>>719320512
I was once in a discord call and sneezed. Then a friend popped in and I said they just missed the biggest sneeze of my life. He then said why the fuck would he care. It had me hitting the bottle and reevaluating my life after that. It's been years later and I still can't shake that I was such an oblivious little cockbite growing up. Video games.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_JggcSn3L0

>that moment where he loses and he tries beckon back his opponent, but the guy says "nah bro fuck this" because it's raining

Holy kino

>>719320892
I don't care.

>>719320892
That friend sounds rude

>>719321102
Why is that rude?

>>719320892
>tfw you roll 1 in charisma

>>719320892
Anon, I don't think you did anything wrong

>>719320892
lmao
What a gay

>>719320892
Its crazy how minor interactions like this can have such a huge impact on our psyche. I still remember little embarrassing moments from when I was a kid and they're probably what led to me being so insecure and self conscious as an adult.

>>719320892
But you said nothing wrong though? It's just normal shit you say on a voice chat. It really sounds like your "friend" was a jaded little faggot.

>>719321192
Responding "I don't care" to something so innocuous is extremely autistic, a friend would at least use it as an opportunity to rib you or something

>>719320512
After getting BTFO over and over for many long hours on Isshin in Sekiro I gave up on the game and never came back to it.

>>719322290
You haven't said why it's rude yet.
Why not?

>>719320892
your friends sounds like an average /v/ poster

>>719320892
You said nothing wrong at all, he also was kinda rude, but it's no big deal about what he said unless he is always annoyed at what you say, in which case he's a miserable faggot.
It's not a situation you should care about at all

>>719322346
Telling your friends you don't care about something they chose to vocalize is bad, you understand autist-kun?

>>719320892
You should’ve replied with something like “alright hard case” flipping the situation on its head then making him feel like an autist for saying that

>>719320512
There's few things quite like just accepting the rain and doing your own thing
Especially at night

>>719322480
>Telling your friends you don't care about something they chose to vocalize is bad
Why? It's more rude to lie to your friend and pretend to care about a fucking sneeze.

>>719322834
NTA, but do you understand that you don't have to always do extreme reactiong to everything? You could just reply with a neutral "oh well". You don't need to be rude, but you don't need to pretend to care either.

>>719320892
I woulda gone "fuck" or "that was now? whats the point of me being in this group chat anymore?"

you did nothing wrong bro..

>>719322967
You still haven't explained why it's rude.
It's almost as if you can't do it. Hmm...
>extreme reaction
You really think saying "I don't care about your sneeze" is an "extreme reaction"? Why? OP didn't imply anyone was yelling, or shouting at him.
OP just realised his friend thinks he's fucking boring.

>>719320512
There were a couple instances during MK tournaments.
First, I was up 1-0 once upon a time to the eventual champion in Texas Showdown and had him dead to rights in the corner but dropped a combo that would have ended the match and secured me a 2-0 and advance. After I dropped that combo, he came back and beat me 2-1.
The at a local tournament, it was a double-elem finals and I was coming from winner bracket. I was up 2-0 (best of 3) and proceeded to choke away the first set 3-2. Then I lost the next set 3-0. Never played Mk after that.

>>719322834
"always be uncompromisingly honest" is a 16 year redditor mindset

>>719323335
Good thing I never said that.

>>719323335
Absolutely; the people I know who have carried this mindset into adulthood and they have problems making/keeping friends and holding down jobs.

>>719323042
Multiple people have explained it, so either
a/ you are autistic and trying to dissect the social interaction for you is like asking a black person about hypothetical breakfast
b/ you're not actually that retarded and understand why it could be construed as rude, but desperately need people to reply to you on an anonymous imageboard
either way this will be me last reply, goodbye my love, may we never meet again

>>719320892
Your friend's a dildo and so are you for letting that affect you.

>>719322343
Only hours? You rack disciprine.

My personal worst defeats were when I spent 3 days in a row on Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne, but I eventually beat him.

>>719323672
>Multiple people have explained it,
Oh really? Quote the exact posts for me and highlight where they give their specific reason that it's rude. Otherwise, it didn't happen.
Go ahead.

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>>719320512
Whenever I mess something up, I remember and reevaluate for the rest of the day, it's something that applies to a lot of us but sometimes I really wish I could let go.
I respect my own will to learn and improve, but not giving a shit is so much more relaxing...

