Thread 719781037

Just a second, I'll be down to dinner soon, our squad just needs to kill the champion at the end of this cave. I'm the sponge so I can't really leave, if I was just another slayer it wouldn't be a big deal, but they really need a sponge to hold the attention of the champ in close combat.

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Just a second, I'll be down to dinner soon, our party just needs to kill the boss at the end of this dungeon. I'm the tank so I can't really leave, if I was just another DPS it wouldn't be a big deal, but they really need a tank to hold the aggro of the boss in melee.

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Video games have shaped modern language. Words like 'melee' could easily have been assigned to the dustbin of archaic terminology, a dungeon could easily (and often more appropriately) be called a labyrinth (perhaps a 'lab' for short), tanks, bosses, even levels are all words that could quite easily be replaced with something else.

For some reason I find this fascinating, and it's interesting to think how it could have all been so different.

I'm not sure if this will be a particularly popular thread, but I'd love it if people could list the origins of some of the terms we are now all familiar with, alongside alternatives, and especially those that actually fit better (because stuff like 'tank' and 'dungeon' are really not appropriate in a LOT of instances).

>>719781037 (OP)
The impact of pseudo-English pidgin used in low-tier anime, manga, and weaboo video game translations has dealt greater and less reversible damage to the language than anything.
>it can't be helped
>even if you say that
>even if you say such a thing
>can't be a bride
>this place...
>she has a nice style
>the illumination was beautiful
>bitch
>i've entered the bath
>unforgivable
>eeeeeeeeehhhhhh!?

>>719781153
That's fascinating, and kind of the opposite. In many cases the terminology in video-games is either highly specialised and beyond the grasp of the average child born before the rise of the medium, or else is highly abstract, or else referencing something specific in a game (for instance, I imagine 'levels' came from the old donkey kong type games where you'd climb up girders so as to reach a new 'level', and so it felt like you were climbing up to a higher level, or descending to a lower level, as opposed to starting a new mission, or quest, or whatever; yet the term level has stuck).

In contrast, failed xenophiliac English teachers have brought about shoddy grammar and simplified broken English with your examples.

bumping for autism

>>719781037 (OP)
I'm not reading all that.

>>719781037 (OP)
>Words like 'melee' could easily have been assigned to the dustbin of archaic terminology
https://youtu.be/cPnAGLTYQSA?t=31

>>719781037 (OP)
>a dungeon could easily be called a labyrinth
No, it most certainly could not. The two words are not synonymous and are completely distinct concepts. A poorly designed dungeon may well be a labyrinth, most video game "dungeons" are not labyrinths by design, rather they are purposely linear, as players are quick to shit all over mazes, and rightfully so. Tank is a far more appropriate designation to "sponge", a word that unflatteringly implies that the player in question is soft, squishy and wet. Contrasted against a warrior, often clad in heavy metal armor. You also substitute retarded words like "champ" in place of "Boss", do you actually understand what these words mean? They were not chosen at random as you seemingly assert, I assume that was the purpose of this thread. If not, you might actually be illiterate. Do you even understand the meaning of the word "slayer", or comprehend how redundant and vague it is to refer to a single class as a slayer when all other classes also slay enemies? The term DPS, as a video game concept is far more apt when you are describing a class that specialises in dealing high damage per second.