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[NRP]

w4ldO, on 25 February 2018 - 11:56 PM, said:

BG on a bad game

either side

if its a 12-1 stomp from my team, where we more or less win by accident, i will gladly write BG in chat

Not that I care that much, but why would you do this?

Do you really think the team that just got stomped needs to be reminded that it was a Bad Game?

[ramp4ge]

SpectreHD, on 26 February 2018 - 12:42 AM, said:

I say GG to my own team in team chat.

I say thanks for the match to the losing team.

I only say GG to the other team if the other team says it first.

If I want to show my sportsmanship, I make sure that it is the message that gets across when I type in Chat. Because I can't shake their hands and say good match like in real life.

2nd familiar face I've seen here. How goes it man?

NRP, on 26 February 2018 - 08:02 AM, said:

Not that I care that much, but why would you do this?

Do you really think the team that just got stomped needs to be reminded that it was a Bad Game?

Yes. It needs to be rubbed in. They need to have their noses rubbed in it like a puppy that just pissed on your carpet.

[Gristle Missile]

I don't really care who says GG or when...but it seems kinda dumb to say it after a stomp (either losing or winning) as it clearly was not a good game.

I just think..."does this person know what gg is or do they just say it because other people do?" It's silly

Edited by Gristle Missile, 26 February 2018 - 10:08 AM.

[MechaBattler]

I only say anything if the match was at least close. And generally just ignore the apparently obligatory GGs people give out. As they're often not.

[TWIAFU]

Maybe it is as simple as "gg" is fast and easy to type?

But if delicate feelings are to delicate, can always just turn off All Chat to safeguard delicate feelings.

[ramp4ge]

Isn't all chat turned off by default anyway? I had to enable it.

[Fox the Apprentice]

Best option: disable all-chat, and don't worry about it. No more angry salt from the enemy, keeps the comms open for teammates to work together.

OK, maybe not the best option - but it works for me.

[Navid A1]

Despite popular belief, GG does not mean Good Game.... GG means Git Gud!


You should type GG if you think that the enemy needs to git gud.

[Armored Yokai]

People tend to say gg only when they win, when they lose they stay silent and that's so funny!\

[TWIAFU]

ramp4ge, on 26 February 2018 - 11:44 AM, said:

Isn't all chat turned off by default anyway? I had to enable it.

No clue. First thing I did was disable when we were given the option.

Games are better without it.

[VonBruinwald]

If you're saying GoodGame you're acknowledging you had enjoyed the game and it can be said regardless of the outcome, even if it's a 48-4 pug stomp. If you didn't you should at least say ThanksForTheMatch.


That being said there is an etiquette to GGing.

If you won and you're the first to comment on the match:
TFTM - saying GG is basically saying "I had a good time beating you" and disregards the opponents feelings about the match be they positive or negative. TFTM is neutral.

If you lost and you're the first to comment on the match:
Feel free to say GG - Even though you lost you can still say if you enjoyed the match. If you didn't enjoy it, at least TFTM or acknowledge their win, it shows sportsmanship.

If you won and you're the second to comment on the match:
If they say GG feel free to GG back, if not TFTM is appropriate. If your opponent hasn't acknowledged enjoying the match it's just rude to admit you enjoyed their failure.

If you lost and you're the second to comment on the match:
It's your choice, if you enjoyed the game you can GG, if you didn't TFTM is appropriate.


If your opponent is a snow flake who likes to rage and whine:
Feel free to tell them to GitGud.

If you're a snowflake who doesn't care about your opponents feelings:
Feel free to tell them you GotGonorrhea.

[Brain Cancer]

NRP, on 26 February 2018 - 08:02 AM, said:

Not that I care that much, but why would you do this?

Do you really think the team that just got stomped needs to be reminded that it was a Bad Game?

Considering the level of denial I get from some folks who apparently consider 200 damage an apex achievement about them doing good, yes. It really isn't just a river in Egypt that floods. But you've got to be equally honest yourself.
I had a game where I went around a corner and promptly exploded because there were six opponents hiding under ECM and...nobody said a word as I was going in. Dead after one alpha for about 140 damage (yay, snapshot dumbfire ATM 48).

"Wow, I sucked this match. Guys, enemy deathball at (location)"

(Team is 12-0'd, scoreboard literally shows nobody on team dealt more than 150 damage)

"Sorry, we should all clearly try to die faster next time since the MM clearly wants us to be farmed."

(Random GG from enemy team)

"Yes, we should git gud."

(Random "I did good" from a King Crab that went in armed with 6 LMGs and a couple of HPPCs and didn't clear 50 damage thanks to minimum range death hugs, all in a 48kph XL package!)

"No, you didn't. You just died last because everyone else was in the way."

(Argument that his build is really good, match autodisconnects mid rationalizing.)

That's the most recent example, but even in T1 it's amazing how far people will go to justify a performance that would get "Best of the Worst Highlights on the Gong Show" featured on YouTube. Own when you suck. Own when you own your opponents. Don't give charity GGs or other compliments when your opponent is a grease spot after being stomped so hard it measured a six on the Richter scale, it cheapens the act and rubs salt in the wounds of the aware, while feeding the delusions of the incompetent that are anything but.

