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Haha, I am such an agent provacateur. I kid the few that read this.
I understand why there are customs to offer your opponent to have good luck and/or have fun. It is completely absurd and an inane waste of time to type these few characters.
"Why...?" You must ask.
The answer is simple.
I want to win, I don't wish you luck, and although I may want you to have fun, I want you to have fun losing.
The end.
On August 24 2011 12:40 StarStruck wrote:
Your not the first to have this epiphany.
It's a lot like saying, "Hello, how are you?" and the person responds with "Fine," "Good", or whatever when they don't really mean it. It's become common courtesy to say such things even when you don't necessarily mean it. People say it with little to no thought nowadays. It just comes naturally to them because they are so used to saying it. It's plain; it's boring. People get it.
Guy's like White-Ra will have you believe they always mean such things when in reality they want to do their best to win.
With that said, when I'm at the card table I never wish a player good luck. I will have a good table conversation with them, but hell I want to take their money while I'm at it.
Just because you don't wish them good luck, doesn't mean you don't respect them as a person. -_-
This.
GL HF has become habits not a display of manners. You don't actually display respect by merely stating GLHF.
 
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Manners are one of the few things that keep us above unintelligent beasts. Also, it's always nice to make someone happy.
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How is it a waste of time? What else are you doing, exactly, 4 seconds into a game?
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Yeah now that you say something, when I say hi gl hf at the beginning of every game, I could be doing something a lot better with my time...
This is one of the least mature standpoints one can have, it's like you think you're intelligent and mature by not because of "reason", when it's actually the exact opposite...
Grow up a little?
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On August 24 2011 12:24 redoxx wrote:
Manners are one of the few things that keep us above unintelligent beasts. Also, it's always nice to make someone happy.
Dont be absurd.
We obviously shouldn't treat others with respect. It's pointless.
You don't need friends, or family, or significant others, or a job. You were born with strength to forcefully take what you want without wasting your time on inane things like social norms or manners.
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I'll be honest, whenever I type in 'gl hf gg' I never really mean it. I just want to crush my opponent, and hopefully he will have fun while it happens, but if he doesn't I don't care. I only do it to put up a false sense of friendliness, make us actually communicate instead of awkwardly playing a game killing each other without saying anything, and to see if I can type the characters out before my opponent does.
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Your not the first to have this epiphany.
It's a lot like saying, "Hello, how are you?" and the person responds with "Fine," "Good", or whatever when they don't really mean it. It's become common courtesy to say such things even when you don't necessarily mean it. People say it with little to no thought nowadays. It just comes naturally to them because they are so used to saying it. It's plain; it's boring. People get it.
Guy's like White-Ra will have you believe they always mean such things when in reality they want to do their best to win.
With that said, when I'm at the card table I never wish a player good luck. I will have a good table conversation with them, but hell I want to take their money while I'm at it.
Just because you don't wish them good luck, doesn't mean you don't respect them as a person. -_-
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My god! I never even thought about this before! Magnificent discovery! Brilliant man! You are a genius!
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Why not just say 'hf' then?
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This is why I just don't say anything, because then I don't really think about it and it becomes a null issue to me.
The thought people put into this is ridiculous. It never goes anywhere.
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Say it or don't say it, who cares is my opinion on it. I do say it every game with people I know or if someone says it to me on ladder first, but if they don't then its all good, I don't think anyone "really" cares that much about it.
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wow, you're a mean person, hope I don't glhf you sometime.
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On August 24 2011 12:51 tomatriedes wrote:
Why not just say 'hf' then?
I do.
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When I say good luck, I mean I will still play to win, but I hope he plays his best game, and loses because I outplay him not because he forgets to research stim or something stupid of the sort.
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So do you still say GG? if you are outmatched?
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I find it awkward when nothing gets said in a game, not sure why though. SEA seems to have some good manner folks on it, so sometimes I even get a bit of a chat while the game gets started.
I generally only don't say anything if it's like my 10th match (I've forgotten/Zombie mode by then!  )
I believe in saying it though, and I do mean it. It's the people who say glhf then rage at the end of the game and don't GG that I don't get lol.
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On August 24 2011 12:23 kineSiS- wrote:
This.
GL HF has become habits not a display of manners. You don't actually display respect by merely stating GLHF.
You use this as a defense, but it really just supports the opposing argument. You say you don't type GLHF because you don't really want them to have good luck, you want to beat them. Here, you are agreeing that most people don't LITERALLY mean "GLHF." It's a formality. It's polite. You don't have to mean it, but it's nice to say.
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I go through most matches completely silent, actually. If you don't say anything, they usually don't, either.
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On August 24 2011 12:24 redoxx wrote:
Manners are one of the few things that keep us above unintelligent beasts.
Robbing banks too.
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EPT
