One should think twice before calling him/herself a noob

[nosisab]

Noob or N00B is a term "coined" to name the individual that never enhances, aways and ever depends on others... that never leaves the newbie 'status'.

He/she is that than will not do anything for him/herself and believe others exist to do everything for him/her.

 

And so, the noob is an assumed bloodsucker, consciously or not, since most noob will never recognize he/she is one, most will not even have the acknowledge of it.

 

It is this way since long ago... came from the gaming world where some newbies stood out as eternal ones, is the one that never contributed in an alliance, but was aways calling for help with resources and/or defense, most of the times bringing doom to the whole group.

 

Think if you want to be known as one.

[dezdimona]

Life is a learning process and we all learn

[humanbean234]

That's why I typically use the term 'neophyte' instead, though most people whose online communications are in leet would struggle with such a word.

IMO, using the word "n00b" in one's communiques makes the user look like a "dw33b" to me.

[Deleted269910User]

Both of you have points, but there is also something called "natural talent", which some people simply lack for gaming example. This leads to the "permanent" noobs, who are too stubborn to take advice from the naturals, to improve them, but also noobs are having a "merging" phase currently with lots of people being called "retards" aswell, due to them being simply unable to comprehend even the smallest bit of advice etc.

 

The entire noob -term wasn't as largely used as it is now, after World of Warcraft.(I am not saying it didn't exist before that, it did and was semi-largely used.) The simple growth of the use of the term is also causing the word to become more universal, lacking with meaning and heavy prejudices towards people marked as such. Sometimes it is more than warranted for, but not always and this warning has it's merit for people not to start calling themselves total noobs. If you're a total "noob", you will know by the sheer masses of people telling you so, but taking on the "burden" because you yourself started it, isn't always that wise. As long you're willing to learn and adapt, you can avoid a permanent noob label.

 

edit;HB managed to post before me. xD At the start, I'm referring to Dezi's small comment and nosisab's post.

[nosisab]

I don't really meant to create a polemic... it's the history of the term... used purposefully as a pejorative for those persons that don't want to learn, that think themselves important enough to make others do their biddings.

[dezdimona]

that think themselves important enough to make others do their biddings.

where I come from we call that just plain ole lazy :biggrin:

[Blacksnake89]

That's why I typically use the term 'neophyte' instead, though most people whose online communications are in leet would struggle with such a word.

IMO, using the word "n00b" in one's communiques makes the user look like a "dw33b" to me.

I prefer the term rookie for people who are new but show potential.

 

As Elraine put it some people have natural talent. Not trying to sound arrogant but that's me. Then there are some who have no talent. To me the difference between a rookie and and a noob is they are both inexperianced with a particular game and how it works. The noob refuses to acknowledge they suck and aren't improving, getting stuck in the same cycle of losing. They refuse to take advice or constructive criticism often flying into a rage when told they need to improve. The rookie sees that they aren't as good as the others and tries to improve and accepts advice or constructive criticism.

 

My competitive online game of choice is Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360. When I picked up the game I was rocking heads since the lowly lvl 1. I often was in the top 3 either of my team or the match itself. You ccould say I had natural talent for the game. My buddy and clansmen Pag4n however sucked when he started, often averaging more deaths than kills. Now he's quite possibly my equal. My RL friend Chris thinks he's hot sh** at the game. He's always bragging "Oh yeah I went 30-2 lastnight. People were cussing me out." When Pag4n plays 1-on-1 with Chris he lays him out. Chris' tactic is to just run in shooting like he's playing Halo which gets him killed when he's playing against a tactical gamer like myself or Pag4n.

 

When I tell Chris what he's doing wrong he just responds with you/your friend is cheating, you won because you were camping, this game is stupid, you only won because you were using [insert gun name here].

 

To me that is the differance between a noob and a rookie.

[Thor.]

I usually use the term amature myself, i think noob sounds kind of geeky.

[antonkr]

wow great post. you got kudo for that one

[nosisab]

I agree with the several 'good' meanings for the beginner, even the newbie, since everyone will be one at least once in every situation, game or any other thing we do for the first time. The sorries are only for those that never improves (and the others worser characteristics). For them the word N00b was tenderly 'created' :)