Internet slang

[Jarlek]

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.

[polkafranzi]

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

[okiN]

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.

[Dezilagel]

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.

[Tears of Destiny]

EDIT

Oh never mind...

[Barbas]

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.

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

Now, let me get back to playing cRPG 

[Jarlek]

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

Now, let me get back to playing cRPG 

Exactly. So shut up and listen to the übernerd!

[Belhade]

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.

[okiN]

Warcraft is older than Starcraft, you know.

This thread is getting seriously off-topic, though. I suppose I'll split it off.

[Jarlek]

So my first thread on cRPG forums ever is started by an admin. Weird...

[Jacko]

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.

[Alex_C]

I think you'll find it's a Chinese instant messaging program.