@etymologynerd: gamers rise up? #etymology #linguistics #slang #dnd #4chan

mr.bees :

"dungeons and dragons was the most immersive game before the development of more immersive games"

Jax The Bard :

As a LARPer, it is so frustrating when I get comments trying to “explain” what larp “really” means, like no, this is what it meant first just cause you use it differently doesn’t mean the OG meaning has changed

kenny :

he’s not holding the camera he is ai i decided

✩₊˚.⋆ 𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 ⋆.˚₊✩ :

hmmmm steady camera, serious captions.

certified ghost 💀 :

had someone call me a larper bc i said sometimes while DMing in dnd I dont always pause the game mid session to look up rules and instead make calls. I got told I was LARPING THE TABLE TOP RPG. we've lost the meaning of words

darcy warcy :

i always love when citations pop up in your videos because it brings me a lot of joy to know academic papers are being written about things like this

Bo :

larping isn’t DnD, it’s related but not part of the game, same communities in a lot of circumstances, very domaine subject matter, different art/game form

Genesis88 :

4chan also has boards for both video games and table top games btw

MozelyMann :

I’m begging you to consider slower long-form video. I love your videos and this topic, but I’m left with so many questions and these short form videos are way too fast for my preferences. I’d be surprised if you didn’t have an interested audience that would eat up long-form content!

M :

only vaguely related but is there a name for when an acronym starts being used as a word and the meaning of that word is part of the original acronym. i see "larp" being used to mean roleplaying all the time now, and "larp" is literally "live action role playing". same shit with VIP being used to mean "important" like VIP client

Hana Duong :

I like how you pretend to hold the camera 😂 it’s pretty smart.

Vì | Golden☆Starlight :

i hate the new larp connotation as someone who loves actual larp😭

R_Mac.NinetySeven :

Dnd is still more immersive. Even the most immersive video games still require playing the story exactly as designed and you are constrained to the controls of the video game. Dnd is improv, meaning you aren’t “controlling” a character, you are the character.

henrirp_inactive :

Give us yellow subtitles

🌊🔱 °Jay°🌻🚦 :

what is up with these comments 😭

Tartarus :

i love hearing about this kind of linguistic pipeline

heluvsidk :

serena :

I’d love to see you do a gamer gate analysis

Crudtopia :

I know that it’s required by the TikTok gods now, but I miss when this channel filmed handheld and chaotic style.

cat_appreciator :

I'm minmaxmaxxing my character

🪻 Emelie 🪻 :

I support small creators 🥰

rhodes.schumann :

"far right"

Mikachuu :

It’s almost like all this shit is the same. You spend too much time thinking on how to separate and break things down when really you should be looking at them in clusters

rac :

you should do a video on the mincraft roleplay community

Vic :

Are there other non-internet related examples of this?