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Gwavajuice
Profile Joined June 2014
France1810 Posts
April 07 2015 09:32 GMT
#21
On April 07 2015 18:24 sushiman wrote:
I'm just surprised there's people that haven't disabled clickable menus. Missclicking on one of those things in game is annoying as hell.



hmm the day I'll clcik on them accidentally during a game, I will immediately disable them, but in 6000+ games, never happened once.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
April 07 2015 09:35 GMT
#22
It's an accident. The keys are right next to each other on both the keyboard and by mouse. If someone truly wants to BM you, pausing the game before leaving is probably the least effective way of doing so.
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
April 07 2015 09:49 GMT
#23
worked pretty well in WoL because you left the game (you think he left the game already), and he gets the victory. Now with victory animation in hotS, no chance anymore.
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Koshi
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Belgium38799 Posts
April 07 2015 09:55 GMT
#24
I missclick because the tears in my eyes make everything blurry.

;.;
I had a good night of sleep.
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 10:01:14
April 07 2015 10:00 GMT
#25
On April 07 2015 18:01 Jer99 wrote:
You guys don't use hotkeys?

I type F10 then click. I don't see why it would be any slower than F10 + N :D. But yeah, you can misclick. I doubt my opponent sees that as BM because I always gg before I leave.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10847 Posts
April 07 2015 10:13 GMT
#26
I miss click a lot when im mad and accidentally pause before I leave lol
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oOOoOphidian
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1402 Posts
April 07 2015 10:14 GMT
#27
Most people probably do it as a mistake, but then there are people like avilo who do it in a bm way (intentionally). This started from a bug that people have mentioned here. Since it has no negative effect anymore, it's mostly just funny to see.
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rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5649 Posts
April 07 2015 10:35 GMT
#28
Good ol' triple pause in the end means you've done something right.
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Nezgar
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany535 Posts
April 07 2015 11:18 GMT
#29
There was also a bug during the HotS beta in team games where if the person who pauses the game also leaves the game, the remaining players were unable to unpause the game.
Made it impossible to play 2vs2 on a high level for quite a while during the beta and they even managed to ship the game with that bug still in place. Still got an instinct from that time to directly unpause and pause again if someone hits pause, just to make sure.

But yeah, it's probably a missclick in most cases nowadays.
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
April 07 2015 12:38 GMT
#30
What I experienced a while ago (WoL I think), was that once the opponent paused and left, just nothing happened, and since I really don't like unpausing an opponent's pause without his consent, I just waited a couple minutes...
But I could resume the game and I instantly had the victory screen.

When this happens I usually assume either old BM habit or miss clic, also regarding to potential chat history from the game.

also:
On April 07 2015 18:55 Koshi wrote:
I missclick because the tears in my eyes make everything blurry.

;.;

This does happen to me, and even when I win. Don't know why, but when I'm giving everything I have, I have so much tears in my eyes, I sometime can't even see the minimap. I had to pause once because of this x)
CycoDude
Profile Joined November 2010
United States326 Posts
April 07 2015 12:52 GMT
#31
sometimes it's bm, sometimes it's just by accident. i do it all the time...click the wrong thing in my haste.
Riquiz
Profile Joined June 2011
Netherlands402 Posts
April 07 2015 13:03 GMT
#32
Most probably a miss-click.
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PanzerElite
Profile Joined May 2012
540 Posts
April 07 2015 13:05 GMT
#33
Because, Justice hehehehehe >:D
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 13:20:49
April 07 2015 13:14 GMT
#34
It's BM. Or at least when I do it it is :D

It's like, the last thing you can do to irritate your opponent before leaving without actually saying something offensive or being rude.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55594 Posts
April 07 2015 13:22 GMT
#35
On April 07 2015 22:14 DinoMight wrote:
It's BM. Or at least when I do it it is :D

It's like, the last thing you can do to irritate your opponent before leaving without actually saying something offensive or being rude.

Why would that irritate anyone? You leave right after and the pause does literally nothing to your opponent.
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SuperHofmann
Profile Joined September 2013
Italy1741 Posts
April 07 2015 13:37 GMT
#36
Missclick for me
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
April 07 2015 13:39 GMT
#37
It was used back in the day as a semi cheat. You pause game and sometimes the person trying to unpause hits wrong button and they surrender? They changed the hotkey for this way back in WOL though iirc
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DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
April 07 2015 13:56 GMT
#38
On April 07 2015 22:22 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 22:14 DinoMight wrote:
It's BM. Or at least when I do it it is :D

It's like, the last thing you can do to irritate your opponent before leaving without actually saying something offensive or being rude.

Why would that irritate anyone? You leave right after and the pause does literally nothing to your opponent.


Don't you have to unpause or something? I don't know I find it annoying when people do it to me. I'm like, JUST LEAVE ALREADY.

On April 07 2015 22:39 Pandemona wrote:
It was used back in the day as a semi cheat. You pause game and sometimes the person trying to unpause hits wrong button and they surrender? They changed the hotkey for this way back in WOL though iirc


In Brood War, yes. Omg that was irritating. I've definitely surrendered by accident trying to unpause and lost.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55594 Posts
April 07 2015 14:00 GMT
#39
On April 07 2015 22:56 DinoMight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 22:22 Elentos wrote:
On April 07 2015 22:14 DinoMight wrote:
It's BM. Or at least when I do it it is :D

It's like, the last thing you can do to irritate your opponent before leaving without actually saying something offensive or being rude.

Why would that irritate anyone? You leave right after and the pause does literally nothing to your opponent.


Don't you have to unpause or something? I don't know I find it annoying when people do it to me. I'm like, JUST LEAVE ALREADY.

Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 22:39 Pandemona wrote:
It was used back in the day as a semi cheat. You pause game and sometimes the person trying to unpause hits wrong button and they surrender? They changed the hotkey for this way back in WOL though iirc


In Brood War, yes. Omg that was irritating. I've definitely surrendered by accident trying to unpause and lost.

IIRC the Victory Screen isn't influenced by the game being paused so you can just go to the score screen. Although it hasn't happened to me in a while now. And even unpausing isn't bothersome. It's like "Oh you wanna do this? Fine, I can press the pause button. Enjoy wasting 2 seconds of your own time."
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States14003 Posts
April 07 2015 14:01 GMT
#40
I never lose so I wouldn't know.
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