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My take on BM...
15 years ago
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Okay, I'm gonna be frank. Nothing turns me off of a game more than being relatively new, and having some jerkoff with a keyboard tell me I'm garbage.
That's the simple way of saying it. The more complex version is that I evaluate someone, when playing a game, on several levels. One obvious level is skill, and tends to be the level that most people stick themselves to, but I also take other things into account. Benjamin Franklin himself said that humility to superiors is duty, humility to equals is courtesy, and humility to inferiors is nobility. I personally follow this code to the letter--I try to be nice, constructive and disarming as I can to anyone I can. That includes trolls. I don't tend to talk back, ever, and most trolls seem to think that means that they "win". All rambling aside, however, I believe in humility and grace on all fronts, especially in a game like League of Legends, or Starcraft 2. Matches in those games are often hard fought, and are entirely based on the cumulative skill of teams. As such, teamwork is extremely tantamount to victory, even in defeat. All-in-all, I guess the point here is that I judge people's gaming based on their skill as well as their attitude. I don't want to play games with someone who's a dynamo of amazingness at a game if they're an ass all the time. I would, however, gladly play games with people who are awful, but have a good attitude.
In that sense, I tend to ignore skill. If you're a dick, go away. If you're bad, it's no problem if you have a good attitude, and are willing to learn.
Another thing that irks me is that people tend to be enormously critical of your approach to a game, but don't offer ANY constructive comments. These are the most useless kind of trolls--the ones who just yell at you to make themselves feel better about their own skill. If I have a problem with the way someone plays, I don't just go 'RAWR YOU'RE GARBAGE UNINSTALL', I try to help them get better. I've made loads of friends just by being nice, and I'm getting slowly better because of it.
I mean, the point here is simple. As long as you just relax and enjoy the game, you're a good gamer in my book. Even if you feed teams on LoL, and go 0 - 20 - 15 constantly, you're a GOOD PLAYER, simply because you take your falls with grace, and land on your feet running, rather than flop on your ass and have a hissy fit.
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PS: BM means bad manners, for those of you who don't know the term.
That's the simple way of saying it. The more complex version is that I evaluate someone, when playing a game, on several levels. One obvious level is skill, and tends to be the level that most people stick themselves to, but I also take other things into account. Benjamin Franklin himself said that humility to superiors is duty, humility to equals is courtesy, and humility to inferiors is nobility. I personally follow this code to the letter--I try to be nice, constructive and disarming as I can to anyone I can. That includes trolls. I don't tend to talk back, ever, and most trolls seem to think that means that they "win". All rambling aside, however, I believe in humility and grace on all fronts, especially in a game like League of Legends, or Starcraft 2. Matches in those games are often hard fought, and are entirely based on the cumulative skill of teams. As such, teamwork is extremely tantamount to victory, even in defeat. All-in-all, I guess the point here is that I judge people's gaming based on their skill as well as their attitude. I don't want to play games with someone who's a dynamo of amazingness at a game if they're an ass all the time. I would, however, gladly play games with people who are awful, but have a good attitude.
In that sense, I tend to ignore skill. If you're a dick, go away. If you're bad, it's no problem if you have a good attitude, and are willing to learn.
Another thing that irks me is that people tend to be enormously critical of your approach to a game, but don't offer ANY constructive comments. These are the most useless kind of trolls--the ones who just yell at you to make themselves feel better about their own skill. If I have a problem with the way someone plays, I don't just go 'RAWR YOU'RE GARBAGE UNINSTALL', I try to help them get better. I've made loads of friends just by being nice, and I'm getting slowly better because of it.
I mean, the point here is simple. As long as you just relax and enjoy the game, you're a good gamer in my book. Even if you feed teams on LoL, and go 0 - 20 - 15 constantly, you're a GOOD PLAYER, simply because you take your falls with grace, and land on your feet running, rather than flop on your ass and have a hissy fit.
</rant>
PS: BM means bad manners, for those of you who don't know the term.
I'm writing that one into my .plan, which I haven't updated in like 6 years. Well, not entirely true, but I don't update it often.
I often wonder if "RAWR U SUCK UNINSTALL" is on account of a trickle-down effect. They got that treatment when they first arrived, and are passing it on to others as they arrive.
Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if it was trickle-down. I hear it alot more now than I did a month ago.
I don't get it either, but it's the reason why I mostly play games with people that I know, because I seriously think the online gaming community is a piece of stuck up elitist shit O.o.
LoL, Natural selection, Majesty, most games I play have this elite crowd that tend to yell out newbies all the fricken time :(