"Get a life"

I've seen this insult done way too many times with PuGs for it to just be trolls.
What is with people always saying that in the most out of context manor?

Notably when you leave a group.

Say you don't like what they're running. You suggest an improvement because you're not rude enough to tell them the blunt truth that the warrior is useless and no team synergy outside of Ursan is a [email protected] action and that they should bring SY while they're off Ursan. You get kicked and get told "Get a life".
So you question it. "Not everyone wants to play with a know it all"
Ok, that's fine. But that was so illogical. From suggesting an improvement, you suddenly don't have a life?

Another situation. A group you join as a healer is too filled with humans for you to take your heroes but they're lacking staple roles like an MM or curses necro. So you leave. "Get a life". "You're wasting my time"
Okay. So I left a group and "wasted his time" after he begged for a healer, an experienced one while I'm at it. And now he was harassing me to get a life for wasting his time. I tell him to stop pming me if I'm wasting his time. Guess what? He keeps bothering me about nonesense. And when he stops, he bothers me again 5 minutes later. I thought I was wasting his time?!?!

How do these situations relate whatsoever to "getting a life"? I've heard this at least 14 times this week.

Anyways, share your thoughts and experiences. Quite frankly, I'm wondering what's up with all the "get a life" insults in pugging as of lately.

General insult of people being insecure about their own life.

They think they are wasting their own life playing videogames 10hrs a day, instead of studying, dating, earning money. So the only way to cope with this is telling other people they are even worse at real life as they are.

Pretty much this.
People all over the game use it and quite frankly its a stupid insult.

+ 95% of the people who play Guild wars are supposed to play runescape, but got GW from christmas or whatever. sooo. dont play nm missions?!

don't get too worked up. it could be just a 12yr old insulting you.

also most people are too busy 'getting laid' while theyre telling you to 'get a life' on the game. people who say this are part of the staple community that make guild wars such an exciting game

I guess GW has a lot of retards then. Retards who play for 10h a day that suck at the game

Joking.

I, for one, so play GW for 10+ hours straight whenever I don't have GW burnout or am taking a break. So maybe they just must be socially retarded. However, what else can be said? Pointless thread might be pointless, though I just wanted to vent and question this context.

Yeah I used to say stuff like that often, mainly to the ppl that throw all the shorten sentences (like SS, MM just alot more complicated) I just dont understand at me. So I usualy go "WTF!?" get kicked and called noob, best thing I can throw back is "Get a life"

I always reply that I have full time job and a wife and what does he mean by that? Should I get another wife or something? Then usually it stops. Or another type of insults start.

I agree those remarks are annoying and I agree with poster above that they are usually made by teenagers. I stopped pugging some time ago. I have to admit that I am impressed that there are people still willing to do it....

Just ignore them as they most likely are trying to get a rise out of you.

I find this even better: "You have no life"


This is what I used to get after beating people in PvP. Never mind that they play GW more than me, or other games. It's just so sad sour loser response, as in "Ok you beat me here, but that means im better than you irl." No, sorry, it doesnt have to mean that.

I have very rarely been insulted ingame, running with PUGs or otherwise.
I have this theory that if you are polite and considerate people usually respond in kind.
Those few times that I have been the target of hateful remarks like those, I have gotten the distinct impression that I merely was a handy substitute for something else: school, parents, work, their boss, etc.

I think you're looking for meaning when there isn't. These people may think something else, or simply not "get" the meaning of "get a life". They just want to express disapproval, maybe because they feel inferior for not knowing, or don't want to be told what to do.

Forget it, it's a game, you did make a point and are not responsible if they're not listening. Just ignore their stupid comments and don't take it personally.

In pvp I sometimes get insulted without writing anything. Usually it happens when I have non-standard skill set and I kill someone with a skill he was not expecting. Being polite will not help since there is no actual conversation just one sided flames.

Same was happening in PUGs. Usually with alliance we took 1-2 guys from outside to have a full team. We don do the mission/dungeon the way they are used to and then flames start out of the sudden. It is quite sad since those guys did not realise we are all from one alliance and we are on TS and we are equally disgusted with their reaction. Usually one of us tries to calm down the guy. It sometimes works but recently less and less often. Bad luck maybe. Anyways I have to say that no-life insult is more and more popular.

I find the insult "get a life" amusing when I'm not the only person wasting time in my life playing a videogame.

If I didn't have a life, wouldn't I be dead?

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It's always a shame whem people retort to standardout-of-the-box insults as a way of trying to appear impressive.

I used to play my monk as a Smiter, and boy, did I get stick for that. And this was for the Kryta missions with Level 20 players. At that point in Proph, obviously all my smite skills did double damabe, so taking me on as a second monk was a viable option. But jeez. All I got was stick for not being a standard player.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that some people put players into boxes depending on their class. And the mindset that does that, and CAN'T think outside said box doesn't like to be reminded of that. So they drag their insults out with them and use them to make themselves feel better, whenever someone comes along and makes them realise, even if they forget it within five minutes, that they're actually not very good at a game that makes you use your own brain to pick the skills you use.

It's just a general insult. Why should you care, really?

It's a popular insult because people take it seriously. Even if you do have a life, but you have spent half your day with GW (or even more) it can make you realise that perhaps you are playing too much.

Look at Starcraft (HA Player) 's youtube video where he shows his R15 emote. all the "/nolife hahahah" "get a life" spam. I'm pretty sure those people play too much too.

Other side of it, is: Imagine, that you are doing something too much. Anything. And you see a person who does this even more than you. It feels good to tell him that he is doing that thing too much, he should stop.


Best way is to ignore them. I don't mean the /ignore command, i mean, dont take their insultations seriously.

(sorry for bad english)

get a life and stop wasting my time with your pointless threads!!

well no, but seriously, what kind of person wastes their precious seconds just to throw a random insult at people? Responding to them isn't much better since someone who would throw insults at a random person for no good reason is not someone you're going to strike up a sensible conversation with or even reason with.

What Risky Ranger and glacialphoenix have stated above is what to bear in mind when you are receiving such empty insults.

Simply because I've heard it soooo many times as of lately from a variety of different people.
I've shrugged it off all the time ingame, just making witty responses for lulz, but I made this thread to question the new fad of telling people to get a life; I care because it's become a fad.