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

Salix Babylonika · 2017-04-06 04:17:18

the second is so much more fun to say

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

videogam was picked up by 4chan???

Imipolex G · 2017-04-06 04:26:07

"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

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

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

Your James Over

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-04-06 11:59:24

Entertainment software.

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

glennmagusharvey · 2017-04-06 16:06:24

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

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.

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

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