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[Sartain]

I had 2 seperate people come out to me today.  Guy and gal.  Or 2 gals.  w.e.

like wtf guys.  You know I'm not gay, right?

I don't understand, how does them coming out to you have anything to do with your sexual orientation? Or did you mean come on to you?

[Kagus]

-snip-

Pretty much just lulz. Also, it's generally only people who have mastered the game in its "normal" state before attempting to play with handicaps like replacing the controls with bongos (or a series of bananas, as was done in a different video).

Basically just an extreme example of "I didn't have any trouble with that boss".

[NullForceOmega]

Fair enough, and I agree, once you attain the skill necessary to get through a difficult game it becomes a matter of course to defeat it.  I am more specifically targeting the extremely unhelpful nature of posts in that style.  If they were offering advice or legitimate criticism I wouldn't (and in the past have not) take issue, it's the "Oh it wasn't hard, stop whining" type of post that I have problems with.

I personally just power through until it either becomes clear that I am wasting my time or I am successful (I also pay attention to advice offered to me, even when it isn't specifically helpful due to differences in playstyle).  I then try to offer advice to people who are struggling with the same thing.

[Kagus]

Hell, most of those posts aren't even "it wasn't that bad, stop complaining" (which is unhelpful enough as it is), but more of a "hey imma let you finish but I'm so good at this game that the boss you spent so much time and energy beating was barely a challenge for me", which is completely unhelpful and being a braggart.

And yeah, it's a peeve of mine as well. Although not as much as someone who brags and talks shit throughout a multiplayer game and... Is actually competent.

Doesn't even matter whose team they're on, those people are trash. The shit-talkers who trip over their own shoelaces are a kind of entertainment all their own, but the ones who are skilled to the point where you can't touch them? Fuuuck.

[TamerVirus]

I think they called it... 'git gud' 

[NullForceOmega]

"Git gud" is stupid because it ignores disparity in learning and capacity.  The core message of git gud is that you are deficient and you should just shut up, and that is a useless, destructive approach.  There is no reason not to be constructive and offer some advice or criticism, not doing so is just being an arrogant asshole.

[CABL]

"Git gud" is stupid because it ignores disparity in learning and capacity.  The core message of git gud is that you are deficient and you should just shut up, and that is a useless, destructive approach.  There is no reason not to be constructive and offer some advice or criticism, not doing so is just being an arrogant asshole.

I agree. Besides the "fuck you, n00b" vibe of saying "git gud" to someone, gud is not a valid git command.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, it's "apt-get install gud"
And once you're in Python, "import gud"
(I hope that's actually a package)

[Urist McScoopbeard]

"Git gud" is stupid because it ignores disparity in learning and capacity.  The core message of git gud is that you are deficient and you should just shut up, and that is a useless, destructive approach.  There is no reason not to be constructive and offer some advice or criticism, not doing so is just being an arrogant asshole.

I agree. Besides the "fuck you, n00b" vibe of saying "git gud" to someone, gud is not a valid git command.

Listen fellahs, you just need to g i t g u d

[milo christiansen]

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Milo@Milo-PC:~$ git gud
git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Did you mean this?
        gui
Milo@Milo-PC:~$ git help gud
No manual entry for gitgud


[WealthyRadish]

"Git gud" is stupid because it ignores disparity in learning and capacity.  The core message of git gud is that you are deficient and you should just shut up, and that is a useless, destructive approach.  There is no reason not to be constructive and offer some advice or criticism, not doing so is just being an arrogant asshole.

I think you're misinterpreting the joke. The "git gud" meme started in the context of certain games that required players to die or lose over and over again to overcome obstacles (Dark Souls, Hotline Miami, etc) and at least in that context what made it funny was that it was simultaneously really obviously bad advice (the intentional brevity and misspellings underscore this) but also good advice for those particular games (where the frustration of dying over and over until figuring it out is a big part of the draw). For a third party observer that knows that suffering is good and that the game is supposed to be unfairly difficult, this contradiction makes sense and creates the humor.

Outside of the context of those games, the joke wouldn't have originally been funny (you can imagine how completely flat it would be in other circumstances where people ask for advice, nobody would've even thought to create the "joke"), and it only remains "funny" when outside of that context if used in an ironic or referential sense alluding to those games.

Now that it's a meme of course it's totally stale whether you found it funny originally or not, but attributing this sort of malice to it or critiquing it on the basis of being bad advice is really misinterpreting it, since that's half the point.

[SeriousConcentrate]

And, to be honest, sometimes the only advice really is 'get better at the game'. Like if you keep losing in Mario Kart because you keep bumping into obstacles, turn too sharply into corners, etc. or whatever... then yeah, gitting gud is about the only thing you can do.

[wierd]

*Been playing Skyrim again*

Mine for the day:

Unrealistic wildlife. Specifically, carnivores.

Bears are territorial. They are not going to attack in groups.  They certainly arent going to keep attacking after getting a huge assed fireball in the face.
Carnivores in general are dependent upon game populations. They cannot be thick as damn fleas; they will starve to death.  Given that humans in this game can shoot fireballs into their faces, they should be a bit timid around humans. (See also, existing real world populations being timid of humans, because humans have boom-sticks.) But apparently, that just doesn't fly-- the carnivores all act like they have rabies distemper, and lash out at every damn thing they see.

Game developers:  If you are going to make wild animal attacks be part f your game mechanics, GET IT FUCKING RIGHT, OK?

[Kagus]

And then you have the less well-designed RPGs, where the wolves and the bears end up attacking you alongside the group of bandits that was standing around on the road.

[Darkmere]

The deer's danger sense pissed me off more. They evolved a special cheat-sense to let them know when they were in player crosshairs. Every time I tried to snipe one it would jump when I aimed at it, regardless of distance and "awareness" of me. The game was too gamey for me.