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Posted by: the pib
Posted by: Adm Hotpants
Posted by: the pib
Posted by: Adm Hotpants
Posted by: the pib
This exchange happened in messages after a close BTB Heavy game on Rasu which we barely won by one point even though I got 46 kills with the Scorpion...
Guy who was on my team and went -14: damn you just stole everyones kills you f_cking tank whore
Me: You idiots would have lost if not for me.
Gwwomtaw-14: well first of all thats bullsh_t considering you STOLE everyones kills. we didnt need your help with getting them. and second we werent idiots we actually did sh_t while you were just whoring around with the tank
Me: I was busy winning the game while you were busy betraying people who took "your" Sniper and driving a Hog around without a gunner, you brain dead. It's a team game and I didn't "steal" sh_t.
Gwwomtaw-14: whatever man ur just wrong now shut the f_ck up
I can only presume (based on your evident exchange) that you are listing yourself in the category of "average Reach player" in addition to the individuals listed here
I am an "above average Reach player" thank you very much sir.
"Above average" in what regard, exactly? Based on your conversation, it appears that you operate on a similar level as the players you imply are somehow unintelligent. Now, I readily acknowledge that my judgement on the situation is based entirely on heresay, but for that being said, I am willing to make a ruling that your part in the interchange could have potentially been markedly more intelligent and mature. Specifically, the repeated name-calling and slights against your teammates' skill or mental functioning, as well as an attitude of blatant elitism.
But, I digress. If you you feel that you are indeed "above average," I will not tell you that you are wrong, because I do not know you. However, forgive me for not recognizing your profound intelligence based on the small glance into your mind that you have afforded me.
Maybe I wasn't exactly above average in my maturity level as far as letting this guy provoke me to respond, but when people perform so poorly that they might as well be working for the enemy team and then they insult me, I can lose my cool.
My overall stats clearly show I am an above average player, and I was certainly the MVP in that game.
I'm not here to argue about whether you're a good player; frankly, I don't care, and neither should anyone else. That aspect is irrelevant. When the thread's title calls a player's intelligence into question, it ceases to be about skill and becomes a personal attack. My point to you is that you are effectively insinuating that other players are somehow less intelligent or mature than you, then showing yourself to be at their level or below.
And don't think that you can use their words or actions to justify how you react. To be smart and mature, even in the face of video-game idiocy, you have to recognize that you are independently responsible for your own actions, and behave accordingly.
Basically, if you intend on looking down your nose at players you meet on XBox Live, make sure you don't make yourself look like a fool in the process. (And this goes to everyone else, too.)