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Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 2,437
Kiandoshia Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic Likes received: 2,437	#1 - 2012-04-01 13:17:51 UTC 2 Topic title? I remember a similar term, maybe the same, from the time when I used to play FPS games a lot. People would call random people on public server pubbies... Also, in before someone answers: 'You!' =p

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Farrisen MoaR ChickeN Likes received: 75	#2 - 2012-04-01 13:18:53 UTC 1 Kiandoshia wrote: Topic title? I remember a similar term, maybe the same, from the time when I used to play FPS games a lot. People would call random people on public server pubbies... Also, in before someone answers: 'You!' =p Goons http://i.imgur.com/DWBuV.png Originally by: CCP Spitfire: It's because of falcon.

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Alara IonStorm Likes received: 5,477	#3 - 2012-04-01 13:19:12 UTC Anyone who isn't a Goon.

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Jada Maroo Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic Likes received: 1,411	#4 - 2012-04-01 13:20:39 UTC 2 You'll find out when you turn 12 or 13.

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#5 - 2012-04-01 13:20:45 UTC

Kiandoshia wrote:

Topic title?

I remember a similar term, maybe the same, from the time when I used to play FPS games a lot. People would call random people on public server pubbies...

Also, in before someone answers: 'You!' =p

its a term commonly used for goon swarm members who've yet to reach level 85 on world of warcraft iirc

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Kiandoshia Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic Likes received: 2,437	#6 - 2012-04-01 13:23:09 UTC Ah, I was under the impression that anyone who is not in any 0.0 alliance is a pubbie, simply because I thought it actually came from this FPS term... Why will I understand when I become 12 or 13?

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Keen Fallsword Skyway Patrol Likes received: 145	#7 - 2012-04-01 13:27:41 UTC CCP ally is a pubbie too


Kiandoshia Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic Likes received: 2,437	#8 - 2012-04-01 13:31:08 UTC Who is not a pubbie?

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Black Dranzer Likes received: 398	#9 - 2012-04-01 13:31:41 UTC 2 I've always understood "pubbie" to mean "anybody in an NPC corp". All you really need to know is that it's a derogatory term for somebody of perceived insignificance. Walking in Stations as a Social Hub: Business vs Pleasure in Incarna

Ioci

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#10 - 2012-04-01 13:32:44 UTC

Kiandoshia wrote:

Ah, I was under the impression that anyone who is not in any 0.0 alliance is a pubbie, simply because I thought it actually came from this FPS term...

Why will I understand when I become 12 or 13?

The origin is what you thought it was.
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I'd be a "pubbie" if it came down to it. Not tied to any NAP train, with no allegiances. Chribba being a notorious Pubbie. Nobody calls him one though because it might come back to bite them in the ass. Most of us "pubbies" are no threat. None at all.. never will be.

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Kiandoshia Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic Likes received: 2,437	#11 - 2012-04-01 13:33:16 UTC \| Edited by: Kiandoshia I imagined as much. Hey, I am a pubbie too =p


Keen Fallsword Skyway Patrol Likes received: 145	#12 - 2012-04-01 13:39:31 UTC If we can form "Pubbies Nation" we are not longer pubbies ? :)

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Kattshiro Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State Likes received: 109	#13 - 2012-04-01 13:41:33 UTC Pubbie comes from fps games to mean public. Use to be PUG... Pick up group. as in "I was just fooling around on a PUG server" As opposed to clan server.

Vyl Vit

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#14 - 2012-04-01 14:14:56 UTC | Edited by: Vyl Vit

It's an idiotic nickname the leader of the Goons endorsed for use by his mindless minions intended as a pejorative term for anyone but them...as though that's pejorative. You get this sort of thing from people who don't have the sense to recognize they generally have bad ideas, and should stick to naming their dogs "Fido", or "Spot". Either that, or wear a flourescent orange "I" on their backs to signify "idiot" so the general public doesn't have to wait to find out. (PUG still means PUG. No one gave anyone permission to change that one.)

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SirMille

Sigma Kid Protection Services

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#15 - 2012-04-01 14:23:29 UTC | Edited by: SirMille

Anyone who is not a memeber of the SomethingAwful.com forums. If you pay your $10 to Lowtax you are a goon, if you don't you are a pubbie. Depending on context it can be a term of endearment or as something akin to a derogatory slur. It's usage began outside this game.

Term of endearment example (except in the case of WIdot and Amok.):
Contrary to popular belief, a large portion of the GSF membercorps are in fact not goons, but pubbies.

Derogatory slur:
You're all pubbies.

Grumpy Owly

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Amarr Empire

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#16 - 2012-04-01 14:27:03 UTC

EvECynicalWiki wrote:

Pubbie is a code word issued to players by CFC members so that active forum harrassment can be applied to them, sometimes in the form of threadnaught type behaviour. Otherwise it is a derogatory term used as an insult simply to avoid issues in the belief they can arrogantly dismiss arguments without addressing the topic material presented. It has been unoffically linked to any CFC eugenics policies at this time.

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Machiavellian Space Bastards 28,489
Jonah Gravenstein Machiavellian Space Bastards Likes received: 28,489	#17 - 2012-04-01 14:28:48 UTC << Pubbie and proud of it In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. New Player FAQ Feyd's Survival Pack


SirMille Sigma Kid Protection Services Likes received: 17	#18 - 2012-04-01 14:29:10 UTC 2 Just like you use the word Goon as a dismissive term for our opinions, ideals, and beliefs, we use pubbie in much the same way. Grumpy Owly is an example of a special subtype of pubbie, known as publord.

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Spy 21 Doomheim Likes received: 234	#19 - 2012-04-01 14:32:45 UTC +1 just for the topic Thread disappoints though with only 1 solid reference to short curly things Obfuscation for the WIN on page 3...