why did "vidya gaem" and not "videogam" catch on

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• Hexartes

  2017-04-06 04:21:29

  Two responses:
  *I prefer viddy games
  *At least your preferred term wasn't picked up by 4chan
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-04-06 04:23:10

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  videogam was picked up by 4chan???
• Imipolex G

  2017-04-06 04:26:07

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  "viddy" just reminds me of A Clockwork Orange, and "videogam" just makes me think of sexy ladylegs on a monitor
• Hexartes

  2017-04-06 04:26:24

  No, vidya games was. They proceeded to make it entirely Not Funny, as they do. Consider yourself lucky the same has not happened to te term "videogam" was what I was saying
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-04-06 04:28:24

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Imipolex G said:

  "viddy" just reminds me of A Clockwork Orange, and "videogam" just makes me think of sexy ladylegs on a monitor

  :moonbase alpha voice: would you like to play a videogam

  Hexartes said:

  No, vidya games was. They proceeded to make it entirely Not Funny, as they do. Consider yourself lucky the same has not happened to te term "videogam" was what I was saying

  "vidya" does indeed make me want to punch people
• Imipolex G

  2017-04-06 04:29:12

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I would prefer a tiddy game, oooh, a surprising post
• Tre

  2017-04-06 05:03:58

  
  

  I say vidyagamz
• Bee

  2017-04-06 05:46:09

  VIDCONS
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-04-06 05:59:25

  does anyone else pronounce "gaems" as "james"?
  
• lee4hmz

  2017-04-06 06:22:49

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Your James Over
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-04-06 11:59:24

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Entertainment software.
  
  Alternately: "Hey, have you heard about the new interactive experience?!"
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-04-06 16:06:24 edited 2017-04-06 16:06:33

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Entertainment software.
  
  Alternately: "Hey, have you heard about the new interactive experience?!"
  

  at least that stems the endless debate over whether VNs are games
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-04-06 17:14:56 edited 2017-04-06 17:16:42

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  glennmagusharvey said:

  Sredni Vashtar said:

  Entertainment software.
  
  Alternately: "Hey, have you heard about the new interactive experience?!"
  

  at least that stems the endless debate over whether VNs are games

  The ESRB is literally the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, so it's not exactly a ew idea that "game" might be a bit of a narrow descriptor.
  
  By the way, the "interactive experience" joke is from Talking Simulator discussing why people complaining about Gone Home "not being a game" are kind of massively missing the point and also categorically wrong.