I have to admit being a internet forum noobie (MPQ forum is the only one I’m currently on…).
…full disclosure: I don’t even use the internet that much otherwise…
So, in the interest of people like me (if they even exist nowadays), I’d like to compile a list of terms/abbreviations commonly used in this forum…
All y’all internet saavy people please help me fill in the blanks and/or correct (and add if you can think of anything else)…
RNG - Random Number Generator
F2P - Free to Play
MMR - ???
Tanking - the process of intentionally losing matches to influence future match difficulties
Tinykitty* - ??? (this is what actually inspired the thread… I see it so often. Tried to google, but only got pictures and videos of people’s cats
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Characters:
GSW - Black Widow Grey Suit
IW - Invisible Woman
IM40, IM35 - Iron Man
Yep, we set that one. We had a brief brainstorm to see what we wanted to use for the filter. The end two were electricemu and tinykitty. Tinykitty won out since it “reads” better.
If I was a dj I would totally call myself ElectricEmu (E^2).
For your context tinykitty works better. I always thought it was funny that instead of saying a curse word the person brings up the image of a YouTube video or something. Reminds me of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. They swap out any curse words for the word “cuss.”. I thought it was really cute and funny.
…so does the forum automatically parse posted messages a substitute “tinykitty” whenever it encounters a “black-listed” word? Interesting… That would explain why I see it as a verb and noun!
HP - Hero Points
RB - rubberbanding - the effect of fighting someone much higher than you in rank during a pvp event and gaining more or less rank points
R#* - example R41. As far as I understand it stands for Revision (edits and changes made to the game)
Invisible Baglady - Invisible woman…joke due to her cover being unattractive
Meta - Meta game or the strategy and tactics used in a game which transcend the prescribed ruleset. Um…Thor, C. Storm and a squishy hero was the last metagame prior Yellow Storm change. Now its probably GSBW, Rag and someone.
Rags - Ragnarok
Mags - Magneto (which one do people generally mean? The classic Magneto or the.. err, other one?)
Ha! I didn’t know that the tinykitty was the swear filter; I thought it was an exceptionally good player “downed again by a tinykitty juggernaut”, “Lost yet another tinykitty match”, etc. I wonder if there is a tinykitty UserID out there?
Generally the 3* Classic Magneto, at least if referring to Rags/Mags. The 2* one is really pretty decent, despite relying on countdown timers, but has never been the focus of a tournament (either as buffed character or prize).
