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In every game. Nothing specific. Everyone higher than me is a sweat, everyone below is stupid.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ranked is fun until you start caring about your rank.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Or your friends start getting sweaty.

[–] PorcupineSlippers@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

I climbed to gold once in StarCraft 2 by worker rushing every single game. I still have no idea how to play an RTS competitively. I was inspired by reading this hilarious blog post back in the day of a guy hardstuck in plat that decided to just worker rush until he was bronze

https://tl.net/blogs/271453-worker-rush-descent-to-bronze

Besides cheesing in SC2, I'm gold 2 in Overwatch mostly because I'm comfortable with fps games and I try to plug in whatever gaps our team has. I only voice comm constructive things. The second I get a team where it's just complaining I mute and try to win without voice comms. If I lose 3 games in a row that's it, I take a break.

[–] badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

playing a game for fun vs playing a game to feel better than others

playing a game to feel something, just anything

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Honestly, it's the right image for both. At least for team based games. The first thing that comes to mind are unpleasent people when I hear ladder.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just wait until lemmy ranked

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I refuse to leave my basement ranking

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 5 days ago

Based on knowing your name by the content you frequently post this made me LOL

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This is why I have incoming to 0. You wanna talk shit, you can type it. I ain't listening to preteens or hormone riddled teens scream like they got a carrot shoved up their ass.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Destiny 2 for me. Unless I'm playing with friends (never happens because they hate comp and trials), I just keep my voice muted. They don't need to hear me raging, I don't need them making me feel worse than I already do. The text chat is bad enough.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I always play Ranked / Competitive cuz I just want to have fun :)

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I prefer me the multiplayer environment of Fromsoft games where it's just absolute degeneracy and your own damn pride on the line. Where the sweat and the stupid blurs.

[–] upandatom@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Where the sweat and stupid blurs is just so apt. Nicely done.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

flashback to my dota days.

[–] palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Simmy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I used to play and I know it's a time sink, but Eve Online is so open ended, that you do you and know one gives a fuck about any ranking system.

[–] Copyleft@hub.astromagna.com 2 points 5 days ago

Greetings, dear friend!

I’m working on what I’d call a spiritual successor to EVE - very early in development still. That open-ended design is what made EVE special, and it’s something I want to push even further!

We also have a Lemmy instance! (even though no one uses it yet) :)