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TEABAGGING/CLAM SLAMMING - DO YOU DO IT?
Shadzilla
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DISCLAIMER: Teabagging does not break the terms of service agreement with Zenimax Online Studios.
Is the title in caps again? Hell yes it is, due to the fact of how much love it generates, thinking about doing all posts in caps...
Copy paste compilation from other articles online on the subject, not only for the history lesson, but for the lawls as well.
If you’ve ever played competitive video games online and wound up on the losing end of a conflict, chances are you’ve experienced teabagging. As your digitized avatar lays insensate on the ground, your opponent runs up and starts frantically crouching over your head, rubbing their cyber-crotch on your face in the ultimate display of disrespect.
How did this happen? How did teabagging become the de facto method of trolling other players across dozens of games? Let’s dive deep into gaming history to explore the world of teabagging – if you have the balls for it.
In the early days of gaming, multiplayer experiences were primarily in arcades, where you couldn’t talk too much trash or you might have to face real physical consequences. However, as online connectivity became a more important part of the experience, your opponent could now be hundreds of miles away and you’d never know their real name. This ushered in a new era of disrespect in electronic gaming, as anybody who’s ever strapped on an Xbox headset can tell you.
The essential ingredient for the rise of teabagging came with the release of Halo. Bungie’s incredibly influential Xbox shooter brought the console demographic into the world of online first-person shooting. This typically younger and less technologically savvy group brought a level of immaturity to the battlefield.
It’s apocryphal who the first person was to teabag in games. Crouching in a first-person shooter is typically a pretty fast process – in a firefight, it’s important to be able to take cover quickly, and animating a realistic crouch would just get players killed. From a first-person perspective, you can’t really see your transition from standing to crouching. Looking at another player do it, though, you’ll see that the animation happens much faster than reality. In Halo, you can bob up and down several times a second, which looks funny anyways.
By the time Halo 2 came out, teabagging was here to stay. When you were killed, the game took several seconds lingering over your dead body before respawning you. Knowing that players couldn’t look away, the victors started running over and rapidly crouching and standing up over their victims’ heads. After a brief dalliance with the term “corpse-humping,” gamers settled on a name.
Developers did nothing to discourage the behavior, either. By Halo 3, Bungie had even coded in a “dead reflex” that would make the head of the teabagee bob up and down to the rhythm of the crouching. Many other games started picking up on it as well. What’s interesting is that different communities treat teabagging differently. More casual games like Call of Duty are rife with it, but games with an older play base don’t cotton as much to teabagging, with players getting kicked or reported for unsportsmanlike conduct.
In the modern era, teabagging is just recognized as part of the culture around playing games online. A commercial for Call Of Duty: Ghosts even poked fun at it, with an office employee dipping a real teabag into a mug over and over to the chagrin of his coworker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO_GJpj6MY&feature=youtu.be
By the time Microsoft released Halo 4, they had second thoughts on teabagging. Developer 343 Studios introduced a feature that would allow players to skip the post-death refractory period and respawn instantly at the touch of a button. Obviously, this had repercussions on the teabagger’s art (or, as 343 developer David Ellis called it, “the victory crouch”), but it marked a change of thought on the practice.
Other games embraced teabagging as part of the genre – Call Of Duty: Ghosts included special Field Orders objectives, one of which involved humiliating downed opponents by teabagging their corpses. When completed, the game rewards you with ammo and equipment. Reviewers were less than kind about this feature, calling it “catering to the lowest common denominator.”
As gamers mature, many think teabagging is a childish and inappropriate thing to do. It’s interesting to think about how the practice has spread over the years. Obviously games don’t come with a tutorial in how to teabag, so players must be exposed to the process from each other. You’ll probably be the victim of teabagging more when you’re first getting started with a new game, so when you are finally skilled enough to turn the tables, you’ve built up a fair amount of testicular frustration. It’s only natural to want to pass that down the line to the people you’re beating. And at this point it’s such a well-known part of gamer culture that it was used as a joke on The Simpsons.
Some pro players even use teabagging as a form of psychological warfare. Check out a compilation of professional CS:GO players getting into the heads of their opponents via teabagging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moz0iVW-eAs
Do you teabag? Do you get teabagged? Elaborate, who where why what when and how!
Edited by Shadzilla on October 14, 2017 11:56PM Is the title in caps again? Hell yes it is, due to the fact of how much love it generates, thinking about doing all posts in caps...
Copy paste compilation from other articles online on the subject, not only for the history lesson, but for the lawls as well.
If you’ve ever played competitive video games online and wound up on the losing end of a conflict, chances are you’ve experienced teabagging. As your digitized avatar lays insensate on the ground, your opponent runs up and starts frantically crouching over your head, rubbing their cyber-crotch on your face in the ultimate display of disrespect.
How did this happen? How did teabagging become the de facto method of trolling other players across dozens of games? Let’s dive deep into gaming history to explore the world of teabagging – if you have the balls for it.
