What are some other ways of saying "gg ez"?

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But, in a way, you might.

Imagine speaking to a loved on and explain that you are angry because you lost a few points because someone else had a bad game. They would probably think you’ve lost it.

Then there is the point that 1 single match is not an indicator of skill… Otherwise new accounts would have MMR nailed after 1 match… Instead of the 50-100 it takes.

SR is just an indicator. I don’t go full try hard in ranked. Me and my friends want to win, but we will be laughing and joking as we do it. We all nudge each other to be better players. When I solo que, I focus on playing better than I did the last match. If I win or lose, that doesn’t really mean too much. If I look at my win rates, my main heroes this season are around 60%… So I can only guess I have ended higher than I started. But that isn’t what I am playing for.

I am playing to improve, winning is just a by-product of that. Losing is a by-product of me not playing well enough.

Note, never getting mad at what others do. Because I have no control over what they do.

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I really don’t. There is a difference to having explosive anger issues, and getting mad of annoyance by different priorities with other players. My gf gets mad too, it’s pretty common for alot of people to get annoyed and mad from games, it’s not really a big deal. In fact, it’s quite common. It’s not so much that I get mad at other people for having a bad day, it’s more that I wish they didn’t get placed in my match at all. Thats why alot of people do warm-ups in qp, to see where they are that day in terms of good or bad.

I don’t see the relevance to what I was saying, please explain.

And this is completely fine as long as you are playing with a full stack. For all I care, you can play whatever you want. But if people play in ranked, I expect them to do their absolute best, and not mess around for sh**s and giggles. That, they can do in qp or any other places. Ofcourse it’s not in my power to stop them from doing so, but I will report them for sabotage if they do. Following meta is not something I’m asking for in ranked, I want people to play their best, regardless of setups.

I feel the same, as long as everyone did their best, I will not complain. Atleast not at individual players. But if I see that we are getting steamrolled because we have a (for example) Rein, that only charges solo into a group of 6 enemies, and all alone, then it’s not a player that should be on my team. That’s not smart in any situation, and should only be done for fun in a qp or with a full 6 stack that doesn’t mind, and find that stuff funny.

This can be true for any mode, ranked shouldn’t be used as a practice place in my opinion. Things in ranked should be taken serious, but not so serious that nobody has fun. Ranked is NOT a “job”, it’s more of a ladder where you can see how high you can climb, as it should be. The annoyance comes when people on your own side prevents you from climbing, not when the enemy does.

Not necessarily. It is a team-game after all. If you have a bad team, then it doesn’t matter how good you play. It’s very rare to be able to consistently win in 1v6 fights, even if it CAN happen.

That’s a very zen way of seeing things. But it’s not unhealthy to get mad at people when they underperform.

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You said you get mad at a player not doing enough in your eyes. I am saying 1 bad match doesn’t make a bad player. And it isn’t worth getting annoyed at. We all have bad games.

True, you can get bad teams, but in solo que what can I do about it? All I can do is play my best, and if I lose, work out how I could have done more.

It isn’t unhealthy, but it is completely pointless.

They won’t play better if you moan at them. So there is no point. And once the match is over, it is done you can’t change anything so move on.

But most importantly, it is a video game. And gaming is fun. If the fun stops, you need to consider your options.

There is a forum user so obsessed with SR it is a little unhealthy that it completely tilts them when someone says it isn’t that important. Personally, I play this game to get better. If all I wanted was SR I would just get someone to boost me. So, no I am not going to get mad at what others do.

And as per the original post, I will never tilt at what is typed. 90% of games I have text chat turned off anyways so I never know what the typing Timmys are doing.

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The anger comes when this happens repeatedly. It doesn’t have to be the same player, but when it happens with different players in different rounds, then it’s still something that is annoying. It’s better to let the anger out, rather than repress it. As long as the anger doesn’t lead to violence, that is.

As one does, yes. But when you see it’s not on you, or atleast not to a noticable degree, then the anger would be justifiable, and better to let it out than repressing it.

Not exactly, there have been studies about this, and it actually shows that it’s quite healthy and helpful for the mind to let it out. Does it accomplish a difference? nope. But does it make you feel better? yes. And it’s better for you in the long-term.

Still feels better to tell them to get their act together, rather than repressing emotions. And THEN move on after, hoping you never see them again.

