EPTWhy do some people pause before they leave game?
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like if you, as the winner, left the game without unpausing, i think you would get a loss or something | ||
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Meavis
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also some people click surrender instead of hitting N after hitting f10, and sometimes missclick pause instead. | ||
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DuckloadBlackra
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-Switch-
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virpi
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On April 07 2015 17:49 -Switch- wrote: missclick for me same for me. I have a tendency to be unprecise while I'm raging.  | ||
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Gwavajuice
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On April 07 2015 18:01 Jer99 wrote: You guys don't use hotkeys? I use hotkeys, just not for quitting the game. It's not like I'm gonna get better if I leave games faster  + Show Spoiler + My routine : 1- sigh 2- say "fuck" 3- type "gg" 4- take a deep breath and click to leave game 5- say "fuck" again | ||
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BlueStar
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It was a glitch/bug/bad feature that was removed afterwards. Nowadays people tend to pause because of the good ol' BM times or just hitting pause by mistake. | ||
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WonnaPlay
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A? | ||
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Pursuit_
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Blizzard fixed this in a patch ages ago. I doubt it's bm at this point, most likely just misclicks. | ||
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sushiman
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Gwavajuice
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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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ZenithM
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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. | ||
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oOOoOphidian
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rotta
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Nezgar
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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. | ||
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AbouSV
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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) | ||
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DinoMight
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It's like, the last thing you can do to irritate your opponent before leaving without actually saying something offensive or being rude. | ||
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Elentos
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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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Pandemona
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DinoMight
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On April 07 2015 22:22 Elentos wrote: 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. | ||
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Elentos
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On April 07 2015 22:56 DinoMight wrote: 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. 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." | ||
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TheBloodyDwarf
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 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
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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
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danbel1005
United States1319 Posts
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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DinoMight
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On April 07 2015 23:51 danbel1005 wrote: 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
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DinoMight
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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
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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. | ||
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Hier
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BigFan
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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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life617
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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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DuckloadBlackra
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On April 08 2015 06:39 guN-viCe wrote: I've done this and have had it done to me. It's just BM, back in the day you would have to manually unpause to collect the win, but they patched it. You can't say it's just BM... IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS BY ACCIDENT! If people want to BM they don't just do a quick pause and leave instantly because that does nothing, it doesn't even annoy the other person. They'll flame or make you kill all their buildings, etc. | ||
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Sent.
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Mistakes
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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. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen. | ||
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My_Fake_Plastic_Luv
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Ie. the losing opponent is saying with said 'pause' that you didn't indeed deserve the victory...it was luck! For said opponent was being texted or misclicked his control group of mutas or he wasn't actually trying. And said opponent wants you to know that even in victory you don't have control over him, because he goddamnit his own man, not swayed by a computer game and fully aware that victory in a single game with two players and no observers matters little to anyone but said two players, and he is above all pettiness. So he pauses before resigning to let you, the victory take this in, before you're just another random opponent of his (and your) list. He pauses so you know he is human and deserving as victory as you, a fellow human. (I guess that ended not really where it started.) | ||
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DuckloadBlackra
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On April 08 2015 06:47 Mistakes wrote: This. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen. Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
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On April 08 2015 07:00 DuckloadBlackra wrote: Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone. Not that I disagree with you personally--but just because it was patched does not mean there aren't players who still think that this is what happens since they don't keep track of patch notes or SC2 news. | ||
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TheLordofAwesome
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Mistakes
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On April 08 2015 07:00 DuckloadBlackra wrote: Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone. Because it's the only logical reason apart from misclicking. | ||
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blade55555
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las91
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People do it now because they have to just get a little fucking with people in since their precious egos can't handle losing a 1v1 game | ||
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Thieving Magpie
