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Win? No trying!!! Only win

Hey there everybody, this is Ryu from sweats.

To be fair, i can understand it in certain contexts. TF2 made the distinction best with tryhards. Sure, its one thing to actually put effort into winning, but its another to act like the match you're playing has any stakes besides you losing the video game.

We should sort these guys into bot lobbies and never tell them

This exactly, and then they say a game without sbmm has bad match making when that's literally what they wanted 😭

The phrase "she knows the ~secret moves~!!!" Still crops up in fighting games sometimes and its beautiful

I genuinely believe that the cozy game explosion is a direct consequence of this mentality telling itself that it’s factually accurate and not driven by unchecked, unexplored emotional bias

lol look at this guy caring. He cares so much! Way to care, carelord!

This but unironically Tried playing tf2 the other day, got sniped And remembered why I stopped playing the game

ah fuck I agree with this though am I cooked

kids these days can't weave, kids these days can't help but stroll down long corridors

George Carlin: "Did you ever notice how everyone who drives slower than you is a moron and everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?"

Reason

Guy who plays pickup basketball at the gym watching LeBron highlights: these fucking sweats keep ruining this game

I've been called sweaty for making combo vids in Spider-Man. A single-player game!

but those same people will go apeshit if you say they want a casual experience

Sweatiest game I play is Counter-Strike and I suppose the guy who after losing three rounds and says "guys stop pushing up and wait for picks" and the guy who says "my team is fucking r****ded" may be feeling the same sweaty emotion but I will only comply with the former and will report the latter

Playing a competitive game and people want to win. Surprised Pikachu.

my favorite sweat accusation is about deckbuilding in card games. how dare you not stack your own cards in MY favor so I'm statistically more likely to win before the game even starts

They are sweating when they beat me but if I win it's not sweating. Do not ask the people I beat. They'll call me a sweat and that's not true because I'm having fun when I win and only then, gamer

jerkin off in a ranked match is the only sin. yelling at teammates in casual matches is the other only sin.

wait seriously?? that’s just how to play the game

Nobody cares if you're a sweat if you don't berate other players in VC.

These paradoxes make me want to create a competitive online gaming psychology flowchart... If you're losing, it's because you retroactively weren't trying that hard; in fact, trying to win is LOSER behavior! You have a life!! Playing hard to get good is LAME, you're so cool you barely practice!!!

It's basically only used by people annoyed they're losing

This is very contextual I think. certainly faster than having to add "and being an twat about it"

I blew a teammate's mind in overwatch last year when I explained that playing in the "competitive" game mode implies some *intent to win*!

I have thought about this extensively and my theory is that they wish they were at a 12yo at a sleepover and they rented a game nobody played yet.