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TAMinator
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia2706 Posts
April 07 2015 14:40 GMT
#41
i accidently pause instead of leave the game a lot
TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
April 07 2015 14:44 GMT
#42
I used to press esc and then click quit. But then blizzard sadly changed that esc button isnt menu button anymore because community whined they press wrong buttons

After that I have used f10 and then click quit. Sometimes I accidently click pause coz its next to quit.
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graNite
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany4434 Posts
April 07 2015 14:47 GMT
#43
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.


Blizz should make it disabled by default
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Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
April 07 2015 14:47 GMT
#44
Pause by mistake or pause to annoy an opponent. Should we have more pages of the same answer?
danbel1005
Profile Joined February 2008
United States1319 Posts
April 07 2015 14:51 GMT
#45
On April 07 2015 17:21 mooose wrote:
Pause and surrender are next to each other on the menu. Some people click the menu rather than pressing the hotkeys. If they are in a rush to leave the game they sometimes misclick and hit pause rather than surrender.


This.
No other reason, not rocket science. Lets move on!
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TronJovolta
Profile Joined April 2013
United States323 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 14:53:05
April 07 2015 14:52 GMT
#46
What's funny is it isn't even good bm because you don't have to unpause to go to the score screen. Lolz.
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 19:18:09
April 07 2015 19:16 GMT
#47
On April 07 2015 23:51 danbel1005 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 17:21 mooose wrote:
Pause and surrender are next to each other on the menu. Some people click the menu rather than pressing the hotkeys. If they are in a rush to leave the game they sometimes misclick and hit pause rather than surrender.


This.
No other reason, not rocket science. Lets move on!


Dude, I'm telling you that I've paused before leaving as BM. Other people I know have done it too. It's not just a misclick thing.

It's just to be annoying really. Like a last final annoyance before leaving. It's more for me than for my opponent tbh.

Sometimes you're frustrated and you need a way to voice it without cursing or actually benig rude to your opponent. So you pause to voice your frustration and leave.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
April 07 2015 19:21 GMT
#48
lol how is that even annoying? You used up 1 second of you and your opponent's time. And your opponent would likely think it is an accident. I know that I do when people pause before leaving. If your intention is to be BM, well you've failed.
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 19:29:44
April 07 2015 19:28 GMT
#49
Lol.

I know it's stupid. I don't like to BM, but sometimes I'm frustrated and I need to voice my frustration (if an opponent cheeses me or something or if I lose a really long game to Swarm Hosts). So I'll pause before leaving as a way to say "I don't approve of this" without actually pulling a Firecake.

Like I said, it's pretty stupid but it's just anger management.

EDIT - obviously no GG those games. :p
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Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
April 07 2015 19:49 GMT
#50
On April 08 2015 04:21 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
lol how is that even annoying? You used up 1 second of you and your opponent's time. And your opponent would likely think it is an accident. I know that I do when people pause before leaving. If your intention is to be BM, well you've failed.


It's bm, and it's pretty common in 2vs2 games. One of suggestions to disable clickable menus is very dumb as well. Thank god such people aren't part of software teams.
Hier
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
2391 Posts
April 07 2015 20:03 GMT
#51
Missclick.
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
April 07 2015 20:13 GMT
#52
On April 07 2015 18:16 Pursuit_ wrote:
Once upon a time if you paused the game before leaving it didn't give your opponent a victory screen. They would have to press f10 then leave the game themselves (it still counted as a win for them). For people who didn't know this, it was very counterintuitive to have to 'leave' a game they had won.

Blizzard fixed this in a patch ages ago. I doubt it's bm at this point, most likely just misclicks.

This and likely a small dose of BM (or they want to talk to you before they lose lol).
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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44334 Posts
April 07 2015 20:16 GMT
#53
It's the silliest form of BM.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
April 07 2015 20:32 GMT
#54
It would be better BM to pause / unpause the game multiple times just to be annoying before leaving. Just throwing that idea out there for all you young, aspiring bad-manner connoisseurs.
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SC2Towelie
Profile Joined July 2014
United States561 Posts
April 07 2015 20:46 GMT
#55
if they pause and don't leave immediately and just wait, they're bm. If they pause for like half a second before leaving, they probably were upset with the loss and just accidentally hit their pause key instead of f10, which I've done before
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Leviance
Profile Joined November 2009
Germany4079 Posts
April 07 2015 20:58 GMT
#56
F11 is next to F10.... /thread
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Mambo
Profile Joined February 2012
Denmark1338 Posts
April 07 2015 21:14 GMT
#57
I've done it both as bm and because of miss click.
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Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
April 07 2015 21:19 GMT
#58
Pausing the game is just the cowardly version of the true rage-unplug your PC like it would even do anything but oh that visceral feeling feels so good-quit.
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WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3371 Posts
April 07 2015 21:32 GMT
#59
i usually click on the surrender button and sometimes I hit pause instead...
Horang2 fan
life617
Profile Joined July 2012
United States25 Posts
April 07 2015 21:35 GMT
#60
The pause because either:

A They "know" you're a worse player than them and cannot handle the fact that they lost.

B They "know" you're a bad player and wan't to do everything possible to demoralize you hoping you end up quitting sc2. All to boos their already big ego.

They themselves cannot handle playing people at their own skill level which results in "A" happening. To remedy this they smurf so "B" happens.
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