Thoughts on 'Dibs' and Definition of Hostile

[Palem]

Maybe I didn't notice it before, but ever since you quit playing your level of useful posts have vanished in favor of being (for lack of better terms) an ass... Some of us, despite your opinion, would like to get rid of all the ****play. If you don't believe it, or don't have anything constructive to add, it's easy to just stay out of it. Proteus was trying to open up real discussion on something that needs to be addressed and changed. For once, and I mean this as no offense to you Pro Pro, he seems genuine in looking for some sort of fairness in the way things are done. To suggest we only want to "swindle and screw" our competition is asinine at best. I think that most of the players in top KD's would rather win without screwing over someone.

Let me make myself clear. I'm not supporting "****play" (in a stricter sense of what's being discussed). I'm just saying you guys are reaching for an unattainable goal that basically each and every one of you is going to go against the spirit of at one point or another. There's not a person in the game that hasn't pulled some shady ****, but that doesn't mean they're some menace to the game that needs to be eradicated. Essentially what's being attacked here are things that aren't "nice" or "honorable". Is winning in a totally "honorable" way definitely the best way to go for? Yes, but the worst victory is still better than the best defeat.

Being mean, and dishonorable, and trying to swindle people is part of the game at it's very core. Utopia is not "fair". It's never been fair and it's never going to be fair. There's always going to be people that toe the line and keep pushing things farther and farther. Sometimes those people get called out and sometimes the community just looks the other way. If everybody fell into a nice neat orderly line where we all followed very clear and strict guidelines for ediquette this game would be boring as **** and I seriously doubt that any of us would still be playing if it was played in such a way.

Quick example:
Jdorje was a very clever and devious man. He did his very best to screw me over and I did the same to him in return. We had a very serious disdain for each other. I love that I didn't like this man. It drove emotion into the game. It made me care much more.

...or you can just get better. God forbid putting a little effort into getting better at something.

God forbid you think outside the box and try to get as many advantages as you can win against someone who would normally beat you. I don't think people would say that one kd getting the jump on another kd that hadn't quite trained up yet as somehow ****players, even though what they did is in no way "honorable".