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Originally posted by Oyjord

OP wrote:

"Sick of new gamers who think their old school"

 

I'm sick of gamers who don't know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're."  Perhaps they should cut back on the gaming and hit the books a bit harder.  That is, unless they won't mind working at McDonald's their entire life.

 

My two copper,

Oy.

Since we're on the subject of being sick of things.. I am very sick of the grammar police and their nazi rules about language.  If it was up to them, we'd all still be speaking monkey-caveman (grunt grunt ugh ooga booga grunt grunt!) to each other, because according to them language is a static thing that has to follow set rules and never changes, instead of say.. the evolving thing language actually is.  In other words, if popular use within a social group of "there, their and they're" is not the same as some dusty old book's version of it.. welcome to how language works. I blame the education system.

And then there are people who take the stance that if you're english is not 100%, you are somehow stupid or retarded, and nevermind that say.. english is not the most common language on the planet, and its just as likely the person writing something with typos might be some genius who only speaks mandarin or japanese or some such, and you'll look like a moron for dissing on them for bad english :D

Originally posted by randomt

 

Originally posted by Oyjord

OP wrote:

"Sick of new gamers who think their old school"

 

I'm sick of gamers who don't know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're."  Perhaps they should cut back on the gaming and hit the books a bit harder.  That is, unless they won't mind working at McDonald's their entire life.

 

My two copper,

Oy.

 

Since we're on the subject of being sick of things.. I am very sick of the grammar police and their nazi rules about language.  If it was up to them, we'd all still be speaking monkey-caveman (grunt grunt ugh ooga booga grunt grunt!) to each other, because according to them language is a static thing that has to follow set rules and never changes, instead of say.. the evolving thing language actually is.  In other words, if popular use within a social group of "there, their and they're" is not the same as some dusty old book's version of it.. welcome to how language works. I blame the education system.

And then there are people who take the stance that if you're english is not 100%, you are somehow stupid or retarded, and nevermind that say.. english is not the most common language on the planet, and its just as likely the person writing something with typos might be some genius who only speaks mandarin or japanese or some such, and you'll look like a moron for dissing on them for bad english :D

 

 

hmm... I dont know if I agre. I mene, if just say stuf and cant fuking spel, then how the heck we are going to comunicate?

Originally posted by airhead

hmm... I dont know if I agre. I mene, if just say stuf and cant fuking spel, then how the heck we are going to comunicate?

Communication isn't about spelling or any particular medium, so if you say stuff and can't fracking spell, and I am unable to understand.. its up to me to ask for clarification isn't it?  Then again most oldschoolers can read typoese without thinking about it :D

Originally posted by randomt

 

Originally posted by Oyjord

OP wrote:

"Sick of new gamers who think their old school"

 

I'm sick of gamers who don't know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're."  Perhaps they should cut back on the gaming and hit the books a bit harder.  That is, unless they won't mind working at McDonald's their entire life.

 

My two copper,

Oy.

 

Since we're on the subject of being sick of things.. I am very sick of the grammar police and their nazi rules about language.  If it was up to them, we'd all still be speaking monkey-caveman (grunt grunt ugh ooga booga grunt grunt!) to each other, because according to them language is a static thing that has to follow set rules and never changes, instead of say.. the evolving thing language actually is.  In other words, if popular use within a social group of "there, their and they're" is not the same as some dusty old book's version of it.. welcome to how language works. I blame the education system.

And then there are people who take the stance that if you're english is not 100%, you are somehow stupid or retarded, and nevermind that say.. english is not the most common language on the planet, and its just as likely the person writing something with typos might be some genius who only speaks mandarin or japanese or some such, and you'll look like a moron for dissing on them for bad english :D

 

 

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Originally posted by airhead

Originally posted by randomt

 

Originally posted by Oyjord

OP wrote:

"Sick of new gamers who think their old school"

 

I'm sick of gamers who don't know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're."  Perhaps they should cut back on the gaming and hit the books a bit harder.  That is, unless they won't mind working at McDonald's their entire life.

 

My two copper,

Oy.

 

Since we're on the subject of being sick of things.. I am very sick of the grammar police and their nazi rules about language.  If it was up to them, we'd all still be speaking monkey-caveman (grunt grunt ugh ooga booga grunt grunt!) to each other, because according to them language is a static thing that has to follow set rules and never changes, instead of say.. the evolving thing language actually is.  In other words, if popular use within a social group of "there, their and they're" is not the same as some dusty old book's version of it.. welcome to how language works. I blame the education system.

And then there are people who take the stance that if you're english is not 100%, you are somehow stupid or retarded, and nevermind that say.. english is not the most common language on the planet, and its just as likely the person writing something with typos might be some genius who only speaks mandarin or japanese or some such, and you'll look like a moron for dissing on them for bad english :D

 

 

hmm... I dont know if I agre. I mene, if just say stuf and cant fuking spel, then how the heck we are going to comunicate?

And it is even more fun to quote someone quoting another that quoted a quote, if we keep this up we can do whole pages of just one post!

Originally posted by Oyjord

OP wrote:

"Sick of new gamers who think their old school"

 

I'm sick of gamers who don't know the difference between "there," "their," and "they're."  Perhaps they should cut back on the gaming and hit the books a bit harder.  That is, unless they won't mind working at McDonald's their entire life.

 

My two copper,

Oy.

Also I'm glad that the starter of the threat recognizes himself as an "oldschool" player because he has played since the beginning of WoW. WOW MAN.. That right there is impressive AND oldschool... (-that was sarcasm-)

Originally posted by Horusra

Do not think you can count MUD's they are a different form of gaming.  If you want to use MUD's then you have to use pnp players before that as old school.  I think it starts with UO for the current MMORPG world.

Yeah, much better! Better story; better gamplay; and god zillion NON GRINDING quests !

My first computer was a KIT BUILD Timex-Sinclair in 1983. Back then we didn't even have floppies, it was a damn tape drive. It wasn't until I got a 286 could I play this stack of 5.25" floppy games.

The thing is the OP associated "old skool" with being a player of a game from the start. I didn't play Deus Ex from the start (my most precious cat was dying and had no time to even care), but no one will say I'm not a very dyed-in-the-wool DX fan. It goes for any player, just because they played later doesn't mean some so-called beta tester who played for a month; left; came back 6 months later; left.................. is any better than someone who played the game for 6 months straight!

What counts is your depth of knowledge of the game you love, and understanding how/what/when/where/why the game became what it became -- and never left it!!

Sick of posters on MMORPG.com who don't know which version of the word "there" to use.

ps: "they're"

pps.  stop being such an elitist...I've been playing MMO's since everquest and I couldn't care less if somebody came into MMO's after the Burning Crusade and now thinks they know everything..why would that bother me?

Originally posted by UNATCOII 

The thing is the OP associated "old skool" with being a player of a game from the start. I didn't play Deus Ex from the start (my most precious cat was dying and had no time to even care), but no one will say I'm not a very dyed-in-the-wool DX fan. It goes for any player, just because they played later doesn't mean some so-called beta tester who played for a month; left; came back 6 months later; left.................. is any better than someone who played the game for 6 months straight!

What counts is your depth of knowledge of the game you love, and understanding how/what/when/where/why the game became what it became -- and never left it!!

If you didn't play EQ from the start, you couldn't know what game EQ was, because $$$OE completely destroyed it after a few expansions, so the time frame is important.