the lingo should evolve naturally, and I too don't see the point of this thread. however your smash logic thing doesn't really make sense. All of smash's lingo evolved naturally. They never had a thread or discussion like this.
It's definitely very forced. Is it competitive? I don't know i was wondering the same thing. It's in a very grey area, that's for sure.
I just call it penalty. I'm pretty sure the game also calls it penalty at some point but i'm not too sure so take that with a grain of salt.
I also refer to it as "penalty".
Right. Only a few of the things on the list the OP made don't have names. No need to make new ones when they already have in-game ones. Best to make the metagame more accessible. Not to mention it's easier to document.
It's called a "penalty" in the rules you can see when selecting a mode. I like to think "CHANCE TIME" when it happens though, sense it's my chance to make up time. Also, someone else called it "chance time". I think it's a fun name.
I want to see other words for parts of the game not because of the forum, but because of competitive play and discussion. The fewer syllables that you use when you speak, the easier and faster it is to communicate in game. For example, in CS:GO, "I headshot that guy and now he has really low health" becomes "I dinked that guy", or "I killed every guy on their team" becomes "I aced them", and the discussion feels more immersive and fun. In Splatoon, "drop an inkstrike on the tower" could just become "nuke the tower".
Come up with nicknames is fine, but I think it should only be done if you need it. Nicknaming something just because you can makes things needlessly complicated, and it makes the metagame look less inviting to people who are new to the general idea of a metagame for video games. I think Splatoon has a great appeal that lets it have potential to be competitive AND casual, just like Smash Bros. If we come up with quicker, logical names for things, great, but if we don't need one, we shouldn't make one.
Oh I agree that we should keep things simple but I think your being a little too closed off to nicknames. When I started watching Smash competitively I had no idea what some of the terms were that they used. DI? Teching? Nope. That's just the surface too. It was less inviting because of it. Pretty much every competitive game has difficult terminology and nicknames. But nicknames don't affect the casual players much. They will still play whether they are in or not.
My main problem with this is not the fact things are being nicknamed, that's part of any competitive community, but a stated before, the fact that in this thread people are just ding it because as far as i can tell they want to be able to say the were a part of naming something for the community. Either that or they feel some strange need to talk like characters out Top Gun. As has been stated several times before, things will naturally be named in time. this is the best way for things to happen because 1. we don't look like desperate try-hards 2. people naturally nickname the things that actually need to be nicknamed. As moth said, we don't want to over complicate things. Yes ,shortened names can be helpful, but we don't want everything to have a nickname. Then we'e just speaking another language, and looking like idiots doing so. Like those terrible adverts that try to stuff as many meme's and abbreviations as possible into sentences to "connect with the kids *shudder*
You can call it the ice cream truck if you want to, just don't expect us to back you up when you get funny looks from people lol
