Ducktionary, vol. 1
Added 2021-04-19 20:30:24 +0000 UTCHello and welcome to a new mini-series we're doing called Ducktionary. Over a decade of podcasting, we've developed a voluminous vocabulary to describe games and media, or just to make inside jokes and comparisons. So we asked you, the listeners, what terms you'd like us to define, and this is what we came up with.
Terms Defined This Episode:
- Vorpal Flaw
- Horrangus
- Zelda Times
- Gamer-American
- Smashulon
- Crick
- Zoo Dog
- Buffo
- Gloves
- Tomba-width
- Points of Articulation
- Straight Putt
- Squeak-Squeak
- "I've got a Character I've Been Working On..."
- Wireframe
- Rough Putt
- Stairway-shaped Difficulty Curves
- Sucking the Stars from the Sky
- It's Fine
- Verb
- Don't Punish Me With Tedium
- Gamer Treat
- Title's_Trick
- Familiarity Compresses Space
- Something for Daddy
- Souls Finds Your Weakness
- Dark Souls 2 is Spacey-Wacey
- Uncommonly Self-Aware
- Something for Daddy
- "You Have a Limited Amount of Time On Earth"
- Tasks vs. Puzzles
Comments
i love this, ive definitely grabbed some of you guys slang when talkin about/thinkin about videogames. Something like “familiarity compresses space” or “don’t punish me with tedium” makes sense to me immediately as a player of games, more than something like “gameplay” does. That said my #1 favorite term i got from the good folks at duckfeed is calling a skill/spell cooldown a refractory period, and i understand if you don’t want to explain that
sleepysmiles
2021-04-19 23:08:06 +0000 UTCI also fancy myself a rough putter these days
I Have No Hole, and I Must Butt
2021-04-19 22:04:57 +0000 UTCAlso, I have adopted a lot of the vocab like "rough putt" in my day to day
Puppy
2021-04-19 21:54:40 +0000 UTCHehe buffo
Puppy
2021-04-19 21:54:04 +0000 UTCI was wondering when this was going to come out!
Adam Bucceri
2021-04-19 21:27:34 +0000 UTCOne step closer to their own secret language
Zaylin
2021-04-19 21:24:27 +0000 UTCThis is the good stuff.
Beardacus
2021-04-19 20:52:47 +0000 UTCNow do guppy lmao
Alex Brewington
2021-04-19 20:49:04 +0000 UTCYesssss the content I craveeeeee lol
Alex Brewington
2021-04-19 20:38:45 +0000 UTC
