{"id":7529,"date":"2005-02-14T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T17:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/02\/14\/gamerspeak.html"},"modified":"2005-02-14T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T17:44:32","slug":"gamerspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/14\/gamerspeak.html","title":{"rendered":"Gamerspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three useful abbreviations\/text short cuts\/terms to enhance your online play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>aggro<\/strong>:  Aggression\/attention from the bad guys.  Presumably this holds true in other online games, too, but in CoH, aggro refers to the focused aggression that the bad guys place on someone based on their actions toward them (varying from walking too close to actually doing them damage).  So, for example, an area-of-effect attack like a fireball will damage several bad guys &#8212; and draw their aggro, which means they&#8217;ll all be coming after you, which is one reason why AoE attacks are a mixed blessing unless the bad guys are all seriously mixed up with more attractive or irritating targets.  This is a big lesson for blaster\/controller characters to learn in CoH.\n<li><strong>BRB<\/strong>:  Be Right Back. The person sending the message has to leave the keyboard and go do something, usually brief.  Not be a texting\/SMS\/online-gaming sort of person, I&#8217;ve always pooh-poohed these shortcuts, until I had to use them.  When you get really lazy, you start dropping the capital letters (&#8220;brb&#8221;).  Given that my gaming sessions usually take second place to taking care of the immediate family needs, I use this particular acronym a <em>lot.<\/em><\/p>\n<li><strong>AFK<\/strong>:  Away From Keyboard.  Like BRB, only more of a status, not an intention, and often longer-term.<\/ul>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unseen.net\/coh\/faq.php\" target=\"_blank\">many<\/a> others, some in common with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheatsearch.com\/mmorpg\/daoc\/midglossary.html\" target=\"_blank\">other<\/a> online games, but these were three that came to mind for no particular reason.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three useful abbreviations\/text short cuts\/terms to enhance your online play: aggro: Aggression\/attention from the bad guys. Presumably this holds true in other online games, too, but in CoH, aggro refers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/sitting_pretty.html","url_meta":{"origin":7529,"position":0},"title":"Sitting pretty","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jan-06 5:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kaylee helps Margie with CoH. this post enabled by airblogging.com....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gaming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/25157500a7.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/the_only_gaming.html","url_meta":{"origin":7529,"position":1},"title":"The only gaming forum post you will ever need to read","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Apr-05 10:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here. 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