I am genuinely confused...

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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As some of you may know, I have dropped the practice of teabagging as I did not want to be seen as an -Yoink- in the long run. As such, it’s basically a strong no-no for me to do so, even in a social environment. This is just my personal opinion, but I’m guessing that the practice will eventually fade away after being overused for so long. prepares bubble shield

Digression aside, I’ve discovered that Breakout has the high frequency of teabaggers out of every other Arena gamemode. Sure that I am not the best Arena player around, but I have honestly never seen so many teabaggers in such abundance, let alone in ferocity. I simply don’t understand why Breakout has so many compared to everything else in Arena…combined.
Seriously, what gives?

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cant remember the last time i played Breakout

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Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.

You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.

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> Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.
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> You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.

…at the cost of one / some of my values? I’m afraid I won’t change in that aspect.

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> Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.
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> You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.

That was deep, like dropping dimes of wisdom. “Etiquette and civility to a video game” woooh just shivered.

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> > 2533274893424151;3:
> > Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.
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> > You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.
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> …at the cost of one / some of my values? I’m afraid I won’t change in that aspect.

My favorite TB moments are teammate drilling a Nornfang into Sir Teabaggins head.

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I have stayed away from Breakout. I do not mind getting tbagged, unless it is an unfair situation, like being outnumbered because of quitters. I was being tbagged everytime I got killed in a 1 v 4, and I absolutely reported the one fool who kept doing it.

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> As some of you may know, I have dropped the practice of teabagging as I did not want to be seen as an -Yoink- in the long run. As such, it’s basically a strong no-no for me to do so, even in a social environment. This is just my personal opinion, but I’m guessing that the practice will eventually fade away after being overused for so long. prepares bubble shield
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> Digression aside, I’ve discovered that Breakout has the high frequency of teabaggers out of every other Arena gamemode. Sure that I am not the best Arena player around, but I have honestly never seen so many teabaggers in such abundance, let alone in ferocity. I simply don’t understand why Breakout has so many compared to everything else in Arena…combined.
> Seriously, what gives?

Idk, maybe it’s just a resurgence of non-serious players in that playlist.

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I have to admit, I have done it in custom games, here, but we were all just having fun. I do not take offence when it is done to me. But like Matador Inc has said, if is 4 vs 1 and they are doing it every time, I will report them. Most of the time I will let it slide.

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I get bagged and my body gets shot 50% of the time no matter what I play lol

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Kinda saddens me that players look at teabagging as a bad thing. Makes me wonder if in another ten or fifteen years will players be like do the guns have to shoot bullets? Can’t they shoot nerf darts? Or do assassinations have to include knives? It’s just tea bagging why is it so bad? I only do it when I pull off a pretty good kill or always when some one Spartan charges me and I still kill them.

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I’m going with LethalQ on this one. Teabagging isn’t always a bad thing. Most of the time the players I see teabagging are just doing so as a method of acknowledgement, i.e. I drop a weapon for them, they start bagging as a way of saying thanks. And anytime someone bags me after I die, I laugh because I probably deserved it (and if I get bagged repeatedly, then I know I deserved it). I know this isn’t what you were asking for, but just keep this in mind: the perception of teabagging, positive or negative, is what you make it out to be.

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I bag for psychological warfare purposes. Sometimes it works.

I guess breakout is just a more competitive place than other game modes so you’ll have more players wanting to win and when they do they aren’t very gracious… and when they lose, well they’re pretty salty about it.

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> 2535429593088083;4:
> > 2533274893424151;3:
> > Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.
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> > You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.
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> …at the cost of one / some of my values? I’m afraid I won’t change in that aspect.

Absolutely loved that response. One’s own morality/values and how, or when, one decides to apply them isn’t a shackle.

The “problem” with tbagging is that it’s a taunt… but it’s not just a taunt… it’s commonly known as a vulgar taunt, hence its name. And when certain actions in video games start to enter into a morally grey area, perceptions start to vary, wildly at times, and acceptance follows closely behind. Some find it not acceptable at all, while others can seem to be receptive to an almost unhealthy level… lol.

Considering that, it’s impossible to come up with any “rules of engagement”… bag-engage… baggagement. Yeah, let’s call it that… which would be widely accepted without a myriad of contention points.

That’s already evident, IMO, in several posts on this thread and it’s barely even a full page as of this post.

