing review. Thank you so much. Legitimately incredible Drewski, we appreciate you, man. And it's true. We say this all the time. And I know that there are a lot of people out there that listen and they go, yeah, you know, everybody wants somebody to join their Discord server.

We're not making this up. If you are a gamer that loves video games and like are, you know, you're just sick of the like the gamer culture of toxicity and opinion shaming and everybody telling you you're wrong if you like something. Like our, our community has over 1,300 gamers in it. this point and there is absolutely zero zero of that out there people are meeting up and playing games together we've got a thriving hell divers community still rust is still popping off um you know we do community nights where we we have 20 to 30 people playing overwatch together whatever other

game we come up with for the community nights it really does exist people so there's a link in the episode description because you know we make it easy for people yep so uh click that link come join our community and and you know see for yourself so awesome all right guys let's get to some of these terms i guess we'll just take turns kind of bringing up some of these terms uh and then you know given given some information on it i do want to say like whether you like the term or not and if if you use the term often as well uh because you know a lot of gamer lingo translates to real life a lot of times i have definitely said hey i'm going to go afk like at work meaning I'm, you know, I'm going to go to the bathroom or something like that.

So these, you know, there are some of these that translate to real life as well. Ace, why don't you start us off? What term do you want to talk about? I want to start with one you didn't know that me and your daughter. I did not know this one. Yes. We use this one a lot when we play Overwatch. And that is the term Ajaxing.

It is a pure Overwatch-based term. It was named after a pro player named Alex Ajax Jackson in a 2018 contenders match. he famously had his Lucio's sound barrier, which is the big, like, massive old. They call it beat. Cancelled and he died midcast several times in the match to the point where people just started yelling Ajax or Ajax beat. So anytime Aluccio gets interrupted while trying to drop Alt,

it's called an Ajax. And that was later brought into me in any time you really screwed up and died mid-old cast. Okay, I didn't know this one. So I was going to ask you, so anytime you die mid-alt, like that's called me. I-A-Jaxed last night. I-A-A-A-Jaxed last night, too. I-A-A-A-A-A-A-X hard last night.

I don't like this at all. I don't like the sound of that at all. I, I, I, my daughter brought this up, and then Ace was like, oh, yeah, and I had no idea. I didn't know it. I was like, what the heck is Ajaxing? And then, you know, like, youngsters do? They're like, you're too old. Oh, my God, God.

How do you know? We totally just, like, brushed you off. We were like, I know, I know, and I'm like, what is it mean? Like,

what is it? And they're like, just don't worry about it. And I'm like, oh my gosh, like, okay. But then finally,

Cassie, you know, with threat of turning off her Wi-Fi, was like, it means wasting your all, you know? And I was like,

well, what do you mean, wasting your all? And then she's like, usually it's like, if you go to pot, and this is, this is where it happens most often

and this is what I was guilty of, is like not being aware that my team is dead. And then thinking like, oh, alt down and then there's like nobody to clean it up or I die and then it's like yeah and then all I hear is dad you shouldn't use your old right there right so uh yeah so Ajax there you go I don't know if people knew that one or not I certainly didn't sounds like Ryan didn't know that one either no I

didn't at all yeah all right uh and we've all done it and you've all done it out there too people so don't try to be like oh you're one of those old wasters and it's like oh I'm absolutely the amount of times on rivals that I was just like as Thor and I just go to dive down and there's just nobody there and I don't kill anyone and I'm like oh no and then they killed me in the air

or something like that. No good. All right Ryan what do you have for us? Which one do you want to talk about? I'm going to go off one that I learned in my younger days playing Wow. Josh you'll know it from EverQuest but

a lot of times you would do it in an area where you know you maybe you're in a space you shouldn't be. It's a little too high-leveled. You're not, you're not strong enough to be there, but if you spend a little time and you do it right, you can kill these guys, especially if you can pull them one at a time, and that's kiting. So picture a kite that you, it's way far away from you, and you're just slowly pulling it away, you know, and just keeping it at that distance, that's what you're doing. You're pulling that one enemy away, and then you keep them far enough to where you can just keep throwing damage on them, throwing damage on them until you're, you know,

you're able to kill him safely before, you know, a mob gets you, or he gets a hit on you because, you know, you would probably die very quickly. Yeah, I was a master of kiting in EverQuest. That was something that you did an awful lot if you were trying to like solo level up or something like that. I'd be honest, even way back then, I didn't actually know the origin of the term. I just knew like, hey, and bards. Bards were the number one class that could kite.

