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Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 03 May 2024, 13:27
by zeitmike
I fully accept that there is an element of me being a bad loser here, but please can we all stop saying 'gg' or whatever when you've just destroyed me at 100 points to 0.
It wasn't a good game in this circumstances - it clearly was no challenge for you, and no fun for me.
Telling me how great-that-was, is really rubbing salt in the wound and just being a bit of a patronising ****!
anyone else feel like this?!
sincerely,
bad-at-lots-of-games.
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 03 May 2024, 13:34
by RicardoRix
So you're saying if you won 100-0 that that wouldn't be a good game for you?
Even if you didn't enjoy it, they probably did all the same.
Take it is the proper sprit that it's meant - it's a mere farewell greeting like "Thanks for the game". Modern day internet fandango speak, innit.
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 03 May 2024, 14:12
by RobertBr
zeitmike wrote: ↑03 May 2024, 13:27
I fully accept that there is an element of me being a bad loser here ...
Not an element but the entire thing. Presumably you understand what 'gg' actually means and are just choosing to misinterpret the intention.
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 03 May 2024, 14:15
by Jellby
RicardoRix wrote: ↑03 May 2024, 13:34
it's a mere farewell greeting like "Thanks for the game".
Some people would take a "thanks for the game" as thank you playing so badly and letting me rejoice in my clearly one-sided victory in a game that you mere more mortal can't even begin to understand, and be much more offended than with a "gg". It's much better not to say anything... (and let others red-thumb you for not being nice enough)
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 03 May 2024, 16:47
by Bray
zeitmike wrote: ↑03 May 2024, 13:27Telling me how great-that-was, is really rubbing salt in the wound and just being a bit of a patronising ****!
"gg" is a simple pleasantry that means "thank you for taking time out of your life to enjoy this activity with me". That's it.
If you want to project your own malicious meaning on top of that, that's your problem.
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 04 May 2024, 17:57
by Meeplelowda
What I really wish would stop is people raising this same issue several times a year.
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 04 May 2024, 22:45
by Trimpster
life is too short to get offended by gg
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 04 May 2024, 23:53
by ahyangyi
Sometimes when I lose so hard that the game ends well before it does, I take it as a challenge "how many points can I salvage from this state?" And that's why usually a 0-100 lose is still a good game for me.
But that depends on the game. For example, an engine-building game, where my opponent makes 100 moves per round, making combos left and right, while I pass after making three basic moves, is genuinely bad experience...
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 05 May 2024, 03:24
by TsPeacock
zeitmike wrote: ↑03 May 2024, 13:27
I fully accept that there is an element of me being a bad loser here, but please can we all stop saying 'gg' or whatever when you've just destroyed me at 100 points to 0.
It wasn't a good game in this circumstances - it clearly was no challenge for you, and no fun for me.
Telling me how great-that-was, is really rubbing salt in the wound and just being a bit of a patronising ****!
anyone else feel like this?!
sincerely,
bad-at-lots-of-games.
It's so trite, condescending and disingenuous. As is "Good luck and have fun!"
Re: Can we stop saying 'gg' when It clearly wasn't!
Posted: 05 May 2024, 07:45
by Cile
TsPeacock wrote: ↑05 May 2024, 03:24
It's so trite, condescending and disingenuous. As is "Good luck and have fun!"
I don't understand being offended by a polite statement of general pleasantries.
I'd rather be told to "Have a nice game" by someone who doesn't mean it, than be told to "**** off" by someone who does.