Edit: it's a meme y'all, chill out. The original was "stop doing math", it's not supposed to be serious.

  • Roonerino [they/them]
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    14 days ago

    Did you ever play any multiplayer PC shooters before, like, 2005? I'm guessing not because you seem to think this is about good players wanting to stop bad players all day.

    I've never been better than average at CS 1.5, but it was fine because everyone was just playing games for fun where nothing mattered, there wasn't even any kind of persistent stat tracking. People weren't constantly at your fucking throat because your non-meta playstyle was hurting their personal rank and costing them battle pass points or whatever the fuck. Sometimes a really good player would join and you'd fuck around doing some guerilla warfare for a bit trying to catch the AWP god off guard until he got bored and left. And if your team went 0-10 it didn't really matter because when the map changed the score number was reset and had no effect on anything, anywhere.

    I dislike every multiplayer FPS game I've played since TF2 specifically because I'm a bad casual and with SBMM and ranked modes becoming the default there's no room left for people who just want to chill out and play a game without studying metagames and strategies and other sweaty tryhard bullshit because even at the lowest levels your teammates will take personal offense to anything less than perfection and will go above and beyond to make your game as miserable as possible as retribution for your crimes.

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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      14 days ago

      sure, ok. but removing SSBM without removing ranks will just make the game shittier. removing ranks without removing SSBM has next to no downsides.