GG doesnt actually mean “good game” in a sportsmanship manner.
Most often it means “GET GUD” and I am NOT kidding. Tell someone that the game wasn’t “good” that says gg and they will actually turn on a person in chat. Been there done that!
How dare you not gracefully take their lazy “sportsmanship.” If people think that’s sportsmanship, the world is in worse shape than I thought. It takes much more effort to walk up to a person to shake their hand, and be a human being, as opposed to this weird, roboticized version of online sportsmanship. It’s not sportsmanlike at all.
If you say it before the losers do, nobody except you cares what your intent is. You’re actually just trying to make yourself feel better, and you’re lying to yourself otherwise, to - again - make yourself feel better. It’s a cycle of self-indulgence.
Ok. I’ll go with with GG EZ instead since you don’t want (basic) sportmanship.
We don’t want Nickelback either. Being basic is lame.
Already have my thoughts on this from a similar thread so Im just going to reuse it.
its 2 letters. If you cant scrape together the braincells to actually say something its not worth saying and just spam. Real good sportsmanship is taking the effort to comment on the match, saying “Sorry that was such a steamroll” when you were on the winning team of a onesided game is REAL sportsmanship, or another example “you guys played really well”, or perhaps “that was really fun I enjoyed playing with everyone”. But you dont get to give yourself a pat on the back for spamming 2 dumb letters at the end of every game, that is just a waste of chat space.
Saying GG is good sportsmanship is like saying youre a good cook cause you can put a hot pocket in the microwave. Its literally the least possible amount of effort you could do. acting like spamming GG at the end of the game makes you some kind of super positive sportsmanship hero is an insult to the people who actually put in the effort to be good team mates. The quickplay shotcallers who keep the team together, the humble players who will own up to making a mistake when they make it instead of trying to avoid blame, the people who will switch off there favorite hero if they know there current team comp is never realistically going to work and the team needs something else. These are the people who I consider icons of real good sportsmanship and could care less about your low effort chat spam at the end of every match.
TLDR if you cant be bothered to put more than 2 letters into a statement, you don’t get to act surprised when people don’t get the intent behind the message
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"forum kiddos playing Babby’s First Shooter get buttblasted
You talk about how you say things to be polite, and than immediately follow with a rude ad hominem attack to everyone who disagrees with you. Do you not see the faultiness of your own logic here buddy?
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He says them to APPEAR polite. Underneath his facade… well, you see what he said.
It’s hard not to feel that way when we are having words put in our mouths, and now I’m learning possibly getting reported too.
What a ridiculous reason to be reported.
I’ve been saying gg both in game and on the field since I was six, it has and always will be a quick nod to the human beings on the other side of the match for me. You twisting its meaning with no other context to go off of doesn’t change my intent.
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people describing writing a complete sentence instead of 2 letters to communicate with people as an “essay” makes me think that the problem is less with overwatch and more about the failure to properly educate people overall.
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So let me just get this straight, you would rather have everyone else always assume that every use of a statement is intended with the utmost positive possible intent rather than spend an extra 2 seconds typing out a full sentence?
you cant be mad that people give a different meaning to what you say when you can not be bothered to write complete sentences buddy, If youre going to use unspecific 2 letter text speak you can’t be mad that you didn’t get your message across correctly.
The answer to the issue is obvious, quit being lazy and actually put effort into being the polite sportsman you pretend to be, if you can’t be bothered to do that then you probably weren’t being “polite” for the right reasons in the first place.
Maybe the best solution overall would be to put a 10 character limit on gamechat so people are encouraged to actually use complete sentences instead of being lazy
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I mean to be polite and show the bare minimum of sportsmanship to the other team, to the people in my games; not the people who think ‘saying gg is toxic!!!’ have already made up their minds I’m clearly just trolling or whatever.
Nobody does that but for some reason forum kiddos bring this up weekly if not daily. People who are trying to troll or BM will brag about it, say ‘ggez’, ‘git gud’, etc. The Blizzard forums is the only place on the planet so sensitive they find two letters, used through out dozens of games for at least fifteen years, to be some sort of rude taunt instead of a standard saying.
Its hard for me to believe you are genuinely trying to be polite and sportsmanlike when you keep using ad hominem attacks like “forum kiddos”. Insulting people who disagree with you shows your lack of maturity, not theirs. If you have to resort to insulting the other party than that means the point you are trying to make isn’t strong enough to hold its own in the first place. Although this is a lesson most people on this forum need to learn.
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No, they would rather people not assume the absolute worst in people. When you encounter a person you should form your impression on them based on tangible or clear intent.
If Is say in chat “I like ham sandwich’s.” You should assume that what I am saying is exactly what it sounds like. I am just letting you know that I like ham sandwich’s.
However, what you are doing when you assume the worst in someone you instead apply a tone or intent that was no where in what was said and think it means “I hate all other sandwich’s.” Instead.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to find it puzzling why someones outlook on words is to assume the worst in people rather then assume NOTHING about them until they speak.
“GG” unless followed by something that clearly display’s negative intent should be received from the attitude of zero assumption. Which defaults it to a genuinely harmless pair of letters.
Assume the worst in everyone and you will see the worst in everyone despite them doing nothing wrong. Making it a self fulfilling prophecy.
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I’m not arguing that saying “gg” isn’t good sportsmanship, and I’m not saying to never use it after a match.
After a one sided match, saying “gg” at that point is rubbing salt in the wound. It’d be better sportsmanship to say nothing at that point.
ok,ill make sure to say it twice next time just for your triggered asss ![:smiley:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
Welp, can’t be suprised that we got one of these guys attracted to the thread.
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With overly sensitive people that could be considered just as toxic or more toxic because perhaps they didn’t feel that you steamrolled over them.
Or perhaps they find your acknowledgement of your steamroll offensive.
People often want to believe they were difficult to fight even when they weren’t so I guarantee people will report for that if people are reporting for GG and their opinion has the same validity as saying GG is toxic.
At least with GG you are saying Good game rather than acknowledging how bad the other team was which acknowledges their terrible skill level.
There is almost nothing people can say that wont be considered toxic anymore which is why I am a strong advocate for people growing thicker skin and ignoring what some random person says on the internet rather than getting to a point where saying anything in match chat equals a ban because worst possible intentions are always assumed.
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Boom. This post right here.
Good stuff.
GG AND GR
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Gr is hardly salty. Also if you’re so worried about your enemies’ feelings, don’t kill them.