In the early days of gaming, multiplayer experiences were primarily in arcades, where you couldn’t talk too much trash or you might have to face real physical consequences. However, as online connectivity became a more important part of the experience, your opponent could now be hundreds of miles away and you’d never know their real name. This ushered in a new era of disrespect in electronic gaming, as anybody who’s ever strapped on an Xbox headset can tell you.
The essential ingredient for the rise of teabagging came with the release of Halo. Bungie’s incredibly influential Xbox shooter brought the console demographic into the world of online first-person shooting. This typically younger and less technologically savvy group brought a level of immaturity to the battlefield.
It’s apocryphal who the first person was to teabag in games. Crouching in a first-person shooter is typically a pretty fast process – in a firefight, it’s important to be able to take cover quickly, and animating a realistic crouch would just get players killed. From a first-person perspective, you can’t really see your transition from standing to crouching. Looking at another player do it, though, you’ll see that the animation happens much faster than reality. In Halo, you can bob up and down several times a second, which looks funny anyways.
By the time Halo 2 came out, teabagging was here to stay. When you were killed, the game took several seconds lingering over your dead body before respawning you. Knowing that players couldn’t look away, the victors started running over and rapidly crouching and standing up over their victims’ heads. After a brief dalliance with the term “corpse-humping,” gamers settled on a name.
Developers did nothing to discourage the behavior, either. By Halo 3, Bungie had even coded in a “dead reflex” that would make the head of the teabagee bob up and down to the rhythm of the crouching. Many other games started picking up on it as well. What’s interesting is that different communities treat teabagging differently. More casual games like Call of Duty are rife with it, but games with an older play base don’t cotton as much to teabagging, with players getting kicked or reported for unsportsmanlike conduct.
In the modern era, teabagging is just recognized as part of the culture around playing games online. A commercial for Call Of Duty: Ghosts even poked fun at it, with an office employee dipping a real teabag into a mug over and over to the chagrin of his coworker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TO_GJpj6MY&feature=youtu.beBy the time Microsoft released Halo 4, they had second thoughts on teabagging. Developer 343 Studios introduced a feature that would allow players to skip the post-death refractory period and respawn instantly at the touch of a button. Obviously, this had repercussions on the teabagger’s art (or, as 343 developer David Ellis called it, “the victory crouch”), but it marked a change of thought on the practice.
Other games embraced teabagging as part of the genre – Call Of Duty: Ghosts included special Field Orders objectives, one of which involved humiliating downed opponents by teabagging their corpses. When completed, the game rewards you with ammo and equipment. Reviewers were less than kind about this feature, calling it “catering to the lowest common denominator.”
As gamers mature, many think teabagging is a childish and inappropriate thing to do. It’s interesting to think about how the practice has spread over the years. Obviously games don’t come with a tutorial in how to teabag, so players must be exposed to the process from each other. You’ll probably be the victim of teabagging more when you’re first getting started with a new game, so when you are finally skilled enough to turn the tables, you’ve built up a fair amount of testicular frustration. It’s only natural to want to pass that down the line to the people you’re beating. And at this point it’s such a well-known part of gamer culture that it was used as a joke on The Simpsons.
Some pro players even use teabagging as a form of psychological warfare. Check out a compilation of professional CS:GO players getting into the heads of their opponents via teabagging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moz0iVW-eAsDo you teabag? Do you get teabagged? Elaborate, who where why what when and how!
TEABAGGING/CLAM SLAMMING - DO YOU DO IT? 94 votes
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Tryxus✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No.../spit"We're all born under the same sky and on the same earth. Therefore, we all deserve the same amount of respect."
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MasterSpatula✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...Why would you write such a ridiculously long essay just to ask people if they're utter *** or not?"A probable impossibility is preferable to an improbable possibility." - Aristotle11 -
ArchMikem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...This kind of thread has been made before, but you still get an insightful for the little "History lesson".
But no, teabagging is a pathetic way for gamers to assert their dominance, like stray dogs marking territory. I'm glad I never fell that low. But then again, I pretty much stay away from competitive Multiplayer entirely.CP2,000 Master Explorer - AvA One Star General - Console Peasant - The Clan
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Shadzilla✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes!MasterSpatula wrote: »Why would you write such a ridiculously long essay just to ask people if they're utter *** or not?
It is a copy paste from an online article, and IMO is hilarious AF!1 -
KochDerDamonen✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes!I mean, I haven't played in months, but sure.
Yes.This kind of thread has been made before, but you still get an insightful for the little "History lesson".
But no, teabagging is a pathetic way for gamers to assert their dominance, like stray dogs marking territory. I'm glad I never fell that low. But then again, I pretty much stay away from competitive Multiplayer entirely.
Ah yes, the real meat of a useless thread. Projecting feelings onto others in the hopes it will keep one's own high horse from being found out as a puff of smoke.
@ArchMikemEdited by KochDerDamonen on October 14, 2017 11:55PMIf you quote someone, and intend for them to see what you have said, be sure to Mention them with @[insert name].0 -
Slack✭✭✭✭✭What are you spending more time on?
