Potato, This Expression Is Rubbish And Hurts The Game.
#81
Posted 07 July 2020 - 10:02 PM
It's a severely competitive shooter with layers of such choices, delivered into the hands of as many regular people as the company (and the IP) can attract.
Under these conditions, it is inevitable - unavoidable that people will encounter others who either don't align with their goals & interests or have greatly differing levels of competence.
Mixing all of that together is a recipe for explosive or acid feelings. We're lucky that people are as controlled and polite as they are. Have you ever heard the kind of deeply hurtful, personal vitriol & extraordinarily toxic 'banter' from players of period or properly popular PVP games?
You should seriously take a few moments to do a little searching, especially those among us who think they have a moderately thick skin. The things they say to one another are literally and quite intentionally horrendous.
It's not nice, it's not healthy for the game or community and it's certainly not mature. It would be nice to hold people to a higher standard where even in make-believe combat we can be civil. Humans as a species just aren't there yet, we may never reach that bar... especially with what we've seen of people in more recent years.
Better that people vent in the moment and use a relatively innocuous term than really put their energy into figuring out ways to refine their frustrations.
Better yet to craft games that don't so lazily and effectively curdle people's emotions.
#82
Posted 08 July 2020 - 03:02 AM
I have almost never heard someone call someone else a potato on public comms, and I think the few times it has happened it has predominantly been a frustrated player calling their team out in generals terms like "******* potato nascar team!" or something like that, not a personal insult against a bad player. I'm actually not sure if I can remember a single time when I've heard someone directly called a potato with the intent of insulting.
I have heard the term used in teamspeak/discord quite a bit when talking about bad players not on comms, also "baddies" and other less than perfectly polite ways of describing weaker players. Or as an endearing joke when a unit mate scrubs out. Now I dislike complaining and other uselessness on comms in general. But it's not like it does that much harm either when it's not said publicly.
All in all I think potato is a relatively soft and endearing term for weak players, you can argue that you should avoid pointing out that someone is bad in general as it's often not very nice. But I don't really see how "potato" is more insulting than simply calling someone a bad player.
#83
Posted 08 July 2020 - 11:17 PM
#84
Posted 09 July 2020 - 12:41 AM
#85
Posted 09 July 2020 - 02:24 AM
Sometimes a diligent potato is right and a entitled banana totally wrong....
I never call potato a concrete player. But i use often the term relative to TEAMS. Even god players can form a potato team, because mechs, tactics, playstiles not always mix that well...
But the hardest tempations to call "überpotato" to someone comes whit people blocking your mech when you´re poking... Die because some idiot stays at your back and dont let you take cover is quite irritating... Specially when it´s a clever guy in a light or medium, trying to use you as meatshield, and being not careful to let you space to move...
#86
Posted 09 July 2020 - 03:36 AM
Dashen, on 08 July 2020 - 11:17 PM, said:
I guess that with the new PSR bad players will gradually move to Tier 4 or Tier 5.
#88
Posted 09 July 2020 - 02:17 PM
#89
Posted 09 July 2020 - 05:32 PM
True story
#91
Posted 10 July 2020 - 02:49 PM
Tirant Lo Blanc, on 09 July 2020 - 02:24 AM, said:
I'm probably guilty of this a little at times, but the number of dipshits who can't pilot their mech anywhere but directly in front of my whilst I'm actually shooting is over the top lately (PSR stuff I suppose). As are ******* who don't realise that their lasers can't go through me, even if they are cunningly firing from 500 metres away at a target they can't really see.
#93
Posted 10 July 2020 - 11:20 PM
CFC Conky, on 10 July 2020 - 03:20 PM, said:
Actually, I've been using this PSR transition phase to skill up some of my unused, dust and cobweb covered, mouse condos in my hangar.
Good hunting,
CFC Conky
Yeah, I did something similar.
I pulled some old 'Mechs such as Cataphract, Orion, Hunchback or Banshee out of the hangar to see if they are still viable.
Edited by martian, 10 July 2020 - 11:21 PM.
#94
Posted 12 July 2020 - 10:42 PM
#95
Posted 12 July 2020 - 10:52 PM
#96
Posted 13 July 2020 - 01:04 AM
#98
Posted 13 July 2020 - 04:39 PM
Edited by RJF Volkodav, 13 July 2020 - 04:40 PM.
#99
Posted 13 July 2020 - 10:10 PM
Your aim needs to be in the top 1% to be on the 99% if math's serves me right.
So what you say can never happen. amirite?
If PGI did a proper job with match maker years ago at the start of things, potato would not have been a meme word thingie.
Because potatoes would of been sorted by skill and played other potatoes due to matchmaking and a large, no HUGE population to support that and elite and potato would never have met on the battlefield.
This is how it should of been.
But in those days Mech pack sales were FINE! WHAT PROBLEM!
match maker? Get outta here!
Edited by OZHomerOZ, 13 July 2020 - 10:16 PM.
#100
Posted 14 July 2020 - 12:21 AM
Black Caiman, on 07 July 2020 - 08:37 AM, said:
BC, didn't we agree on not talking 'bout me in the public anymore? Wait 'til you get home, boah!
Furthermore ... the term "poor tato" should be handled as an incentive to enrich one's MWO skill set. Pity and compassion should make ye want to improve, not making ye feel comfortable in the effortless soil you dwell in.
Edited by AnAnachronismAlive, 14 July 2020 - 12:30 AM.
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