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Cheesing, what is it really?

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wolfe
Profile Joined March 2010
United States761 Posts
April 01 2010 08:38 GMT
#1
What does "cheese" really mean?

I mean seriously, I don't know why but almost every game now players rage off without gging. They're always complaining about cheese or imba or something stupid like that rather than trying to fix their mistakes and improving. What concerns me the most though is that the word "cheese" is tossed around so casually now as something dirty and in place of a gg. Why can't the sportsmanship that goes into high level games be more prevalent, because I think a competitive and respectable community will serve SCII much better.

Do people not know what cheesing means or am I just a cheesy player? If I go mutas or banshees mid game after a normal transition and expo how is that cheese? Hellion harasses? At this point every early timing push, harass, or anything outside of attack move with army blobs becomes cheese. What's the deal with this crop of players? Learn to scout.
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mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5655 Posts
April 01 2010 08:40 GMT
#2
people are just bad and angry. you're gonna have to deal with a lot of noobs before they sink to the bottom where they belong

cheese is all in if it fails. what you're doing is fine, just gotta absorb the hate. ^_^
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ZenDeX
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Philippines2916 Posts
April 01 2010 08:43 GMT
#3
I just dealt with 2 cheesing tosses minutes ago. They left without gg'ing. You want replays? (Gold div btw)
CKSide
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States223 Posts
April 01 2010 08:57 GMT
#4
its the same term as "broken" Words eventually just got tossed around as jargon that pleases a person when they say it.
just like anything that beats you is "broken"
Anything that crushes the opponent is "cheesy"

though i suppose the real meaning is more of an early game rush strat that punishes an inexperienced player trying to tech.
maybe.
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omninmo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-01 09:17:40
April 01 2010 09:01 GMT
#5
cheese is usually anything that causes someone to "rage".
particularly clever and sneaky play that deviates from what is, at that present time, associated with "normal play".
BentoBox
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada303 Posts
April 01 2010 09:01 GMT
#6
What's with people making such a big deal out of not gging after games?
Only dead fish swim with the stream
omninmo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-01 09:24:01
April 01 2010 09:11 GMT
#7
On April 01 2010 18:01 BentoBox wrote:
What's with people making such a big deal out of not gging after games?

there is a certain civility that comes with mannered play. GG has many meanings, but "acknowledgment of defeat" should be its practical use, nothing more. GG says, "the game is won, but not by me".

GG is a mindset whereby you are willing to thank the opponent for showing you yet another weak spot in your game so as to actually improve your play. This perhaps pinpoints the exact reason that certain top level players have no patience playing or GGing so-called "cheesy" players since they, as they see it, have nothing to learn from losing to, say, a two-rax in-base proxy or a proxied barrack bunker rush.

Oftentimes when players "get cheesed" and "lose" they somehow rationalize it into "he didn't beat me, he didn't really win . I just i didnt scout it in time" or some other such comforting reassurance.

I do not recommend cheesy play for practice regimens but I also do not scoff when i see white-ra or even combat-ex "cheesing" in a live event or tournament replay.
MrRey
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
183 Posts
April 01 2010 09:18 GMT
#8
Because it's simply polite to say "gg".

Come on when you lose a chess game you congratulate your oponent normaly, at least a handshake.

It's what sport is all about.

And come on, even the computer says it when it loses now...
ColorsOfRainbow
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany354 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-01 09:36:57
April 01 2010 09:36 GMT
#9
lol this kiddys cry about everything ^^

if u chees with micro (fuck u cheeser noob)

if u mass units (fuck u can u only mass units idiot noob?)

etc etc

ps: yes there was one flame me because i massed my units attack and expand ^^ rly macro is a reason to be flamed xD
Kantutan
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1319 Posts
April 01 2010 09:37 GMT
#10
Too many threads on this.......
VTArlock
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1763 Posts
April 01 2010 09:39 GMT
#11
On April 01 2010 18:11 omninmo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2010 18:01 BentoBox wrote:
What's with people making such a big deal out of not gging after games?

there is a certain civility that comes with mannered play. GG has many meanings, but "acknowledgment of defeat" should be its practical use, nothing more. GG says, "the game is won, but not by me".

