I believe one of the big differences between calling Well Played and calling someone bad, is that the Well Played is only insulting if its meant sarcastic. So the standard interpretation would be a compliment, while you are bad is generally considered an insult, when taken by just the meaning of the word.
Also just to point out a slight error in the analogie.
You want to state, that someone saying Well Played without meaning it is irritating and as a parallel you provide a case where saying someone is bad, while wanting to state exactly that. As hurmungur pointed out the parallel would be someone calling people good players.
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Trump got legend on a new ftp account.
Plenty of players have gotten to Legend on new accounts.
No I’ve been arguing from the start that it doesn’t matter if you have good or bad intent, well played is irritating to many players regardless of context.
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Yes, and how long had Trump been playing, even before that? I may not have every single one of trump’s skills and experience, but I have enough to know that Trump is an exceptional player and that even if I had his skill, I don’t have the same amount of time to put into this game. Plus, he had been playing for much longer than me when he made it up there, and I play casually and not competitively.
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Most people who want to bm use the emote “hello”. Trust me, the people who want to bm, and want to let you know it will use it just before they have lethal.
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I mostly say well played when I win and not when I lose. Why? Well, saying well-played acknowledges that my opponent didn’t play badly. Yes, even when my opponent has bad rng or I highroll, I use it to show my respect. I myself prefer getting returned the favour when I lose. Losing feels bad, and the peson who says well-played sympathizes with you. Now that is soely how I understand the usage of well-played, then again I know that the true bm mostly is done via “hello.”
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What people believe to be insulting is relative. In fact, Marco used the word “race” (he didn’t refer to it). You can use the word “racist” and “racial slure” (you are refering to people who are acist, say racist things), but in Europe mostly racist use the word “race”, for the connotation of “Rasse” (the German translation) and the Third Reich are still not forgotten. (Ofc, it’s still used especially in English journals)
Now, I know that people from NA use it, and that it may be a useful category, but many Europeans shake their heads when they hear the terminus “race”. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t accuse anyone here on this forum using “race” in bad faith.
Squelch is a thing you know.
Just gotta ask, how the heck did you manage to get the tag ProphetVelen? I would think that would’ve been taken a long time ago.
I did [a long time ago]! Been playing since beta days.
By that logic it is also wrong to play Paladin right now, since there are people who find it irritating to play against Paladin. Or Warlock, or Priest, or Mage…
It’s the same as you saying low ranked players are good, and them taking offense.
They could have just removed emotes from existence. There you solved "Auto Squelch threads and people complaining from BM. Like I used many different hero portraits of Greetings. Most of the newer ones don’t even make sense. It is either Hello or straight up BM. Anyone notice that some of the emotes that literally don’t make sense. You can have oops turned into something different that isn’t consider as oops. If only they just say Oh… as a oops.
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I mean people are lazy to click twice to squelch someone. Like me.
Actually back then the most infuriating emote was “Sorry” emote. But its gone at the least.
I don’t understand the thinking behind the winning player offering a “well played” being immediately taken as an insult. In wild if they’re hyper aggro, dumped their entire hand and got me to 1HP and have no cards in their hand and I play Reno to go back to full health, the game is essentially over. They have no cards, I clear their minions…why not offer a “well played” at that point?
Yes, many players are emotionally-stunted brats who cannot handle a loss.
That’s for them to work on, not the folks who are capable of good sportsmanship.
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Isn’t it the same for those who are bad that cannot handle the truth?
Imagine being so emotional to the point of being hurt or angry because someone on the internet says your rank is awful.
The difference - as has been highlighted- is that one is an overt insult via declaration of inferiority while the other requires the recipient to twist the message backwards in order to get upset about it.
Not sure why you’re trying to compare the two, they’re opposites.
Calling something “bad” or “awful” has immediate and open negative connotations. Saying “well played” does not, and requires the recipient to read the toxicity INTO the message.
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But I’m just stating a fact, my intent isn’t to insult anyone.
If player X is in the bottom 30%, he is indeed bad at the game.
I’m done responding anyway, this is just a drag and not worth the effort.
So who am I racist against?
My black Greatgrandfather? My Native American ancestors? My Asian wife? My European Greatgrandfather?
I follow Aron Ra’s views on human race. It’s a social construct without a biological basis.
I used a very interesting example of a term that’s hilariously used towards people on the opposite ends of the melanin spectrum. The hilarity comes from how illustrative it is that it’s all social constructs.
And more hilarious how ignorant people, even in this forum, fail to understand that the social meaning of a term can be completely different depending on the group of people using it.
And then how those very same people who in this forum jumped into conclusions about negative meanings defend their own use of terms they know are seen as having negative meaning.
So it’s OK for them to complain about other people, but whoever complains about them are a bunch of crybabies. Oh the hypocrisy!
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