This is just silly to me. I only have a problem with taunting if it’s against new players who are getting stomped, or it’s a on-every-kill kinda deal.
Taunting against new guys (not newbies, you can be rank 100 and still be a noob) if you’re whooping them is unacceptable. For obvious reasons.
Taunting over and over again (unless it’s Amp Damage or Tea Ceremony, you can’t be mad at those) makes you…
A. Look like a jerk
B. Have a higher chance of getting you killed, lowering your performance and making you look stupid
Really though, OP, it’s a video-game. And of all the things that make people come-off as jerks, you pick taunts? SMH.
Oh, and not to mention there’s taunts or a way to taunt in nearly every PvP game in existence.
zadymek
(Sticks and stones...and maybe frozen fish.)
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If Battleborn is a sport then, in cetrain circumstances, taunting would be percieved as abusive and a symptome of bad sportsmanship. I personally hope not, because sports nowadays are commertialized crap…
On the other hand: taunting is legal and in no way restricted in Battleborn. Case closed.
Also: srsly “maturity” is overrated, either by ppl having their own definitions, or through the context - definition of “a game”, anyone?
How about an act like, I don’t know, digital murder?
Besides, do you really need a Battleborn in-game taunt to alert you to how far our humanity has fallen? If we want to get all heady with our righteous indignation, then why are we playing PvP video games that involve killing?
Mixed feelings on this topic. Especially the way some (not all) use the taunts does tend to leave me saying “Bad form, dude.” That being said, it doesn’t so much make me lose my temper as make me focus (I believe the saying is "Don’t get mad, get even).
Also, you never know when Pendles is nearby waiting to strike mid taunt.
The taunts are just funny. I don’t see how you can actually be offended by them.
Not taunting in battleborn is like playing Mortal Kombat but not doing a fatality when you win: Why would you intentionally skip out on half the fun of killing someone?
Only time “taunting” actually makes me angry is when people try to “teabag” in games where it’s note even feasible. As in they can’t even stand over the body, just start crouching up and down in place, and that’s just because idiocy infuriates me.
Honestly I get annoyed if someone kills me but DOESN’T taunt.
Taunts are just a fun thing to do. There’s no actual insult. Most people don’t use them. They’re in many games, and are just for fun
Ahhh, no. I do it when I thwart a cheeky Pendles for example. It shows that I’m having fun. How can you take Levity as an insult? And how can Gunslinger do anything but potentially make the enemy swoon?
Btw, welcome to the forums! Glad to have you here. But I think titles like Old Man Cranky and Worthy of Song are of much more concern than taunts
Literally everyone in this game is a psychopath. All of them. By design. Why would Pendles doing the whip be so insulting?
If someone runs halfway across the map, spending all of their skills, and I just manage to kill them in the last second, I’m going to taunt them. Because they just acted stupid and paid for it.
I won a few chess tournament games through this tactic
At the end of a match. Not during the middle where a guy tries to throw from half court and fails miserably
(You gotta highlight and then click the italicized button to get it to work fyi)
This is a game. Not a match. If this was a tournament or even ranked, I may not taunt. But this is free for all having fun.
