Hey PC gamers, hope we all survived the big showcase weekend! We are once again not talking about it yet—but we did actually just record ourselves talking about it so you'll get to hear that next week—so hang tight on that. For this week Mollie and I called upon Robin Valentine to talk about gaming slang, which seems like such an old person way to put it. But we got the bad news about how "instagib" is supposed to be pronounced last month and we all launched into a flurry of opinions about other popular phrases and acronyms that we like and don't like so Robin did a new take on our big list of game slang you should know and we made him talk about it with us.
What's your own favorite gaming slang term?
Don't act all cool now. You have a phrase you like to toss around that's fun to say. Mollie is a chronic "gg" in chat person. Robin loves appending -ware to the end of things. Me? I like calling things sweaty even though I don't really play any games where it applies. That's the fun of it. Getting sweaty about Stardew. So what about you? Is it getting ganked, or complaining about nerfs? Maybe you like blaming everything on RNG.You can catch our old version of this list, just for a laugh: PC gaming terms and their true meanings, which was originally published sometime last decade.
Or you can read the new list we're talking about with Robin: From abandonware to zoning: 91 terms every PC gamer should know, which is fewer jokes and more of a genuine primer to help you out.