I got called "Boosted" in a Bronze/Silver level game

I got called boosted in downloading the game.

I'm just imagining doing the tutorial.

I kill the Trundle (for whom I bought Thornmail to counter) and he types in chat "omg boosted"

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Fedora: it's a joke about how fedoras are often worn by 'basement dwellers' who say m'lady, Fiora's name has a similar cadence, and people use that similarity to insult/make fun of fiora players, for example.

... There are people who say "m'lady"? I wonder if those are the same people who use "watakushi" when they try to speak Japanese...?

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scrub: comes from fighting games when people would try and hit every button to spam, giving the image of "scrubbing" the keyboard, therefore it slowly became a noun to describe someone who was a spammer/bad

Hmm, okay. That actually makes sense, more or less. I thought it came from a realsports (I'm coining terms too!) term until now, actually.

cringe, to cringe, float, to float "floaty" it follows the same system as other words that are actions that become descriptors.

But doesn't floaty describe something that is, itself, light and prone to float? Cringey is supposed to refer to someone who induces the cringe reaction, not someone who's prone to cringing. So I still don't quite get it.

weeb: The term is a successive mutation of “Wapanese,” a derogatory slur referring to western Japanophiles with a strong bias towards Japanese cultural and tech imports.

My friend claims it was a forum censorship of the word "Wapanese". If that's true, it is in fact just a word someone invented out of nothing, with no true meaning. I guess the meaning could have derived from the word it was censoring, though.

Also, why is there only a term for western people who love Japanese cultural imports? What about obsessive American BMW purchasers? Or British people who love hockey? What about Japanese people who are Sangoku otaku? Do we call them Germaniboos? Mapleboos? Chinaboos? These terms should be more equally handed out. If you ask me, though, I think it's great that people are interested Japan anyway, and see no reason a derogatory term for them should exist...

salty: the U.S. slang sense of salty meaning angry or irritated was first attested in 1938. On April 24th, 2007, an entry on the term was submitted to Urban Dictionary. The author describes it as having originated in Philadelphia, where it was defined as “looking stupid… because of something you did”. It is thought to have entered into widespread usage on the internet through fighting game and (MOBA) communities (basically salty actually means "mad" more than bitter, so it's a viable new take on the common phrase "u mad bro?")

This one was actually fascinating to read. I had no idea "salty" had such a long history... I know in old American movies, men will sometimes refer to sassy women as "salty" but I didn't realize it had an even deeper history.

Ayy: Ayy Lmao, Ayylmao, Aylmao, aylimo, alien. it's a really, really long running joke from first people going aaaayyyyyy when saying high to people, then lmao cause slang, I don't get your issue here, it's like having an issue with someone saying "heeeeeyyyyyy wassup man?" (also ayylmao is a twitch face that is an alien, so aliens became ayys, lmao?)

What gets me about this isn't that it's a noise, but that it's used almost everywhere in every situation. If I make the noise "へえ", it's in response to something that's a little surprising. If I use "はー", it's because something is confusing or sounds fishy. If I use "まあ", it's usually in response to someone making a fool of themselves. I get verbal tics like that, they're normal.

But "ayy", I've seen in League alone used in response to the following and more:

• A kill.
• A death.
• An insult.
• A retort.
• A victory.
• A defeat.
• A statement.
• A question.
• A pick.
• A score.
• Someone pointing out someone else's build.
• A boast.
• The statement of a meme.

It's like this sound has no logical... meaning. When it's all someone types out, it's impossible to know what they're trying to imply. They could be trying to insult me, praise me, laugh at me or laugh with me. I have no idea. (Also, I've never actually seen "ayylmao", I've only ever seen "ayy" by itself.

I always though that term "salty" came from tears..

welp

It's her next skin, 'Definitely Not Vi' with her wearing cardboard boxes with fists drawn on them.

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