Tea bagging for all the wrong reasons

Dracane · September 2015

I usually tea bag people who think they could outsmart me or who play like cowards. This makes me angry and I just can't do anything but showing my disrespect.

Also weaklings who usually hide in groups, they just deserve it to be brought down to Nirn. You have to teach them, that they are weak on their own and only survive, because they outnumber others. You must jump on them, or they will never understand it. They run around in groups to compensate for their lack of skill and capability and someone needs to remind them, killing them only is not enough to clarify this message.

Tre_775 · September 2015

My main is a female character. Is it still considered a tea bag when I do it?

anitajoneb17_ESO · September 2015

Dracane wrote: »

I usually tea bag people who think they could outsmart me or who play like cowards. This makes me angry and I just can't do anything but showing my disrespect.

Also weaklings who usually hide in groups, they just deserve it to be brought down to Nirn. You have to teach them, that they are weak on their own and only survive, because they outnumber others. You must jump on them, or they will never understand it. They run around in groups to compensate for their lack of skill and capability and someone needs to remind them, killing them only is not enough to clarify this message.

So you agree that teabagging is disrespectful and not nice. Fine.

As to "weaklings", what tells you that they're not aware of this already and that's exactly why they run in groups ? It's not cheating, it's a perfectly valid and efficient strategy and I don't see why they'd deserve to be humiliated for that. If you really HAVE TO and cannot control your own frustration of being killed by being outnumbered, you can still use a /shovel or /bucketsplash or just another emote. (But I bet you won't consider it "humiliating enough").

DaveTheMinion · September 2015

Dracane wrote: »

I usually tea bag people who think they could outsmart me or who play like cowards. This makes me angry and I just can't do anything but showing my disrespect.

Also weaklings who usually hide in groups, they just deserve it to be brought down to Nirn. You have to teach them, that they are weak on their own and only survive, because they outnumber others. You must jump on them, or they will never understand it. They run around in groups to compensate for their lack of skill and capability and someone needs to remind them, killing them only is not enough to clarify this message.

I am sorry but this is the only way I felt I could reply to a post like this.

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kevlarto_ESO · September 2015

There is no right reason to t-bag any one, it is just plain stupid, and this game does not have a t-bag emote so no matter how you twist it you are not t-bagging.

Xendyn · September 2015

Yeh I find it hilarious when 5 guys kill my healer then Tbag like they did something.

Otherwise, I just figure if they want to stick their junk in another man's mouth...well, it's 2015...it's ok to come out of the closet, guys.

Dracane · September 2015

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I usually tea bag people who think they could outsmart me or who play like cowards. This makes me angry and I just can't do anything but showing my disrespect.

Also weaklings who usually hide in groups, they just deserve it to be brought down to Nirn. You have to teach them, that they are weak on their own and only survive, because they outnumber others. You must jump on them, or they will never understand it. They run around in groups to compensate for their lack of skill and capability and someone needs to remind them, killing them only is not enough to clarify this message.

So you agree that teabagging is disrespectful and not nice. Fine.

As to "weaklings", what tells you that they're not aware of this already and that's exactly why they run in groups ? It's not cheating, it's a perfectly valid and efficient strategy and I don't see why they'd deserve to be humiliated for that. If you really HAVE TO and cannot control your own frustration of being killed by being outnumbered, you can still use a /shovel or /bucketsplash or just another emote. (But I bet you won't consider it "humiliating enough").

It is disrespectful, that's why I'm doing it if the situation demands it. Running in a group is not cheating and I never said this. But in my book, it is the tactic of a weakling. And weaklings deserve it, that someone shows them their sins.

DaveTheMinion wrote: »

I am sorry but this is the only way I felt I could reply to a post like this.

That's alright. I've only shared my opinion, you don't need to agree.
Gonna share it anyway though.

Dracane · September 2015

I think I have to add though, that I would never hate on someone because he is not good or so.
The thing that annoys me the most, is when good players (and I know they are good, have a high rank and so on) have to ally up against someone in order to reach something. This is what I dislike.

