Does a gamer talk to you and do you see him as an alien? A useful dictionary to understand everything

The years have passed, we have grown up and here you will read everything you need to be no stranger… boomer

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During our summer vacation in Crete, my yogi met one of his cousins. The little ones at this age will do their doom, they will play, they will squirm but they will almost always end up being nailed in front of a small (mobile, tablet) or bigger (computer, TV) screen to play video games.

Not like the ones we played when we were their age. The pac man he says they are bored now. It does not satisfy them. They play some awesome and terrible games that make Rambo in the "first blood" resemble a kitten that crammed into a corner and asks for a baby.

They drive fast cars, build entire states, make wars etc etc etc

To return to the cousin, then, the little one wants to be gamer! I do not know if you have a clue what happens to all these little ones who open a channel on youtube and upload videos of their achievements there? We are talking about another level.

If I want to shoot a video, I will do it with my mobile phone and if it blows and the wind will shake it and I will swear anyway; I would unjustly open the channel.

These, however, upload their videos as if it were Tassos Birsim directing the large gatherings of Andreas's rogue PASOKara memory in the 80s.

Not to mention, however, my yogi (who also as a child of his age also has the… stone with the electronics) stuck next to his cousin and then you should take these two off.

As long as we were not on a beach or made an excursion for the children to get to know their particular homeland, you would find the duo of misfortune either in front of the mobile screen or in front of the 50-inch TV on which my cousin and her father This gamer has "buttoned" various game consoles, plus some others that play them through internet since it is a smart tv and it can do that too. Anyway, we are still escaping…

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One afternoon, then, everyone is scattered around the room, grabbed a bed and indulges in their favorite lunch siesta.

The clerk chooses the sofa opposite the aforementioned TV with the obvious aim of resting. Φευ! After a few minutes the duo of misfortune invades the sanctuary of silence and they are enthroned in front of TV.

Obviously they do not take me for granted. I do not look, probably. And don't call me petite. I say anyway not to scold them and sacrifice my own sleep so that the others in the house can sleep.

And they start talking about the game. Yes, but I tell you, Our Lady, I came to cry. When did I grow up like that? How much have the times changed? When did my son learn English so well? Is it really English? What language do they speak?

The terminology they use to play is, for us uninitiated, something completely foreign. Incredible things. It was as if we had come down from a mountain. I remembered that ad where the father hears his daughter talking to him about the internet and with wide eyes and without understanding a word he asks her at the end: "to your mother, did you say that"?

We have arrived here, ladies and gentlemen. We became the fathers we were making fun of. Like that poor guy in advertising.

But because I am not going to fall without a fight, as soon as we returned to Athens, I started looking for what all they said meant. And because, indeed, you need a whole dictionary in order not to be… noob, let me list the most important entries so that if you happen to be in a similar situation it can be pulled out and you do not feel boomers!

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So we have and we say:

Okay Boomer: It is definitely the most famous expression (even I knew it, let's say), since it was done about two years ago viral. Young people use it to cut off a critical, closed-minded older person who has outdated perceptions and expresses them with more confidence. In other words, they are usually adults who blame technological progress and ridicule the perceptions and lifestyles of young people. Of course, this also happened in the games and the one who makes ρό know is treated as a boomer.

Objective: The goals-missions of a game or various strategic points at some point on the map, for which opponents are fighting each other.

Assist: As if you were Spanoulis, one thing. You help your team to clear the opponents without you being the one to press the trigger. As in basketball, here at the end of the game the number of assists is indicative of your performance and your participation and presence in the team battles.

Kill: Obviously when you kill an opponent player. The more you kill the better for his performance. Unlike… assists, however, here you must have pulled the trigger and killed the opponent.

Feeders: He who constantly dies, gives kills to the opposing team and thus it becomes stronger. How did we used to say on the ball "dude you are the best player of the opponents"? Eh, that!

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Feed: (verb) I am constantly dying, as a result of which I give kills to the opposing team. When the best of the opponents' team is… me!

Headshot: Used in shooters, when you hit someone in the head. It usually causes death with a single shot. You will also hear it in its Greek version: Hentidi!

Cheese: They are called tactics that although they are not something special and an opponent can easily face them if he knows they are coming to him, they are extremely deadly if they catch the opponent asleep. For many players these tactics are insidious (not to use the word used by gamers) and after cracking the one who uses them they underestimate him as a player.

salty: He who does not know how to lose. There is one everywhere. He is the guy who grumbles, blames everything (except himself, of course) and does not stop talking.

Newbie: The player who is bad at the game, but because he is new and not because of his abilities.

Noobs: The player who is bad at game playing. Even if it is old.

Chobo: This is a word of Korean origin that characterizes the player with low abilities. Something like the noob, but for the most sought after.

Gosu: The exact opposite of chobo. Also of Korean origin, characterizes the very strong player.

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Rusher: The player who starts with offensive tactics.

ggwp: They use it as a compliment for the one who makes impressive and successful moves during the game.

Whiner: The one who constantly grumbles against teammates or opponents for no reason and especially without… result.

wood: They use it to show that someone is worse than the lowest ranking, which is bronze. The type is wooden, that is.

Right: From wrecked, it means that you lost so much that you were "knocked down".

Miscellaneous: The one who invades the camp of the opposing team in a suicide mission with the sole aim of killing someone.

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Backdoor: Insidious blow again in the opponent's camp but with the difference that this happens when battles take place in other parts of the map.

Smurf: Nickname used by a player to hide his true identity.

Gank: The ambush on a player from an opposing team.

Ripperoni: From Pepperoni and RIP (Rest in Peace) for someone who was killed.

Lifer: It depends on how you look at it. It can be positive, it can be negative. In any case, he is the one who stopped playing games to deal more with real life.

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