Posted 26 April 2008 - 05:20 AM
Now y'see, coming from a time before all this shit with players being able to beat the game, when skill was necessary to even get partway through the first level of any game, (Who I am kidding? games didn't have levels back in those days!), I define button-mashing somewhat differently.
Button mashing is pressing buttons with little idea of how to effectively use the buttons, often overpressing really quickly and when not necessary or useful, with little finesse or elegance, and sticking to the first thing that appears to work.
This often appears to be simply random button pressing, thus how we described button mashing to your generation when you were little tots or fledging gamers, both of which we considered to be of lesser intelligence.
Unfortunately, there are so damn many of you that the less accurate definition spread, took hold, and was taken literally.