I wouldn't teabagg a group of lowbies, unexperienced players or something like that. I think I described it a bit wrong.

VincentBlanquin · September 2015

dracane bro, what server you are? yellow buff? i miss you))

Dracane · September 2015

VincentBlanquin wrote: »

dracane bro, what server you are? yellow buff? i miss you))

I'm not your bro.

Araxleon · September 2015

Sometimes its good to teabag, you get a good reading on your opponents tolerance levels.

nimander99 · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

I never T-bag someone if I beat someone in a fair fight.

I only T-bag in the following situations.
Failed gank attempt on me.

Notorious 1vX'er that tries to tank 10 people then melts when I debuff him

If I roll over someone in a huge zerg.

T-bagging is not honorable behavior so I save it for dishonorable situations either on their part or my own

^This... the way they used it is like the way Ron Burgundy kept misusing "When in Rome".

failkiwib16_ESO · September 2015

I have never teabagged, I actually found out about this term on the weird part of youtube about a year ago, and I happily forgot what it was untill a couple of months ago when someone mentioned it in a pvp guild I was member in.

I am honestly surprised so many people have so strong opinions about "teabagging" here. It's not like it's disruptive or hinders gameplay.

There are so many bugs and broken skills atm. that I'd rather be teabagged by an army of blue smurfs rather than be feared into textures and spawn in Grahtwood after I relog, because the server is full!

Stanko · September 2015

Techlisp wrote: »

My ex wife found me in Battlefield 4, and climbed up the front of my tank and T-bagged it [she divorced me by the way].

I watched as an enemy tank shell flew over towards me , and her dead body slid down the front of my tank.

Classic! Hope you got a screen shot!

Aerieth · September 2015

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Aerieth wrote: »

Damn. Didn't think tea bagging was such srs bsns. I reserve my tea baggings to my friends who die in PvE, who usually burst in laughter in TeamSpeak when they notice it. I don't mind if someone tea bags me in PvP. I think of it more as an expression of: "Hey! I beat you!" than "omg lol u suck wtf noob". Not much different than the game telling me: "You died."

That said, in my opinion, good fights should end in /salute, /shovel or /bow or the kind, rather than tea bagging, but come on guys. If seeing another players character sneak and un-sneak above your characters corpse is too much to handle, maybe you're the one with a problem.

P.S. Mind posting the part about tea bagging in CoC? I'm seriously interested.

- NO, I won't bother looking in the CoC. But what I know for sure is that some people received warnings about teabagging from ZOS. Those were posted here as screenshots by the people who received them. Unfortunately the thread was deleted since it's not allowed to discuss disciplinary measures on the forum.

- I'm really tired of explaining over and over again that just because something is OK for you it doesn't have to be OK for everyone else, and you know just as well as I do that 95% of teabagging isn't meant to be nice, it's meant to be humiliating. Even if it is not always meant that way, there's no shame in adapting one's own behaviour in order to respect other people's sentivity, even if it differs from one's own.

- You also know very well that teabagging is not a simple combination of "crouch/uncrouch", it's meant to mean "I r a p e you to humiliate you just in case being killed by me is not enough an humiliation. I just want to make sure you feel really bad". And it works : nobody posts on the forum saying "he shoveled me for all the wrong reasons... "

Now I'm not stupid either, I understand that among PvPers it's part of a "code" and it's not meant to be taken that literally and it can mean plenty of things, some of those things being quite nice or just gently teasing. However, there are a lot of non-dedicated PvPers who currently join the fun of IC and they don't know this "code".

Let me just tell you what happened 2 nights ago with one of my guildies (and she's a 30sthg grown up woman, teacher IRL, so not a kid and not some kind of oversensitive fragile soul). She went to IC with us, we were a small group. Unfortunately she was cornered in a 1v1 fight and we were too busy with mobs to come to her rescue on time. Against all odds, she won that fight and it happened that her opponent had 1K+ Tel Var stones, so she inherited all those stones. Few seconds later she received a ton of insults per whisp from this opponent.

