I prefer the slang version of vortex.
never knew that.
judging by your avatar…
vortex is just oki/wakeup game
there was no need to made a new term for it
Yeah vortex always struck me as fucking retarded and completely forced. Same with people who tried so hard to coin KFC instead of XFC for some retarded reason.
I haven’t played a fighting game since Tekken 3… And that was only casual gaming. haha.
So I’m trying to catchup with all the crazy lingo.
lol you wouldn’t be shaming shit. I don’t really play online but I can’t imagine more than 1% of people rocking SRK in their gamertag are low-mid tier players.
Oh.
They probably just thought it sounded neat.
Shit-talking’s been around for yeeeaaarrsss.
Salty, Free, Scrub, etc. are just easy condensed ways of shit talking, and they’ve caught on because Commentators use it a lot.
Don’t take it so seriously, I think the respectable players use it in the same way really good friends can call each other names jokingly.
I think the complaint here is more that people who aren’t active supporters of the community and tournament players are acting as if they are by overusing common terms like “scrub,” “salty,” etc.
Asking for folks to take away the slang is like asking you to stop using most of the words in your daily vocabulary.
Some expressions have been ingrained into the community and I doubt anything will be done to rid them for the forseeable future.
It is to be seen whether the community will shrink, but there will always be folks who are salty about something or the other.
(I could have used ‘unhappy’, ‘mad hurt’, or ‘complaining’ but salty simplifies things; not saying this is good convention)
Most people know the terms ‘noob’, ‘pwned’ and ‘1337’… I’d say they’re even more silly in ways, but we have learned to deal with it.
Why can’t we do the same with fighting games? Folks will tend to use foreign terms in the wrong sense.
My bad.
I don’t think these people intentionally use it to fit in.
No doubt there are some people out there who pretend to be part of the community by acting a certain way, but I think like a lot of other phrases, people hear it, think it sounds cool in context and it sticks to them.
It’s the same as people who can’t form a sentence without 5 curse words. Or saying ‘like’ a million times (guilty of this myself). People need to learn how to speak and form actual sentences instead of expressing themselves in soundbites.
The problem also could be a percentage of the community are completely miserable assholes who believe their own hype, think they are big shots putting others down in threads and have little to any self-esteem.
Scrub tactics (back from the old days) included turning off the arcade or stabbing someone over a throw. Shout outs to SF2.
Wrong.
The vortex is a specific situation in which the opponent is slightly off the ground, enabling you to attack from every possible angle. The most applicable example is MvC2 Magneto. You can go high low from the front, dash under and then go low or high from the back, or dash under sj and dash crossover. You can also fake resets. The feeling like you’re inside a tornado gives it the term vortex. Good examples were, iirc, IFC Yipes casuals at SB2.
There is no such thing as a vortex in SF4 because the mobility/attack options are too limited but SF4 kids like to use MvC2 terms (the term vortex has been used in XvsSF back in the PS1 days as well).
the main problem is that regions used to have different slang, but streams + thousands of clueless new players means everyone says the same shit now.
its not really a big deal but it is grating.
everyone who hasnt won a tournament is a scrub?
No kidding, man. Scrub (used to call them a “crab” or a “duck”), salty…guess what: black slang. Most non-japanese tourney-talk is black slang, spoken every day in other settings. It’s not going anywhere, deal with it. A lot of people think it’s just tourney scene-talk because that’s the only place they hear it…probably for lack of hanging with black dudes, idunno. Sure as hell beats nerd-herd geek-speak, with the spoken "lol"s, "rofl"s and shit.
I’m black, but race was never any part of my argument and I think you guys are misinterpreting what I am trying to convey. I don’t have a problem with the fighting game slang itself. I think its pretty cool and everything and agree that every community has its lingo. What I am trying to convey is how certain people overuse it, to the point that it makes them look fake. This is especially true when it is used to over criticize or be negative towards something that doesn’t warrant it. If any of you guys or guys like Valle or UltraDavid use it for example, its cool because I know you guys are part of the community. However, when some chump on a youtube vid is ragging on someone that would likely destroy them, that’s a different story.
Like I said, its not too hard to tell the fakers from those that are legit. If I told you " Rhio you’re just a damn scrub, you’re free.Free as a bird. If you fought me you’d get bodied", then I had better have some kind of background to warrant such a claim. If I ran around calling everyone on these forums out, saying how free they all were, you’d probably think “man this cat hasn’t even been on the forums that long, who does he think he is?”
See what I mean, I’m not attacking the culture or the slang itself. I’m attacking those that use it to the point that they come off as posers. It’s like I get the vibe now that every person watching a youtube vid or a stream is automatically good, or they would have you think it. Just yesterday on the Norcal stream I watched a couple people calling Gootecks, DSP and Ricky Ortiz scrubs! Now come on, if that isn’t trying too hard then what is? I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that punks typing that crap wouldn’t have a chance in hell against any of them.
Think of it like this, you ever been around younger kids that curse alot, not because they really understand it but because they think it makes them look cool? Or those uhh…let’s just say “African culture appreciative majorities” that walk around with the hoodest clothes, exaggerated swagger, calling you cous, dawg, homie etc? Its just lame because they try too hard to the point that its unnatural. Like this: lol. Let me just say, I’m not trying to be prejudiced or anything. Just trying to make a point.
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You’re not going to stop the youtube army and the stream monsters from misusing words. I know you’re ranting, but it’s in vain I tell you.
And the term being a ‘poser’, ironically doesn’t exist outside the North American lingo.
I can just as easily say that term is annoying, but I won’t because I’m tolerating it.
Not everybody is as educated as yourself. Deal with it.
I feel ya, and I agree. I’m not raging or anything, just having a discussion is all. Like one poster earlier said, I guess its better for the fighting game scene to have the livelihood than to not have any at all.
Oh, okay. I see what you’re getting at.