New tips for Parents

Hey Guys here are some new tips for you to out smart your children when they are talking about video games and they think that you have no clue what they are talking about and think that they will get away with it

Tip 1.  Gamers have our own way of talking that seems alien to others who havent been brought up with games such as this generation of children here are some of the phrases that your children or teenagers will use to talk about there antics online without you knowing

AFK this is an abbreviation of  Away From Keyboard normally used by World Of Warcraft Players or players of any other form of PC gaming that is multiplayer and has Team chat options

Noob a noob is a New player they havent been playing for a long time and are online without a clue what to do

TFO  this means Totally Fucking Owned normally used when someone is on a winning streak also used with other players in games with Noob's

FTW this means For The Win it is a fairly obvious one but honestly you have no idea how many times i have had to explain that to my mum cause she thinks i am swearing

PWNED this means totally owned it is also slang that people talk in but in Gaming it normally means that they have won by a far margin say 50-3

Hack's  fairly self explanitory but it is what players shout at others when they believe that someone cant have done a certain act without modifying the game in some way ether infinite ammo or being able to not miss or being able to hit through walls

XP this stands for Experience points in video games used to level up



those are just a few that will come up a lot here are some technical terms that some parents will not know

Tip 2. technical speak for parents

there are a few that you may already understand some that you will be like i have no idea what that means but i will try and simplify it as best i can

HDMI this is a cable that is used to connect games consoles such as the playstation 3 xbox 360 and if you have the proper adaptor to the wii aswell HDMI means High Definition Media Input which will automatically set your tv to the highest resolution your tv can do whether it be 1080p or 1080i

TV resolutions explination

now that we live in an era with High Definition television and 3D tv it is important to know what you are getting into for the best image quality

the highest available at the moment is 1080p which basically means 1080 Pixels will be used on your tv instead of one large image which is what happens with standard definition televisions
same definition apply's to 720p which will use 720 pixel's on your tv there is a separate one called 1080i which is 1080 images per second which is higher defined images running at around 50-60 frames per second

moving on to 3D tv's these are becoming more and more common with video game players and with the release of the 3DS it is becoming more of a commodity for gamers to have  there are different levels and different types of 3D which i will try and explain

Stereoscopic 3D is a common one which is the same as the 3DS only with glasses

Frame Packed 3D is simmelar to the 3D you get in the cinema or movie theaters in the us and uk this is the more common one with action video games such as assassins creed and sonic the hedgehog

Side By Side 3D this one is fairly recent but it is becoming common with the Call Of Duty series what happens is the screen to people without glasses looks like the game screen has been cut in half and replicated on two sides but for people with the glasses it allows for an affect in games with friends or with single player of 3D or in multiplayer that both players will see the full screen in 3D and not just half the Screen

Inficolour 3D is a fairly uncommon one now and is very very rarely used it is the old kind of 3D that you may remember from old movies with the red and blue glasses it works well but it isnt as good as the ones listed above

Ethernet Cable an ethernet cable is used to connect your desktop computer to the internet via the router or modem in the instance that it is not wireless

Modem this is the device that allows your computer to connect to the internet without one you will not be able to connect to the internet at all

Router . the router is used as a medium to send out the signal for internet access to wireless enabled devices such as mobile phones or laptops or video game consoles aswell as tablet devices and kindles

hope these have been helpful and i hope you get the chance to use these if you have any questions feel free to comment below and i will respond when i can thank you for reading