Wtf does it all mean anyway?

Tenebrae · October 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Gaming lingo?</div>OK I know i'm gonna leave myself open to cries of n00bie here but... I haven't a clue what things like pwn, h4x0r and the like mean. I know a few but not all. is there a site that any of you know of that could help?

Jedisar · October 2002

It's actually not gamer lingo...it's more of "1337 Speak" than gamer lingo. Pwn means to Own. Own means to basically beat someone down with such ease that they have become your property. H4xx0r is what lamers in leet speak call people they think are cheating. Aka, anyone that kills them. Suxx0rz means that they think you suck because they managed to kill you while wearing full kevlar and using an awp when you only had a usp and no kevlar. When you knife them in the back, you'll recieve cries from them consisting of "Stupid N00b", meaning they're trying to claim you're new to the game and don't know how to play, and "J00 H4xx0r!" and try to vote-kick you, meaning they think you're a hacker because you actually used your brain while playing a game, and you outsmarted them.

Spooge · October 2002

I don't use it much but try this <a href="http://www.onlineconversion.com/haxor.htm" target="_blank">Translator</a>.

TychoCelchuuu · October 2002

No the translator doesn't work. It only changes characters, it doesn't tell you what they mean. I could type up a nice guide, but I have a headache and other stuff to do.

DOOManiac · October 2002

l33t speak IS gamer lingo. Real hackers don't talk like that anymore.

Historical history part 123: Back in the day when hackers and software piraters were all still using BBS's, the law authorities put up sniffer bot uhhh thingies to read posts and whatnot and scan for things that contained flagged words. To get around this, the hackers and warez monkeys started 2 t41k 1ik3 7h15. So that way the thing wouldn't pick up what they were saying, yet it could still be decyphered by the human eye with just a little imagination. But after the cops got wise to their crafty schemes and started looking for this too, the hax0rs and warezers stopped cause there was no more reason to do it.

Nowadays the only people who speak l33t do so 1) for its comedic value (this is me), 2) making fun of hax0res and warez people (also me), and sadly 3) idiots who genuinely think they are better people because of it.

Oh and as far as a translation goes:

h4x0r: hax0r, or hacker. most likely an idiot script kiddie rather than a real hacker. ex: omgz the hax0r got my gibson!

pwn: short for pweened (or pw33n3d), which itself means owned (or 0wned), which means, to dominate. ex: I pweened you with the rocket launcher!

Monkla · October 2002

if you see it enough eventually you'll understand what it means but its best to just ignore that way of speaking, its easier that way

Tactician · October 2002

I don't think very many "real hackers" talked like that in the first place. It was more common among the ones that download winnuke and try to play god, or send people virii over ICQ. The language seeped into games at some point. Then the teen suicide rate increased.

Legionnaired · October 2002

OmG! j00 1s @ n0n-1337 m0f0!1!1111111!!!!!!!!!

I use it sometimes to emphasize idiocy, but basicly, just blur your eyes and you should be able to make out characters, and then figure things out.

Novakoala · October 2002

Does anyobdy remember the 'Hacker's Dictionary'? It availible for download off the internet here:

<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html" target="_blank">The New Hackers Dictionary</a> (beware, it's as a web page and it's huge)

For example:
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><b>ACK</b> /ak/ interj.

1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence ( compare mainstream Yo! ). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in "Ack pffft!" Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is distinguished by a following exclamation point. 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand their point (see NAK). Thus, for example, you might cut off an overly long explanation with "Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now". 4. An affirmative. "Think we ought to ditch that damn NT server for a Linux box?" "ACK!"

There is also a usage "ACK?" (from sense 1) meaning "Are you there?", often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a lull in talk mode to see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous response is of course NAK (sense 1), i.e., "I'm not here").</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>There's a load of stuff in there (most of which I've never even heard of). I keep it on my hard drive for quick access when I can't understand what people are talking about.

Tzarcon · October 2002

what you have called "gaming lingo" is referred to by us gamers as "l33t speak". As many people have said, commonly used by the idiots and newbies who think they are better than others because they speak l33t. L33t, by the way, means "Elite". To be l33t is to be elite, and better than others, at least to them.

Rob · October 2002

If you're looking for other gaming lingo, there's the old quaker's dictionary:

CTF - Capture the Flag
Crater - Die from a long fall
Crossroads - No Man's Land
Lag - Network slowdown
DM - Deathmatch
TDM - Team DM
Bot - AI controled player
Frag - either a "kill" or the act of killing or being killed

Scythe · October 2002

I once met this guy that actually <b>spoke</b> 1337. In RL. It was rather pathetic.

"WOOT! THIS IS SO LEET! I R ROXORS YOUR BOXORS!"

This is no joke, untill I pwned his ### at CS, that shut him up.

--Scythe--

Bob_the_Alien · October 2002

you people seem to be very jaded

it all depends on the community your in actually

Some places saying somone "h4x" is a complement, but it also doubles as a accusation.

an example is, "I have l33t conc jump hax"

tfc specific lingo, conc, this is a grendade type that causes your screen to shake around, also gives you ENORMOUS highet

RJ, this is pretty much any game with unrealisitc physics, you aim the rocket at the ground and jump giving you almost as much height as a conc jump

CS specific, T, T is short for terrorist team

cs specific, CT, CT is short for counter terrorist team

HL specific, SNARK, a snark is a cute little biological grenade that is probably the coolest weapon ever

"l33t" or "l337" is is substiture for cool, or grandious.

"pwn", isnt so much "own" anymore but has become more of a "awsome", once again this is dependant on the community

"rgr" is short for roger, or affirmitive
"neg" is short for negetive.

(I dont feel like goin through lol, rofl, lmao, or roflmao as they are basic internet accronyms)

Tenebrae · October 2002

[mentally insert D'oh]
Okay, so i asked for that but at least i had the courage to ask what a lot of people wanted to know (probably)
I <b>did</b> know I33t and the easier ones and I am good enough to translate the little phrase earlier, it's just the less common ones i don't get.
As for I33t speak, I'm not in the Us so that gets me out of that one.
Ah well.......

Wtf does it all mean anyway?

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