Toon / Characters?

Darin Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 16, 4:12 pm, Polarhound <polarho....RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>> And why is each individual monster called a mob?
>
> It's what they were called on the first MUDs. "Mob"
> was a "mobile object", or "mobile" for short. Anything
> alive that wasn't a player. The term just sort of
> stuck around in later multi player games.

Of which I could more easily accept had even a small portion of WoW
players actually ever played a MUD/MUCK/MUSH/etc....
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On 16 juil, 18:09, Catriona R <catrionarNOS....TakeThisOut@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:56:19 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
>
> <kwicker1b_nos....TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:
> >Date of Transfer?
>
> Damage Over Time - basically a spell that causes damage over a set amount
> of time, like priest's shadow word pain, warlock's corruption, curse of
> agony etc. Also HoT = Heal over Time, like a priest's renew.
>
> >Dead Mines
>
> Or Dire Maul.
>
> >And also dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, RazorFen Down, RazorFen Krail?
>
> Yup, almost all instances have been turned into acronyms, I'll list the
> ones I can think of that are commonly used:
>

here are some warcraft acromonyms (homonymous acronyms). All of those
have multiple meanings in game - I'll let you guess which ones those
are

_TM
_SS
_PoM (famous blue mistake )
_BS
_GM
_AE
_RH
_SL
_GL
_MH
_NS
_FB
_FC
_AR
_FR
_AS
_MS
_BM
_BoP
_BoS
_CC
_DS

many more?
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I think it was "Xymmie" <xymmie RemoveThis @gmail.com> that wrote something
like...

>
>"PV" <pv+usenet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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>> Pete B <xxxh RemoveThis @_someething.com> writes:
>>>
>>>So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
>>>"toons" and those who refuse?
>>
>> People who call their characters toons are dumb? *
>
>Nononono. Just ignorant.
>
>I learned!!
>
>Xymmie
>

Nah. Maybe if WoW's graphics tried to be realistic, you'd have a
point, but they're totally cartoons! ;p

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On Jul 16, 7:47 pm, Polarhound <polarho....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> Of which I could more easily accept had even a small portion of WoW
> players actually ever played a MUD/MUCK/MUSH/etc....

They didn't have to play it to get the lingo. As they games
evolved, the lingo went with them, and new players picked
it up along the way. There were several games in between
MUD-1 and WoW. I think Everquest picked up quite a
lot from Abermud, which is a direct descendent of MUD,
and WoW has copied a lot of slang from EQ.

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:42:23 -0700, Darin Johnson <darin DeleteThis @usa.net>
wrote:

>Would be nice if this had abbreviations for the individual
>four wings.

Generally I see things like SM Cath, SM Lib, Sm Arm or SM GY.
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> (Never seen acronyms used for Ramparts)

HFR

> or Magtheridon's lair

Referred to as Maggy around my way.

> Sethekk Halls

Also, called SH (which is confusing)

Black Temple - BT

Gruul's Lair - Referred to as Gruul's

Not heard Mount Haji (I know I spelt wrong) shorten to anything.
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On Jul 16, 11:21 am, Pete B <xxxh.DeleteThis@_someething.com> wrote:
> So.. what is the difference between people who call their characters
> "toons" and those who refuse?
>
> (Like me, I don't have no stinking toons! *g*)

Like Xymmie, I thought "toon" was the accepted title in this game.
When the person who asked me to try this game sent me e-mails
describing it, he always used the term "toon", so I just thought it
was the accepted nomenclature specific to WoW.

Anyway, the word I can't stand is "alt". I devote a lot of time, care
and effort into each one of my characters, and "alt", to me, makes
them sound trivial, dismissive and emotionally diminutive - "he's just
an alt". I know how silly that sounds. But my characters are
"characters", not "toons", and most certainly not "alts".

--
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Babe Bridou <babebridou.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1184655860.915061.140980@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> here are some warcraft acromonyms (homonymous acronyms). All of those
> have multiple meanings in game - I'll let you guess which ones those
> are

Since I speak and play in french, some are quite mysterious.

> _TM

Tarren Mill
Thrallmar?

> _SS

Southshore
Sinister Strike

> _PoM (famous blue mistake )

Priere of mending

> _BS

Blacksmith
Bullshit (sorry)

> _GM

Game Master
Guild Master

> _AE
> _RH
> _SL

Shadow Lab

> _GL
> _MH
> _NS
> _FB

FireBall

> _FC
> _AR

Arcane resist

> _FR

Fire resist
Fel Reaver?