Edited by Brain Cancer, 26 February 2018 - 01:05 PM.

[Leone]

Leone, on 19 July 2017 - 10:11 PM, said:

@anyone else who who takes umbrage with my congratulations or salutation of those brave souls I fight, I do not necessarily mean you. My apologies if I find it too long to single out those who have earned my respect upon the field of battle, but feel free to consider yourselves never the intended target of anything else I say.

But yea, even on a 12-0 stomp, there are those who'll stand stalwart and hold the line, and just because their team abandons them or my own team follows my lead, it does not make their actions any less honourable or worthy of my respect.

@ Everyone else who does their utmost to take me out, who defies their opposition at all cost an by any means, who strives towards victory, even if they fail. To those willing to drop time and again against me and mine, alone or alongside companions. You know who you are. This one goes out to you.

<o.

~Leone, of Kell's Commandos.

[dario03]

MechaBattler, on 26 February 2018 - 11:34 AM, said:

I only say anything if the match was at least close. And generally just ignore the apparently obligatory GGs people give out. As they're often not.

This is what I do. Don't wanna diminish the value of the GG. Gotta keep its worth up for actual close games and scheduled matches

[ANOM O MECH]

Escef, on 25 February 2018 - 08:25 PM, said:

I will gladly take that male fragility that our soldiers won WWII with.

I embrace the fragility that brought us Yul Brynner, Sam Peckingpah, John Wayne, and Telly Savalas.

I can happily live the rest of my life knowing that when the going gets tough, I don't fold like a wet paper doll.

It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that man has evolved wrong and needs to be readjusted completely by social engineering.

[ramp4ge]

tker 669, on 26 February 2018 - 01:38 PM, said:

I will gladly take that male fragility that our soldiers won WWII with.

I embrace the fragility that brought us Yul Brynner, Sam Peckingpah, John Wayne, and Telly Savalas.

I can happily live the rest of my life knowing that when the going gets tough, I don't fold like a wet paper doll.

It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that man has evolved wrong and needs to be readjusted completely by social engineering.

I like the way they talk about 'quoting a terrorist' that's a fictional character from a movie while the entire Black Lives Matter movement idolizes an actual real-life cop-killing terrorist.

The lack of self-awareness is incredible.

Edited by ramp4ge, 26 February 2018 - 01:56 PM.

[Escef]

tker 669, on 26 February 2018 - 01:38 PM, said:

I will gladly take that male fragility that our soldiers won WWII with.

I embrace the fragility that brought us Yul Brynner, Sam Peckingpah, John Wayne, and Telly Savalas.

I can happily live the rest of my life knowing that when the going gets tough, I don't fold like a wet paper doll.

It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that man has evolved wrong and needs to be readjusted completely by social engineering.

Hi, my name's Jeff, and I'm an Iraq War veteran. I don't feel a need to call people "snowflake" because they have this idea that other human beings deserve respect and consideration. I don't operate under the bizarre, emotionally-stunted mindset that talking s*** to people that want a better world is evidence of my manliness. Maybe if the jackwagons that do that had actually ever stood for anything they might figure out how to be better human beings. I don't know. But I think it's strange that those people think being the exact same kind of dirtbags we, that is myself and my brothers and sisters in arms, fought against is the right way to honor us.

You have a sickness of the soul, and you're proud of it.

Edited by Escef, 26 February 2018 - 01:57 PM.

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Escef, on 25 February 2018 - 02:27 PM, said:

Why assume people are talking crap?

GIFT AKA the "Greater Internet {Frak} Theory." Also known as Enforced Internet Autism [no this isn't a troll post because one of the discriptors is autism].

When functioning in an online space, many of the every day social queue's that we use to interact with one another, are no longer there... over 50% of communication with others is, in fact, lost, 75% when you look at text based only communication.

We, as human beings, utilize a wide range of visual que's to tell if we're upsetting another.

the GIFT, tells us that with Anonymity + a platform that lets you say anything = aholes.

We don't have the social queue's to go off of that give us the social feedback to tell us we're hurting another's feelings. Here is where the Autsim bit comes in... we're functioning online, with much much less social information than if you were playing with someone directly across from you in say, a card game.

So these factors come together, to do 2 things.

1)Enable people to easily be ******** without actually considering their actions are harming other people.
2)instantly make people think that anything is scarcastic/said with ill intent, because most of us, have been harmed at some time, in some way, online by another who didn't care....

It's easy to forget, you're dealing with real, actual people on the other side of these computer screens... because of the loss of social que's.

[Mystere]

Navid A1, on 26 February 2018 - 11:53 AM, said:

Despite popular belief, GG does not mean Good Game.... GG means Git Gud!


You should type GG if you think that the enemy needs to git gud.

<smh>

[ramp4ge]

Escef, on 26 February 2018 - 01:56 PM, said:

But I think it's strange that those people think being the exact same kind of dirtbags we, that is myself and my brothers and sisters in arms, fought against is the right way to honor us.

You have a sickness of the soul, and you're proud of it.

You're defending cultural Marxists by comparing people who talk crap on the internet and don't put feelings before reality to a tyrannical dictator.

I just want you to take a minute to think about how incredibly off the rails that is.