This is true, and it is most fun when you play ranked, if others take it as serious as you yourself do. So when people don’t play serious in ranked, it’s quite annoying when I am taking it serious. That’s MY sr going down because they didn’t play well enough. If they did better, I would have more fun. Win or lose. If the match is incredibly evenly matched, and I lose, I honestly don’t mind. It would just feel great to have an even match.

Yea, it’s not very important, but I guess it depends how you see it. He/she shouldn’t let the SR in itself dictate how the rest of their day is going to be. In that sense, it is “just a game”. But I still think that playing seriously, and tryharding as much as you can in ranked is how it SHOULD be. And if people don’t have the same mindset, then they might aswell play qp instead, honestly.

I keep my chat on to atleast see if anyone says anything interesting, but I’m pretty un-tiltable ingame myself, atleast as far as chat goes. Me smashing my table with my fist whenever I die due to my own inadequacies, or, when a ranked teammate does something incredibly stupid, however, sure.

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I am not obsessed with SR, again, I merely stated how competitive is all about SR but ofcourse little treacle says otherwise. “Tilted”, no, but annoyed at players that purposely throw and don’t care about winning in ranked games, yes, but I don’t get “ragey” like you say because you’re trolling seeking a reaction, so there’s your reaction. :slight_smile: And coming from a guy that doesn’t care about SR, Competitive, you have no say in it.

Exactly, otherwise they’ll just keep doing it.

Exactly this.

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Seems odd that you think this was about you…

Why would I care what my SR is?

I improve - I win more
I win more - games get harder
Games get harder - I need to improve

Or does it just annoy you that I don’t care about SR yet still climb (all be it slowly), and you constantly fret about it and have dropped?

No one ever said I don’t take the games seriously. I just have zero care for what SR I am. I trust trust my SR will roughly be what skill I am. So i work on improving.

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Kinda obvious since you always argue with me about SR, so nice try.

Your troll attempt doesn’t trigger me so nice try again.

Delusional.

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It wasn’t about you. But nice try.

You are just argumentative for no reason. I only asked a question.

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OK confession time;

The first week I started playing Overwatch back in season 5, I had no idea Blizzard had put these alternative scripts that display something else instead of “ggez” so after one of my first losses I saw one of the other players on the winning team write ggez but it displayed as “I’m having some insecurity issues right now…etc” and I actually replied with something like “dw man everything’s gonna be ok” thinking it was legitimately someone who was going through some stuff :man_facepalming:t2: I found out a few weeks later about how “ggez” shows as those scripts.

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I had a similar experience, until I noticed that this appeared all the time, and alot of them were the same, so I assumed there was some sort of reddit-movement or something where people just copy-pasted long strings of pre-written stuff to instigate a laugh. But I don’t do reddit, so it was only an assumption on my part. A few days after I saw them appear all the time, I asked in the in-game chat, and someone told me to write “ggez”, and lo and behold, the same types of lines came. Made me smile to see blizz had a sense of humor when it came to this.

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Who was it about then? Hmm?

I don’t care about your pointless links to opinions I don’t care about. People know what competitive is about, and you’ve shown plenty of times that you don’t care for competitive or SR.

I don’t get why anyone would get upset over 4 letters. “gg ez” is hardly an insult or swearing. I find it funny people use it. People just get offended by the littlest things these days.

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One of the best coaches out there… pointless. Hot take.

No, you’ve assumed I don’t care for competitive because I don’t care what my SR is.

Youve maulded because someone has a much more chilled way to view the game.

I try my hardest to win, I try my best to improve. I could be 100sr, I could be 4000sr… it is irrelevant. I’ll have the same mind set.

TRY TO BE THE BEST PLAYER I CAN BE
TRY TO WIN
HAVE FUN

3 easy rules.

People just get offended by the littlest things?? Like you being offended someone doesn’t care about some numbers.

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Never been offended about that at all, again, you’re trolling, as usual. Stop acting like you know everything and do something else with your time. :slight_smile:

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So you getting mad because I don’t care what sr I am, and telling me to plat something else…

SR important. Maybe you’ll climb when you realise that and focus on the important things.

I hope you do, I’m sure you’re not a bad player. Just distracted.

I used to sweat SR and got stuck at 1200…
Stopped worrying, focused on “git gud” and miraculously moved up to 2800…

Back then i got actioned a few times for flaming people. Stopped that at the same time too. You don’t win getting mad at others.