You'd see a bard running around with freaking 20 monsters chasing. in them and he'd spend 20 minutes kite and these guys around but then when they all died he'd get a ton of XP and it was worth it yeah uh the imagery of like something at the end of a string being a kite is where the term actually came from with kiting but

I actually really like kiting you know you just mentioned night rain earlier and like with the ads which we'll talk about we would be like hey kite those guys will focus the boss so that's a term that like I feel is still very common in gaming but there's a there's a talent

to like good kiting. Yeah, I'm a little too aggressive to kite. I like, I'm like, oh, I can get them. I can get them. They're low. Yeah. And then like they all like get you on both sides. Like, oh, I used to be, dude, I would run.

I would play so much solo with my mage on wow. And I'd go, you know, in fireball, fireball and pull a little mob. And I'd start kiting them around. And then if they get too close, then I'd throw up like a frost and freeze them and then get my space again. And then get that space and then kind of circle around again and just rinse and repeat until you're able to kill them all. But yeah, there is, there's a little art to it, but I enjoy it. You know, it's like, there is.

There's like a fun. You guys know I love strategy, man, and I love being like responsible for stuff, you know, like if you're in a raid or something like that. So I would always be like, I'll kite, I'll handle it. And then if you screwed it up and then the raid died because you screwed up your kind of your kind of thing either. So yeah. So there you go.

Kiting for those that's definitely an MMO term, but I, I feel like it's, still used in a lot of like multiplayer games. Yeah. Yeah, I think most of my kiting was actually in single player games like with big hordes and zombies and things like that, but it's definitely an MMO term like for sure. Yeah. Yep. All right, here's one smurfing.

Oh, this one's interesting. I actually was very... Now, as a child of the 80s, I remember watching the Smurfs, the cartoon, the Smurfs. I still know the music. I know the character names, you know, the cat, Azriel and Gargamel and all those. those. But then this term smurfing comes into existence. And there's a little bit of history here for this one. So the term comes straight from Warcraft 2 way back in 1996. We had two highly skilled players. Their in-game names were Schlonglor, which is a great name, by the way,

and Warp. Schlonglor. Yeah. Schlonglore and Warp were really, really, really, really good at Warcraft 2. And they were so well known that randoms would bail on a game as soon as they saw that they were playing against Schlonglore and Warp. And so Schlonglore and Warp, I'm just going to keep saying,

Shlong Lord and really, this is great. This is great. So they, to be able to find matches that people wouldn't quit, they created new low level accounts that they named Papa Smurf and Smurfette. And they'd act like they were new to the game.

And then when they got in, to a match, they would just, you know, stomp somebody into the ground. And so the community started calling any high-skilled player on a Smurf account a Smurf. And so, and then that just stuck around for decades. Nowadays, we use smurfing to say,

hey, you are obviously way better than your account age should indicate. So, you know, and a lot of free-to-play games, like Overwatch, for instance, you know, if you see a level three account, you kind of get worried because you're like,

oh, this guy's brand new to this game. until that level three account starts wrecking people because that guy really has been playing for a thousand hours on a different account. Yep. That is smurfing people. And so that's where the term came from.

Another one we use all the time. I mean, in any competitive game, I mean, I still to this day say, oh, man, that dude's smurfing. He ain't no new account. Right, right. Which I don't get. Very first time I ever heard that term was in rivals

when I started doing comp. Oh, really? This guy's smurfing. This guy's smurfing for sure. I was like, oh, what does that mean? Yeah. I have no. What do you mean?

He's a smirk. I just always got paper lord. I don't know. I think it was the reverse. I don't get, um, not wanting to play. If like it's like a really well known or recognized player, like not wanting to play that match, like, who cares if you get stomped? Like, then you'd be like, yo, I got to play against them, you know?

