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On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that
he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause.
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For some unknown reason, I used to have a bug where pausing the game would make me unable to chat. As you can see this might be a problem, and even though it fixed itself for me if someone pauses without saying anything I just assume they have this bug and wait for a bit. Unless its an obvious BM pause.
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having someone waiting in-game on pause in sc2 is not unlike having a prossy waiting for you while you deal with other stuff, and then refusing the pay the prossy for your break time.
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On May 25 2011 19:54 shizna wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 19:53 dukem wrote:On May 25 2011 15:24 cLutZ wrote:
Don't pause. Pausing at all is BM IMO. Not everyone lives in a sealed basement. in a public FPS game, do you expect the entire server to sit and wait while you take a dump or whatever? what's the difference between pub fps and pub rts ? if you have an urgent call or whatever, just leave the damn game. it's only points.
Pub fps usually contains more than 10 people.
Pub rts 1v1 ladder, you do the math.
There is a difference between pausing a game with 20 people and a game with only 2...
Unless you're diagnosed with ADD or some shit, why be mad?
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On May 25 2011 19:59 shizna wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 19:56 The KY wrote:On May 25 2011 19:53 dukem wrote:On May 25 2011 15:24 cLutZ wrote:
Don't pause. Pausing at all is BM IMO. Not everyone lives in a sealed basement. Ya dude I ignore phone calls but sometimes the door goes and it's a package or the guy to check the gas meter, or a hardware malfunction...sometimes things are out of your control. all of that means more than a few points on a video game though, would you agree?
No. See my previous post; basically 1 minute of my opponents time is worth less to me than the points. I never pause for more than 1 minute, and I never pause unless I absolutely have to. If my opponent can't wait politely for one fucking minute when we are engaged in what is literally a one on one battle of wits and will...fuck that guy.
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On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause.
And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up
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just not pause on big engagements and ask first, beside that, there's nothing you can do.
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On May 25 2011 19:46 Hypemeup wrote:
If someone asks me if they can pause before they do it, giving a brief explanation I will wait for 5 minutes at least before unpausing.
If they just randomly pause I ask them why and if they dont answer in 10 seconds I will unpause.
So ask first, if they refuse to let you have afew minutes I think its BM really.
Pretty much the same for me, just ask and everything is fine(5 minutes is a little bit too long tho :p), just one thing to add:
Ask "go?" or something similar before you unpause, I hate people who unpause without asking , it is worse than denying a pause at all imo.
It's so simple.."sec plz, phone" "kk np" "go?" "go", everybody should be able to type that.
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If I need to pause I usually pause then immiedietly write something like "sec, phone".
if someone pauses I usually write the following:
"why pause?"
"I'll give you 1 minute to answer and then I'll unpause"
and then if they have a valid reason to pause, I'll wait an appropriate amount of time and if they are not back yet, I'll say
"go?"
if I don't get an answer I'll say
"I'll give you three minutes to answer before I unpause"
if he answers, repeat until I get too impatient.
p.s. I pause before writing because I'm not a very fast typer, thus I pause to get the time I need to type.
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On May 25 2011 15:24 Ziggitz wrote:
Anyone who snap unpauses is a total douchebag no ifs ands or buts. Total dick move. There is nothing wrong with pausing and briefly explaining why, you don't need to explain or ask before you do it that's just retarded. On the flip side when people pause without explaining it can be very irritating, especially if you're clearly about to win or just caught your opponent out in a cheese. I normally ask politely when someone pauses why they paused, and if I get no response in 30 seconds or so I will unpause, but if they tell me really quickly or simply say brb 1 min, just so I know they didn't accidentally pause/quit then I am happy to wait.
EDIT: TBH Blizzard really should do something about it. If you need to fix your hotkeys or a key got stuck on your keyboard you should be able to pause and quickly fix it without any problem. Since you have 3 pauses, if Blizzard could make it so that once a player paused the game, no other player could unpause for 10-15 seconds that would help a lot.
I totally agree with all you said there!
These games where people auto-unpause for no reason or offensive gg are the only ones I can get pretty BM myself and will lift all my buildings to send them across the map (if I loose). It once took them over 20 minutes to kill them all on tempest. I had time to go walk the dog and come back to see a pretty funny chat log. =)
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First of all - you need to give a reason if you want a pause from me 
Random pauses will always lead to an unpause.
For everything else you will get enough time to tell the person on the phone to call back, or to look who's at the door (signing for the mailman). So ~2mins.
If it's something important - just leave.
It's only a game (funny how that always works in both ways - not only the "it's only a game, you can wait 10min" way).
