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.
"Get a life"
Lishy
Arduin
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.
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.
TalanRoarer
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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. |
People all over the game use it and quite frankly its a stupid insult.
prey monkie
+ 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?!
Carboplatin
don't get too worked up. it could be just a 12yr old insulting you.
stanzhao
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 
Lishy
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Originally Posted by Arduinna
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. |
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.
Deimos Zargarda
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"
Shasgaliel
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....
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....
Rocky Raccoon
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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. |
Servant of Kali
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.
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.
Yang Whirlwind
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 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.
Fril Estelin
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.
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.
Shasgaliel
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I have very rarely been insulted ingame,
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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.
Spiritweaver
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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If I didn't have a life, wouldn't I be dead?
This post was brought to you from the depths of the Underworld.
TottWriter
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.
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.
glacialphoenix
It's just a general insult. Why should you care, really?
MarciNoExcess
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)
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)
Cargan
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.
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.
Lishy
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It's just a general insult. Why should you care, really?
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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.
rotaulave
Notice my join date on guru, I'm one of the first to join one of the oldest on guru and
Im retired disabled and have a wife that works I do some mister mom stuff around the house but GW is my life outside of that and i guess that im one of the only ones that gets get a life on guru when i mention ive put in 20k hrs ( a few are afk lol ) in GW and died 15k times.
Ha im an old fart not a real real good player but i enjoy GW and hold my own.
Ive never had a good understanding of caster stuff as ive always been a slasher war/mo then took me 2 yrs to make a monk, and another 2yrs to deside to learn the good stuff (still learning have alot of questions and you know what alot of those question get noobs and get a life responces but i just dont care its not the end of the world, until GW1 ends im ok and i got a life GW1 lol, I guess when GW2 comes out ill have a second life.
Im retired disabled and have a wife that works I do some mister mom stuff around the house but GW is my life outside of that and i guess that im one of the only ones that gets get a life on guru when i mention ive put in 20k hrs ( a few are afk lol ) in GW and died 15k times.
Ha im an old fart not a real real good player but i enjoy GW and hold my own.
Ive never had a good understanding of caster stuff as ive always been a slasher war/mo then took me 2 yrs to make a monk, and another 2yrs to deside to learn the good stuff (still learning have alot of questions and you know what alot of those question get noobs and get a life responces but i just dont care its not the end of the world, until GW1 ends im ok and i got a life GW1 lol, I guess when GW2 comes out ill have a second life.
Kattar
I'd don't know that I call it a fad. I've never been told to get a life in game. But given your propensity for certain activities on this forum, (see: your guild information) I can see why you might experience this more than the "average" person.
Heh.
Heh.
glacialphoenix
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I'm willing to bet the people who shriek "GET A LIFE" really, really don't recognise the irony of what they're saying, too. All in all, it's just a variation on something that was already happening. It's not as if people just suddenly started shouting insults at each other - trashtalking and insulting and whatnot have all been going on for a really long time.
GourangaPizza
Errr... the point of this thread is OP's getting disturbed by these remarks? Honestly I see no reason to be bothered by these remarks since the worse of human nature cannot be shown by words alone... I got a new phrase for you: "Get a move on".
Lishy
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I'd don't know that I call it a fad. I've never been told to get a life in game. But given your propensity for certain activities on this forum, (see: your guild information) I can see why you might experience this more than the "average" person.
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Errr... the point of this thread is OP's getting disturbed by these remarks?
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Taurean
There's nothing to worry about. Some ppl game because of the fun, some game to get away from stuff, some for both. Then you have those who are in an insecure period of life, and need distance from people.
There's also the fact that some ppl are generally evil and some are good.
There's also the fact that some ppl are generally evil and some are good.
Smarty
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I'm questioning the context of usage why people say that if you're not satisfied with a group.
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Kamatsu
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No. I'm questioning the context of usage why people say that if you're not satisfied with a group.
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Seriously, people these days have a short attention span (notice how games have gone from the "time played" selling point going from 100+ hours down to 20 hours or so?).. who read 1 or 2 "guides" on how to play, what skill setup to use, etc and then go with it... or don't even bother to take the time to read the skills, read guides, learn how to actually play the game and just do whatever...
And then if anyone actually dares to try and "help" them... they won't accept that.. because it means that they might actually have to "think" about things and might actually "learn" something... your challenging their right to just "play" the game and to hell with actually playing well or smart or anything (that's too much effort!)
so of course.. moment you challenge em. you've shown that your a nerd geek looser who obviously has no life since you actually bothered to read the game manual, know what the skills can do .. and *gasp* can actually plan a group composition and skill build competently...
Which leaves em with only one recourse.. to tell you.. "Get a life!"
