Anonymous User asked: do you have a favorite piece of highly-specific JP player jargon for something? eg. the last hibachi pattern in DDP being named for its resemblance to a fugu sashimi platter
idk how widespread this is, but here's one I was hit with recently that I needed to have explained to me: "terete", which fighting game players were saying whenever a player won with a cinematic super—turns out it's a we-say-this-so-often-we-don't-inflect-anymore derivation of "te ♪re~ ♪tte~ ♪", ie the opening "you wa shock" refrain from Fist of the North Star, which plays in instrumental form whenever you hit a Fatal KO in the Arcsys fighting game
come to think of it, here's an example of a piece of JP terminology that's matriculated to EN circles, to the amusement of some JP folk:
many long-standing Tetris mechanics are commonly referenced via three-letter acronyms: DAS (delayed auto-shift, ie the specifics of how pieces move when the left/right input is held), ARS and SRS (Arika Rotation System/Super Rotation System: different rulesets for how pieces rotate and kick, etc).
One such term is ARE, used to refer to the forced duration between a piece locking and a new piece spawning... but it doesn't stand for anything, it's literally just the JP word "あれ (ah-ray)" written as if it's an initialism, and it's not a word like "abare" that succinctly describes a very specific concept, it's basically just a filler word (akin to "that thing") that people would use offhandedly without explicitly defining what they're talking about, so it's kinda silly that it's jumped the language barrier and not been substituted for something that's at least a little bit descriptive.
