I guess we could all be like nony and put this at the bottom of our stream.

"Don't expect the best play from me while I'm streaming... but probably still better than any other stream

Comeh

United States18919 Posts

February 07 2010 02:13 GMT

#22

When you talk about baseball teams or (lets just say american) football teams, and call them bad (such as the pirates or the raiders), you call them bad. Its automatically assumed you are talking comparatively to the other professional baseball/football teams.
I don't see why it would be ay different in starcraft.
Edit: oh, and there are other phrases/meme's that are far more annoying than "i'm bad" or whatever. COUGHUSEFULSKILLTOIHAVECOUGH

Future_sc

United States783 Posts

February 07 2010 02:27 GMT

#23

Kawaii is one of the few that does this. 95% percent of all other people say that they are good blah blah blah. It's refreshing seeing some people that aren't arrogant and cocky.

Achromic

773 Posts

February 07 2010 03:04 GMT

#24

wtf

OreoBoi

Canada1639 Posts

February 07 2010 05:02 GMT

#25

That's why mondragon is so cool.
During TL.net attack:
Mondragon: "My terran is so fucking awesome"
Chill: "What iccup level is it?"
Mondragon: "D+"

KurtistheTurtle

United States1966 Posts

February 07 2010 05:21 GMT

#26

I'm bad at sc.

seriously

sassy

240 Posts

February 07 2010 05:31 GMT

#27

Now it's gone too far. Kawaiirice you aren't bad you made it to WCG, enough with the jokes already we get it that you are making fun of yourself.

to think that some cute and innocent guy like kawaii caused such a shitstorm.. damn kawaii, ure bad!

NSANE.hydra

United States644 Posts

February 07 2010 06:06 GMT

#28

It's much better than hearing people call themselves amazingly talented or something. People who do that tend to be total dicks, whereas people who say they are worse than they actually are generally just don't want to look like they're bragging about their skills.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

February 07 2010 06:07 GMT

#29

I hate when I lose and then the dude is like "lmao i played so bad wtf"

Zapdos_Smithh

Canada2620 Posts

February 07 2010 06:15 GMT

#30

Mk just to clarify for you people who are bringing up the point of cockiness so you don't have to repeat yourselves, that's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about people who constantly say they are bad. The phrase itself. It's not used as humility when you say it 24 hours a day. I guess many of you haven't experienced hearing this phrase almost 50 times/day with friends online so can't really relate.

edit:

On February 07 2010 15:07 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
I hate when I lose and then the dude is like "lmao i played so bad wtf"

and ya that is so annoying. Some of my flist friends do that, I usually respond with "you realize im still here right".

TheAntZ

Israel6248 Posts

February 07 2010 06:18 GMT

#31

Yeah its pretty annoying when anyone above like D+ says it, because iirc, being C- and above means you're in the top 30-40% of sc players in the world. so if you're above D+, you're not bad. just stop

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

February 07 2010 06:20 GMT

#32

you're misunderstanding
machine is actually really, really bad

Zelniq

United States7166 Posts

February 07 2010 06:30 GMT

#33

nonono this is better used with 'good'

like "machine is a good player"

crate

United States2474 Posts

February 07 2010 07:02 GMT

#34

On February 07 2010 15:18 TheAntZ wrote:
Yeah its pretty annoying when anyone above like D+ says it, because iirc, being C- and above means you're in the top 30-40% of sc players in the world. so if you're above D+, you're not bad. just stop

Depending on what you mean by "sc player." If you just mean someone who plays starcraft, then D+ is easily top 40% (heck, probably most D-level players are too)--take a look at how many people are on bnet and then how many are on ICCUP.

For kicks I just checked this, and SC told me there were 62k players logged on bnet with SC (I logged on USWest, not sure if that matters), and less than 2k logged on ICCUP.