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>ITT: tell the class about the worst defeats you've ever experienced in vidya
>lol I lost in multiplayer games a whole bunch of times

i played 1000 bot matches in league
think i lost 2-3 of them
holy shit my teammates were bad in those games

I can't win against my rage, I throw games and turn into a retarded keyboard warrior when my teammates talk shit. But I don't know what else to do when "getting good" is pretty much not possible as hard as I try.

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>>719322343
Only tried a couple of attempts, saw how long it'd take to learn all the patterns and phases and left. Got tired of all that shit.
I don't even have regrets I was done parrying attacks, I hate that mechanic.

>>719322834
The problem is that you don't care about your friend having a big sneeze. That's funny. If you and your friend are so divorced on that that you feel the need to say something incredibly dismissive like "Why the fuck would I care?" (which is markedly different from "I don't care." (which is still rude because you didn't even feel the need to empathise and say something like "Sorry mate, not really into sneezes." (which would also be kinda funny))), then the relationship is not built on mutual respect or care and in my book, that doesn't qualify as a friendship.

>>719320892
Sounds like your friend did you a favor.

>>719323981
Your parents should have beaten that out of you.

>>719323981
Which genre?

>Play Nethack
>Get to the plane of lava (this is the 2nd last floor of a really long Roguelike)
>Objective is to find a single square with a teleporter to the next level, I'm flying around on a flying horse (Kirin)
>Amulet of Yendor curses my blindfold, which I'm wearing because I can't look at Archon enemy without being hurt
>Can't remove blindfold, so have to pray to god for uncurse
>Forgot I just prayed, so this pisses my god off. She also takes away my telepathy, so I can no longer see the enemies.
>Enemies kill my horse while I'm stumbling around blind running from ? marks
>I fall into the lava and die over the course of several turns

>>719324112
Why is it rude?
You keep insisting that it's rude, without giving a reason other than
>"i-i-it just IS OKAY???"
Give a reason. That's all I'd like. Thank you.

>>719324252
They did, I want to spread the love.
>>719324282
Dota.

>>719324480
Because it disregards the feelings of the other person harshly linguistically (use of "the fuck" to intensify the dismissive sentiment, no filler words to soften the blow, phrasing it as a question that doesn't just state that you don't care but that implies there is no reasonable way the communicative act of an alleged friend could be relevant to you) and violates basic social conventions (the friend is stating that something happened which he cares about and is relating it to you with the expectation that you share in this sentiment because you are his friend and the convention is that friends care about what friends care about or at least THAT they care about it). In our case, the friend doesn't even care that OP cares about the sneeze, disregards the friendly sentiment of wanting to share an experience you care about with a friend, and tells the friend in linguistically harsh terms that. Essentially, he's saying "Fuck off".

>>719324940
That doesn't mean it's rude. Again, you're just insisting that it is.

>>719324998
What, in your mind, is rude?

>>719325078
I'll answer you when you tell me why the previous example is rude.
I did ask first, so it's only fair.
Go ahead.

>>719325396
Anon, I explicitly mentioned social conventions in my previous post. Rudeness derives from these standards - it violates them. I explained what was violated here. Now, social conventions aren't objective, they differ according to the societies they belong to. For my analysis, I presupposed a Western standard, though being harshly dismissive towards a friend out of nowhere doesn't really fly according to any of the non-Western friendship conventions I know of.

The key point is that rudeness, as a violation of social conventions, is considered an unwarranted aggression.

I was asking what you consider rude because that would maybe help me explain why so many people here consider the OP rude or give me an idea whether I could explain it to you at all. If you operate on totally different standards of what's considered rude, then I might not be able to explain adequately.

who wins: chatGPT or guy really desperate for final reply

>>719325802
>The key point is that rudeness, as a violation of social conventions, is considered an unwarranted aggression.
Why is saying "I don't care that you sneezed" a sign of ""aggression"" to you?

>>719325919
Refer to my post above, please. I explained which social convention it breaks in my view.

>>719325861
Thanks, I appreciate that you would think my replies could have been formulated by GPT.

>>719325972
That's nice, but it's not what I asked you.
>Explain why you think saying "I don't care that you sneezed" is a sign of "aggression".
Go ahead. We can't move on until you do this.