So I don't know. Maybe it wasn't the honor you think it is. It's, yeah. It's just getting, it's getting stumped by the guy who sits at his computer all day playing games, not by like the legendary striber. Yeah, I think the problem is, is that you shouldn't be doing this because you are, I saw this in Rocket League all the time, dude. Really?

Oh, yeah. Smurfing was huge in Rocket League, you know, and it's just, it's not fun. Like, go play with people that are your skill level. Like, that's kind of the thing. So Smurfing's actually kind of frowned upon by a lot of people because it's like, what, you're not good enough to play against people of your own skill level. you have to come stomp on people that are obviously not as good as you. And so that's not fun.

The quick play warriors. Yeah. All right. I'll tell you what, let's take a quick break and then we'll tackle some more of these terms for you. We'll be right back after we go AFK. Now, Ryan, why you roll your eyes at me when I said that?

Because you're like loving using all these terms so freaking much right now. It's on point for the episode, Ryan. Hello? Which means O.P. No, that's Just abbreviate everything Previate everything, why not? All right, Ace, I think we're back to you.

What do you want to talk about? I'm going to start with, or go to tilted. Because I definitely have I've never been under the effects of tilt. I don't know what you're talking about. There's a few of us in this podcasting room who have been under the effects of being tilted while playing games.

Yeah, Ryan. Ryan. Ryan. Ryan. After I just said, I don't care, it's just a game. I'll get stomped on. I know, right. I know who this is, guys.

Well, Tilt is borrowed from poker initially and before that pinball machines, because in pinball, if you shook the machine too hard, it would tilt and then shut down. Poker players later adopted it when frustration or emotions took over, and they started to play recklessly and stupidly. And then eventually it made its way into competitive gaming, where once you're tilted, you just start making stupid decisions and it all snowballs downhill and you make a fool of yourself.

The rage. Yeah. That's like, I wouldn't know anything about that. Yeah, you wouldn't know a thing about that. Telling anyone to, uninstall her,

they're the worst DPS ever. Never. Anna, you are the worst onna I've ever seen. Okay, that Anna had like 3,000 damage and like 800 healing. She was bad.

She was really bad. She deserved it. She did. I mean, wait, I would never tilt. Wait a minute. Dang it. No.

You just gave yourself away like in four seconds. Scratch set. Have either of you two played DPS before? Yeah, no, that was also a big note.

Ace, are you keeping records of my chat? Is this what's going on? Ace, no, I just have a memory for these kind of things. He's got a screenshot of everything.

I don't type in the like team chats the way you, Cass and Ryan do. So like I remember when things pop in. Okay. I don't like to make myself a target. I just like to troll.

in the in the yeah i like to say obnoxious things that don't make sense and then right likes to try to tilt the other team i do well and the thing with tilting too is it's not it's um a lot of times too it's you know you'll somebody will do something to you and you get pissed off and then you're just like you just hard target them and you just keep dying but then you're like you throw everything else aside they're like oh he's tilted same i mean like you mentioned the came from poker too and and you know i played a lot a lot of poker in my day and uh yeah you you get you're pissed off at a guy that won a pot on you earlier and you're doing, you know, hands that you shouldn't be in.

You start, you start staying in longer than you should and not laying down hands because you want to get them and same as in gaming too. But, uh, yeah, that's, it's, you could tell too when somebody's tilted in there. Like, oh, we've absolutely lost games because either the DPS or the tank got super tilted because of support killed them. And then they just cast the hard target them and yeah. Yeah. And it's like, no. What are you doing? A lot of people equate tilted to just, I'm mad. But, I do like the kind of that not only are you mad,

but you are probably doing things that you wouldn't do in the game if you weren't mad. If you were thinking rationally. That other person or like, yeah, getting tunnel vision, that kind of thing to where it's like, it really does start to affect how you're playing the game. It's not a good place to be.

No. Trust me. You're a better player, but your emotions have gotten the better of you. Yeah. What are you, Ryan? What's your next one? Sweet.

This one is, what we talked about in the pre-show a little bit, and I think it was in the pre-show, but Ace didn't know it. We did know this one. We discovered this one on playing Night Rain. I was blown. My mind was blown that you didn't know this.

