cRPG

Off Topic => Spam => Topic started by: Jarlek on May 18, 2011, 08:59:56 pm

Title: Internet slang
Post by: Jarlek on May 18, 2011, 08:59:56 pm
QQ (internet slang) = complaining/whining/crying bitterly over a computer game
Actually that's not right. It origonally meant to quit, ether because you were losing or you were really bad/unskilled.

It was later on when all those noobs (damn kids! Get off my videogames!) thought it looked like crying eyes and started to use it like that.
The QQ comes from the Warcraft games (the strategy ones, not the MMO) where QQ was the options menu to quiet the game/program.

Now hope all you kids learned something today.
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: polkafranzi on May 18, 2011, 09:18:43 pm
Actually that's not right. It origonally meant to quit, ether because you were losing or you were really bad/unskilled.

It was later on when all those noobs (damn kids! Get off my videogames!) thought it looked like crying eyes and started to use it like that.
The QQ comes from the Warcraft games (the strategy ones, not the MMO) where QQ was the options menu to quiet the game/program.

Now hope all you kids learned something today.

pwnt us all
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: okiN on May 18, 2011, 09:23:50 pm
Actually that's not right. It origonally meant to quit, ether because you were losing or you were really bad/unskilled.

It was later on when all those noobs (damn kids! Get off my videogames!) thought it looked like crying eyes and started to use it like that.
The QQ comes from the Warcraft games (the strategy ones, not the MMO) where QQ was the options menu to quiet the game/program.

Now hope all you kids learned something today.

Man, you might as well be insisting that lol means lots of love. Language is a changing thing, internet slang even more so. The history is irrelevant to current usage, and knowing that kind of trivia doesn't mean you are (or require you to be) older or wiser than anybody else, it just means you know something they don't. :P
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: Dezilagel on May 18, 2011, 09:25:34 pm
Actually that's not right. It origonally meant to quit, ether because you were losing or you were really bad/unskilled.

It was later on when all those noobs (damn kids! Get off my videogames!) thought it looked like crying eyes and started to use it like that.
The QQ comes from the Warcraft games (the strategy ones, not the MMO) where QQ was the options menu to quiet the game/program.

Now hope all you kids learned something today.

Correct, but you missed a stage in the development:

QQ is also recognized as an abbreviation for "quack-quack". Compared to whining babies, ducks "quacking" are quite similar.

That is why in some games you can still see ppl waking around in "QQ-trains" quacking.
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: Tears of Destiny on May 18, 2011, 09:28:59 pm
EDIT

Oh never mind...
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: Barbas on May 18, 2011, 10:34:29 pm
The history is irrelevant to current usage, and knowing that kind of trivia doesn't mean you are (or require you to be) older or wiser than anybody else, it just means you know something they don't. :P

If anything, it means that you've been spending too much of your life playing videogames.

Now, let me get back to playing cRPG  :D
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: Jarlek on May 18, 2011, 11:36:43 pm
If anything, it means that you've been spending too much of your life playing videogames.

Now, let me get back to playing cRPG  :D
Exactly. So shut up and listen to the übernerd!
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: Belhade on May 19, 2011, 01:36:33 am
Actually that's not right. It origonally meant to quit, ether because you were losing or you were really bad/unskilled. 

And the technical term for *that* phenomenon is the GTX. I remember that well from the Starcraft days. Playing 3v3 and someone gets Marine/Zerg rushed in the first five minutes, and immediately leaves the game.
Title: Re: Re: The downgrade of my character
Post by: okiN on May 19, 2011, 01:58:10 am
Warcraft is older than Starcraft, you know.

This thread is getting seriously off-topic, though. I suppose I'll split it off.
Title: Re: Internet slang
Post by: Jarlek on May 19, 2011, 08:07:22 am
So my first thread on cRPG forums ever is started by an admin. Weird...
Title: Re: Internet slang
Post by: Jacko on May 19, 2011, 09:45:11 am
Mm.. GTX. In quake you can still GTX hard. Just press, tilde, Q, tab enter and you quit the game. Always fun to pwn someone and see em GTX a second after.
Title: Re: Internet slang
Post by: Alex_C on May 19, 2011, 11:58:41 pm
I think you'll find it's a Chinese instant messaging program. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ)