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Was this or that person being sweaty actually?
I've been watching some DBD live content out of curiosity and the amount of entitlement and self preservation of their ego is amazing. This killer or that Survivor is doing this or that they're clearly toxic and sweaty with meta perks while I'm just sitting here thinking they weren't even tunneling, camping, toxic survivors or whatever....They just did bad in that game and blaming the opposite side for their own fault. Throwing regurgitated terms the community has been using for years without actually understanding what it means.
Which begs the questions how well does the average DBD player even understand how the game works or the terms they're using applies to?
Just the some thoughts on my head. What do you think?
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I am generally not a fan of streamers, the attitudes that many of them appear to have, and the blind loyalty and influence that the most popular ones seem to command simply for
recording themselves playing a video game"creating" content.7 -
- Nurse Woo Woo Woo Woo bug
- Nerf Hex: Undying
- Remake Hex: Ruin
- Nerf Freddy
- kill Hillbilly
- Nerf Spirit and Add-ons
- Nerf pop
- Remake Doctor
- Nerf Huntress Add-ons
- Remake Nurse Add-ons
- Nerf The Legion
- Nerf The Executioner
- Nerf The Plague
- Nerf Behead
If you slience,your favorite killer will nerf or dead.
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I generally agree with you. A lot of people here, on media sites, or in game don't really know what they're talking about - they'll use terms as crutches, same as [insert flavour of the month] perks :P
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Sweaty/tryhard are often just the last resort if you're salty about losing. You can get a killer who isn't one of the strongest available and doesn't camp or tunnel or slug or run good addons and gets 12 hooks, or survivors without good perks or items, clearly not in a swf and clearly participating in the match much more than just hammering out one gen after another. You have to invalidate their victory somehow to make it clear you didn't really lose.
I do think some people play this game with a lot more seriousness than is required especially in certain situations, not gonna get into a screaming match on their steam profile or something over it though.
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If they nerf Behead I'm quitting this ######### game.
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Dont worry,behead is nerf on 4.4.1 match.
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Mmr humbled most of the killer mains I watch. But yeah, they are going through that shattered ego phase.
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there are many exceptions but I agree. Many people of the community take the words from their fav streamer as if from a higher being. In the end many of those streamers are promoting toxic and/or sweaty behavior by themselves and then complain about them..
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It's probably safe to say that most of us enjoy SOME person or persons who play video games online. I used to love the Angry Video Game Nerd, shallow and juvenile as he was, before I learned more about the type of person he seems to be and the questionable history of some of the people he's chosen to associate with. I loved the Two Best Friends / Super Best Friends before they split a couple of years ago. Rooster Teeth had some great stuff (and I'm sure still does) before one of their members was exposed as an emotionally and physically manipulative sexual predator.
I just don't like the influence they have. They're just people. They're not even celebrities and I don't care what THEY have to say either. Actors play pretend for a living, I don't need them preaching to me about what I should think politically. Similarly I don't need some kid ten years my junior trying to change my opinion of what aspects of a video game are good and bad based on their own subjective enjoyment which is itself partly (if not wholly) dictated by their quest for more views and, as such, more money to prevent them from having to actually work for a living.
I'm not targeting anyone specifically, though there are some public gamers that I despise for their antics (none that are major DBD players that I know of, being that I've only been playing this game for half a year and stay away from the stream crowd). But I do see a handful of names repeated here constantly - as in literally every day - regarding just about every subject I can think of, and usually as a means by which to end a debate. "Well Joe Blow says...", etc.
Everyone is free to like who they want and watch who they like for whatever reason that they choose. I just find it obnoxious to see the opinions of some random people given SO much weight just because they happen to play a game a lot, opinions shared and games played primarily as a means by which to make money. I find someone like that to be inherently biased, their opinions meaningless to me.
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Words like toxic, sweaty, tryhard and whatever else are so lacking in anything resembling a definitive definition that there will be some confusion and weird moments. Two people can discuss toxicity, and while one of them reserves the word for people dishing out slurs in post-game chat like candy on halloween, the other might think merely equipping Dead Hard or playing Spirit is toxic.
And same for sweaty/tryhard. Some reserve it for "That Guy", the player that both tries hard to win and acts like a tiny baby the moment their opponent(s) dare to do the same. Someone else might not hesitate for a second to shame players for running the wrong perks, playing the wrong killer or whatever else.
And yes, a lot of the time very "loose" definitions of terms like these are indeed part of the "If I didn't get beat the right way, I didn't really lose!" process. Which is something I'm sure everyone has done at some point, but it gets old real quick.
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Well I was just using the streamers bit as an example since I do think their mindset is present in a lot of players more or less. A lot in the forums to be precise since I'm sure most of them doesn't understand what they're saying when they're throwing this DBD terms around.
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Yeah, just need to find a way how to wake up survivor mains.
I sometimes play on official dbd discord, when I want to do challenges and those people usually have no idea what tunnel / camp means and absolutely 0 understanding for other side.
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I think this goes back as far as any multiplayer game. A lot of people have this self defense mechanism. If they're losing, it isn't their fault. That would feel #########. So it's easier to blame your opponent. They were just being a tryhard, they were cheating, they were using an overpowered thing.
Influencers tend to make this worse because they're loud and they have an audience. A Killer main will watch a Killer main streamer and if that streamer has a bad match, he blames the game for being Survivor-sided or SWF. A Survivor main will watch a Survivor main streamer, and if they die, it's because killers are overpowered or they camped and tunnelled. Those people parrot those opinions because people put a lot of value onto these streamers. This isn't every streamer or creator, of course.
I sincerely doubt a good portion of people even know what META means, just that it's tied to powerful perks. A lot of Survivor only players don't seem to know what camping nor tunnelling is, and a lot of Killer only players probably don't know how to loop. They would of course claim they do. This is an endless recycle that repeats with every game, just in different ways.
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Don't forget Buff Shape :c
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It's alright. I don't have anything personal against anyone who watches or otherwise supports streamers. I'm just one of the people who are of the belief that the opinions of streamers or "content creators" (I don't like using that term myself) are generally given way too much weight without the objective dissection or even outright dismissal that a lot of other peoples' opinions are.
I mean, I've been playing games for 38 years, I don't consider myself an expert on the industry nor do I feel that people should value my opinion more than those of someone who may disagree with me. Experience makes a difference, yes, but some people who play this game are looked up to - in my opinion - far more than they should be simply because they have fun personalities and make money doing the same thing that all the rest of us do.
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Nothing about the game is toxic. Save that term for something applicable, like trouble in the home or an abusive work environment.
In terms of sweat, I think it applies to anyone gunning for the game to end as quickly as possible for you or for someone else (i.e. tunneling, gen rushing). I'm sure everyone has their own definition, but that's what I go by.
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