Chocobo1
I wonder why people use a broad insult to annoy people over the internet to get a reaction....
Hmm
It's a tough one, I better meditate on this.
Hmm
It's a tough one, I better meditate on this.
Yang Whirlwind
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Simply because your daring to challenge them and dare to actually know something about the game. didn't you know, if you know anything about a game then your just a nolife nerd geek looser who needs to be told to "Get a life!".
Seriously, people these days have a short attention span (notice how games have gone from the "time played" selling point going from 100+ hours down to 20 hours or so?).. who read 1 or 2 "guides" on how to play, what skill setup to use, etc and then go with it... or don't even bother to take the time to read the skills, read guides, learn how to actually play the game and just do whatever... And then if anyone actually dares to try and "help" them... they won't accept that.. because it means that they might actually have to "think" about things and might actually "learn" something... your challenging their right to just "play" the game and to hell with actually playing well or smart or anything (that's too much effort!) so of course.. moment you challenge em. you've shown that your a nerd geek looser who obviously has no life since you actually bothered to read the game manual, know what the skills can do .. and *gasp* can actually plan a group composition and skill build competently... Which leaves em with only one recourse.. to tell you.. "Get a life!" |
GourangaPizza
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No. I'm questioning the context of usage why people say that if you're not satisfied with a group.
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own age myname
Actually, while reading your thread just now, I went to RA. Suddenly one person in our team decide our team would suck and told us to resign. Of course he thought he was hot shit because he had obby with chaos gloves.
Anyway, no one resigned, and we finished the match and lost. After we lost he told us to "Get a life".
Lol, kind of weird, just read this thread ^^.
Anyway, most people on the internet are idiots. Live with it.
Anyway, no one resigned, and we finished the match and lost. After we lost he told us to "Get a life".
Lol, kind of weird, just read this thread ^^.
Anyway, most people on the internet are idiots. Live with it.
Inde
Perhaps they don't understand the context? I mean "get a life" could be the new "fail" or "lolgw".
Rhododendron
What is so bad with actually getting a life, even the developers said "you guys play REALLY much" .
Just type "/age" in game , and come back here to start a thread on something random like squeaking bra' s.
It helps.
Just type "/age" in game , and come back here to start a thread on something random like squeaking bra' s.
It helps.
HawkofStorms
Whenever anybody says stuff about "you need to get laid" or "you need a life" I know they are just a kid. Because only a teenager thinks sex is the only thing important in life.
It is a very funny insult really. Basically, they are admitting that they are bad at the game and you are better then them. If you think about it.
It is a very funny insult really. Basically, they are admitting that they are bad at the game and you are better then them. If you think about it.
snaek
i usually never get those messages and pug a lot. if i do get that message, i usually reply with "gw is my life" or "can i have yours?". for reals though, its a game and you shouldn't stress so much over it--there is a certain threshold of having crap players before you fail the mission, so try to stop thinking about what is "best" but rather what is "acceptable".
Rocky Raccoon
I guess there are much worse things they could say.
Ebony Shadowheart
'Get a life' ranks up there with people calling other people 'noob' (which I've already been called twice on the boards today, go me. roflmao). Usually the first person to start calling names is simply trying to fend off their own insecurity, unhappiness; thus they take it out on everyone else. However, in some instances, some people just like to argue and fight (guilty!).
In the first case, it's pointless to let it bother you, and even more pointless to say anything back because they don't listen and won't see reason.
In the second instance, playing along and arguing right back can be relatively entertaining. Amazingly this is how most of the lasting friendships I've established in game have come about.
As for the issue of the ignore list, it's there to be used. If you just don't feel like getting into it with someone, just ignore them - literally or figuratively, personal choice. It should drive home the point, although in some cases it doesn't and you need to keep that person on permanent iggy. I rarely actually put someone on the physical ignore list. Currently I have 1 person on mine, from a very bad RA match and anytime I remove them they always have smart ass comment to to make, so I simply don't remove that person anymore.
In the first case, it's pointless to let it bother you, and even more pointless to say anything back because they don't listen and won't see reason.
In the second instance, playing along and arguing right back can be relatively entertaining. Amazingly this is how most of the lasting friendships I've established in game have come about.
As for the issue of the ignore list, it's there to be used. If you just don't feel like getting into it with someone, just ignore them - literally or figuratively, personal choice. It should drive home the point, although in some cases it doesn't and you need to keep that person on permanent iggy. I rarely actually put someone on the physical ignore list. Currently I have 1 person on mine, from a very bad RA match and anytime I remove them they always have smart ass comment to to make, so I simply don't remove that person anymore.
urania
ppl say that when they see my pvp rank 
Quaker
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How do these situations relate whatsoever to "getting a life"? I've heard this at least 14 times this week.
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