Ah, this is a separate debate over the evolution of language alongside societal development. Taunt no longer strictly means that. Just as “sick” doesn’t always mean ill
And by opening this topic up to discussion, we are entitled to debate and lay down why we disagree
How is Ambra’s button being so incredibly hot that it burns her injury added to insult. When I see a taunt, I usually think that they made a good play, or I deserved it. Ofc, this all changes when it’s a team that’s stomping that uses taunts, but that’s all inference discussion and they could stomping till farm kills even if they couldn’t taunt
Honestly though
If I’m playing Whiskey Foxtrot, I’m taunting every kill. As a gift. And occasionally sometimes in the middle of nowhere. And when I have the display equipped. How can you not use that wonderful thing
I rarely ever taunt. But they are not inherently a bad thing. Could one use them in a rude manner? Yes, quite possibly. Would I prefer getting taunted every kill for the rest of my life over one more match as Alani against a smart Benedict? Hell no. That’s much more rude imo. Many things can be used for worse. This is far down on that list
Alright, get ready for the incredibly rare SERIOUS HandsomeCam post:
How one chooses to perceive something is 100% up to THAT PERSON. I can give voice to the most offensive slur of insults that i can imagine, but it’s up to YOU to take offense to it. If you are offended by taunts, then that is your choice, and not the basis for taunting in general. If a Benedict taunts me, i choose to say “yeah, laugh it up; i’m coming for you.”, because i find his taunts to be offensive; but if a Ernest uses the display, or S&A do their rock, paper, scissors routine, then i choose to laugh and move on. Your experience will vary based on your world view; but that doesn’t mean YOUR view is the CORRECT view; taking offense to something is one of the most subjective acts in human nature, and what upsets one person will not necessarily upset the other.
Taking offense is like having an opinion; everyone does it/has one, but it doesn’t mean that your way of looking at things applies to everyone else. I like taunting and, in most cases, being taunted. I have even gotten messages from people asking me where i got the taunt i am using. If humanity is at an all-time low from taunting, then i say grab a shovel and dig deeper, because I’M having a blast.
No it isn’t. This is absolute rubbish. Most of how we perceive things is decided on a subconscious level based on prior conditioning. It’s even been shown that most of our decisions are made subconsciously before we are aware of deciding anything.
Everything in life is experienced subjectively. That doesn’t mean that everything valued or experienced is relative based on the particular circumstances of each person. Sportsmanship as an ideal is established as part of human culture. The edges of the ideal may vary a bit from group to group, but the idea is coherent overall and based on a concern for the other participants of a competition. The OP is correct in that the majority of people here don’t care about sportsmanship with regard to taunts in this game. With some variation, if they enjoy a taunt they’ll use it with little concern how the person on the receiving end may take it.
How big of a deal is this? Is this the decline of western culture? Is the game at fault? Etc. is all debateable.
But as gamers I think it bears a bit more consideration than “Hey I’M having a blast so who cares what other people think”.
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loving-hatred
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Speaking as a sailor let’s see if you can make me blush sometime!
Are you aware of said conditioning?
Yes? Then you can look beyond it and hopefully be more than the sum of your behavioral indoctrination
No? Then you’re not accountable for your own behavior is what you’re telling me.
Here’s the thing, a person absolutely can decide how to approach things and how they are perceived as time passes, if they have self control
Others have already pointed out the flaws in your theory that i was going to, and i just started drinking, so i’m gonna CHOOSE to bow out of this discussion. Good day to you, sir.
Not at all, such a statement is but an attempt to smoke screen.
Of course anybody is at liberty to pretend that saying or doing something “means” something else,
or that Earth is flat or Elvis alive … but if we turn to society’s defintion, through the dictionary
(reference: Merriam-Webster), we fail to find all those “other” definitions that are being referred to by some.
Instead, and I quote, rather the opposite, and with one core message:
“Definition of taunt for English Language Learners:
to say insulting things to (someone) in order to make that person angry”
“Definition of taunt for Students:
a mean insulting remark”
“Definition of taunt for kids:
to make fun of or say insulting things to”
“Synonym discussion of taunt:
ridicule, deride, mock, taunt mean to make an object of laughter of.
ridicule implies a deliberate often malicious belittling.
deride suggests contemptuous and often bitter ridicule.
mock implies scorn often ironically expressed as by mimicry or sham deference.
taunt suggests jeeringly provoking insult or challenge.”
All the same, gank meant stealing for many years before it meant to get a kill on an unexpecting and easy target.
Now, ignoring names, is ISIC doing the robot that bad of an insult that it brings society down? Why is taunting such a big deal? You’re literally just doing a funny animation to close off a kill. That’s nowhere close to BM
