GamesRadar has come up with an interesting list of Words and Phrases considered to be dirty, rude or just plain taboo in the gaming community. Such terms as Fanboyism, Disc Read Error, Casual Gamer, In Game Advertising and Hard Drives are inlcuded on the unusual but fascinating list.

Nope, not swearwords. We're talking the verbs, nouns and adjectives that strike an irksome chord with every gamer. Companies with notorious histories, cultural watch-words, error messages shared by a generation. These are gaming's dirtiest words...

Fanboys
Gaming culture's trainspotters, commonly spotted engaging in nuclear-strength arguments on comment threads of aggregation sites or forums. Generally split into three camps: Sony soldiers, Xbox zealots or Nintendo nutters. Note: Level of console commitment is inversely proportionate to grammatical and vocabulary ability.

"Did Joey see the new Zelda?"
"No, Frank! He's a Sony fanboy, if you showed him that he'd be physically sick!"

Disc Read Error
Common PSone/PS2 error message euphemism loosely translated as "rub the disc a bit with your jumper, turn your console upside down, try again and pray really, really hard".

"Why's your console perched upside down on the cat at a 45 degree angle, Tom?"
"Disc Read Error"

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