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As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough.

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  As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-23 11:20 -0400
    Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-05-24 00:15 +0000
    Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-05-23 17:58 -0700
    Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. Steven Thomsen-Jones <pika.banyan7805@eagereverest.com> - 2024-05-24 13:56 +0200
      Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-05-24 09:48 -0400
        Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2024-05-24 10:22 -0500
          Re: As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-05-24 22:31 +0000

#45772 — As if the GIF-wars weren't bad enough.

Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.

Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
it that much sweeter ;-P






* https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859

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#45782

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:20 this Thursday (GMT):
>
> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
>
> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
> it that much sweeter ;-P
>
>
>
>
>
>
> * https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859


I kinda go back and forth on it.. tho I really go back and forth on a
lot of word pronunciation.
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#45790

On 5/23/2024 8:20 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
> 
> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
> it that much sweeter ;-P
> 
Chunks.

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#45798

On 5/23/24 17:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
> 
> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
> it that much sweeter ;-P
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> * https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859


I'm with Romero on this one, but I guess only because I've always 
assumed it was a shortening of giblets. Or did we start out using the 
full word originally? My fading memory has not the answer. Does make it 
harder to say "Get Gibbed" as you jump through a teleporter though I 
suppose. Although "Gib on this" as you fire a rocket launcher has a nice 
cadence.

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#45805

On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:56:21 +0200, Steven Thomsen-Jones
<pika.banyan7805@eagereverest.com> wrote:

>On 5/23/24 17:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> 
>> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
>> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
>> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
>> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
>> 
>> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
>> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
>> it that much sweeter ;-P
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> * https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
>
>
>I'm with Romero on this one, but I guess only because I've always 
>assumed it was a shortening of giblets. Or did we start out using the 
>full word originally? My fading memory has not the answer. Does make it 
>harder to say "Get Gibbed" as you jump through a teleporter though I 
>suppose. Although "Gib on this" as you fire a rocket launcher has a nice 
>cadence.

I recall it as being 'gibs' from the start. I first encountered this
word on this very newsgroup, and remember trying to decipher what they
meant (in fairness, it didn't take me very long but there was that
moment of unfamiliarity).

In actual use, I tend to use both interchangably and without much
rhyme or reason. If I blow you up into bouncing blobs, I'll probably
say I 'jibbed' you... but the individual blobs? Those are ghibs to me.

Unless they're not. Like I said, I'm not that consistent with the
word.

But my 'official' head-canon pronunciation is hard-g 'ghibs'. 

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#45809

On Fri, 24 May 2024 09:48:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

>On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:56:21 +0200, Steven Thomsen-Jones
><pika.banyan7805@eagereverest.com> wrote:
>
>>On 5/23/24 17:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gibs... those bloody bits of flesh that fly across the screen after
>>> you kill an enemy in a game. Is it "ghibs" or "jibs"? John Romero*
>>> takes it upon himself to answer the question nobody cared to ask, and
>>> says it's the latter. It derives from 'giblets', he says.
>>> 
>>> Which makes sense, but I don't care. In my head, I'll always pronounce
>>> it hard-g gibs. That it's in opposition to what Romero says only makes
>>> it that much sweeter ;-P
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * https://x.com/romero/status/1793226182889967859
>>
>>
>>I'm with Romero on this one, but I guess only because I've always 
>>assumed it was a shortening of giblets. Or did we start out using the 
>>full word originally? My fading memory has not the answer. Does make it 
>>harder to say "Get Gibbed" as you jump through a teleporter though I 
>>suppose. Although "Gib on this" as you fire a rocket launcher has a nice 
>>cadence.
>
>I recall it as being 'gibs' from the start. I first encountered this
>word on this very newsgroup, and remember trying to decipher what they
>meant (in fairness, it didn't take me very long but there was that
>moment of unfamiliarity).
>
>In actual use, I tend to use both interchangably and without much
>rhyme or reason. If I blow you up into bouncing blobs, I'll probably
>say I 'jibbed' you... but the individual blobs? Those are ghibs to me.
>
>Unless they're not. Like I said, I'm not that consistent with the
>word.
>
>But my 'official' head-canon pronunciation is hard-g 'ghibs'. 
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Jethro_Gibbs

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#45817

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Jethro_Gibbs

Leroy Jenkins!!!!!!!! Oh wrong, Leroy. :P
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