A bad player who blames the game — the scrub — from the fighting-game community, which borrowed it from a song about a different kind of scrub. The record's entry for the insult with a definition essay behind it, and for the song, which is better.
The record notes the fighting-game 'scrub' — a player who refuses to learn — was defined in a 2004 essay that is still cited, and that the song was about a man with no car.
Overheard in a supermarket queue, Aug this year: a parent saying "Scrub" to a toddler, entirely straight-faced. The toddler understood. I did not, for a second.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
