STL lingo

Copy & pasted from the STL Tekken Myspace because Myspace is shit garbage. There are so many words that I picked up from my friends in MO that don't necessarily carry well or mean anything over in SoCal.

It's basically an STL dictionary of slang:

STL Lingo

Terminology

1) Tears: To whine, bitch and complain about losing
2) Broom: Winning without losing a round.
3) Mop: Winning but lost 1 round.
4) Squeegie: Winning in the final round
5) Reverse Broom: Being down 2 rounds but winning 3 straight rounds to win.
6) P. Broom: A broom with 1 perfect.
7) Arch Angel: A broom with 2 perfects
8) God Match: A broom with 3 perfects
9) Pod Match: Every round is a perfect for both players.
10) Rapture: Down 2 rounds, but reverse broom with 3 perfect rounds
11) Global Domination: Tekken Tag, winning a round without tagging out.
12) Fluke prove: To claim your loss was a fluke and to prove it you'll beat their ass immediately.
13) Final Mother Fucker: Match going into the final round.
14) Rage tears: Yelling, screaming and being in a state of destructive manner after losing
(Slips)
15) Valid tears: When your reason for tearing is an actual legitimate reason why you lost. (bad eddy)
16) Controller tears: You lost because your controller isn't working right (Tekkenomics and his goombas)
17) Muttering tears: Muttering what your doing or did wrong after losing. (Hatman)
18) Silent tears: When you don't say anything, but we know you're tearing in the inside
19) Gear shifting tears: When you lose and you just walk out and drive home crying (STLBABDOY)
20) You Fucking Suck Match: A match that if you lose, you fucking suck...despite whoever was owning who in previous matches.
21) Retirement Match: Whoever loses must retire the character they are playing. The only way they can play them again is by permission from the person who beat them.
22) Tasty Cake Match: Whoever loses gets served a Tasty Cake.
23) Vortex: When someone has lost and is supposed to get off the machine, but keeps playing anyway.
24) Shenanigans: Using tricks and ghetto strats.
25) Funny Hoppers: Jumping over grounded opponents to do weird shenangians.
26) Cheap: A tactic or move that is good.
27) Don King: To hype up and instigate a match between two players.
28) Clutch: To have a round or match won, but allow your opponent to survive, come
back, and win.
29) Hon-Maru: Hatman's home.
30) Hawaii 50: Beating someone 5-0
31) Humble tears: Saying good games or giving props to your opponent after losing.
32) Decambroom: 10 straight matches with nothing but brooms.
33) Clutch Master: Whoever is most known for clutching the most.
34) Clutch Torch: Whoever is the clutch master, carries the clutch torch.
35) Clutch tape: A video tape which shows the passing of the clutch torch
from Slips to Hatman.

