How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
How To: Gaming
THE HOW TO CO. — EDITION 10
Twelve words that get used at you as though you were there when they were agreed. You were not. Nobody was.
A mark cut into a wall means something only because enough people walking this road agreed that it did. Nobody voted. Nobody wrote it down.
Good game. It arrives at the end, it is usually sincere, and typing it back costs you nothing.
ALSOOften GG WP — good game, well played. The same thing, slightly warmer.
Two things. For a long time it was looking for group, a plain request. It is now also read as pure excitement, shouted at nothing in particular.
ALSOLFM is looking for more — the same request, from the other side.
Good luck, have fun. It arrives at the start. Whoever types it first has quietly set the tone for everybody else.
Away from keyboard. It belongs before you stand up, not after you sit back down — the point is the warning, not the apology.
Role-playing game. Somewhere inside it is a character who ends measurably stronger than they started, and choices about how.
Two things again. A first-person shooter, or the frame rate a game is running at. Nobody will clarify which, because to them it was obvious.
A game built out of runs. You die, you begin again from the beginning, and the only thing you carry forward is what you learned. It is named after a much older game, and its edges have been argued over ever since.
Massively multiplayer online. The world keeps running while you are not in it, and everybody else in it is a person.
The choices you have made about your character: what you spent points on, what you carry, what you gave up to carry it. That is the whole word.
ALSOA build guide is somebody else’s choices, written down.
The choices most people have settled on because they currently work. Somebody will tell you it is an acronym; that story is disputed, and it changes nothing.
A change made by the people who make the game. A nerf makes something weaker; a buff makes it stronger. Both become verbs the moment an update lands.
Repeating something you have already beaten so that a number goes up. It is allowed to be boring. Boring is the deal you are agreeing to.
The wall runs on a long way past this page, and nobody alive has read all of it. Asking was never the embarrassing part.
“I nodded along to every single one of these for about a year before I looked any of them up. Nodding is free. Looking it up is faster.”