I thought this was a commentary like every gamer knew. I never thought, especially like somebody that plays games for as long as you have and stuff. And then so I'm interested to see how many people listening don't know this as well, but it's ads. so it's short for additional enemies, mobs, combatants, whatever you want to call it,

but when other enemies spawn in or there's additional enemies that come into the battle, usually a lot of times it's on a boss battle, you know, you'll get extra waves. And so we were, you know, and for example, in the night rain, you know, we were doing a boss battle or something

and we say, get the ads, and Aces like, what are you guys talking about? Like, what are you mean? What are ads? Yeah, I was confused. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know. I don't know.

I was like, yeah, you're like, What is he gone about? Kill the ads first and we'll take care of them before that. You know, and so yeah, it's, it's wild. It's absolutely still used today, but I'm totally shocked that it's not as common as I thought it was. Yeah, no. I just consider them fodder or like summons. I never thought of them as ads until we, you guys started saying it.

I was like, I guess, yeah, that makes sense. That's so wild. That one was wild to me. Yeah. I'll go with another one because I use this one a lot. I probably use it too much in gaming. I mean the actual function, but that is ADS. ADS means aim down sites.

And so any shooter, I'm a fan of shooters. Any shooter is, you know, when you aim down sights is when you raise your gun up to the level where you can see through the scope or through the iron sights or something like that. The opposite of that is hip fire where you are not aiming down sites. You're just clicking the button to fire. You know, usually that comes with an accuracy penalty and things. things like that. But I was surprised at the amount of people that don't know what ADS meant. And so the term actually references aiming down the sights of the gun.

You know, a lot of early shooters had, you know, scopes and zooms and things like that. That, you know, when you have a sniper and you look through the scope, you know, people might say that's scoping in, but you're technically aiming down sites in that case. And then that gives you a lot better accuracy. see it also can cost you like a second. And so always aiming down sites is not the best thing, even though I default to that like naturally. So it's something, it's like a bad habit that I've been trying to break.

But yeah, ADS, aim down sites became a lot more popular in the early days of like Call of Duty when those started to really come out into popularity. And then you had that like, do you aim down sites or do you hipfire kind of thing. So there you go. ADS.

ADS. naming down sites. It makes so much sense. But if you just said ADS, I wouldn't know what the heck you're talking about in the moment. I'd be like, what? Yeah.

ADS. Are you talking about ads? What? Yeah. Ads. Where? It goes back to ads, guys. Everything.

All right, Ace, what's up next for you, buddy? All right. I'm going back to the world of Overwatch because, of course I am, with C-9, which we kind of, we taught you what this meant, I think, Ryan, when we started playing. No, I didn't know what it. Because I never played a lot of Overwatchwatch since, so I didn't know the lore behind it. Yeah, when we picked up rivals, like, we were like, oh, they C9, you're like, what does that mean?

Yeah, what do you mean? Well, C9 is a purely Overwatch sort of e-sports meme from back in 2017 during the Overwatch Apex Season 2. The pro team, Cloud 9, repeatedly won team fights in overtime. And then they would just walk off of the point or the payload and not play for point. And they would lose. Not a thing. Not a thing that pro teams would normally do. because this is one of those like oops moments, man.

They did it multiple times and the community instantly latched on to calling this action C-9. C-9. You don't want to have memes? No. Because of you. So like Ajax and C-9ing. This is not where you want to be, people. I think Ajax got it worse because he's one player.

Cloud 9 is a whole team of idiots. Ajax is one dude. It gets blamed for. for this. Oh, man. And it's funny. And it happens all the time still. And you see the chat. These chats always like C9, C9, C9. Every single time, dude.

If you lose by C9, I guarantee everyone's going to make fun of you. It's embarrassing, too. And everybody calls it out. Like, even the team that did it at that point is like, oh, we just C9. Yeah, we just see that one a lot. That's still very common. All right, Ryan,

give us another one, buddy. I'm going to go with one that I know we mentioned things that we use in real life things that we kind of say in our everyday life as well as in gaming and I'm going to do a GG Oh yeah

So good game Good game it's that you know you see it on almost everything GGE easy buddy GGE I hate that one I hate that one so much like I just like If I could punch someone through a computer screen I could see the rage in his face right now Like genuinely I hate seeing

seeing that so much, because especially if it was like a good match and I want to say like great round or, you know, good game. But you can after somebody says. No, if you say GigiZ, I hate you. Like instantly. Like I know, I know, I no longer respect the like time we spent together. Every time now. Every time's going to be it.

