Characters or Toons

[Zantetsuken]

If you call it chars "toons" expect to be corrected. Ditto with calling DRG 'goons'. WTF comes up with these stupid terms??

I also cringe at 'DPS'.. because it means 'Damage Per Second'... which tanks, healers, and support classes do as well.

'DD' (Damage Dealer) was what we used in FFXI, and it is a far more accurate term for the role. Sadly though, the 'DPS' train has left the station and it's coded into the game...



But anyone who insists on using the terms 'Toons' or 'Goons' will find themselves company to RMT, gil-sellers, and obnoxious asshats in my /blacklist

[Quesse]

If you call it chars "toons" expect to be corrected. Ditto with calling DRG 'goons'. WTF comes up with these stupid terms??

I also cringe at 'DPS'.. because it means 'Damage Per Second'... which tanks, healers, and support classes do as well.

'DD' (Damage Dealer) was what we used in FFXI, and it is a far more accurate term for the role. Sadly though, the 'DPS' train has left the station and it's coded into the game...



But anyone who insists on using the terms 'Toons' or 'Goons' will find themselves company to RMT, gil-sellers, and obnoxious asshats in my /blacklist

I'm not sure I would blacklist anyone over it but using 'whisper' also gets me. I mean you have to type /tell -- is that hard to get it right? lol

[Archellion]

I'm not sure I would blacklist anyone over it but using 'whisper' also gets me. I mean you have to type /tell -- is that hard to get it right? lol

Well, other online games or services (MMOs, MUDs, MUSHes and BBS chats) have used /whisper for sending private messages to other players/users, so folks using that term were probably influenced by those. Referencing the post you replied to, I think DPS is a perfectly cromulent word because a DPS class is one that specializes in dealing high damage per second. Other classes may have some DPS, (and some DPS classes may have capacity for tanking or healing) but it's not their specialty.

As an old-school PnP RPGer, "character" is my term of choice.

[Zantetsuken]

I'm not sure I would blacklist anyone over it but using 'whisper' also gets me. I mean you have to type /tell -- is that hard to get it right? lol

I wouldn't blacklist someone for unconsciously saying 'toon' (out of habit, for instance), but I would correct them. If they stubbornly insisted on using the term, then they'll get the /blacklist.

Ditto with 'Goon'

'whisper' doesn't bother me as much, but it's not helpful at all to new players who need to get used to /tell.