(Not sure trying to help people see another mindset to play the game with is trolling, but ok champ)

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I follow the same rules, but I think what Wolfex is talking about is not really going against any of these either. I think his point is that it’s hard to have fun when you have bad team-mates essentially prevent you from climbing higher, which, let’s be honest, is what most people want to achieve when they play ranked. This in turn places most of the blame on the other players, which to be fair, has nothing to do with getting better yourself. That would be like saying: “I have to Git Luckier, because I have bad luck with teams”. Seeing as it’s a team game. Your SR is not just a reflection of your own skill, it also reflects on how much luck you have with getting good/bad teammates aswell.

So in closing, I don’t think he is “getting offended that someone else isn’t caring about numbers” per say. I think it’s more that it’s frustrating to play and try to climb, when you have to deal with the roll of a dice whether you will be able to climb or not that round, regardless of how well you play.

In my opinion, there are many things that could be looked into to make this better, like, if you got SR based on your own performance more than the team as a whole, this would be better. If I played Zarya and had 15k dmg, 30 kills, and spent about 8 mins on objective, in a 10 minute match, and the second in damage is a junkrat with 8k dmg, 20 kills, and about 2 mins, then it’s only fair that if we lose, I don’t lose AS much as him, or if we win, that I get MORE than him, as he is not performing even close to my level of play. Meaning, I shouldn’t be there, and they should put me with people of similar dmg, accuracy, etcetc.

I would love to play both with, and against, people of the same skill-level as me. If I were to guess, I belong somewhere between high dia and low master. I’m never getting into GM, I don’t have their level of skill and reaction, and that’s not something just anyone has. They are insane, and there is no way I’m getting there. But based on what I’ve seen from GM and M, I definitely am at the same point of skill, atleast with enough champions for each role, that I could be low masters. Sadly, the climb to get there is full of frustrating teammates. Moiras that play as a dps, reins who charges in 1v6, dps that won’t swith off doom and genji when enemy team has sombra and winston AND a phara, etc. it’s just not much we can do in those situations, and THAT is what is frustrating.

SR is not “important”, but it should be TREATED as if it is, if you play in ranked. Getting more skill etc, that can be done in qp. Learning, is what qp essentially is for. Ranked is where you go to “get measured” as to where you are at this point in time. Once you are confident in your skill, you can, if you want, just stay in ranked and play there. The learning you will get over time there is more like micro-knowledge, like imagine you walk backwards to back away from an enemy, and you suddenly get stuck in something, and then you get hooked and killed by a hog, and you watch the replay, and see that “oooohhhh, there is a sign-post there, and it can be broken! So I’ll break it next time, and this wont happen again”, etc.

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You describred performance based SR… Which is what happens below Diamond.

This is why people complaining about team mates below that are defecting their issues.

You focus on doing the best you can and improving, you will have bigger impacts in matches. If you win, you’ll gain more and if you lose you will lose less. Then if your win rate is above 50% at the end of the season, you will have ended noticeably higher than when you started.

Sadly, some people aren’t that interested in getting better, and that is perfectly fine. But don’t complain about your SR or your team if you are no interested in getting good.

If you belong in high diamond, low masters, you would be there.

If you are in plat, it is because that is your skill level. You blaming your team mates for being unable to gain, what 400 SR? is laughable at best.

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I’m plenty enough good. I’m no top 500 material, and there are still things I could get better at, but not a whole lot. Atleast not major stuff. I can more or less walk every map backwards at this point without getting stuck in anything, because I know location of stuff that I’ve gotten stuck in before, and that experience made me learn from it. Similar to everything else I do. I learn fast from my mistakes, and don’t really repeat them.

And I’m saying it depends on the circumstances. If I constantly get teams where we have leavers or people who don’t care, or are not willing to switch, then that’s REALLY on them, not on me. I’m not saying I’m playing perfect, and I’ve got alot of hours behind me to make a judgement call on where people belong in ranked if they really went in for it. But sure, 400 SR is quite alot to gain when you frequently get bad teammates. It’s not as laughable as you might think it is. There is a sort of “1 step forward, 2 steps back” in ranked. I can do amazingly well, but if I have people on my team that doesn’t do their job correctly, then ofcourse that affects me aswell, it’s pretty logical. Say I’m playing Rein, and I’m shielding my s76 and cree, but they just can’t seem to get that phara flying about, what am I supposed to do? if they don’t kill her, we WILL die, and thus lose. It’s out of my hands. I could switch to a different tank that can contest the pharah, like dva for example, but then again, if we already have 2 hitscan, it shouldn’t be necessary. Whenever I play a hitscan, the pharah dies. I wish I could play ranked dps more, but the queue is just too much, so I just end up doing supp and tank for the most part. But the problem can exist regardless of role, that’s just how team-heavy this game is. Sure, there are situations where you can pull off a crazy high noon, or a sick genji moment where you just ult everything to oblivion, but it’s not a consistent thing.