But yeah, that's one I use all the time for, you know, anything. Yeah. Even if it's not a game or a sport or anything, I'm like, oh, Gigi, you know, if somebody did something good or whatever. But it's one of those that kind of, you know, again, I think it's another 90s one that, that, that came in like the old. kind of competitive game days. Yeah, we literally say like GGs, like when we're going to bed.

It's like, oh, well, GGs, catch you later. Yeah, it's like a way of signing off at this point. Yeah, it's just how we say. I know, I say it all the time. Yeah, like, if we're gaming right before I leave the channel, I'm like, hey, GGs, guys. Gigi, yep. It's like, it's like a sign of respect. Good game, good job, whatever.

Your fellow gamers, man, you know? Yeah. Whether or not it was a good game or not. Yeah, right. It's like shaking hands with the enemy team as you leave. Yeah, exactly. And tell somebody's a jerk and says, Gigi easy. And then Ace punches them in the face.

Yeah, then I get pulled back. They deserve at that point, honestly. They deserve a water ball to the face. I like doing Gigi easy though, when we lose. That's like my favorite thing to do. That's different. And then people are like, that's what I'm talking about in chat trying to troll people.

But anyways. All right, I'm going to bring up one because I hate this. I hate it in my games. I hate it. But it's also, I kind of understand why. this exists in gaming is to just create some variety and outcomes and things like that. But a lot of times people have heard me reference RNG, right?

Like, you know, Harstone. I play a decent bit of Harstone, but one of my main complaints in that is the RNG. You know, if you're, if you have a, you're playing a rogue like and you just get a bad batch of choices for your upgrades, you go, man, I got hosed by the RNG. And it's funny because, again, I just assumed that everybody knew what this meant, but RNG actually stands for random number generator, which started off as like a programming term that like would decide, you know,

I guess it's just a programming term in general when in time you needed to generate a random number. But then in gaming, this term started to get used for, you know, like treasure chess. I remember playing Diablo and you could save Scum and Diablo every time you open a chest to see if the RNG would go your way. Baldersgate 3 had this. any game that involves a little bit of luck or chance has RNG built into it.

In the early days of the MMOs, again, back in the 90s and the 2000s, it became RNG Jesus. So R&G-You prayed to R&Jus. I was blessed by R&Jus, you know, and stuff like that. So that was a very common term to what our gamers knew back in those days. But anytime you reference RNG, it's usually not because you're happy with the way things went. And so it's just kind of a way to say like the game hosed me. That's not fair. You know, I got bad luck basically because, you know,

you just had a bad run of roles or options or something like that. So there you go. Now you know what RNG stands for. Yeah, I never say I had good R&G. I said, oh, man, I'm lucky. When I have bad RNG, though, it's, oh, it was bad RRG. Yeah, yeah. It was bad RG.

This freaking RNG, man. I hate this game. It's all the RNG, man. Yeah. I do not like RNG in a competitive game. If I have like an MMR or a rating, and I'm talking about you, Harstone in particular, where it's like, I just get random stuff and it's like I just got unlucky. But it's like a competitive game. Luck shouldn't come into like a competitive thing.

It should just be skill at that point. Stop it. Stop it. People. All right. Ace, last one for you, buddy. What do you got? You know what?

I'm going to bring it home with Clut. probably one of my one of my favorite things to hear is oh you clutch this or being able to tell someone you clutch that it's straight from sports a it's a clutch player as someone who performs the best when the game is on the line like you're under pressure it's make it or break it at this point

it's like something like nailing a 1v5 or holding point while your team comes back from spawn for as long as possible if you can clutch dude you just become the MVP the entire team oh everybody loves you and everyone loves you And everyone loves you.

