Ungrateful & Stupid

So, I want to address something that comes up very often, but is always framed wrong. I'm talking about Salty, bad sports. Far too often, this is cast as if it is an "us versus them" situation with SOME people making rather biased and incorrect arguments that Survivors are more toxic, sweaty, rude, obnoxious, etc. OTHER people make the same silly arguments about Killers. I think this is all a false narrative. Survivor and Killer are just roles in the game, and very few people (really) don't play both. We have to look at bad sports as PLAYERS, no more and no less.

The biggest issue is, sadly, that a lot of people are stupid. I wish there was a nicer way to say it. People are self-involved, biased, and have a nasty penchant of ignoring everything but whatever they want at that particular moment. I'm going to give you an example from a game I just played. It kind of puts it all into context.

LOCATION: Crotus Prenn

KILLER: The Doc.

I'm playing Jake, with the LA Gangbanger look (not the club one... the streets). My build is Deliverance, Calm Spirit, Self-Care, & Spine Chill. This means I'm in a pretty good position. Most Doc players rely on making people scream to scout an area lightly before moving on. I know, already, that I'm going to be in great shape for banging out Generators and making rescues.

During the course of the game, I brought two Generators up myself, and helped with a 3rd. I unhooked two Survivors, and healed them. I destroyed Totems. I ran the Killer. Nobody had died so far. The Gates were powered, and I STILL had Deliverance on tap if I needed it. Here is where it gets funny.

One of the other three Survivors goes down. I can see his friend is heading to him. The Doc is headed toward one of the gates where a Nea is standing strong to open it. I realize that I can charge the Doc and help the Nea get out, and keep him on this side of the map. This will allow the other one to do the rescue and they can go out the other gate. Even if I go down, the Doc will take off and I will just jump off the hook and get out the gate that is open right there (thanks Nea).

I don't end up having to use Deliverance. The gate gets opened. The Nea and I tangle him a bit and I can see the others are going to be fine, so we let the Doc run us out. So all four escape! I give a GG to all, Killer too. Then one of the other Survivors lays into me saying I'm a TERRIBLE teammate, and the Killer was just a tunneler. I was puzzled. I asked him, somewhat tongue in cheek, "are you dead?" He answers, "NO because of my FRIENDS saved me." I was going to explain to him HOW the game is played and HOW I got him out alive tactically, but it really wasn't worth it. So I pointed out that I had brought 3 Generators up, saved his friends (who saved him), and asked him if I should have done all (5) Generators for him?

Apparently, to this Survivor it looked like I was running away from him when he went down. Technically that is true as I could see the other person would get him, and I was charging the Doc. But he apparently couldn't add 1+1=2. He was just stupid. I felt like pointing out that IF the Killer had been tunneling, there is no way all FOUR of us would have gotten out. That would have made the Killer awful at tunneling. :) So, why am I telling you this anecdote? It isn't to point out that Survivors are worse that Killers. They are not; there are just more of them so by sheer numbers we will see MORE of them making fools of themselves. It is to point out that the nature of bad sportsmanship isn't logical. It is spoiled; it is ignorant. It is a tantrum and a lack of manners. It doesn't have anything to do with reality. This guy got out alive (as did everyone else) and didn't carry much of the weight. And yet, his only reaction wasn't GG or Thanks or just to hold his tongue. He had to make noise. He mattered, and DARN IT, we were going to know he mattered. Screaming little children, nothing more.