> _AS
> _MS

Marksmanship

> _BM

Beast Master
Black Morass

> _BoP

Bind on Picked up

> _BoS
> _CC

Crowd control

> _DS
>
> many more?

Too many

Lancelet
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Babe Bridou <babebridou.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1184655860.915061.140980@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> here are some warcraft acromonyms (homonymous acronyms). All of those
> have multiple meanings in game - I'll let you guess which ones those
> are

Since I speak and play in french, some are quite mysterious.

> _TM

Tarren Mill
Thrallmar?

> _SS

Southshore
Sinister Strike

> _PoM (famous blue mistake )

Priere of mending

> _BS

Blacksmith
Bullshit (sorry)

> _GM

Game Master
Guild Master

> _AE
> _RH
> _SL

Shadow Lab

> _GL
> _MH
> _NS
> _FB

FireBall

> _FC
> _AR

Arcane resist

> _FR

Fire resist
Fel Reaver?

> _AS
> _MS

Marksmanship

> _BM

Beast Master
Black Morass

> _BoP

Bind on Picked up

> _BoS
> _CC

Crowd control

> _DS
>
> many more?

HP --> Hellfire Peninsul & Hedgehog Paladin

Lancelet
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Probably showing my age here, but I was playing Vincent's Hollow via
telnet in '91. Back then the address was (I think) mud.iastate.edu
Now it has it's own domain at www.vhdev.com
I remember thinking that it was amazing, like playing "Zork" (remember
that one?) with a bunch of people at the same time. Had a program that
mapped macros to the function keys... about the only one I remember (and
the syntax may be way off):
cast volcano
get stone
get stone
get stone
get stone

Polarhound wrote:
> Darin Johnson wrote:
>> On Jul 16, 4:12 pm, Polarhound <polarho... RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote:
>>> And why is each individual monster called a mob?
>>
>> It's what they were called on the first MUDs. "Mob"
>> was a "mobile object", or "mobile" for short. Anything
>> alive that wasn't a player. The term just sort of
>> stuck around in later multi player games.
>
> Of which I could more easily accept had even a small portion of WoW
> players actually ever played a MUD/MUCK/MUSH/etc....


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JayMcK wrote:
> Probably showing my age here, but I was playing Vincent's Hollow via
> telnet in '91. Back then the address was (I think) mud.iastate.edu Now
> it has it's own domain at www.vhdev.com
> I remember thinking that it was amazing, like playing "Zork" (remember
> that one?) with a bunch of people at the same time. Had a program that
> mapped macros to the function keys... about the only one I remember (and
> the syntax may be way off):
> cast volcano
> get stone
> get stone
> get stone
> get stone

Oops... hit send before I was ready. Anyway, a bunch more "get stone",
then a bunch of "crush stone". Casting volcano caused you to "hear a
distant rumbling", at which point flaming stones would begin to fall
from the sky (no damage). You picked up the stones and crushed them for
magic/spell points.

I do remember that I also had macros that would take me from one point
to another quickly.

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"Darin Johnson" <darin.RemoveThis@usa.net> wrote in message
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> On Jul 16, 4:12 pm, Polarhound <polarho....RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>> And why is each individual monster called a mob?
>
> It's what they were called on the first MUDs. "Mob"
> was a "mobile object", or "mobile" for short. Anything
> alive that wasn't a player. The term just sort of
> stuck around in later multi player games.

The really confusing part for me was that when I was just getting into
programming, MOBs were 'Movable Object Blocks' which basically means the
same thing

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I have no problem with the term "alt". From what you've said, it sounds
as though you have multiple "mains" (though "common sense" would dictate
that there can be only one main). Many players have characters that
stay in a big city to use as a bank/auction house character, who never
progresses past level 1 and never leaves that city. Or, like me, some
have low-level characters that they only play when they get frustrated
with some quest or other goal that is giving problems. Those characters
truly are "alts".

neithskye wrote:

> Anyway, the word I can't stand is "alt". I devote a lot of time, care
> and effort into each one of my characters, and "alt", to me, makes
> them sound trivial, dismissive and emotionally diminutive - "he's just
> an alt". I know how silly that sounds. But my characters are
> "characters", not "toons", and most certainly not "alts".
>
> --
> Jill
>

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