No Scoped

No-Scoped

- A term used mainly in First Person Shooter games. The action of “No-Scoping” an enemy requires a player who has a sniper rifle, to fire the weapon without properly aiming with the use of a scope, and to hit their opponent and eliminate them. 

- The origins of this term are not entirely known, but it is assumed that this phrase was coined by the YouTube video creator, “zzirGrizz”, and popularizing it in a video filled with no scope kills in multiple Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare game matches.

- This technique is considered somewhat hard to do due to the fact that in many first person shooters, sniper rifles are intended to be used at long range while aiming. The direction in which the bullet will fly when un-aimed is hard to tell due to the games design of not having a targeting reticle in the center of the screen, as well as having bullet trajectory being randomized when firing a weapon un-aimed.

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Scrub

Scrub, Skrub, or Scrubber

- Similar to the word “Noob”, this word is used to identify someone who has complaints about game mechanics, player styles, or tactics which they deem unfair or cheap. 

 

 - This term has its origins from the 90’s, in the arcade fighting game, Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior. “Scrubs” were players who instead used complex joystick motions and button press combinations to activate special moves, would hit all the buttons and wiggle the joystick in such a way that would look similar to a scrubbing motion, such as scrubbing a car windshield clean.

- The term lost its popularity for nearly 20 years, until a League of Legends forum user “Urban Ranger”, asked why he was constantly being called a scrub during gameplay. 

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Rekt, or "Wrecked"

Rekt  or #rekt:

 - Short hand for “wrecked”. This term is usually used when a victor has defeated their opponent. The usage of this word is meant to discourage the defeated player and to insult their skill, or to brush off the defeated player’s complaint to how the victor won.

- The spelling of this word originated on urbandictionary.com when the user “PossiblyCouldOKIWill” submitted this definition for the word:

                “Text for “wrecked”, as sooo drunk you’ve forgotten your name but can just about type a text to your mate whose missed called you”

- Rekt later grew to be a gaming term when Balrogboogie of the World of Warcraft forums created a thread called “Get Rekt Ally Scrublords”. From here, the word spread from not just World of Warcraft, but to Twitter, the RPG Mount and Blade, as well as the internet forum 4chan.org 

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