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> I have stayed away from Breakout. I do not mind getting tbagged, unless it is an unfair situation, like being outnumbered because of quitters. I was being tbagged everytime I got killed in a 1 v 4, and I absolutely reported the one fool who kept doing it.

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> I have to admit, I have done it in custom games, here, but we were all just having fun. I do not take offence when it is done to me. But like MATADOR Inc has said, if is 4 vs 1 and they are doing it every time, I will report them. Most of the time I will let it slide.

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> Kinda saddens me that players look at teabagging as a bad thing. Makes me wonder if in another ten or fifteen years will players be like do the guns have to shoot bullets? Can’t they shoot nerf darts? Or do assassinations have to include knives? It’s just tea bagging why is it so bad? I only do it when I pull off a pretty good kill or always when some one Spartan charges me and I still kill them.

I’m sure that the more responses we see, the more the rules of baggagement will vary until there’s pretty much just a… cluster bag… of [non]/acceptable circumstances, since it seems that (going from memory of previous threads on this topic) even for those who accept it, the majority have a point at which they say “enough is enough” and report the “offender(s)”. That tells me that many people are just tolerant of it, in the name of letting others “have their fun”, but in the end they see it as the morally grey subject that it is.

Personally, I just don’t do it… and no… I’ve never once felt shackled by my refrainment. JMPO, but I find it lacking maturity. If I want to (and I have) taunt someone, I can do it other ways. Shooting/meleeing thier body or running back and forth as if trampling it, sticking their body with a plasma 'nade (I like that one). But that’s just me.

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I don’t get some bags. I’ll be shooting someone and then I’ll die because I got shot in the back and that person who was shooting me in the back will come up and bag me. I hope they didn’t think it was impressive or something.

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I don’t mind being teabagged. I mean, who really cares? If it irritates you, the teabagger has accomplished what he set out to do. I’m not really sure it can be taken seriously as a reportable offense, I wouldn’t even consider it unsportsmanlike conduct (I mean in H4 the holograms would -Yoink!- dead enemies if you sent them onto one).

While I seldom -Yoink!- enemies, I -Yoink!- my teammates all the time. Most often I like to jump on their heads and do it. Or if they’re in a vehicle, I’ll jump on the hood and show them I mean serious business. Or if a guy is standing in a corner or at a REQ station, I like to welcome him with the dance of my people.

Teabagging isn’t a bad thing, it’s a fun thing. I don’t see teabaggers as -Yoinks!-, I see them as people who are enjoying themselves.

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It’s cause it’s a game mode where once you’re dead, you’re dead. so they just -Yoink!- you as a taunt for either making them wait.

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> I bag for psychological warfare purposes. Sometimes it works.
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> I guess breakout is just a more competitive place than other game modes so you’ll have more players wanting to win and when they do they aren’t very gracious… and when they lose, well they’re pretty salty about it.

When I get teabagged, I have one piece of friendly advice to give myself-

“KILL HIM AND ONLY HIM”

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I’m sure lots of people misconstrue my repeated crouching for T-bagging when I’m really just trying to avoid being shot in the head.
I do crouch a couple of times to acknowledge other players on occasion, I mean it’s not like Overwatch where there’s voice commands, and I always register a melee/being shot at as hostile, so I kinda have to make do. I mean, I’ve never had anyone have an issue with it in the past, but I don’t play Halo 5 personally, so maybe this has only cropped up recently.

As far as actively T-bagging another player, yeah it gets annoying when other players repeatedly do it, especially if they’re beating you by a large margin, but if I’ve been dominating another player for a full game and they manage to kill me and get in a T-bag, then I think they’re entitled to it. It’s added humiliation for allowing yourself to die.
If you don’t want it to happen to you, be better than the other player or leave the game, set the player to ‘avoid’ and move on. But idk that’s just how I deal with it.

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Its cause your adamant

No one likes adamant

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> 2535429593088083;4:
> > 2533274893424151;3:
> > Try not to prescribe rules of etiquette and civility to a video game.
> >
> > You may find it more enjoyable without those shackles.
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> …at the cost of one / some of my values? I’m afraid I won’t change in that aspect.

What’s your stance on stance on assault with a deadly weapon, vehicular manslaughter and other such unpleasantries?