Now she refuses to join any kind of PvP again, no matter how much we insist nor how much fun she actually had there. She simply says "I'm not playing this game to get insulted, nor to hurt people so deeply that they might react this way." (And don't tell me nor her that "she should... whatever" because she won't. She was deeply shocked by the violence of the opponent's reaction).

There's no teabagging involved in this anecdote but it shows the real cultural gap between PvPers and PVEers. I believe that bringing both populations together is good thing for everyone, but for it to be successful I think PvPers should adapt a bit and drop some of their most agressive practices, among others teabagging.

I'm sorry for your friend. It's sad that some people can't take defeat with a bit of grace, but that's part of PvP action in video games. You can't control what the person on the other side of the screen does and/or feels. Some people are salty when they lose and there's nothing you can do to change that. During my MMO years, I've had the privilege of bringing numerous people into the world of PvP and pretty much every single one of them have enjoyed themselves after getting the hang of it, even though the beginning can be harsh to some people.

Not saying tea bagging isn't wrong or good behavior. All I'm saying is that and some people have the need to express themselves. Some tea bag, some use emotes and some don't do anything, after a victor (or defeat). Mostly often than not, I belong to the last group, though after a really good fight, I do use emotes such as /bow or /salute to show respect to my opponent, signifying that it was a good fight.

While I'm sad to see another players PvP inspiration snuffed right out from the beginning, I can't help but to think that maybe this isn't the right place for the person in the first place. Player interaction in PvP combat can be overwhelmingly distressful to some people, especially when facing defeat. All the advice I can offer, is to move on. So what if some A-hole whispers you insults? It only shows how weak and immature they are. Simply place them in your ignore list. There's a lot of negative feedback to be had in PvP combat and if you can't handle some of it, maybe it's best if you stay away.

Maybe being tea bagged means something horrible and absolutely revolting to you, but for me and many other players, it's just another day on the internet. Learning the "code" of the game or the community is just another part of the experience. I've been playing online PvP games for a good decade and a half. Can't say I wasn't weirded out when someone tea bagged me for the first time. Did I go about to write about it one the forums? No. I got "gud" and eventually beat them.

But I've stated my opinion on the matter and according to what I've gathered reading your comments, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this matter, as it seems we're coming from complete opposites of tolerance and experiences in terms of online gaming. I wish you and your friends the best of luck in Cyrodiil and Imperial City and may you never be tea bagged again.

Cookiethief · September 2015

Lol you got rekt, you deserve the dip dip potato chip

Darlgon · September 2015

EVERY time I see this on the recent tracker.......

ChuckBoris · September 2015

Are people seriously debating whether tea bagging is morally correct in a unreal fantasy world? Like is this legit? Its literally JUST A GAME bro and if someone decides to take 2-3 seconds of their life to have some cheap fun doesnt make make them immature/loser/teenager or any other ridiculous insult you people can think of.And no i dont tbag because i dont play PvP much but this is silly.
"Ugh so disrespectful my feelings r hurt im gonna report you to the interwebz polis"
Get a grip man.

RAGUNAnoOne · September 2015

A huge group I was in just happened to find 2 AD soldiers and half of them teabagged the corpses

whatever I wanted to leave for PVE anyways I had my excuse then, I hate that crap! PS when I left it looked like they where getting their ass kicked too busy teabagging to notice the ambush behind them

RatedChaotic · September 2015

Tea baggin is the preferred method of the ones that cant perform the mushroom stamp. Kids lol

anitajoneb17_ESO · September 2015

Aerieth wrote: »

But I've stated my opinion on the matter and according to what I've gathered reading your comments, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this matter, as it seems we're coming from complete opposites of tolerance and experiences in terms of online gaming. I wish you and your friends the best of luck in Cyrodiil and Imperial City and may you never be tea bagged again.

Well, thank you for your input ! If everyone would disagree so politely, disagreeing would be welcome anytime

So you're a decent person.... and you don't use teabagging... do I dare seeing a link between those two ?

