Video Gamers Podcast - History Of Gaming Terms [REMASTERED] – Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: October 9, 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, Bobby S, NorwegianGreaser, Dettmarp, DingusKhaaan and NightWizard63   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: Milkman, Drewsky, Jigglepuf and BadGam3rDad   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 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@videogamerspod Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod     Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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? 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. 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 needed a ciphering. 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 Night Rain. You guys said, get the ads. And I said, what the heck are ads? Yeah, it was you. It was an A's. Oh my goodness.

That's right. I said, what the heck are ads? And you guys were 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 I 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 alliteration. So like, Yeah, 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. 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. It's in your hands. It's in your hands at this point. Ace, if somebody was like, okay, we'll tell me how to support. What's the easiest way for them to do that? Give him the lazy man's version. The lazy man's version of supporting our show.

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Amazing. It's almost like we know. It's so funny though too because like it's so real of, of you would spend six hours grinding in like a survival crafting game, chopping trees. And then it's like take out the trash. You know, you know. Clean the room. Go to our website. I'm not doing that.

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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

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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 my poor frederick that was a fantastic review that was an amazing review thank you so like 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 community has over 1,300 gamers in it at 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. Uh, so these, you know, there are some of these that translate to real life as well. Um, 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. Yeah. We use this one a lot, uh, 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. Canceled 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. have 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 old, like that's called me. I Ajaxed last night. I Ajaxed last night. I, I Ajax 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. Legitimately, I was like, what the heck is Ajaxing? And then, you know, like youngsters do. They're like, a year too old. Oh, my God. How do you know? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

We totally just like brushed you off. We were like, I know, I know. And I'm like, what does 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 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, this is the person. time to use my, so I throw my 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. 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. It's like, oh, I'm absolutely in all ways or first. 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. 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, maybe you're in a space you shouldn't be. It's a little too high-leveled. 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. Yes. So picture a kite that it's way far away from you and you're just slowly pulling it away and just keeping 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 him, throwing damage on them until you're able to kill him safely before 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 them. And he'd spend 20 minutes, kiteing these guys around. But then when they all died, he'd get a ton of XP and it was worth it. Yeah. 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. 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, on 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-tying's 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. Yeah, yeah.

I would always be like, I'll kite. I'll, like, I'll handle it. And then if you screwed it up and then the raid died because you screwed up your kiting, like then you just didn't hear the end of that kind of thing either. So yeah. So there you go. Kiting for those that's, Definitely an MMO term, but 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.

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.

Shlong lore and warp were 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 Schlong lore and warp and so Schlonglore and Warp I'm just going to keep saying

Shlong Lord. 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, stomped 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, in 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. 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. So, 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 smurf? I just always got paper lord. I don't know. I think it was a reverse. I don't get not wanting to play. If 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? Maybe it wasn't the honor you think it is. 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, it's a game 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 Like 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

You know 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.

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Streaming October 14th, only on Disney Plus. 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 the OPEC. 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 been under the effects of tilt.

I don't know what you're talking about. I think 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. 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 first. 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. Yeah. I wouldn't know anything about that. Yeah, you wouldn't know a thing about that telling anyone to uninstall or they're the worst DPS ever. Never. Anna, you are the worst onna I've ever seen. Okay, that honor 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, I know. That was also a big note. Ace, are you keeping records of my chat? Is this what's going on? I just have a memory for these kind of things.

He's got a screenshot of everything. I don't. 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 team. I like to say obnoxious things that don't make sense.

Yeah, Ryan likes to try to tilt the other team. I do. Yeah. 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, You throw everything else aside. They're like, oh, he's tilted.

I mean, like you mentioned, it came from poker too. And, you know, I played a lot, a lot of poker in my day. And, yeah, 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, yeah, that's, it's, you could tell too when somebody's tilted in there. 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 one to the back line. 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, you know, 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.

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. 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. 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 game or new. 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, for example, in the night rain, you know, we were doing a boss battle or something and we say, get the ads. the ads and Aces is like what are you guys talking about like what are what are ads?

I was confused. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah like, what is he on about? Kill the ads first and we'll like take care of them before that. And so yeah, it's it's wild. It's absolutely still used today. But I'm I'm totally shocked that that it's not as common as I thought it was. Yeah, no. I just consider them fodder or like summons. I don't, I never thought of them as ads until we, you guys started. saying and I was like I guess yeah that makes sense that's so wild that one was wild to me yeah um 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 um ADS means aim down sights uh and so any shooter I'm a fan of shooters

any shooter is you know when you aim down sites 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 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. 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. Um, And then you had that like, do you aim down sites or do you hipfire kind of thing? So there you go. ADS. AIMING down sites.

It makes so much sense. But if you just said ADS, I wouldn't know what the heck you were 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 taught you what this meant, I think, Ryan, when we

Yeah, no, I didn't know what, because I never played a lot of Overwatch since, so I didn't know the lore behind it, but. Yeah, when we picked up rivals, like, we were like, oh, they C-9, you're like, what does that mean? Yeah, what do you mean? Well, C-9 is a purely Overwatch sort of e-sports meme from back in 2017

during the Overwatch Apex season two. 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 points. and they would lose. 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. 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 it. Oh, man. And it's funny. And it happens all the time still. And you see the chat. These chat's 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 C9. Yeah, we just C9. I 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 GG. Oh, yeah. So good game. Good game.

It's that, you know, you see it on almost everything. GG-EZ, buddy. G-G-E-E-E. Yeah, G-G-E-E. Skill-diff. I hate that one. so much. Like I just like if I could punch someone through a computer screen in that

moment. I can see the rage in his face right now. Like genuinely I hate 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 know. I know what I'm doing every time now. The like time we spent together.

Every time's going to be it. But yeah, that's when 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 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 said. 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. Do you. Yep. It's like, it's like a sign of respect. Good game, good job, whatever. Solo gamers, man. You know, yeah, whether or not it was a good game or not. Yeah, right. It's like shaking hands at 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 heartstone, 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, you know, 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 in the 2000s, it became RNG Jesus. So R&G, like, I was blessed by R&Jesus, 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's bad RNG. Yeah, yeah. It was bad RNG. 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, I 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, I'm going to bring it home with clutch. Probably 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.

It's a clutch player. It's 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 of the entire team. Oh, everybody 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. You can use this in almost any game.

Like Russ the other night, like Goat 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, I, 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. What are you talking about? 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 100%. So now guess what I can't say, guys. I can't say clutch. I guess I get picked on for it. You clutch that up or you're 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? 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 and you want to use the best, what do you do? You use the meta. Ooh. Mehta's a good one, too.

Yeah. 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 Facebook. Yeah, right? Yeah, 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. Whenever you have something that is, maybe feels, you know,

another one, O.P. 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 anyone wants is the meta. 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, but, uh, 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 an acronym? Is it? Really? It is. Do you know what it stands for? Do you know what it stands for? Do you know what it stands for? Do you know what it stands for most efficient tactic available. Well, I'll be darned.

Or effective. Meta. Well, most effective or efficient effect. Actually, effective might be it. Yeah, same thing. 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. 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. Yeah. I have meta.

Like, yeah. 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, no, 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.

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