Friday Fives – Douche Moves

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The Douche Move. What is it about video games that brings out the worst in people? In real life, Nigel is a polite, mild mannered and well behaved young boy who helps his auntie cross the street; online, his alter ego K1LLSk(_)LL humps the mutilated remains of his enemies.

5. Team Fortress 2: Taunt Kills

pyrohadouken

Few things are more humiliating than being killed by a baseball bat or a point blank hadouken. Except maybe having a big, stupid Russian guy point his finger at you and make a gun sound.

4.  Street Fighter 4: Taunting while the opponent is stunned

Being taunted while you're stunned feels like this

Getting taunted while you're stunned feels like this

The stun meter in SF4 is fairly lenient so unless you’re playing Seth, you need to be seriously outmatched or just had a gigantic combo landed on you to get stunned.

To make it worse, some players like to take a breather while you’re seeing stars to flex their biceps or put on their sunglasses before they go back to working on your ass.

3. Any FPS: Teabagging

teabag

Deeper! Faster! Two people at the same time!

2. Left 4 Dead 2: Setting a teammate on fire

fire

The ultimate douche moves are the ones you pull on your own teammates. Swarm of zombies running at you? Teammate too close? It’s too late, he’s already infected! Chuck a molotov and leave him for dead! (hey, it is the name of the game).

1. Any MMO: Leaving Mid Dungeon/Raid

bai gaiz!

bai gaiz!

Now that everyone has hearthstones it’s not as bad as it used to be, but in EverQuest being abandoned mid dungeon could mean hours and hours (if not days) of corpse runs.

Probably because of that, in my mind, the number one douche move still goes to people that quit a dungeon or raid halfway through – generally right after they’ve killed the boss with the one piece of loot they wanted.

The only excuse I’m now willing to accept is “sorry gtg, my baby is on fire.”

4 Responses to “Friday Fives – Douche Moves”

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  2. kroger says:

    This isn’t half bad. I think I may send it out on a tweet in a few moments.

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  4. Blatch says:

    Should add commando knifing, noob-tubing and doing 360 no scope bullshit from Modern Warfare 2

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