Look, I’ll come at this from a different angle. You ever play sports? I play sports. Now when we finish a game, it is customary, in pretty much every sport, to shake hands with your opponent. This usually comes with “Good game”.
That’s where the practice came from, that’s why people do it in online games.
Now you walk…

No judgement, just straight talk: you don’t get to choose what offends other people. The condescending tone implied in “GG EZ” offends a lot of people, even if it doesn’t offend you. That’s empathy 101.

Whether it truly was easy for you or not doesn’t factor into what’s sportsman-like and what isn’t. Telling someone they need to try harder at the end of a game isn’t sporting. Neither is telling them they were an easy opponent for you. They’ll know by the score. Say something encouraging and friendly or just don’t say…

Saying “gg ez” isn’t constructive, it’s destructive. It’s insulting in competition and always has been, and “try harder” is just as insulting.

If you think it was an easy win, great, move on with your life. I’m pretty sure the team that got beat knows that they got beat once that “Defeated” slams on their screen. No…

“GG EZ” is 100% shit talking, despite you trying to jump through hoops to justify how it isn’t.

Yup, I can really tell how you’re such a respectful person from how you’re defending people shittalking total strangers. That’s a very believable claim.

Oh no, I think we all got your point. Everyone understands you are the problem.

“If it was easy, it was easy. I’ve won games against opponents that couldn’t make it past their base. That’s easy. Saying it’s easy is like saying “try harder” cause that was easy...”

Oh my god, FUCK THOSE GUYS. Their lacklustre zingers are not an excuse to talk over Bill Nye when he’s talking about a potential revelation in the origin of living things.

Omg I have never seen this segment. I am screaming. LET BILL NYE SPEAK, FFS.

edited to add: OMG WHEN THE NO-NAME COMEDIANS START TALKING. OMG. I CAN’T STOP SCREAMING.

I really, really tried to like the show. I honestly did. But the roundtable format just didn’t work — each commentator only had seconds to barely graze the surface on profound issues that really needed time to bloom in conversation. To make it worse, most of the time the guests squandered those seconds with stupid…

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The data miners don’t care about spoilers, but a lot of people do. There’s not enough surprises in video games these days.

You don’t have to look at the spoilers! Not only that, but they help build the hype if the game is worthy. I’ve never ONCE accidentally read spoilers from a leak I didn’t want spoiled (which would be anything I know I’m interested in trying either way). Besides, people can and will mine the console versions for…

The older I get the, the more I disconnect myself with other “gamers.” I just don't understand this mindset, ****ing nut jobs.

That poor man lost a personal friend between GameStop visits.

“Which is troubling, because I’m not sure Donald Trump knows what he’s legally allowed to do!”

Jesus man, this is HORRIBLE advice. Have you ever been around other actual human beings?

Jesus Fucking Christ. This is about as tactful as batting her with a newspaper until she goes away. I really hope you’re very young.

This is terrible, shitty advice with those “hints” and you’ve probably never been on the receiving end of those kind of “hints”. They’re just cruel and won’t prepare or help at all. Dr Nerdlove is right- a clean break is best.