>>719326048
Breaking of social convention = rude = aggressive
Saying "I don't care" in the above context = breaking of social convention = rude = aggressive

>>719326041
You can ask chatGPT to talk like a retard.

When my friend unironically quotes ltg when losing.
>wake up sweep?!
>fucking crush counter nigga????

>>719326220
>"IT'S TRUE B-B-BECAUSE I SAY IT IS!!!"
*yawn*
Concession accepted. It's clear you have no answers.

>>719323738
kek
Sometimes I forget how autistic this place can be.

>>719320512
>gg no re

>>719326220
>Breaking of social convention = rude = aggressive
By this logic, men wearing pink clothes = aggression?
That's pretty retarded ngl bro

>>719320512
playing cod

i was not ready to play against people with 3 armor plates and decked out guns and whatever the fuck who were also in friend groups

>>719320512
I was in a rocket league amateur tourney, we pretty easily wiped every other team because small country, get to the end and shenanigans ends up putting us with the semi pros who turned up to clean house, 10-1 or something worse. Would've gotten 2nd place money if placements didn't shift too
Even had to travel to an arena to play

>>719320892
A good friend wouldn’t give you any shit for that. They would however rate every sneeze you made afterwards on a scale of 1/10 for the next 20 years

I was humbled when I got full of myself doing build order hydralisk rushes in sc2. When the matchmaking finally pitched me against a somewhat competent opponent, I crumbled like a castle made of sandstone despite my superior build order and mass of hydras. They bodied me so bad I stopped playing completely, just embarrassed at myself that his tiny army and base were able to overcome my massive unit and map control advantage.
I dont play micro-advantage RTS anymore. I should have won but that apm ability spamming nonsense is gay and I refuse to engage with it.

>>719324480
you're clearly an autist or a giant douche

>>719327594
>STILL not a single reason posted
Cute :3

what the fuck is up with this gigaautist asking everyone for a definition of being rude
like what the actual fuck

>>719327764
An actual autistic isnt going to be able to figure out if something is rude in their own. They will need people to tell them.

>>719327764
He's just having an episode or something. I hope it's not ironic because then it's less funny.

shit, dude, where do i even start. I played a ton of SF3 but dealing with some of the top tiers is pure unfun garbage. once i was playing ryu and the dude switched to makoto and legit turn my 0v4 into a 5v4 comeback. I still hate that stupid character a bunch.

People like this are rare. I have a lot of respect for them.

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>>719327764
The more important question is;
why can't anyone do it?

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I once called out a clan leader in toribash and as he was slamming my face into the DQ zone his whole clan was using /em to shittalk me in 3D text
He offered me a best of 5 and I took it, losing two additional times
it was particularly traumatizing

>>719327764
I think he's just shitposting

>>719320892
imagine not recording your sneeze

>>719326629
That's what it comes down to in the end. I know it sounds retarded on the surface of it, but ultimately, whenever you act out of social conventions, it's an aggression against the established order. Doesn't have to mean you're running around shooting people.

>>719324480
It's rude cause sneezer initiated conversation and the friend shut him down. Shutting down dialogue without good reason is rude

>>719328776
>Shutting down dialogue without good reason is rude
But his reasoning was good.
Who the fuck cares that you sneezed? Nobody.

>>719320512
I have experienced games on Granary that finished in less than 90 seconds.

>>719328859
Most of us here do. A big sneeze is funny. And when a friend sneezes, I say "Bless you, faggot!".

>>719329352
Calling him a faggot is a sign of aggression tho
>inb4 no it's not
If that's not aggression, then neither is saying "I don't care that you sneezed bro".

>>719328859
If my friend was excited about a big sneeze, I wouldn't put him down even if I didn't care about it

>>719329506
It's not because it's an in-joke and all in good fun. But yes, if it wasn't, then it would be an aggression.

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>>719320892
I found some game I thought a friend would like and had him wait while I found the trailer link. as soon as he watched it he said I'd wasted his time and to just tell him what it is next time. permanently altered our friendship from that point onwards and these days we chat or game maybe 4 or 5 times a year at most.

>>719329585
It's aggression either way because you're defying social norms, which is aggressive according to retards ITT.

