Gaming pet-peeves

[zmaster18]

Personally?  I hate it when people say Po-ker-mon or Poke-E-mon, it's Poh-kay-mon.

Whassat? Some a them Poke-uh-man cards??

I say Poke-uh-mon. Poke-eh-mon is my second choice. Poke-eee-mon sounds dumb.

I hate when people call Ryu from Street Fighter Rye-you. It's Ree-yu.

Also hate when noobs think that Kirby in Smash Bros is also a Pokemon.

[Zycrow]

Imma make some ray-men noodles and play me some ninja gay-den.

[zmaster18]

Imma make some ray-men noodles and play me some ninja gay-den.

I hate when people say Ninja Gay-den. It's wrong!!!!!!!!! FamiCON??? It's FamiCOM

[Protoman]

I hate when people say Mario like "Mary-o"...

But my biggest pet peeve, with retro gaming at least, is one-hit-kills.

[P]

It's [Po ke mo n] and first "o" has identical qualities as the second "o". They both sounds like the "a" in the word "all" just a bit shorter (same goes for Mario). Everything else sounds dumb.

In dubbed street fighter anime they pronounce Ryu as Raiyu (which is of course not even close). I guess that's where the weird pronunciations came from.

[M-Tee]

Getting upset that people from different cultures mispronounce loan words and foreign names is a pretty culturally insensitive thing to do.  Especially considering that:

• many of the words were not accompanied by any official audio for the first few years of their introduction
  
• when "official" audio did hit, it often contradicted itself
  
• even famous historical figures, geo-political entities, and celebrities have drastically different pronunciations in different languages and even dialects.
  
  How do you pronounce Van Gogh? Because, unless you're Dutch or South African, I doubt it's the same way he would have. I also doubt he would have pronounced your name the same way you do. So no harm, no foul.
  
  Maybe it's working in a heavily international office setting for the last 5 years, but I always find these "OMG, you're pronouncing it wrong!" conversations to be rather tiresome.
  
  

[Zycrow]

Maybe it's working in a heavily international office setting with for the last 5 years, but I always find these "OMG, you're pronouncing it wrong!" conversations to be rather tiresome.

A guy I know would always correct people pronouncing Genghis Khan the way most people (starting with a hard "G"), insisting on the "correct" way (starting with a "J" sound).

He may have been right but he wasn't much fun to be around

[zxin]

Also hate when noobs think that Kirby in Smash Bros is also a Pokemon.

Oh. My. God.

It's [Po ke mo n] and first "o" has identical qualities as the second "o". They both sounds like the "a" in the word "all" just a bit shorter (same goes for Mario). Everything else sounds dumb.

"Pokémon (ポケモン Pokemon?, /ˈpoʊkeɪmɒn/ poh-kay-mon)"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon
I *think that you may be mistaken.

When people call Link 'Zelda'. T_T

*You are totally wrong.

[StJackie]

PC gamer here... Biggest pet peeve used to be laggers..

[zxin]

PC gamer here... Biggest pet peeve used to be laggers..

And lag. I'm also a PC gamer, but retro consoles are cool.

[StJackie]

PC gamer here... Biggest pet peeve used to be laggers..

And lag. I'm also a PC gamer, but retro consoles are cool.

Well lag is more like hell

[P]

It's [Po ke mo n] and first "o" has identical qualities as the second "o". They both sounds like the "a" in the word "all" just a bit shorter (same goes for Mario). Everything else sounds dumb.

"Pokémon (ポケモン Pokemon?, /ˈpoʊkeɪmɒn/ poh-kay-mon)"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon
I *think that you may be mistaken.

Nope Wikipedia is mistaken. Or actually they probably just included the common North American pronunciation as an alternative to the original Japanese pronounciation.
ポケモン (in Japanese) is not pronounced /ˈpoʊkeɪmɒn/ but /pokemon/.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Japanese

[UglyJoe]

The Japanese pronunciation certainly sounds like "poh" to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbrbpqs11gw 

[P]

I don't know how poh is pronounced but it sounds like po (no diphthong) to me.

I hate when people call Ryu from Street Fighter Rye-you. It's Ree-yu.

It's not Reeyu either actually. There's no vowel in-between the consonants R and Y. Depending on your mother tongue it may feel a bit awkward to say though (it was for me until I got used to it).

[UglyJoe]

I don't know how poh is pronounced but it sounds like po (no diphthong) to me.

I meant it like the "po" that's in the word "poker".  You had said earlier: "They both sounds like the "a" in the word "all" just a bit shorter", which doesn't seem right to me for a Japanese "po" ("pa", yes, but not "po").  I'm starting to think I missed a joke somewhere

Never heard 'DS Phat' before, sounds kind-of dumb, like calling the Xbox One the X-Bone. (Which sounds wrong on so many levels.)

I call it "DS Phat' since saying "the original DS" has a diluted meaning now that there are so many DS/3DS models.  I think it was originally just a sort of antonym for "DS Lite".  Not sure why it took on the "phat" spelling instead of the "fat" spelling.

I hate when people call Ryu from Street Fighter Rye-you. It's Ree-yu.

I totally called him Rye-you growing up.  I say Ree-yu  (technically Ryu, like P said) now, but I'll occasionally still call him Rye-you depending on who I'm playing it with.