GG is a mindset whereby you are willing to thank the opponent for showing you yet another weak spot in your game so as to actually improve your play. This perhaps pinpoints the exact reason that certain top level players have no patience playing or GGing so-called "cheesy" players since they, as they see it, have nothing to learn from losing to, say, a two-rax in-base proxy or a proxied barrack bunker rush.

Oftentimes when players "get cheesed" and "lose" they somehow rationalize it into "he didn't beat me, he didn't really win . I just i didnt scout it in time" or some other such comforting reassurance.

I do not recommend cheesy play for practice regimens but I also do not scoff when i see white-ra or even combat-ex "cheesing" in a live event or tournament replay.

Perfect explanation of "gg". I highly agree with most everything you've said here.
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mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5655 Posts
April 01 2010 09:41 GMT
#12
On April 01 2010 18:11 omninmo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2010 18:01 BentoBox wrote:
What's with people making such a big deal out of not gging after games?

there is a certain civility that comes with mannered play. GG has many meanings, but "acknowledgment of defeat" should be its practical use, nothing more. GG says, "the game is won, but not by me".

GG is a mindset whereby you are willing to thank the opponent for showing you yet another weak spot in your game so as to actually improve your play. This perhaps pinpoints the exact reason that certain top level players have no patience playing or GGing so-called "cheesy" players since they, as they see it, have nothing to learn from losing to, say, a two-rax in-base proxy or a proxied barrack bunker rush.

Oftentimes when players "get cheesed" and "lose" they somehow rationalize it into "he didn't beat me, he didn't really win . I just i didnt scout it in time" or some other such comforting reassurance.

I do not recommend cheesy play for practice regimens but I also do not scoff when i see white-ra or even combat-ex "cheesing" in a live event or tournament replay.


wow. can i get this on a poster for my room?
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MorroW
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden3522 Posts
April 01 2010 09:49 GMT
#13
there r so many ppl who leave without saying gg at end, its pretty annoying
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BentoBox
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada303 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-01 09:59:28
April 01 2010 09:56 GMT
#14
On April 01 2010 18:11 omninmo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 01 2010 18:01 BentoBox wrote:
What's with people making such a big deal out of not gging after games?

there is a certain civility that comes with mannered play. GG has many meanings, but "acknowledgment of defeat" should be its practical use, nothing more. GG says, "the game is won, but not by me".

GG is a mindset whereby you are willing to thank the opponent for showing you yet another weak spot in your game so as to actually improve your play. This perhaps pinpoints the exact reason that certain top level players have no patience playing or GGing so-called "cheesy" players since they, as they see it, have nothing to learn from losing to, say, a two-rax in-base proxy or a proxied barrack bunker rush.

Oftentimes when players "get cheesed" and "lose" they somehow rationalize it into "he didn't beat me, he didn't really win . I just i didnt scout it in time" or some other such comforting reassurance.

I do not recommend cheesy play for practice regimens but I also do not scoff when i see white-ra or even combat-ex "cheesing" in a live event or tournament replay.


What if the game was genuinely bad ? What if the players know each other? It's sort of like people watching Idra play game after game and still causing an uproar when he storms out of the room. If he's well acquainted with his opponent, why would a spectator feel offense if the player doesn't? And if you know that he behaves that way against everyone, why take it personally?

I just don't understand how you let yourselves be so easily broken.

On a tangent, the same applies to cheese. It is a legit part of the game, yet many choose to put a label on everything arbitrarily considered non-standard, as depicted by the OP. And so, when they fall to it, they become emotional and would rather use a scapegoat than actually learn from the loss.

On April 01 2010 18:18 MrRey wrote:
Because it's simply polite to say "gg".

Come on when you lose a chess game you congratulate your oponent normaly, at least a handshake.

It's what sport is all about.

And come on, even the computer says it when it loses now...


Yes, I get it that it's polite.

What I don't get is that not GGing is somehow considered impolite.

Sort of like holding out the door for someone distant.

You have created standards of your own and expect people to follow them and get hurt when people won't abide to your ways. I don't find offense when people leave, nor should I imply that they do.

They left the game, you got your win, clearly you did something right. Move on?

Shitstorms are generated from such trivial behavior, it's funny to me, really.
Only dead fish swim with the stream
riptide
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
5673 Posts
April 01 2010 10:45 GMT
#15
TL wasn't launched a week before the beta. We have discussed this over, and over, and over, and over again.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=cheese
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