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Older people of lemmy what is some nuance sayings or typed on the net that you would like to have explained to you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

You can't find a single example from r/Overwatch? You're not looking very hard then:

"Jump scare at the end of POG" "Supports almost never get POG, now we don't even get a card at the end of the match." "First POG is match POG" "We want to talk after the PoG" "This guy's whole team left after the first round so we gave him POG..." "Behind every Rein Pog is a support going through a rollercoaster of emotions" "I remember when PoG was tweaked for assist points and every pog was Mercy rezzing two people and dying." "My friends and I have always called it POG. Not sure why but its what we do. I guess thats where it came from"

In fact, the large majority of the use of "pog" refers to Play Of Game and not hype. I did notice that this usage is more common in the last 4 years, while pogchamp is mostly used 4-7 years ago. The earliest upvoted usage of POG I can find there is "Taking Trobjorn and Bastion POG into a new dimension." from 8 years ago though, so it was used contemporaneously with PogChamp.

POTG is definitely much more popular there, but saying the POG usage doesn't exists is just wrong.

Also, news organizations have a horrendous record with slang, that's terrible evidence. Especially when your source is a 404.

Besides, I can get spurious souces too (and they work!):

"POG" an overused term on twitch that means "Play of Game" Woah, that was pog. by SSR Rules September 23, 2020