I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining about "Tea Bagging" in this game. I'm just curious as to why. Just to give you an idea of where I'm coming from, here's some history, or at least, my experience of teabagging in video games I've played. Tea Bagging in regards to gaming has been around for a very long time. It probably has been around since before the Halo 2 days, but that's when I first saw it. In Halo 2, if you were killed by another player, more than likely you were getting teabagged. That's just how it was. Some people would get angry when they got teabagged, at least in the early life of H2, but eventually you just laughed or said to yourself "Ok, you want to teabag? It's on!". But never in a very serious way, it was basically like a challenge, and a way to say "you got outplayed". So in a sense, it was like pouring salt all over their face with your crotch. I've seen it in every game since Halo 2, every game that allows some sort of crouch and even games that don't. And the general consensus has always been the same, to teabag basically anyone who you killed or beat. Now, I'm not telling you this to say "hey, it's been around for a long time, get over it", or anything like that, but it has been around and is nothing new.
There's always something people are going to find to be "disrespectful", "dishonorable", "boasting", "rubbing it in", etc when they lose. It's just a common way of thinking I've found. In UMK3, a lot of people see a babality as being really disrespectful as well as a sign of superiority. Reason being is that blocking is way more important and used in UMK3 than just about any fighter I've ever played, so beating your opponent without blocking is a pretty big deal in UMK3. So when you baby someone in UMK3, the rage will flow like a saltine cracker floating down the Mortons River. So, it generally has the same affect teabagging has had in previous games, just with some added salt and rage. There's also teabagging in UMK3, but it has never been a big deal and treated as a brush off the shoulders and never is really talked about.
In MK9, however, I see and hear tons of people complaining about teabagging. I hear people complaining more about teabaggers than ragequitters, and that's definitely a first. What is it about MK9 that makes teabagging different from it's usage in the past? Is it just that a lot of MK9 players are younger and haven't really experienced the art of the teabag yet? I'm really curious about this, hence why I made the thread. I understand that when you lose and it says "FINISH HIM!", nearly everything your opponent does aside from hitting you to go to the next match, will be perceived as "bragging" or something similar by the majority. Do MK9 players just wear their emotions on their sleeves? I've just never seen teabagging cause this much rage and uproar, it's interesting as well as confusing.
Now you might be asking, "why does this matter to you so much?". Well to be honest, it doesn't, I'm honestly just curious. However, it does have some negative subtleties in my opinion. For instance, if you're one of the many that rage when someone teabags you, that very well may be all you take away from your loss. You'll be angry enough to just dismiss him as a douche who got lucky, rather than focus on why that douche beat you. And most people don't think clearly when they're angry. What happens when you get teabagged at a tournament with this attitude? You will get flustered and you won't be thinking clearly. The same probably will happen online too but online generally isn't taken as serious as tournaments. I'm not trying to sound elitist here or tell you what to do, but a lot of you would be much better off if you got over these petty things that negatively affect your gameplay and performance. I may be reading too much into this, but that's what I do. If you could improve your game, even if it's only slightly, by ridding yourself of something as petty and inconsequential as being angry at a "teabagger", wouldn't you do it? The key to improving is to think positively, and constructively. But let me stop before I get too preachy.
Anyslut, other than it being arbitrarily disrespectful, is there any specific reasons why teabagging makes you rage? Is there something I'm missing here?
There's always something people are going to find to be "disrespectful", "dishonorable", "boasting", "rubbing it in", etc when they lose. It's just a common way of thinking I've found. In UMK3, a lot of people see a babality as being really disrespectful as well as a sign of superiority. Reason being is that blocking is way more important and used in UMK3 than just about any fighter I've ever played, so beating your opponent without blocking is a pretty big deal in UMK3. So when you baby someone in UMK3, the rage will flow like a saltine cracker floating down the Mortons River. So, it generally has the same affect teabagging has had in previous games, just with some added salt and rage. There's also teabagging in UMK3, but it has never been a big deal and treated as a brush off the shoulders and never is really talked about.
In MK9, however, I see and hear tons of people complaining about teabagging. I hear people complaining more about teabaggers than ragequitters, and that's definitely a first. What is it about MK9 that makes teabagging different from it's usage in the past? Is it just that a lot of MK9 players are younger and haven't really experienced the art of the teabag yet? I'm really curious about this, hence why I made the thread. I understand that when you lose and it says "FINISH HIM!", nearly everything your opponent does aside from hitting you to go to the next match, will be perceived as "bragging" or something similar by the majority. Do MK9 players just wear their emotions on their sleeves? I've just never seen teabagging cause this much rage and uproar, it's interesting as well as confusing.
Now you might be asking, "why does this matter to you so much?". Well to be honest, it doesn't, I'm honestly just curious. However, it does have some negative subtleties in my opinion. For instance, if you're one of the many that rage when someone teabags you, that very well may be all you take away from your loss. You'll be angry enough to just dismiss him as a douche who got lucky, rather than focus on why that douche beat you. And most people don't think clearly when they're angry. What happens when you get teabagged at a tournament with this attitude? You will get flustered and you won't be thinking clearly. The same probably will happen online too but online generally isn't taken as serious as tournaments. I'm not trying to sound elitist here or tell you what to do, but a lot of you would be much better off if you got over these petty things that negatively affect your gameplay and performance. I may be reading too much into this, but that's what I do. If you could improve your game, even if it's only slightly, by ridding yourself of something as petty and inconsequential as being angry at a "teabagger", wouldn't you do it? The key to improving is to think positively, and constructively. But let me stop before I get too preachy.
Anyslut, other than it being arbitrarily disrespectful, is there any specific reasons why teabagging makes you rage? Is there something I'm missing here?
