is the word "Bot" the new definition of calling players bad?

[Tainted Galaxia]

I don't quite understand this gaming community. . .

[post nut clarity]

I don't think that's new anymore. I believe it's been there since "bot Allu" or even way before.

[Exiled Alchemist]

Sounds like the new trendy word the kids are using, because the other insults lost all it's luster for being overused. Give it a year, maybe two then they will move on to the next word to do the same.

[Z i o ⚡]

I remember being called a bot before when I played Unreal Tournament online in like year 2000. Probably because I almost never used chat and just aimed and shot people.

[TwinEdgedBastard]

Not new. From my experience it is used to describe people who have a very "bot" like way of playing, for example not reacting when taking damage or standing perfectly still in the open and shooting.

So it's more of a type of bad player.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

It's been used for quite some time.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

I have been gaming for a very long time and even online and never came across the term "bot" for bad players.

It was always nub (or some other way of spelling it) in my days.

[Azza ☠]

"BOT" is a NPC (non-player character) or AI (artificial intelligence) as such. It's not human and does basic functions, can act very noob or glitchly, but could also have a perfect aim. So #1 assume it means AI.

However:

If someone is very noob and still appears to be learning to walk and pick up items in the game. Then someone else might call them a bot as an insult or just question if it's a bot.

If someone is aiming extremely well with pin-point fast accuracy each time, then again someone might call them a bot. However, that's for a different reason. It's more a shorten term of Aim-Bot.

[Abisha]

some people are so bad that they act like bots, hence the call name bot
you would think that's kind of obvious right....

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

It's just like the word "troll".

If some special snowflake disagrees with something you said, you will be labeled a "troll".

You get called a "bot" it is either because you are too good, or you are doing something simple and dumb over and over again.

[Naedmi]

Never been called a bot but I've been accused of hacking and lag switching plenty of times.

[Tainted Galaxia]

Originally posted by Abisha:

some people are so bad that they act like bots, hence the call name bot
you would think that's kind of obvious right....

Yeah, when people mention Bot, I always think of an A.I. kind of bot in video games.