Oh btw - if the game is <5min old and your reason is "bio" - no pause
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On May 25 2011 20:06 Quintum_ wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause. And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up
surely it's okay for them to refuse to wait for you while you clear the spillage?
whether to endure a pause is at the discretion of the person at the receiving end. they should not be required to sit through a pause if they don't want to, end of discussion.
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-Don't use a wireless mouse/kb to play Starcraft
-Your phone has voicemail
-If someone is at your door that you didn't expect... probably Mormons or some other religious group. Why answer? If it's the pizza guy... why the hell did you start a ladder match waiting for the pizza guy?
-Bathroom breaks are in-between games. I do not allow people to pause for this. It's like kids that need to go pee in the middle of class... isn't that what your break is for?
The only legit reason to pause is for technical problems, but the game has been out long enough that this really shouldn't be an issue.
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On May 25 2011 15:16 zyzski wrote:
ask first
this.
However, if people pause without saying a word before, I wait like 5 seconds for them to start giving an explanation. If it makes any sense, I'll wait til he's finished. But if he pauses after 2 minutes into the game saying he really needs to pee right now (/or something else nonsensical), he didn't deserve the pause.
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On May 25 2011 20:13 shizna wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:06 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause. And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up surely it's okay for them to refuse to wait for you while you clear the spillage?
You are correct, it is there right to unpause if they want. Just expect to be called out for the dick move that it is.
Metaphorically speaking it is like when an old lady drops her groceries and she is struggling to pick them up. You dont have to help her but people are going to think you are prick for not offering to.
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I never pause unless it's some long and/or epic game. I just gg and leave if I must, ladder points be damned.
But I will respect a pause if I get at least a 'brb bio'.
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On May 25 2011 20:13 shizna wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:06 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause. And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up surely it's okay for them to refuse to wait for you while you clear the spillage? whether to endure a pause is at the discretion of the person at the receiving end. they should not be required to sit through a pause if they don't want to, end of discussion.
Sure it's okey for them to refuse waiting, but it's still considered bm.
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On May 25 2011 20:20 Quintum_ wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:13 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:06 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause. And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up surely it's okay for them to refuse to wait for you while you clear the spillage? You are correct, it is there right to unpause if they want. Just dont expect not to be called out for the dick move that it is. Metaphorically speaking it is like when an old lady drops her groceries and she is struggling to pick them up. You dont have to help her but people are going to think you are prick for not offering to.
In this case, I don't think it's the win or the points that matters. It's the fact that you can make someone so very upset with so little effort. That is the true reward.
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On May 25 2011 20:20 Quintum_ wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2011 20:13 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:06 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 20:01 shizna wrote:On May 25 2011 20:00 Quintum_ wrote:On May 25 2011 19:50 LoneWolf.Alpha wrote:
i love it when somenoe pauses. i just say, sure. then unpause when they are gone, and when they come back, they are dead.
also, i ask if i can pause cause i gotta use the bathroom. then i unpause randomly and attack and hopefully catch them off gaurd. You sir are a sad little man, but unfortunately every community has asshats like this guy. Lucky they are not very common. I would say most of the starcraft community are more then willing to give you a second within reason. Generally you only see people like the above poster in the lower leagues though as most gamers would value playing a good game over a stupid win like that he merely cares about points, as much as you care about points for wanting to pause. And that sir is where you are wrong, i could care less about the points. Take the win if it means so much to you. I think it is funny you care about the win so much. I have only ever paused a game once and that is because i knocked my drink over and needed to clean it up surely it's okay for them to refuse to wait for you while you clear the spillage? You are correct, it is there right to unpause if they want. Just dont expect not to be called out for the dick move that it is. Metaphorically speaking it is like when an old lady drops her groceries and she is struggling to pick them up. You dont have to help her but people are going to think you are prick for not offering to.
actually, to amend your metaphor.
it would be entering a shop, an old lady drops her groceries as you walk by, then she presses a "you'll help me pick up my groceries"-button and you have no choice but to either help her or be labelled a dick.
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pausing is easy. Just pause say second if you are nice even explain things. But its inappropriate to pause in any battle, you will have to wait till its over before pausing (find a good point to pull back to pause for example).
And if they unpause at any moment when you are gone, send the replay as a report to blizzard. If they unpause asap just chat with em, they will flame you anyway and you can report them as well.
The biggest problem is that people that you cannot really disable this, otherwise the people that unpause now will pause when they are loosing. So no solution to this is possible other then remove pause complelty ^^.
Only way if such people upset you is to report every single one of em ^^. Atleast you supported blizzard with it because kiddos like this will buy another copy asap.
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