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[dervishx5]

Take up the Tryhard's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your macros to excel, to serve your cutthroats' need;
To wait in heavy traffic, On fluttered noobs and wild—
Your new-taught, sullen players, Half-failure and half-child.

Take up the Tryhard's burden, In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of defeat And check the show of pride;
By hateful speech and simple, An hundred times made plain
To seek another's method, And play another's game.

Take up the Tryhard's burden, Yon foreheads stained with grease—
Fill full the game of Winning And bid the losses cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and rookie Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the Tryhard's burden, No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of noob and peon, The tale of common things.
The games ye shall not enter, Servers ye shall not tread,
Go infer them with your judgment, And mark them as misled.

Take up the Tryhard's burden And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better, The hate of those outscored—
The cry of scrubs ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
"Why brought he us from blindness, Our loved casual plight?"

Take up the Tryhard's burden, Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Boredom To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen players Shall weigh your skills and you.

Take up the Tryhard's burden, Have done with childish plays—
The simple conquered tourney, The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood, through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with fear-taught wisdom, The judgment of your peers!

[ShoeKush]

Your Iambic Pentameter is showing. Or it's barfing. I can't really tell what's going on from the projectile vomiting I'm doing after reading that.

[AdamBaines]

ShoeKush, on 22 September 2016 - 10:56 AM, said:

Your Iambic Pentameter is showing. Or it's barfing. I can't really tell what's going on from the projectile vomiting I'm doing after reading that.

Thats a bit unnecessarily harsh......

[blood4blood]

So...wait....there are so many possible interpretations of how your variation on the original should be viewed in context of race relations and imperialism translated into game terms, tiers and PUG's....I'm not even sure where to begin.

[Bud Crue]

First Shakespeare now Kipling? Have you no shame sir?

[RestosIII]

We need a visual representation of tryharding AND casuals to go with this. I've been waiting for this moment.




Tryhard:




Casual:

[dervishx5]

ShoeKush, on 22 September 2016 - 10:56 AM, said:

Your Iambic Pentameter is showing. Or it's barfing. I can't really tell what's going on from the projectile vomiting I'm doing after reading that.

I bet you hate Winnie the Pooh as well!

blood4blood, on 22 September 2016 - 11:01 AM, said:

So...wait....there are so many possible interpretations of how your variation on the original should be viewed in context of race relations and imperialism translated into game terms, tiers and PUG's....I'm not even sure where to begin.

:3

Edited by dervishx5, 22 September 2016 - 11:10 AM.

[RestosIII]

dervishx5, on 22 September 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

I bet you hate Winnie the Pooh as well!



:3

I suddenly have the urge to see if I still have those old VHS tapes lying around.

ShoeKush, on 22 September 2016 - 10:56 AM, said:

Your Iambic Pentameter is showing. Or it's barfing. I can't really tell what's going on from the projectile vomiting I'm doing after reading that.

[WhineyThePoo]

dervishx5, on 22 September 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

I bet you hate Winnie the Pooh as well!



:3

Oi! What have I done?

[Battlemaster56]

[dervishx5]

Shoekush is what we call a one dimensional character.

[Novakaine]

I think I described someone like this the other day.
I shall now apply this to Shoe.
"Though art a drooling obtuse knave."

[Mystere]

Please keep your day job.

[RestosIII]

Mystere, on 22 September 2016 - 12:50 PM, said:

Please keep your day job.

I assume so he can keep his power on so he can keep giving us these wonderful posts?

[MischiefSC]

You have now put more effort into into entertaining the playerbase of MWO than PGI has.

Props.

That you picked the poem you did and changed the context as you did however is the sort of funny that makes me guilty for laughing given that it casts the Tryhard in a positive light to be admired.

This was literally the most thought-provoking post on the forums I've seen in a long time. It's almost as ironic as the FW forum is salty and that's a lot of irony.

[FupDup]

This is the proper poem to recite while climbing to the peaks of Mount Tryhard.

[ShoeKush]

Novakaine, on 22 September 2016 - 12:31 PM, said:

"Though art a drooling obtuse knave."

My friend the word you are looking for is abstruce.

[Bishop Steiner]

blood4blood, on 22 September 2016 - 11:01 AM, said:

So...wait....there are so many possible interpretations of how your variation on the original should be viewed in context of race relations and imperialism translated into game terms, tiers and PUG's....I'm not even sure where to begin.

is not the interpretation of art left to the individual?

[Davers]

ShoeKush, on 22 September 2016 - 01:09 PM, said:

My friend the word you are looking for is abstruce.

Obtuse is a much better fit.

[YourSaviorLegion]