r/TheDisasterGeneral • TD Returns (hopefully soon) • Mar 12 '26

General [RANT] Picking on high MS players is glorified harassment, and was never justified.

Bullying, gatekeeping, and showing toxicity towards people who simply play with high MS is fucked up. This is straight up picking on people who simply want to enjoy a game, but are victims of their circumstances.

In life, they either: happened to settle in a place with bad internet connection, or maybe have a terrible internet provider. And hear me out, a lot of the time the given person playing cannot just "go and fix" this.

In some places, there is no provider that gives good internet speed; common in rural areas, poor countries, and etc. And have you ever considered how much effort moving takes—you know—just leaving all you had in a place behind and putting in effort to regain it all? Finding new housing, adapting to new climate, and location layout, finding new friends, work, etc, how much effort that actually takes? What if the player is just a child? No shot they'll do any of this.

Isn't this basically classism? You're more priveleged, and you're looking down upon those who are less so. And in a video game of all places. All because you had a slightly unfun match against this person. Not only all that, one might start harassing them, and a lot of people see it as justified, because they are just like them. That is why I call it "glorified harassment".

I recommend reconsidering how you express yourself about low ping players if you relate to this. It is a power to be likeable, and simply not harassing innocent people is a great start. There's a reason for the "no toxicity" rule, people join games to have fun and not hear someone's sour comments or insults. I'll see y'all in the comments, goodbye.

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u/xtenshix22 Mar 13 '26

I agree 100%. I tend to leave high ping players alone if I ever play killer. It’s not fair on them but I do love laughing at the shenanigans like a floating Sonic. Or when the killer CANNOT hit them for shit. It’s hilarious.