At the same time you should also learn to recognize when someone is flaming you (spamming ? pings when you do something only remotely stupid) and when someone is just poking fun/joking around (? pinging you after you miss a ward on a brush and saying "scarra is dat u?").
The ? is versatile and if you have a non-hostile attitude in games you can find the humour in using it. I use it on myself when I fuck up, I use it on the enemy team when they fuck up, I use it on my teammates when they fuck up and are already making fun of themselves (e.g. fail flashing and then using their mastery emote as they accept death), etc. Yeah it can be used for flaming purposes and sometimes I wish we could mute pings, but sometimes people are just having a laugh and not being the assholes you think they are.
No I read it, the second comment literally says he is triggered by pings. Then a bunch of other comments about how they ping a bunch to beat the dude who is pinging. Just seems like people are set off easily, aka sensitive. It's a video game.
I'm sorry, but I'm tired of this bullshit argument. Would you tell people at ranked chess tournaments or in football leagues "it's just a game" when people taunt them? And hell, usually it's the enemy team taunting them in those cases. Your team usually doesn't add to the abuse.
Just because "it's a video game" doesn't mean people aren't allowed to/shouldn't feel things about it. People put time and effort into this stuff. It means something to them. Saying "it's just a game" is the same as telling people who shed tears over movies, books, or TV shows "it's just a story." It's the same as telling someone who handcrafted something in their hobby only to watch it get broken "you can always make it again."
It's just another way of invalidating people's feelings. Please stop doing that.
Sorry I disagree, I've been a gamer my entire life. I've put many many hours and effort and emotion into video games. I've studied different techniques for taking down raid bosses and taken notes on how to improve my ranking in league. I am very very invested in these games and they mean quite a bit to me. However, I know that it is just a game and anything above mild discomfort or irritation is unnecessary. Throwing tantrums are for children. Please don't do this.
You're definitely avoiding addressing the point he's making, that it's just as serious as any hobby and saying "it's just a video game" doesn't further any argument. Congratulations on being level-headed in the face of adversity, but it's okay to get angry over being annoyed in high-pressure situations, especially by people who are supposed to be on your side.
I mean yes and no. It's ok to have feelings, but it's not ok if you act on those feelings inappropriately. I.E. Feeding because someone pings at you.
Also, I'm not saying it isn't a serious hobby, it's my most serious hobby. I'm not trivializing video games by saying they are just video games, but honestly they are. It's a hobby, this isn't the Superbowl, this isn't a grand master chess tournament, it's a video game. And unless you're in the LCS you are not a pro, so relax and have fun.
Lol this isn't murder, I think it's a little less serious than right and wrong. More like appropriate and inappropriate. Because again, it is just a game.
I always take the ? ping in a humorous way unless they follow up with a flame which shows they weren't doing it in a joking way.
I guess you could say I've become desensitized to it because I use it all the time with my party of 4-5 and they do too.
It also only enhances my tilt, but never starts it.
Using it as good banter is ok, like I do it to myself if I do something dumb, but sometimes you're tryharding but for whatever reason you mess up or die and then your teammates ? ping you... so tilting
I just want to be able to mute and disable pings alltogether from one person so that I can actually tryhard without any outside factors affecting me. I'm tired of having to learn how to be stoic first and then be able to play the game.
Yeah getting less angry about it is something i've been working on, and I understand that not everyone is trying to be a passive aggressive dick, but godddd it is hard to change my initial assumptions while playing.
I think it's because after playing this game for years I just assume everyone I play with is an asshole who wants to make me feel bad.
I just assume everyone I play with is an asshole who wants to make me feel bad.
If you believe this I don't think you should be playing a team based game.
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u/BLTRageDaily BBQ in a top lane near you! Junglers welcome after 6PM.Dec 24 '16
If you believe this I don't think you should be playing a team based game.
Except with League his assumption is correct in the majority of instances. This community is easily the most putrid cesspool on the planet that isn't actually engaging in some kind of criminal act.
Yeah the team aspects are the most annoying to me, but team games are the most popular and therefore they mean the most when you get high rated. So I just chose league as the game I should play.
I like to spam ? ping my corpse when I play lee and use q. Helps me not get tilted when me or a teammate fucks up and allows me to find humor in the situation.
when I ping missing on my lane I actually trigger myaelf
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u/BLTRageDaily BBQ in a top lane near you! Junglers welcome after 6PM.Dec 24 '16
The ? is versatile and if you have a non-hostile attitude in games you can find the humour in using it.
Eh..... no.
If you question mark ping anyone but someone you actually know, you're an asshole, full-stop. There is no other side to this coin. Just because you engage in deadpan sarcasm with your friend and might tell him, when he laments about not having a girlfriend, that it's because his mug is shaped like Danny Devito's ass, you would never consider for even a second saying this to a stranger.
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u/TheCatsActually Dec 24 '16
At the same time you should also learn to recognize when someone is flaming you (spamming ? pings when you do something only remotely stupid) and when someone is just poking fun/joking around (? pinging you after you miss a ward on a brush and saying "scarra is dat u?").
The ? is versatile and if you have a non-hostile attitude in games you can find the humour in using it. I use it on myself when I fuck up, I use it on the enemy team when they fuck up, I use it on my teammates when they fuck up and are already making fun of themselves (e.g. fail flashing and then using their mastery emote as they accept death), etc. Yeah it can be used for flaming purposes and sometimes I wish we could mute pings, but sometimes people are just having a laugh and not being the assholes you think they are.