Famous Tears

1) You don't d+1 d+4 your friends: Eggchen would complain about this silly strat in T4 and this was usually his statement. Eventually nobody was friends in STL because everybody did this in
the end.
2) I was trying something new, now I'm gonna try, so you better be ready: What Shaun says after he just lost.
3) Rats in the pinion!: Shin tearing about him clutching or screwing something up.
4) Mashers!: T^5 complaining about someone mashing to win.
5) BULLOCCKS!: Shin tearing after a loss.
6) The game keeps hooking this guy up!: Tensaikun tearing.
7) Throwing out moves like a trained chimp!: Slips tearing about someone throwing
out moves to win.
8) Shitmangodmanfuck!: Kiet tearing with his horrid english.
9) I don't care about those low tier asians!: Yu-Gi-Oh tearing had kicked an arcade machine and scared a Chinese family sitting near by. This was pointed out to him immediatly after and the quote was his response for them to hear.
10) Waiters...May I take your order?: T^5 tearing about turtling.
11) Taking Advantage!: To abuse moves and tactics that the other player hasn't seen before or knows what to do about. (Eggchen)
12) Oh my God such a waste of time!: x0r tearing when he has to wait for scrubs to get beat in order to play again at the arcade.
13) Duckers: T^5 tearing that you are ducking.
14) Flukers: T^5 tearing the last match was a fluke.
15) My hands are cold: Slips tearing about his hands being cold.
16) Julia does ALL the work: T^5 discrediting Slips' Eddy in TTT and tearing that he was able to beat JOP.
17) Luckers: T^5 tearing how you got lucky.
18) Tekken 4 is like the 1800's, there's just horseshit everywhere.: Slips tearing about T4.
19) This is unbelievable. This is UNBELIEVABLE!: Tensaikun tearing
20) You're not worth my time: Yu-Gi-Oh telling Tensaikun that he is not worthy to play him.
21) I'm tired: Mike after losing
22) Oh you want the beat down?: Mark getting ready to 'try' after you beat him.
23) Fucking horseshit!: Slips losing
24) Fuck!...Jesus!...so scrubby, thats SO SCRUBBY!! How good is Brad? SHITTY!!!: Yu-Gi-Oh after losing to Slips' mashing
25) "What was the break for that?" It was a 2. "I BROKE 2!!!!": x0r losing after not breaking a 2 throw
26) I low parri-...I blocked low!: Jody tha Great trying to low parry a non-low parryable move.
27) You wanna bring out your pom poms too?: Unconkable tearing about you routing for the opposing player.
28) I broke the SHIT outta that!: STLBADBOY not breaking a double-breaker throw.
29) Come on God!!!: Eggchen in the midst of a clutch.

The rest at the Myspace because I looked through them and realized that I might get my ass kicked for copying some of that shit onto my blog. Check out STL lingo. Note, these assholes are the reason I say 'hemma' instead of 'hella'

Level|Up Year One: Round 1

All photos taken & © Monique R. Mendoza

On Blast

Sweet body of Christ, this is why I have stuck around on fighting game forums for so long. I feel the need to quote this in the case that it is ever deleted. My God, it is just too delicious. I don't think I should be consuming anything this sweet before bed - it might rot my teeth.

Thank you, GuerillaWarfare on SRK for this:

End of a Legend

TO NAM:
Why do you have no smart ass posts to put up now about WWII Bombs? Because I WWII Bombed your whole crews pockets? With that great English Literature degree you have I’d expect your smart ass to be dropping some serious rhetoric around here. I know you are really upset that you wasted a whole 4 years of your life and nobody wants to hear you talk about the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner or Christabel and you owe your first born child to student loans. I like how you all donated me a free vacation overseas thanks to being stupid. Gimmick’s work once for money and that is why I told you idiots bet $10,000 against me and you wouldn’t. So I took my loot back by exposing your bullshit and still got my money back. Your legend is done now. The almighty has lost. I remember posts of eating expensive dinners and steak, but I know he had a ham sandwich and a cup of noodles for dinner after losing 15+k. So you can have someone edit up a vid of nothing but clockwork wins if it makes you feel better, but that’s not going to make the money comeback. And that Sentinel is a bitch, just look at all the hard work it put in. I know I suck at Mvc2 so me telling someone something should not make a difference in the outcome. I mean according to the hype I’m nothing. What you can do though, now listen really careful…..take one of those WWII bombs…Shine it up real good….Turn that Son Of A Bitch Sideways….And stick it up your candy A$$. Guess who gets the last laugh? It must really hurt to know that you lost in your little video game and in life. If you are really nice, I’ll let you wash my new whip and I’ll pay you $15.37. The 30 cents because you are going to be 30 in a cool minute and still a looser in life and the 7 to give you some good luck. If you take anything personal about what I’m telling you over the computer, just let me know and you can get the Andy treatment if you desire to attempt to throw a lp at me. I get very disrespectful when anyone crosses me….and I don’t forget…anything. YouTube - 50 Cent So Disrespectful + Lyrics I’m international I’m never home man…been gone so long my accent changed. I’m in a tax bracket you are never gonna see BITCH.

Dipset: Talking Gang$ter shit like you touch pies…STFU you AINT never touch pies honestly I think you touch Guys…..Strap for strap toe to toe I don’t give a fuck NIGGA jump like Jack in the Box yall know what’s up niggas.

