Almost 90% sure “swag” comes from Jaha.
Am I the only one who hasnt taking a liking to the new characters? I mean, there’s Vergil but Im still having more fun with my Vanilla team
I thought “Swag” is just another term repeated a lot these days by a lot of people. I’m in NorCal, and people say it a lot up here.
Swag isn’t from Jaha. That guy drove that word even MORE into the ground.
He just says shit from Lil B and other random fad crap. Then if you say anything bad about him or tell him to not commentate he just says “Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense”
swagtastic.
The last part isnt exactly true. When he commentates, half of the people want/adore Jaha and the other half dont. He tells them something like “donate and I’ll get off” but of course it’s usually the people who dont/arent donating that want to pick and choose what game gets shown and who commentates. Nonetheless, at the Break, the commentators are usually in the tourneys as well so its not like they’ll always have a known player to commentate and if the viewers would rather have no commentator than Jaha, they can mute the video. The thing is, he has fans and he has people who doesnt like his commentary. At the end of the day though, he’s not gonna get off just bc half (maybe less) of the people watching the stream dont want him to commentate. I remember watching once and the stream chat was swag this and swag that bc 90% of the chat wanted him to commentate. Shit like Swagneto, Swaggity Squeeze, etc.
Its another old azz term, brought back in style, ran into the dirt adopted by the FGC as its own.
Yeah, I’ve heard “swagger” and “swag” used before to describe, well, just that, but it wasn’t until the past year or so where I started hearing it everywhere. Dilutes the meaning.
Anyone can say Swag -___- can’t we get people that know about the game+ are funny? Or maybe one of each?
Jaha saying swag got tiring after the 4,393rd swag
“How do you pronounce the magneto fireball?”
“I’m sorry I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“The magneto fireball you know the estaka!”
“Oh disruptor. It’s E.M. disruptor.”
“It’s not estaka?”
I wasn’t exactly sure of any of Magneto’s moves pre MvC3, besides Magnetic Shockwave because I saw the name for it in old games when you win with a Hyper and it says the name. So I was saying some pretty random stuff like Chris Hu too, lol
Happy birthday is the worst fighting game slang ever and needs to die. It’s too clunky for commentary and makes no damn sense. How KFC got arbitrarily shot down by mods for requiring too much explanation (BBQ?) and yet infinitely more stupid shit like happy birthday gets a free pass is beyond me.
KFC was retarded - especially since XFC (the correct term) is the same character length.
Happy Birthday really isn’t that bad of a term, particularly when you consider what it’s describing. What other quick phrases would you want people to say when an assist gets caught? Most of the ways of describing it (aside from happy birthday) involve three words that can sometimes be misinterpreted. Everyone knows what happy birthday means at this point - catching a point and an assist character at the same time and usually following up with a DHC or XFC setup to kill both at the same time.
I don’t really see how the phrase is “clunky” for commentary when the entire process of a happy birthday extends much longer than it takes to say the phrase.
And everyone knew what KFC meant until it was artificially ironed out by mods. It took more effort to erase than leave it be. And happy birthday is the essence of clunkiness. ‘Oooh, he just got happy birthday’d.’ There is no way to say that and not sound like a twat. An actually useful terminology would contract the phrase and make it easier on the tongue (Ecks eff cee?) not make you sound like a gargling fool with no grasp of verbs. It doesn’t even work as a sentence. He ‘gets the happy birthday’ is language as constructed by a fucking coma victim.
My fighting game lingo is quite limited actually. Can you imagine what we sound like to people who don’t know any fighting game vocab? A bunch of mad men I’d say, like speaking a hidden language inside of english.
At least with KFC we were provided with those awesome, themed avatars. Shoutouts to Kanta-Kun for the original idea.
The ones I made
That applies to any specific group, but if you look at other lingo I say we got off easy.
Like medical terms. “You have brochientasis onychophagia in your pertusiss” when they can say “Your ass is bleeding”.
KFC, Happy Birthday and so on doesn’t sound that bad in comparison.
Yes but I feel fighting game terms are even more alien. In Medical, science and hell Star-Trek vocabulary they are at least specific words that have their own meaning. In Fighting game lingo we take pre-existing terms and make them mean something else Happy Birthday, New York Knicks.etc it just sounds confusing at least b4 I got into the FGC.
i’m pretty sure the great one, lil b, made swag popular. unfortunately jaha killed it.
Doctors should start selling obnoxious t shirts with their own medic memes. This bitch is red like Psoriasis etc.
Doctors already have a meme t-shirt.