Anyway, I know I'm not going to change the world, the internet or anything, but expressing oneself feels good, and maybe other people who feel the same way will find themselves less lonely. And maybe some PvPers will have a look at their own behaviour ? Because frankly, I find "them" (abusive generalization here, I know, but you see what I mean) *extremely* touchy and sensitive when PvEers calls them jerks/psychopaths/teenagers or whatever variation of it. Maybe reconsidering some of "their" practices would help raising "their" profile a bit.

Gorilla · September 2015

Micro aggressions! I feel insulted. Where are the SJWs when you need them?!

failkiwib16_ESO · September 2015

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

- You also know very well that teabagging is not a simple combination of "crouch/uncrouch", it's meant to mean "I r a p e you to humiliate you just in case being killed by me is not enough an humiliation. I just want to make sure you feel really bad". And it works : nobody posts on the forum saying "he shoveled me for all the wrong reasons... "

There's no teabagging involved in this anecdote but it shows the real cultural gap between PvPers and PVEers. I believe that bringing both populations together is good thing for everyone, but for it to be successful I think PvPers should adapt a bit and drop some of their most agressive practices, among others teabagging.

I am sorry that your friend went through that, however it is her free will and choice to not return and do pvp with you afterwards. She has the option to block that user, report them and never recieve a whisper from them again, and carry on playing with you - but she chooses not to.

Teabagging is not a cultural gap between pvp'ers and pve'ers. I see pve players do emotes quite often, do /ritual and /kick eachother, crouch and stick their heads in other players private parts very often too, while the player is afk or idling, and many other things such as open discrimination of race and class in zonechat.

Pve players have a more tbagging culture than pvp players in my experience.

DaveMoeDee · September 2015

Belidos wrote: »

There's a "right" reason for tea bagging?

There is. Being 13 years old.

That being said, I find it hilarious that people get upset about juvenile behavior like that. How do people tea bag in ESO?

KhajiitiLizard · September 2015

Halo had the best teabagging anyway. It was pretty much encouraged in those games.
If you played Halo, you've teabagged someone at least once. THIS IS WHERE TEABAGGING IN VIDEGOAMES PRETTY MUCH ORIGINATED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wjs-Lwk8lk

Cadbury · September 2015

In my day, people resorted to calling each other racial slurs and saying something about their mother. To me, tea-bagging is actually kinda quaint in comparison.

anitajoneb17_ESO · September 2015

failkiwib16_ESO wrote: »

Pve players have a more tbagging culture than pvp players in my experience.

Point taken, my vision might be a little bit oversimplified here.

Cadbury wrote: »

In my day, people resorted to calling each other racial slurs and saying something about their mother. To me, tea-bagging is actually kinda quaint in comparison.

Agreed, there are other evils too. Doesn't make one evil a "lesser evil" though.

Belidos · September 2015

failkiwib16_ESO wrote: »

Pve players have a more tbagging culture than pvp players in my experience.

I have never once in +18yrs of online gaming seen anyone in any game i've played t-bag in pve, pvp all the time, pve never.. well except for in Anarchy Online, but that was a game that had mobs called leets that used to call you noob, so it's kind of understandable lol.

Cadbury · September 2015

Belidos wrote: »

failkiwib16_ESO wrote: »

Pve players have a more tbagging culture than pvp players in my experience.

I have never once in +18yrs of online gaming seen anyone in any game i've played t-bag in pve, pve all the time, pve never.. well except for in Anarchy Online, but that was a game that had mobs called leets that used to call you noob, so it's kid of understandable lol.

This^

Off the top of my head, the only games where I saw rampant tea-bagging is in Call of Duty, Halo, CS, and TF. Pretty much any FPS, really. There was some in WoW, but it was rare. Mostly just alot of cursing and name-calling.

NDwarf · September 2015

I can't believe people are so thin skinned that watching one video game character squat down, stand up over another video game character warrants a 3 page forum rant