Where is all the hype? I guess when legends die there is no more talk of them…… To anyone who has shit to say just know that you don’t want to war with me get ya Army up…BO$$ES ONLY TALK TO BO$$ES WAKE WATSON UP…….

Mother of God, I didn't think it would get any better after Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but then it got to the .37 cents and I was dying.

Here is original comment.

Introduction

What I am (not)

When I started this blog a few weeks ago, I wasn't certain exactly what I wanted from it. To give people the impression that I considered myself a gamer would be false. I'm casual like many people - men or women - and like many of them I have systems of which I am fond out of nostalgia. I've had experience with games as a kid so that I can say things like 'I remember when I beat my cousin at a pizza parlor while playing Street Fighter 2 when I picked Chun and he picked Guile.' I remember years later when I picked Dhalsim and he kicked my ass.

I can even say that I put too much money into arcade machines within the last six years when Tekken 5 had come out and I spent money on sticks and watched as the console versions rapidly killed the arcade scene.

But knowing gamers, ones who traveled, who competed, who remembered combos, and who were, for the most part, consistent in their execution, means that I see myself as being something completely different. I cannot comfortably call myself a gamer because when I think of gamers I think of my spouse and our closest friends.

I know what people mean when they say FRC or Burst. I understand what they mean when they say hard slash, or when they say ultra, or when they say just frame. But knowing what they are and performing and wanting to perform are separate.

This brings me to why I would even want to start a blog like this in the first place. This isn't a blog about video games in the sense that you are going to get reviews on games, you're not going to get combo videos linked here (well, maybe) or advice. You can hit up SRK or Zaibatsu for that.

What this is

About the same time that I made this blog, a friend's wife asked me if I played games and I said no. Again, I play games but I just never consider myself a gamer and it's easier to say 'no' than explain to people that for me a gamer is someone who is at a certain skill level or at least has a certain amount of dedication to gaming in general.

Anyway, when I said no, her immediate response was 'How do you put up with it?' My spouse & I consistently discuss this. So many people who had been members of the fighting game community are dropping out as they get older not necessarily because they are not interested in games, but because they have reached a point in their relationships with significant others/spouses in which they have had to put games aside because their partners did not approve of the interest.

Long before Paul & I were married, we had had an understanding that he wanted to travel to tournaments. Agreeing to this wasn't a concession on my part. In fact, I didn't even have to agree to it as though we were working out some bargain. The person I met, the person with whom I fell in love, and many of my friends and even partners before him, is a gamer and just as I have my passions (I traveled halfway across the country to start a new school to work on my PhD), he too has his.

My view on marriage is this: Never get into a marriage or even an engagement unless you have the relationship you want at that very moment.

I wonder how many of our friends were married to people who wanted to change their habits after their vows. The pace at which they stopped playing games after getting married or getting into serious relationships was a fast one. This isn't a comment about women, though it is obvious that in the case of the fighting game community, it is most often men who leave it for their female partners. This isn't even the case with games in general. In fact, it seems that I know more couples who are able to game in certain areas (PC MMORPGs for example) than in say competitive fighting games or competitive FPS tournaments.

So to answer her question on how could I stand his gaming, the answer is this: I love him. I love this interest. I support it & it's a part of who he is & what he loves to do. I'm very into it, not just because of him, but because I get along with so many people in the community and have developed amazing relationships with some of the best people I will ever meet - that anyone will ever meet. I never have to compete with his interests as he does not compete with mine.

Having the experience of being inside the gaming community without actually gaming to the extent that these people do has been interesting. At times it's frustrating because I'd like to put some energy into it and participate, but I also know that I have a tendency to spread myself thin and my ambition is academic related.

So this is a blog about what I see when I'm with my friends & when I'm with my partner & they are gaming. This is a blog about that community, because people really should maintain that community & keep the games they love alive & well. I want to support them in it... and I've got a few SLR cameras & a million blogs for a reason - I want to document everything.

-Monique