>>719320512
Trying to solo the final boss of Lies of P DLC. I had beaten him with help, so I went back and reloaded an old save to try again solo. I could not beat him after several hours. So I gave up and uninstalled the game and deleted all my saves to prevent me from trying again.

>>719326629
Literally the basis for the fag-movement.
You're not as smart as you think you are.

>>719329731
You seem a little aggressive. Calm down, ok?

>>719328245
>as he was slamming my face into the DQ zone his whole clan was using /em to shittalk me in 3D text
kino

>>719329731
No, it's not defying social norms in that friendship space because overarching social norms allow friends a lot of leeway in how they treat each other. There are multiple layers to social conventions. Telling your friend you don't care could also be fine, but from the OP's reaction we know that this was not how they normally communicated, so it violated the conventions.

>>719328859
No it's not a good reason, good reasons are hostility or being annoying. If you don't care about a topic you move the conversation somewhere else, if he keeps going back to the stupid sneeze then you can be harsh and say no one fucking cares about it. Because trying to go back to something stupid is annoying

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>>719320892
A dude and I were great friends since childhood. We talked vidya, comics, we were there for each other when his father started beating him or when I was bullied at school etc. Then he met a rich dude at school, started hanging out with him and completely changed as a person. I kept chatting and playing with him, but it wasn't the same. One day he announces that he's going to Japanout of the blue. It basically was our El Dorado since we were little, the place we swore we would visit together. He says he found a good offer online and that he's going with another friend of his (met thanks to the rich guy) and that he didn't tell me anything because he thought I would be too busy with uni to go anyway. Forever ruined our friendship.

>>719320892
I do that too, but playfully for easy banter with the boys
doing that in such a dry honest manner is some cunt behavior, though

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>>719320512
For me it's probably three days straight of winning no sets in KoF (Fightcade). I mean sure, people there are veterans but at least I usually get a couple of wins, but that time was some of the unluckiest ever. Damn Pakistanis always picking the cheapest characters like Iori and Takuma and fucking Koreans just have no life outside of fightans.

>>719329650
Have had similar events occur that also ended up with changes to our social dynamics.
It's very sad to realize the person you thought shared your interests is actually just a retard.

>>719330091
So not only he didn't invite you after years of friendship, but he also didn't tell you about the good offer, which you could have used for yourself if he didn't want you to accompany him that bad. He sounds like a complete douchebag, the rich guy probably brainwashed him or something. Money can change people into rotten shadows of their former selves.

>>719320512
Lost a match in Dota 2 with all 9 people in the match mocking me for singlehandedly losing the game. I was so mad i kicked my dog lying nearby. The kick was so bad one of the ribs punctured her liver and i had no money for treatment so i had to put her down.

>>719328245
imagining the floating text between turns is fucking me up

>>719329731
>noooo your friendship with in-jokes must follow rules based on my own autism and the posts in this thread
I unironically believe you are the most friendless person in this thread lmao

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>>719321102
I come back 2 hours later yo my post and there's a whole DBZ fight going on holy smokes

>>719320892
>3 hours of some narcissistic newfag fuccboi shitting up the thread because of this post
some kids need the shit slapped out of them during public school

>>719330442
Good ragebait 11/10 i almost believed it was real im going to go pet my dog now.

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De_dust. Last round. Two players left. Bomb planted. Im cs. Approached site. Threw a fire gernade in. Walked in slowly but no enemy player. Tried to defuse but died in my own fire. Got vote kicked so quickly didnt play for the next three days

>>719320892
bro your bantz?

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>>719320512
It happened in insurgency sandstorm. I was playing outpost, it's a coop mode where you defend a position for several rounds and get tokens to slowly build your loadout. We were on the final round and i had to decide: Do i get the extended magazines for my akm, a good secondary and the extendos for the pistol OR do i get the drum mag for the akm knowing damn well how long it takes to reload? I was an idiot and picked the drums, everything was going fine we just had to hold for 1 more minute but then it happened: A rush while i was mid reload, i pulled my makarov but it just wasn't enough, my team was busy with their own chokepoints and in seconds the entire building was flooded. I don't think anyone realized it was my fault but i still think about it to this day

>>719331164
At least it's funny, don't feel bad.

