I'm actually trying to keep the paroxysming to a minimum, but...
I realize it's a thing, especially in these days, to take a word, any word, and simply adapt it to mean something other than its intended usage, and it drives me crazy. And the worst part - you can't track it to its source, and even if you do, the best you'll get is a shrug from whomever started it.
Let's start with "Emergent".. it's meaning is: "in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent."
We talk about "Emergent Content", though we typically mean "Forced PvP", be it a simple attempt to relieve someone of their cargo, or simply to blow someone up and tell them they're not good enough.
But this isn't "in the process of coming in to being" - it's long been a staple of the game. NPC's have been interdicting people since they first flew out of their first station. And they've been blowing people up just as long. There's nothing new here, and it isn't "becoming prominent", it's always been there. Our randomly generated missions are more "emergent", as they are "coming into being" every time we visit a mission board.
Elite is an Emergent game, as it continues to change as we continue to play, with new content, new features, and old content and features being expanded upon with each new update. That's Emergent. Bothering someone else simply because you can is not.
Then there's "Immersion", defined as "deep mental involvement." This is what happens when you're engaged in playing, happen to notice that it's 10:00pm, and think "I'll just finish delivering this, and go to bed." only to find out, after you log off, that it's now 1:15am and you simply cannot fathom how it could have taken 3 hours and 15 minutes to travel 3 jumps and turn in a mission. It is broken when your (wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/otherfriend) walks in to your computer area wearing their "Play With Me" outfit and takes off your VR headset so you can see them. It's broken when the power fails, someone breaks in, or life otherwise intrudes on your "you time".
It isn't broken by any mechanics of the game, be it that multicrew doesn't conform to what you wanted it to be, or by someone who spent 100 hours for that perfectly min-maxed result on the frag cannon one-shots your Cutter. If playing the game somehow prevents you from achieving a state of "deep mental involvement", then you were never "Immersed" in the first place.
The misuse of language isn't "cool", "hip" or "fun". It's an emergent trait, born of the internet, that breaks my life-immersion, and it sounds silly.
There... it feels good to get that off my chest. Anybody else want to share something you hear regularly that simply makes you paroxysmistic?
I realize it's a thing, especially in these days, to take a word, any word, and simply adapt it to mean something other than its intended usage, and it drives me crazy. And the worst part - you can't track it to its source, and even if you do, the best you'll get is a shrug from whomever started it.
Let's start with "Emergent".. it's meaning is: "in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent."
We talk about "Emergent Content", though we typically mean "Forced PvP", be it a simple attempt to relieve someone of their cargo, or simply to blow someone up and tell them they're not good enough.
But this isn't "in the process of coming in to being" - it's long been a staple of the game. NPC's have been interdicting people since they first flew out of their first station. And they've been blowing people up just as long. There's nothing new here, and it isn't "becoming prominent", it's always been there. Our randomly generated missions are more "emergent", as they are "coming into being" every time we visit a mission board.
Elite is an Emergent game, as it continues to change as we continue to play, with new content, new features, and old content and features being expanded upon with each new update. That's Emergent. Bothering someone else simply because you can is not.
Then there's "Immersion", defined as "deep mental involvement." This is what happens when you're engaged in playing, happen to notice that it's 10:00pm, and think "I'll just finish delivering this, and go to bed." only to find out, after you log off, that it's now 1:15am and you simply cannot fathom how it could have taken 3 hours and 15 minutes to travel 3 jumps and turn in a mission. It is broken when your (wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/otherfriend) walks in to your computer area wearing their "Play With Me" outfit and takes off your VR headset so you can see them. It's broken when the power fails, someone breaks in, or life otherwise intrudes on your "you time".
It isn't broken by any mechanics of the game, be it that multicrew doesn't conform to what you wanted it to be, or by someone who spent 100 hours for that perfectly min-maxed result on the frag cannon one-shots your Cutter. If playing the game somehow prevents you from achieving a state of "deep mental involvement", then you were never "Immersed" in the first place.
The misuse of language isn't "cool", "hip" or "fun". It's an emergent trait, born of the internet, that breaks my life-immersion, and it sounds silly.
There... it feels good to get that off my chest. Anybody else want to share something you hear regularly that simply makes you paroxysmistic?
