Board Thread:General Discussion v2.0/@comment-4614364-20151103060540/@comment-1167634-20151104061505

IMO, the exact word used doesn't matter so long as people know what you're talking about. But I'd definitely discount "No Mercy" has nearly as much traction as "Genocide" in the community. It seems like when someone says "No Mercy", there's usually a follow up question of "Oh, did you kill everything? Like, the genocide route?  Or just killed everything you encountered and got the worst neutral ending where sans threatens you on the phone call at the end?"

That said, it's really only an effective criticism of the term "No Mercy", and not really an argument in favor of the Genocide route. I'm merely defaulting to the term because it appears to be the clearest well known term.

I couldn't care less if the route we called "Extinctionist" or "Bad Time" or whatever. As long as you can say the term and people will instantly know exactly what you mean without spoilers, in the event they don't know about it yet.