>>719322096
I used to be insecure and self-conscious like that but eventually it turned into aggression and manipulative controlling behaviour. Careful it doesn't happen to you, hair-trigger anger is a lot more difficult to manage than weakness and it's difficult to maintain a healthy relationship with people you care about when you feel a compulsive urge to be in control at all times.

>>719320512
I thought I was good at Timesplitters FP. Hit up multiplayer online and I was just demolished all day. I never got online ever again.

>>719330091
Money, man. It brings out the rot in people. I am all the more thankful that the friends of mine who have come into money have stayed the same.

>>719331582
>aggression and manipulative controlling behaviour
>compulsive urge to be in control at all times
This is my father and a strong reason as to why he has poor/no relationships with everyone around him. The narcissistic micromanagement and head games is absurd. Almost like modern imageboards and internet culture.

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>>719321102
NTA but speaking of rude friends
>Working on a novel as a passion project
>Published some chapters on ao3 and people seems to genuinely like it
>Joined vc to play with my friend
>One of my friends seemed ecstatic that I joined and asked me if I could help him with writing because he wanna draw a comic
>Other friend in the call (a drawfag) seemed genuinely offended that he asked me for help instead of him
>Later when we were playing we started talking about our appearance
>Same friend said I'm a 8/10 and the drawfag was again genuinely offended

>>719320892
Why are zoomers so socially retarded? I guarantee you interrupted a conversation just to tell him that, no one does that in actual conversation unless they're autistic.

>>719333069
I didn't.

>>719327764
Nah, he has a point. Telling a friend you don't care about something as inocuous as a sneeze is fine.

>>719328859
I agree with you, anon. It's fucking nothing.

>>719323957
skill issue

>>719320892
Why would he give a shit? What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>719320892
no one asked retard

>>719335016
But it was the biggest sneeze. What a sad world where people don't celebrate gigasneezes or gigafarts. Is that sort of humor dying with zoomers too?

>>719335396
Way to tell everybody you have no friends. Real life isn't the retarded stoner comedies you grew up on.

>>719335516
>sneezes and farts are stoner humor
Wow, zoomer.

>>719335396
It ain't the biggest sneeze if the PC isn't completely covered in snot

>>719335706
The zoomers in this thread are the fragile little autists trying to hug your retarded ass for crying over somebody not caring that you sneezed. Fucking larping faggot.

>>719335516
>>719335863
you will never fit in and you will always be a 12-20 year old newfag

>>719335863
I already spent all my hatred towards trannyjanny today

>>719335907
Whatever you need to tell yourself, faggot. If you actually had friends you know they don't act the way you are pretending they do. Keep larping.

>>719336339
>everybody is the same person!!!!!!!
you will never fit in and you will always be a 12-20 year old newfag

I'm surprised people are pretending to be me in the thread.

>>719320512
this isnt chess

I legit just had a major loss right now on fightcade. was finally beating some one way better than me when on the very last round the connection suspiciously turned bad and lag spikes started appearing which made me miss the super and get crushed.
I don't think it was lag switches or anything like that but I fucking hate that when i finally was able to almost beat a high rank I get fucked over like that.

>>719320892
>discord
>growing up
Damn...
Anyway, there's nothing really wrong with what you or your friend said. You should tell him about it sometime and share some laughs.

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>>719320987
40 year old and playing videogames most of my free time, this is wisdom

>>719320892
Sorry to break it to you but you're still oblivious. I used to think I was the cringe one in every conversation but then I got more social skills and realized that no, other people are cringe too and not every minor thing is cringe either. You could have saved that situation in about 70 different ways but you said nothing. That's your only real fuckup and if you haven't realized that by now then I don't know what to tell you.

>>719320512
I'd love to get good at any of the strategy board games but I can't visualize/remember more than like 5 moves ahead. How do you get better at this shit? just play more?

>>719322667
This. It's a great feeling when walking/biking through rain, having accepted it. Seeing most people frown intensely and giving them a big smile, fully soaked.

>>719322834
It is not more rude to be polite to someone than to shut them down with a total lack of social grace.

>>719335016
How you say that is the difference between showing respect and being a prick.
>bro, you just missed the biggest sneeze of your life
>really? thats sweet man, wish i could have been here for it. by the way have you seen (XYZ)?
Thats an easy way to let someone down on something you're not interested in but can tell they are.