'character' = 'toon'. when and why?

[SamwiseRed]

Originally Posted by Silo69 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i heard "toon" in everquest years before world of warcraft was even a thought

seeing as how WoW began development in 1999, i doubt that

[Breeziyo]

i will never understand people who get legit anal pain whenever someone says toon

[Ele]

toon better than goon

[dude]

The dude agrees, toon belittles the whole playing experience. Why do the toon'ers gotta kill my high.

[Kagatob]

I was aware 'toon' existed before WoW, though WoW truly did popularize the term, I always used 'char'. I never understood why people said that was hard to say in their head, it's "character" when you say it or think it, it's simply an abbreviation. The only excuse I can think of is if you are one of those juvenile failboats who say "B. T. W." or "B. R. B." out loud to people, in which case it's your own fault.

Twink I had no idea about the gay thing, I just assumed it was because their armor was all twinkly. /shrug

[Hollywood]

Originally Posted by Breeziyo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i will never understand people who get legit anal pain whenever someone says toon

We'll never understand why each new generation of dickwads has to warp words and phrases in order to make them their own - put their 'spin' on them.
As if they have some burning desire to leave their legacy in the world - except they do it in something inane and pointless like a video game instead of real life where it counts.
That and/or they are just lazy resulting in the shortening of words because apparently typing a few more letters is difficult.

'DPS' is annoying one - especially when games do not calculate their primary damage output in a per second interval.
It's "damage", it's always been "damage" and typing "damage dealer" or "how much damage do you do?" is not hard.

"Mincer" from LOTRO is a great example of the absurdity of word changing multiple times.
The term refers to the class called the Minstrel. At first it was "Mins" for short, then somehow the lazy approach of shortening it wasn't enough.
It had to be re-coined as a "Mincer" ...

So not only did it get shortened, it got re-lengthened as a different word entirely of nearly about the same length.


..TF is wrong with you kids. Just grow up and use the proper word for something.

[Lexical]

Toon was originally a derogatory term the RP community had for non-RPers in game. The rationale behind it was that since RPers characters have a back story, they are indeed characters while non-RPers would be seen as some zany, cartoon like, person if being viewed from an immersed perspective. Since the RP community was much smaller than the non-RP community, the term 'toon' was quickly embraced as a proper term for an individual's character.

[Breeziyo]

Originally Posted by Hollywood [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We'll never understand why each new generation of dickwads has to warp words and phrases in order to make them their own - put their 'spin' on them.
As if they have some burning desire to leave their legacy in the world - except they do it in something inane and pointless like a video game instead of real life where it counts.
That and/or they are just lazy resulting in the shortening of words because apparently typing a few more letters is difficult.

'DPS' is annoying one - especially when games do not calculate their primary damage output in a per second interval.
It's "damage", it's always been "damage" and typing "damage dealer" or "how much damage do you do?" is not hard.

"Mincer" from LOTRO is a great example of the absurdity of word changing multiple times.
The term refers to the class called the Minstrel. At first it was "Mins" for short, then somehow the lazy approach of shortening it wasn't enough.
It had to be re-coined as a "Mincer" ...

So not only did it get shortened, it got re-lengthened as a different word entirely of nearly about the same length.


..TF is wrong with you kids. Just grow up and use the proper word for something.

If I am a kid for using toon or other video game terms (man you would hate Planetside) then I guess I'm gonna go make some mac n cheese with cut up hotdogs and crank up the Disney channel. I certainly don't want to be an old fag who gets the grumpy dumpies whenever young whippersnappers use slang.

Your "How much damage do you do?" question poses to be confusing / naive in modern MMOs as well. People who are worth a damn aren't going to care how much damage you do on average with a couple of your skills, or that one time you managed to crit for that absurd amount using all of those sick buffs. They want numbers that can show you how much damage per second you can actually pull off and assume that you will be alive for the entirety of the fight. When there are things like limited resources for healers and time limits on a boss fight you need to actually be able to ensure that your group is performing adequately. This includes the people who are only brought because they are supposed to be actually killing the mob, and DPS checks / logs serve to let leaders figure out who isn't doing their job. DPS being used as a definition for a primarily damage dealing class (which used to be shortened to DD all the time before DPS got the spotlight) I can see as a bit of an annoyance if you're new, but the reasoning behind it being used is fairly clear. A DPS class or a DPS specialization in some situations is called that because that is usually the sole reason they're brought to a PvE fight.

To act like people are wrong for asking specifically for how much DPS a person can do (because that's what they're going to answer with either way) is stupid. Typing out acronyms or using damage instead of DPS isn't hard, but neither is just being okay with slang people use in order to not come off as an uppity douchebag.


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i like this

[BelenosGotHeals]

Originally Posted by Resheph [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Before WoW (as much as I hate that game), MMO players were the nerds. Now everyone and their grandma plays

^^^ The reason why WoW is the worst thing to ever happen to the genre imo