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Penny Arcade - Comic - Trying Hard
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Trying Hard
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I could taste his rage and it was delicious.
I'm worried that this makes me an old.
Just kidding, I've always been ancient.
No see salty is that they are overly mad. Sweaty is that they have to try hard at video games to get anywhere. (The implication is that you're not even trying and they are bad)
If someone calls you sweaty, they are salty.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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It's replacing "Tryhard" because they don't mind being called Tryhards.
It's all sad bully tactics.
That helps explain the comic title.
Now what I want to know is what SBMM stands for.
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Skill based match making.
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Skill Based Match Making
Some PvP players prefers CBMM (Connection Based Match Making) where your lobbies are populated based on people around you with the lowest ping. If you're moderately decent at PvP, this means you likely get matched with lower skill players and can proceed to "curb stomp n00bs". With SBMM, you are placed in lobbies with players of the same approximate skill (using whatever metric your game decides that with), so you are less likely to just be able to dominate with little effort.
And now I find out it was even worse than I thought. I didn't even recognize "ok boomer" was a bit of slang that I didn't know.
Welp, it's euthanasia center for me, I guess. They better give me the full 20 minutes.
I desperately wish I could find the chainsawsuit comic where the third panel is a guy happily jumping into a grave. It becomes an increasingly relevant response image with each passing day.
This one?
I hate to be too picky but I really feel like there was a more perfect one. Like it was a guy who had done something really great and felt like his life was complete so he does a swimming dive into the grave with a big smile on his face.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
"Sweaty" is an intentional misspelling of "Sweetie". It's meant to be condescending, as in "Yeah, okay sweetie."
"Boomer" is a reference to "Baby Boomer". It means you're old.
And for those very few who don't know, "Salty" is referring to salty tears. As in you're so angry you're crying.
Uh, I think that Sweaty actually means sweaty, like the players are leaning so hard into their screens and stressing about the matches that they are sweating. As above, it has the same meaning as try-hard, which is the name of the strip.
According to urban dictionary, your usage is more of a tumblr thing. Their top definition is the one that agrees with Daimar.
The key takeaway I get from all this is that the internet humanity was a mistake.
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There's a lot of differing opinion, but for me it all started going downhill with the nucleus.
Sweat is salty. But is salt ever sweaty?...
-Tycho Brahe
If you choose the right dialog options, they smash in the final chapter of my new indie game, Super Sweaty Smash Bros
That's ok, I knew I was probably wrong.
How about this time:
And, I did a crappy MS Paint job on the final frame so it can be used on its own without the award confusing things. But I refuse to remove an attribution.
Like, who actually thinks it’s an insult to say “haha, you put effort into things!” or to pivot from that to “putting effort into things makes you sweat! Therefore you are super gross and stinky!” fuck outta here with that; come up with something that’s an actual insult.
And now you, sir, have won the all-award.
I mean, there's absolutely cases where the guy who shows up to a casual match to give it his 110% or when your casual queue matches you into a 2v2 of guys with top tier decks where they are trying too hard for the context.
But like most gamer insults it's not used in context and instead just means "something other than me is the reason I didn't do good"
I've always found it to be some kind of social engineering where someone doesn't have an answer to an opponent's character, ability, loadout, strategy, whatever or if they do they would have to give up their ultra-mega-deathray ability and that is clearly unacceptable so they try to label those things as cheap or the people that use them as try-hard so that they stop doing it and let them win easier.
Not being a player of many competitive games, in fact Overwatch being the only one I have played in possibly 10 years, this attitude is so strange to me. How dare everyone want to have fun!
I can kind of understand it if it's talking about a person who is taking things way too seriously for a videogame. Something like this:
If people are just saying it because your skill level is low but you're trying really hard to do your best, not so much.
I'm now trapped in a vision of four different people all doing Melee Fox with the spastic button presses a la the TerminalMontage videos.
Yeah, tryhards are basically the ones that go into your public random queues and proceed to bing the absolute top meta and do every unfun-but-effective tactic there is to make sure they win. Basically, if you quote Sirlin's Playing To Win to explain your behaviour in randoms, you may be a tryhard.
My general response to the player type is to just concede the match. They get what they want (one more win in their W/L ratio), and I get to go actually play the game. Everybody wins.