The whole diff thing

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Lol

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Oh my god, not diff again, not flats again.
Is he the new Samito or something?

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No, just a veteran overwatch coach who’s now getting popular again off the wave of Overwatch 2 content.

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No idea just saw a ton of stupid diff posts and dropped a vid I saw. It’s just some random dude on YouTube y’all give him to much credit. Feel free to start a YouTube and post vids I’ll link your great insights.

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I personally dislike the guy the same as samito, but they both speak raw truth that deserves given credit.

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Here’s an idea, literally “stop being so sensitive”

Half of overwatches player base are fragile incel weirdos who are perfectly fine with racial slurs and misogyny but will scream and cry when seeing the words “diff” or “ez”

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i think they should just remove chat entirely like it was on console years ago bc nothing good came of it clearly lol

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Imagine being offended by some random saying diff.

Had a tank yesterday in a quickplay match say tank diff after they won. It was a good even match. Looked at his rank and was 1000 sr difference in my favor (intended).

People who say that have weak mentality

Putting it in your name is based though.

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I think the diff meme is like tactical crouching now, people do it regardless of whether it was earned and it’s funnier when they do it consistently, win or lose.

I remember playing a game of FFA against a guy who tactically crouched every single kill, even if he was going to die doing it. Shine on, you crazy diamond. :saluting_face:

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The amount of people offended by Flats is so weird. He seems to be one of the nicest players. People just like to be butthurt by the word diff and streamers who are better than them.

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Might get bashed for this, but in my opinion it’s just fun toxic banter between you and the enemy team, rivalry is fun.

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You should be bashed for that. It’s not just “fun banter.” You don’t know who is on the receiving end of it. It might be someone extremely depressed, whose day you have now made WAY worse. Strangers on the internet are not your buddies.

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Not saying that I do it, I just don’t mind when it happens. And in higher elos I get matched with pretty much the same 30 people who I don’t necessarily know, but do repeatedly see

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It’s only problematic when it’s your own team using it to scapegoat somebody for a loss. It should absolutely be reported in those cases as the entire point is to attack/shame somebody.

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^ Honestly, this. I’m all for friendly rivalry banter.

I’ve had a lot of fun Tracer 1v1s in the past. If someone got me and said “Tracer diff :P” in chat I’d probably be like “Well damn. Lol”

But when it’s a teammate being all loud and obnoxious and looking to blame anyone but themselves, it’s more like -_-

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Gonna take a different stance to the one I normally do here.

Maybe they just shouldn’t police it at all since sensitivity is the main issue here. People upset at those words should just grow a thicker skin is what you’re saying and I guess the same could be said for those offended by racial slurs and all that other stuff.

If it upsets you, then just grow thicker skin. Sounds easy enough to achieve in my opinion and it would make the game way less toxic if everyone was just thicker than a snickers.

I did find it strange that the youtuber thought people should absolutely be punished for racist, sexist, homophobic remarks when in all those situations those people are just being sensitive like those who don’t like diff and should just suck it up and grow thicker skin.

I mean, that is why we have the option to mute or turn chat off. Would save them so much GM time if they didn’t have to filter through hundreds of thousands of reports about differing levels of sensitivity.

Being on the thicker skin team feels liberating!

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Yep. Especially since 90%+ of the time the person being blamed wasn’t even the weakest link. I’ve found it really wild how many people outright ignore the scoreboard when scapegoating. The tank going 2-12 while theirs is 25-1 and the supports have half the healing + damage? Nah. Better blame the dps who are somehow equal or better stats to the other teams dps :man_shrugging:

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I agree. Sensitive people who can’t control their emotions and get set off by a teammate having a lower number and decide to berate someone are the issue.

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Yeeeeah. I’m not even watching the video, I just saw that person stumbled across an article for it, and that’s where I had originally seen the topic from too.

There are way more important things to actually ban for, like suggesting someone harms themselves, that has my support of, “Yeah, look into that.”

However… Being an :peach:hat is just… report it.

Diff is just a weird one to me. I’ll report a person for being rude for no honest reason other than they’re grumpy or wanting to get a rise out of others… But banning for it…

Okay, so here is my age showing in effect. If I have to look up what something means and continue to read and understand how it is specifically used and why it’s rude… It’s not very relevant.

Say you don’t know what KYS means, but you look that up, you pretty clearly see why people would make a bigger deal about that. That one is pretty straightfoward once you decode the acronym and the intent behind it.

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But if they just grew thick enough skin, chances are they probably couldn’t do it.

Then you type in gg ez skin diff.

Then everyone claps.

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