Beamer wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 18:42:

Prez wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 12:53:

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 12:43:
If Stellar Blade is a "gooner" game, I wonder what they call the actual "adult" games -- oh I don't know like "Leap of Faith" for example.

A person who would unironically use the term "gooner" in conversation would likely call the eldritch horrors on Steam that pass for "adult" terrifying. 😁

You don't interact much with people under 30, huh? Haha

Well, whatever, Skibidi Toilet and Strawberry Sigma Rizz.

Well to be fair I don't interact directly much with anyone. I talk to some (greenhorn whippersnappers who need a damn haircut need to stay off my damn lawn...) but I always just listen and observe when I'm trying to learn the lingo. Kinda like an Atkinson-voiced wild animal documentary where animals are silently observed in their natural habitat. 😀

Prez wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 12:53:

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 12:43:
If Stellar Blade is a "gooner" game, I wonder what they call the actual "adult" games -- oh I don't know like "Leap of Faith" for example.

A person who would unironically use the term "gooner" in conversation would likely call the eldritch horrors on Steam that pass for "adult" terrifying. 😁

You don't interact much with people under 30, huh? Haha

Prez wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 11:31:

Also wondering whenabouts the term "gooner" became popular. But I'm pretty out of touch with online communities.

It originated in England as a term for specific futbol fans in the 2010's. Today, (from 2020-ish onward) it's an online term meant as a lighthearted insult/ribbing between guys referring to their inflated sexual appetites.

Thanks, Prez!

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 14, 2025, 12:43:
If Stellar Blade is a "gooner" game, I wonder what they call the actual "adult" games -- oh I don't know like "Leap of Faith" for example.

A person who would unironically use the term "gooner" in conversation would likely call the eldritch horrors on Steam that pass for "adult" terrifying. 😁

If Stellar Blade is a "gooner" game, I wonder what they call the actual "adult" games -- oh I don't know like "Leap of Faith" for example.

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jun 13, 2025, 20:42:
My brothers kid called this game a Gooner game, I had to google it. I am fucking old.

Ohh that little shit had better not be talking about the Goonies. The Ultimate Pirate movie. like were there even hot chicks in that movie? Lost Boiz was so much better.

Are the writers and editors at PC Gamer 14yo's? "Gooner" game?

Or is it a bunch of guys lamenting their long lost youth and desperately trying to look young and cool to gamers? There is definitely some skibidi Ohio rizz going on in those Stellar Blade mods, no cap.

EDIT: Oh and to save the 30+ crowd the trouble and confusion of looking it up and finding different definitions in different locations, in this context it is a term applied to socially awkward under-sexed males obsessed with bewbs and butts.

Also wondering whenabouts the term "gooner" became popular. But I'm pretty out of touch with online communities.

It originated in England as a term for specific futbol fans in the 2010's. Today, (from 2020-ish onward) it's an online term meant as a lighthearted insult/ribbing between guys referring to their inflated sexual appetites.

Linguistics and the origin of colloquialisms and slang are fascinating to me, in case you're wondering why an uncool old dude knows this. 😁
This comment was edited on Jun 14, 2025, 12:44.

On brand for PC Gamer to essentially "insult" gamers and close the comment section to not get their feelyweelies hurt.

Also wondering whenabouts the term "gooner" became popular. But I'm pretty out of touch with online communities.

Not even sure how the term gooner came about. And yea I’m old enough to have confused it with the Goonies movie as well.

My brothers kid called this game a Gooner game, I had to google it. I am fucking old.

Ohh that little shit had better not be talking about the Goonies. The Ultimate Pirate movie. like were there even hot chicks in that movie? Lost Boiz was so much better.