The Picard Maneuver to Microblog [email protected]English • 17 days agoAny ideas?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square359fedilinkarrow-up1805arrow-down1122
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minus-squareNostraDavidlinkEnglish4•16 days agoThe World of Warcraft term, or the gay community term? Important distinction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agoBoth. The WoW term (which is actually from Ultima Online originally) comes from the queer term.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agowikipedia appears to say twinks are only accidentally privileged
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agoMost people in WoW and Souls games use it to mean someone who purposely remains lower level but gets better gear. Ie. Staying under a soul level to PvP with a certain level of player using late game gear. (PvP in Souls games is based on soul level brackets)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agoI just discovered words can have multiple different meanings
The World of Warcraft term, or the gay community term? Important distinction.
Both. The WoW term (which is actually from Ultima Online originally) comes from the queer term.
???
wikipedia appears to say twinks are only accidentally privileged
Most people in WoW and Souls games use it to mean someone who purposely remains lower level but gets better gear.
Ie. Staying under a soul level to PvP with a certain level of player using late game gear. (PvP in Souls games is based on soul level brackets)
I just discovered words can have multiple different meanings