However, I don’t care to play alot of ranked, I just want to play, so usually I just go for qp, and I do my placements, occasionally I feel like I’m playing particularly better some days, and I might do a couple ranked games, but overall, I just to placements for the golden weapons.

My point is however, there are alot of bad players in ranked, especially in plat-level, where people suddenly think they know everything. It’s quite an experience to try to get out of it. It really is almost like 50/50 on whether you win or lose pr game. That’s how many bad people are there, and since the game is so team heavy, climbing 400SR can be easy, if you have alot of luck, or next to impossible, if you have bad luck. It’s not all about individual skill. My skill can’t weigh up for a bad player. If I play as if I am 2 players as 1, then that SHOULD be reflected upon my SR, but it really isn’t. Usually I get like 27SR or something for winning, and losing a match will withdraw similar amount. ±5, give or take.

I’m basing my placement on my knowledge of the game, counters, flexibility, accuracy, and overall game-sense. I really should be in high dia or low masters. Not GM at all, and definitely not below dia. Exactly where on the range I don’t know, but I could get into masters if I bothered to put more time into it, but… meh. I don’t care that much, I just want to shoot things.

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If you are getting 27 SR then you are only fractionally outperforming your peers in the same MMR as you. That is not a sign that you are in plat, but should be masters.

That is a sign that you are in plat and played alright for someone in plat.

General rule of thumb, if you think you should be in rank higher than you are, you are wrong.

Unless you are on a new account and have only just done your first placements.

You are a very high level account, I would expect you to know your way round a map. But after that amount of games you are exactly where you should be.

Unless in qp you are playing in Masters games all the time. Which I would highly doubt.

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Ofcourse, because if we are playing 6v6, but 2 of our teammates is basically like 1 combined, then we are consistently fighting “5v6”, even if we are 6 people. Naturally this will put alot of unnecessary extra pressure on me and my other teammates, which means we are in much bigger risk of getting killed, and die more than we should be. This ofcourse brings the SR gain down, and there is essentially nothing I can do about it. That’s why the game is very heavily based on the team. And when the team is too bad, there is not much you can do as a single person. There is a limit.

Generally, I would agree, but there are situations pointing to the opposite aswell. I’ve played against many master players, and they are very much on par with my level of skill in this game.

The majority is spent in qp though, as I can’t be bothered to play much more ranked due to the flip of a coin luck on whether I get good teammates or not. The fact that they can “sink my ship”, is unappealing to me, and makes me not care much to play ranked. But if I did play alot more ranked, I would eventually get to high dia/low master. No doubt in my mind at all. I would not be able to get to GM, I know my own limits fairly well, and I’m being very honest about my measurements. I don’t see myself as better than what I am, I’m simply saying there is plenty of situations where teammates can drag your SR down into the ground.

I actually get alot of masters and diamonds. Occasionally I also get GM, but when we do, they are usually steamrolling us. GM is way above my level of skill. but low masters? definitely.

Playing as hitscan dps-ers, I’m usually in the 60-70% accuracy range, and few errors are made. I do my roles as I should, and the only thing stopping me from climbing higher is mainly a mix of my own limit of getting better accuracy and timing. There are things I can learn better, sure, like timing projectiles better, and so on. But all in all, 60-70% accuracy is very good. But yes, I do meet alot of masters in QP, if that’s what you referred to. In ranked, I saw them only a few times, as I’m only getting to dia, then I stop just for the golden weapon currency. I’m not too bothered about playing that much in ranked just to get to masters. But if I would play, and a professional would watch me and guess what ladder-tier I’m in, they would say somewhere between dia and masters.

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“a professional would watch me and guess what ladder-tier I’m in, they would say somewhere between dia and masters.”

I would put money on them not. (I have seen your stats, they don’t quite match what your saying, they are all pretty solid).

There is a reason you are in plat. You might have some mechanical skill, but something will be lacking.

I am plat. I have played against masters, and GM teams in scrims and just about managed to hold my own. (also been completely torn to pieces in those games), because I am plat and have a lot to improve on.