Now, I have to segue for a second because I, like you, Ace, like this term and I use it a lot, right? I mean, there's so many times in games where it's like, bro, that was a clutch play. That was a clutch old. Any, you can use this in almost any game. Like Russ the other night, like Goet was tearing it up. Like, Goat was just clutching it up for us, you know? And so I like this term. And then one time I walk out and my wife's giggling and my daughter's giggling.

And I'm like, what are you guys giggling at? They're like, you're just saying clutch. And I'm like, what about it? And they're like, oh, nothing. It's just funny because like, you know, you're old and that's like a term we haven't really heard you use a lot. And then I'm like, every gamer in the world uses the term clutch. Everyone says clutch.

Yeah, I've been using clutch for 30 years. I tried to tell them that. And then they were just like picking on me because they're like, I don't know. I don't hear that many people using it. This is like your new thing. And I was like, it's a gamer term. It's a gamer term. A hundred percent.

So now guess what I can't say. guys. I can't say clutch. I guess I was like I get picked on for it. You clutch that up or your clutch. Yeah. No more for you. Now it doesn't even sound like a word though. We've said it too many times. I can't remember what it was. I said it the other day. I think this is when we went on vacation or something and I said it. And then I paused for a second and like my entire family just looked at me and I was like, oh, come on. I'm allowed to say it. You know? And then they just shook their heads and I was like, all right. Well, that's pretty funny. Yeah. Love it. All right, Ryan. Last one. Make it a good one, buddy. What do you want to talk about? Well, for the last, you always save the best and this aligns with this term. Because when you want the best or you want to use the best, what do you do? You use the meta. Ooh, meta is a good one, too. Okay, this is great because everybody talks about the meta.

But I don't think a lot of people understand what meta stands for. Yeah. So it's not Facebook. Yeah, right? Yes, right. It's not your, it's not your VR, VR headset or anything like that. But, so according to, like, because I looked it up, you know, to see the exact origins. But, like, it's basically the game beyond the game. A term appeared in tabletop and competitive gaming communities before becoming huge in video games.

It's basically the strongest characters, the best weapons, the best strategies, the most effective team comps. Like whenever you have something that is maybe feels, you know, another one, O.P. Overpowered. Or something that's really, really good. That's the meta.

And I hate this term. And the only reason is because all the internet is now and every YouTube video is, what's the meta in war zone this year? What's the meta in this? And all everyone wants is the meta. Nobody wants to play the game or figure it out. Everyone just wants to know what the meta is so that they don't have to like try anything else.

but meta is a big one that you know you always talk about because you do want to know like hey what's the what's the meta you know on a new game especially for new to it did you know that meta is that an acronym is it really is do you know what it stands for a lot of people actually I didn't know I didn't know what's episode now stands for most efficient tactic available well I'll be darned or effective meta more effective or efficient effect actually effective might be it yeah same same thing but But yeah, most effective tactic available. So meaning this is the most optimized roster or construction or, you know, deck if you're playing a card builder. I say the very first time I remember hearing the word meadow is when I was playing Magic Gathering. Like people say that's the meta deck or this is what's meta.

It's like, oh, okay. It was a lot too in rivals like when they would have like the triple support meta. The triple, yeah, the triple support meta. Fires, stuff like that. Yep. I have meta. Like, yeah. Most effective tactic available.

there you go. And I mean, it makes sense, right? Because this is like, this is the strongest group comp or the strongest deck in Magic the Gathering or something like that. And so meta became a term. And then Facebook tried to adopt it and probably copyright it and all that stuff. And we're like, now you can't do that. So too bad Zuckerberg. It belongs to the gamers. Awesome. Well, listen, that is going to do it for this episode, everybody. You know what? We want to hear from me. If you learn something today, let us know if there's a term. that you use a lot that we didn't cover today, or one that you just, like, is a favorite of yours. You know, we all have ones that we like kind of more than others. Let us know in the comments. We read every comment that you guys leave on Spotify. If you like chatting about the episodes, you can do that in our Discord server.

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Punch him. Punch him. Push out. I like how Ace is punching you and then like peace out. I have to say goodbye to all the nice people out there before I beat Ryan to death.