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hello my name is cordy :)

here's a pinned post to list my interests/fandoms/blog tags

i'd love for you to treat my blog like a little library and pilfer through my tagged posts of your favourite medias :)) vvvvv

#cordyposting

hometoursandotherstuff

#they should let you take that home and 3d print it or something #misc #art

taylorshipsailor

Ace Attorney chibis I made for funsies :3

#you should sell these as a sticker sheet these are awesome #aa #aa2 #aai #aa4 #aa5

manaohu

#ze #vlr

moontidecanvas

playing 428 shibuya scramble and from 12:00-14:00 while achi was thinking otherwise i was distracted by what i thought was some bizarre homewrecker plot going on

#428

ev-arrested

Some assistance, Fräulein?

#aa #aa4

sophie-baybey

rarsonic

If my understanding is correct, the term "frag" originates from Vietnam war times, and it did have to do with frag grenades. Specifically, disgruntled conscripts attempting to kill their superiors feigning misaimed grenade throws.

The way it arrived to competitive multiplayer gaming was during the development of Doom, wherein purposeful friendly fire kills in co-op mode were called "frags" informally, and through metonymy it came to mean kills in PvP modes.

open-sketchbook

oops my special interest has been activated

'fragging' is the colloquialism for troops attacking their superiors in the vietnam war (not just officers, but just as often NCOs or even just peers they disliked). it was called that because it would typically be done with fragmentation grenade, but not usually during a battle or anything. that wasn't exactly very reliable, plus it didn't exactly leave you with an isolated target

rather, it was the use of fragmentation grenades *on base*; your classic fragging consisted of rolling a fragmentation grenade under the door into the latrines at night after your target went in. this was enabled by the fact that firebases (the typical field base used by americans in the vietnam war) would have crates of fragmentation grenades easily accessible, as the response to hearing something rattle against the barbed wire at night was to simply throw a grenade at it and wait until morning to see if you got anything rather than risk being lured out. so it was a very good anonymous tool for assassinations.

the scale and fear of fragging had an enormous cultural effect on the united states. in the military, it contributed to degrading morale and a variety of programs to counter it, including the first-ever anonymous tip phone line for soldiers to complain about officers. the realization that soldiers would simply kill their superiors if pushed seriously degraded effectiveness in a war where the primary tactic was to go out into the bush and deliberately pick fights. its a huge part of why the US military switched to a volunteer model.

when stories of fragging made it home, it was an immense culture shock for midcentury america, and cemented itself into the news and media. through the 70s and 80s, there was a *lot* of US media about the Vietnam War. the stuff in the 70s was largely extremely critical and extremely cynical, largely made by people who opposed the war, but in the reagan era you saw an uptick in war action movies which... while not typically set in the Vietnam War, were largely concerned with refighting and 'winning' it in the narrative, creating big, stupid action movies like the rambo sequels

this sort of dumbass action movies, along with heavy metal and the satanic panic, heavily influence early first person shooter games. Kevin Cloud, one of the artists on the original Doom, used 'frag' as a term to distinguish killing players from killing Doom's monsters. Doom was built as a single player game first, a cooperative game second, and a multiplayer versus game third, so the language of 'you fragged X' was ported from the cooperative game (where it was used to indicate you'd killed a friendly, idiot) into the multiplayer deathmatch.

from there, it made it to Quake and Unreal, the big arena shooters of the late 90s, and remained the term pretty much until all First Person Shooters were subsumed into the increasingly military-propaganda-y Call of Duty games post Modern Warfare. i have no proof of this, but i suspect it was a term that CoD wanted nothing to do with as they became increasingly reliant on connections to the military-industrial complex, so the term was carefully kept out of marketing and slowly killed it among gamers.

it still persists in places, though. my understanding is that in modern Counter-Strike's community, people still talk about 'frags', which confuses a lot of new people!

reblogsanshit

Okay but what does that have to do with Eminem in Fortnite

moments-minutes-more

"It's fun for me to just grab a boob" = "It's fun for me to just frag a noob"

#misc

chrys-half-dead-art-blog

#dr #dr2 #dr2x2

playfullstar

ok so…

(He said no afterwards)

#tadc

thepunkin-pie

Extra scribbly today folks. The Regret Brothers are haunting the brain frame again

RAMBLE UNDER CUT!!!,

#aa #aa4

deluxe-fish

chill bro he's not going anywhere (this time)

#aa #aa4

pillow-chicken

playing ace attorney im having the time of my life. i look to my right edgeworth is being a freak i look to my left phoenix is speedrunning the it’s so over we’re so back cycle I look at the witness they’re frothing at the mouth screaming for the defendant to be burned at the stake I look at maya maya has done nothing wrong I love you maya I look at the judge he is so done with all of this shit and I think this game is the best

#op in the defendant's booth #aa