Playing the game or racking your brain which thread to create next?Edited by Slack on October 14, 2017 11:58PMPC EU
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Recremen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...No, and never will. As someone who's actually dealt with sexual assault in real life, I find the practice not only childish, but literally triggering, as in dredging up the same awful memories and feelings as the original events. I play this game for combat simulation. It was advertised as combat simulation. I didn't come here for sexual assault simulation, that's something certain degenerate players brought in on their own.Men'Do PC NA AD Khajiit
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anitajoneb17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...Many gamers complain that they cannot talk openly and freely about their hobby in society because it has such a bad image. Do we really have to wonder WHY it has such a bad image ? REALLY ?
Gaming is fun and games like ESO are incredibly creative. They also push the technical boundaries further every day. It's good for progress. Also, international MMOs create societies and friendships beyond borders, languages and cultures. It's awesome.
But... a few like to poison it for everyone. Poor little Ctrl-key heroes...
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anitajoneb17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...MasterSpatula wrote: »Why would you write such a ridiculously long essay just to ask people if they're utter *** or not?
It is a copy paste from an online article, and IMO is hilarious AF!
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Meetre✭✭✭No...I do get a chuckle when I get bagged by someone who did 0 damage to me in a fight, seems most I see doing this are try-hards who don't play well.0 -
Hippie4927✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭No...I would never do it but I don't let it bother me when others do it.PC/NA/EP ✌️0 -
phairdon✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭No...No.
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dday3six✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes!On the regular, no. However if I was annoyed for whatever reason at someone I will.0 -
Shadzilla✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yes!anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »MasterSpatula wrote: »Why would you write such a ridiculously long essay just to ask people if they're utter *** or not?
It is a copy paste from an online article, and IMO is hilarious AF!
why ?
I do not know... It made me laugh. Some people get comical relief in different ways I guess, every human mind is different. In all complete honesty if I am in cyro and my 3 man group gets wiped by 40 people that all feel it down right necessary to come over and t bag my face repeatedly... I find that hilarious! All those people literally taking out minutes of their playing time to come and bag me makes me feel special. Makes me laugh. Makes me happy that all of them cared so much that they deemed it a must to come show me how they feel.
Edited by Shadzilla on October 15, 2017 12:19AM0 -
jssriot✭✭✭✭✭
✭No...No. I might hop around someone's corpse and do an emote like /shovel if they were a pain to kill, but the teabag thing is not for me. Really most of the time I'm too busy, idk, pvp'ing for that nonsense.PC-NA since 2015. Tired and unimpressed.1 -
inthecoconut✭✭✭✭Yes!
Clam slamming omg I've never heard that before but it is now my most favorite two-word combination ever.
I do /pushup so I assume that's clam slamming. I get this moment of hesitation where I'm like "to teabag, or not to teabag?" but then decide that I just can't not do it.
I also sometimes do /shovel if their body is lingering around for a long time.
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anitajoneb17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »MasterSpatula wrote: »Why would you write such a ridiculously long essay just to ask people if they're utter *** or not?
It is a copy paste from an online article, and IMO is hilarious AF!
why ?
I do not know... It made me laugh. Some people get comical relief in different ways I guess, every human mind is different. In all complete honesty if I am in cyro and my 3 man group gets wiped by 40 people that all feel it down right necessary to come over and t bag my face repeatedly... I find that hilarious! All those people literally taking out minutes of their playing time to come and bag me makes me feel special. Makes me laugh. Makes me happy that all of them cared so much that they deemed it a must to come show me how they feel.
"Why so serious" ? It's not "taking things seriously"... it's... "taking things for what they are". Teabagging isn't meant to be "nice", never was. It's meant to be taunting, triggering, humiliating. Sure, among a group of friends it may have a different meaning, but you're not referring to a group of friends here, right ?
So if you don't mind me saying it the crude way... you must be extremely lonely to have teabagging making you feel "special". Either you imagine those people being your friends (but they're not... remember ?) and teabagging being some kind of a hug... (but it's not... )... or you are aware these people aren't your friends but you still twist things around in your head and believe this kind of "attention" is somehow better than getting no attention at all... ?
I don't know... maybe get your self-esteem back and open your eyes ... ?
Edited by anitajoneb17_ESO on October 15, 2017 12:40AM1 -
VaranisArano✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No...I don't, because I run in an organized raid as a healer. My tiny amounts of DPS might have contributed to someone's death and my heals certainly allowed my teammates to kill them, but I didn't actually kill the player. Then again, my raid rarely teabags because it takes certain situations for a raid to be justified in teabagging someone.0 -
Jade1986✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Only in halo. In this game we do /flute. I'm a bosmer goddammitEdited by Jade1986 on October 15, 2017 12:45AM0 -
Storymaster✭✭✭✭✭Wow. The thread about nerfing magsorcs was locked and certain posts stealth-deleted, but this one is allowed to go on?
Mind-boggling moderation.1
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