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On April 08 2015 08:04 ROOTFayth wrote: lol it's probably a misclick in over 90% of the cases I had a friend who would keep pausing, and when his opponent would unpause he would pause again, until he ran out of pauses. He would then type "______ has left the game" Its only happened twice where his opponent left. The first time he did it, and one other time a year later. He held on to the practice ever since in the off chance of a free win. | ||
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DuckloadBlackra
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On April 08 2015 08:20 Thieving Magpie wrote: I had a friend who would keep pausing, and when his opponent would unpause he would pause again, until he ran out of pauses. He would then type "______ has left the game" Its only happened twice where his opponent left. The first time he did it, and one other time a year later. He held on to the practice ever since in the off chance of a free win. LMAOO!! | ||
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DuckloadBlackra
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On April 08 2015 07:29 blade55555 wrote: This would be a good one for Avilo and some Barcode ti answer. Never understood it but most of the times I beat Avilo he would pause and leave lol. Avilo is one of the rare ones who always does it on purpose. The vast majority of the time it's just an accident =) | ||
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codonbyte
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On April 07 2015 17:28 Aocowns wrote: think it started because of some bug a while ago? like if you, as the winner, left the game without unpausing, i think you would get a loss or something It wasn't that. It was that the "Surrender" button used to be positioned such that it was easy to accidentally click it when you were trying to unpause, especially if your opponent resumed the game before you click. This has since been corrected, but the tradition remains. I honestly think people get way to worked up about it. You're not flaming your opponent, you're not wasting their time by making them kill all your buildings. It's simply a small thing some people do to let off a bit of steam. | ||
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avilo
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On April 08 2015 07:29 blade55555 wrote: This would be a good one for Avilo and some Barcode ti answer. Never understood it but most of the times I beat Avilo he would pause and leave lol. I do it to signify it was a poor game it's like my calling card. Some people leave a beautiful violet rose, others leave chocolates. I pause the game so that my opponent can pause and reflect upon their fullNa-ness, and contemplate their life choices more carefully in the future. + Show Spoiler + I do it cuz i'm mad n salty that i played poorly heuheu | ||
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codonbyte
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/5a0qurf.png) There. He admitted that he gets salty when he loses, and that sometimes he plays badly. Are all you haters happy? + Show Spoiler + Of course they're not happy. I forgot that people on the internet are perfect: they never get salty, they never rage, they never have bad days, and they never go on tilt. Must be awesome to be a person on the internet! | ||
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brickrd
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On April 08 2015 06:44 DuckloadBlackra wrote: You can't say it's just BM... IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS BY ACCIDENT! If people want to BM they don't just do a quick pause and leave instantly because that does nothing, it doesn't even annoy the other person. They'll flame or make you kill all their buildings, etc. this is correct. a small percentage of times it is BM, but if they're BMing you usually they just pause, wait for you to unpause, then pause again, or they'll rapidly pause and unpause 3 times until their pauses are up. but no one does the single pause + instant quit as BM, if you think that you're paranoid and silly. i do it by accident ALL THE TIME, and this is coming from someone who does BM out of frustration, lol. it's just a misclick. some people are crazy with the conspiracy theories. like we don't need to prove that people BM on ladder. everyone knows that. but there's no secret behind accidental pauses. they're just accidental pauses. | ||
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fezvez
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Edit : Though, the BM guys are the one who repause | ||
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InfCereal
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DinoMight
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Ask him. | ||
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cava
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bypLy
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On April 18 2015 03:04 DinoMight wrote: Avilo just did this vs. Scarlett yesterday in qualifiers. Ask him. yeah was, pretty douchy | ||
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Empirimancer
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On April 18 2015 05:16 Thieving Magpie wrote: I sometimes do it right before my banelings get to the marines to disrupt their rhyme to kite Seriously? That's just sad. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
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DrSalty
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There was a pause button Glitch where games would continue after both oppents left. IE (If you where losing, and you A-Moved your army and workers to the enemy base, Hit pause and surrender in rapid sucession... Your enemy would be glitched / frozen / Dropped from the game while your units still moved on the attack... Causeing you to gain a 100% Win-rate... you 'couldnt lose') Also to troll during attacks as quoted by On April 18 2015 05:16 Thieving Magpie wrote: I sometimes do it right before my banelings get to the marines to disrupt their rhyme to kite Was very sucessful. Also its 100% bm.... I do it too..... Pause yell pause again yell some more... pause and leave. or jsut pause and leave causing them to half to take extra effort before the win screen. or build buildings alllll overrrr the map and pause till i couldnt and make him hunt me down. (Percenteage of miss click vs troll/BM is like 2% vs 98%) Deff BM | ||
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MockHamill
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On January 17 2018 19:03 odysseus_ulysses wrote: Which is why Avilo does it after every game since he has lost to a imba Zerg, imba toss or a map hacking terran. I can respect that. I honestly can not remember the last time I felt my opponent deserved to win. Probably back in WOL. I also love when my opponents BM me. GG is boring but when they tell me to kill myself when I beat them in a macro game in TvP using mech it puts a smile on my face. This game needs more emotion and less manner. | ||
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BlueStar
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So if you were a well-mannered person you can end up waiting lots of time for the other guy to get back and continue playing. Nowadays people just continue doing it instead of throwing cancer words over the chat. | ||
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nanaoei
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we're playing starcraft right? haha | ||
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ROOTCatZ
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On April 07 2015 18:12 Gwavajuice wrote: I use hotkeys, just not for quitting the game. It's not like I'm gonna get better if I leave games faster + Show Spoiler + My routine : 1- sigh 2- say "fuck" 3- type "gg" 4- take a deep breath and click to leave game 5- say "fuck" again Technically if you leave a lot of games faster you will have more time to play more games and as a result get better 8-] | ||
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