# Strange Things Gamers Say **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 25, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208 "2019-02-25T22:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/1 "2019-02-25T22:05:03Z")
For years now, my wife and I have been noticing that there are phrases that make absolutely NO sense to anyone who isn’t a gamer. Taken out of context, they’re gibberish at best, and can go all the way to deeply disturbing. For instance: “You finished your tree!” “Just jump into that thing that looks like an asshole” “I shouldn’t have eaten that glowing thing.” “Do you want to get shot in the head? Because that’s how you get shot in the head!” My personal favorite: “Congrats! You haven’t wiped in like, two weeks!” So, what have you said while gaming which would make a mother clutch her small child to her breast and run? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/2 "2019-02-25T22:34:50Z")
“You know you can kill the hooker and you get your money back, right? Yeah, just have sex with her then let her run out of the car and run her over.” “You gotta snipe 'em in the head if you want to save ammo.” “I like the way the fire spreads from his body to the surroundings after he dies.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/3 "2019-02-25T22:38:12Z")
“You only took that level in Druid so you could grow your own weed!” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/4 "2019-02-25T22:42:14Z")
I feel like I’m on a goddamned escort quest. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/5 "2019-02-25T22:44:37Z")
some more: “I swear that space goat must be tripping!” "Of course you’re walking slowly! You’re carrying like 50 cheese wheels. Either eat the damn things or throw them off a cliff already!: “Don’t L.O.S. my Beewee!” “My Pally got nerfed and my AOEs are all jacked!” I love the acronyms. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/6 "2019-02-25T23:37:22Z")
“Don’t stand in the stupid!” “Stop standing in the stupid!” “If you keep standing in the stupid, I’m not going to rez you again!” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/7 "2019-02-26T02:00:43Z")
Stay back, don’t facetank you noob. I’ll get the adds, focus on the boss. Taunt if you lose aggro, maybe you need to focus more on DPS. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/8 "2019-02-26T02:42:29Z")
Dammit! You’ve become addicted to buff out again, damn junkie! Check your pipboy to see the effects of withdrawal. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/9 "2019-02-26T03:20:14Z")
“You run in first, then I’ll nuke the mobs.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/10 "2019-02-26T05:26:22Z")
It’s been a long time since I played a role-playing game, but I follow Ursula Vernon on Twitter, and on some Monday night’s she’ll tweek her current gaming session. This week led off with a bang. Of sorts. > [@](#): > > D&D Night, and there’s a Otyugh. Unfortunately for everyone, BUFFALO has that Druid level… > BUFFALO: They eat shit. I’m gonna bribe it. > PARTY: … > BUFFALO: I am a large herbivore. What? > PARTY: … ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/11 "2019-02-26T05:51:24Z")
Otyughs are the best. Somewhere, I read an account of a party who decided to negotiate with an otyugh, and one of the party members cast Tongues on himself, so he could converse with it. PC: “Hi, there!” Otyugh: “I like poop. Do you have poop?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/12 "2019-02-26T19:01:18Z")
Playing a game of Magic, Commander style, I said to a buddy… “Guess you should have plowed your mom before I enslaved her.” (For the uninitiated, mom is Mother of Runes, a creature, plow is Swords to Plowshares, a spell to removes creatures, and enslave is well, Enslave, a spell that steals creatures.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/13 "2019-02-26T19:04:25Z")
“Just jump into that thing that looks like an asshole” I’m pretty sure that one didn’t originate with gamers. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/14 "2019-02-27T02:09:46Z")
“Just kill him, he’ll respawn.” “I’m farming for drops.” “You can use sunglasses to repair your helmet.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/15 "2019-02-27T03:26:39Z")
My daughter was nine, and had been playing in my D&D campaign for a year, so she understood all about the classes & races & stuff. She was working on a project for school and walked in to ask me a question… Daughter: What do they call those people who live in forests and take care of the trees? Me: Druids. Daughter: [eyeroll] I mean in the _real world?_ Me: Oh. … Rangers. Daughter. FINE! I’ll go look it up myself. _exit stage right_ Me; No, really, Park rangers, forest rangers, that’s why they… never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/16 "2019-02-27T04:06:39Z")
“So I pickpocketed him and put a live grenade in his pants.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/17 "2019-02-27T04:52:42Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > “So I pickpocketed him and put a live grenade in his pants.” I’ve known non-gamers who might say that. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/18 "2019-02-27T08:08:46Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > “So I pickpocketed him and put a live grenade in his pants.” How many pants have you exploded? ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/19 "2019-02-27T08:12:15Z")
Speaking of pants… “We’ve got pants, now we need guns. Lots of guns.” ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208/20 "2019-02-28T00:59:40Z")
Heard during many a game of Nuclear War (and its expansions): “Anyone got change for 20 million people?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-things-gamers-say/830208.md?page=2)