Do you like Hikaru?

How is that my logic? I only called BIZMARK that after he supported Hikaru's arrogant behavior with the old, "nobody's perfect!" 

You acted like his argument wasn’t completely valid, and your reasoning was “lol simp haha”. That’s completely ignoring him and using ad hominem attacks to invalidate an argument. Trolling 101.

what's a 'simp'?

that short for 'simpleton'?

no it’s short for simple plan

that doesn't make any sense.

It is quite arrogant of you to assume that people must conform to your standards of proper behavior.

so simp = people-pleaser?

I honestly thought you were joking when you said you didn’t know what it was. A Simp is a person that is obsessed with another person so much, that they would do anything for them. Often associated with female streamers and donating money. Google it for more information lol

If you can back up your arrogance it's a good trait to have.

So you're not perturbed by critics/media/folk dramas.

Arrogance having a negative connotation among the crowd is a big misunderstanding.
Always having to play nice can tie you down to underperform. In a way, people wanting you to be less arrogant is their way to keep you 'normal'. While any chess player wants to attain superhuman skill.
Many of the world's greatest were peaking in arrogance

It's one of those modern "words" that mostly teenagers tend to use.

It suggests that the person is a sycophant / beta male / submissive / weak.

As in, the person has one simple plan with another person.
As opposed to entering a real relationship. Rings any bells?

This behavior usually isn't very hard to detect. It's sort of a trait of playing victim. Being overly submissive. In child psychology this is already well known. It leads to the group dynamic where bullies are being reinforced by confident ones ('bros' for example) who respond with their laughter, and the weaker specimen (the 'loser') becomes the target. The whole purpose of education on the social-emotional level is for everyone to become a champion.

But for me personally, a simp is mostly someone who is obviously doing everything in his power to have intercourse with someone without realizing that it doesn't matter just one bit to his individuality whether or not he has it. It's like a destabilized person. And yeah, the other party just has to try their hardest to suppress laughter as the natural reaction...

I'm not going to argue with people who think arrogance is a good trait and can be justified by your accomplishments. Be humble.  

Arrogance is a bad trait but it doesn’t make someone a horrible person, we all have bad traits. 

I'm not calling anyone a horrible person. 

So do you dislike Magnus, too? Just curious. Because Magnus thinks arrogance is a good trait.

AGAIN, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

From that perspective, Hikaru is killing this thread.  Ha!

And, YOU GUYS ARE JUST CHASING YOUR TAILS.  

From rating graphs I've seen, when people are constantly working on their chess, they stop improving after 8-10 years. For example Carlsen started around age 8, and broke 2800 at age 18. It's been 13 years since then, and his rating is only a few points higher than what it was at age 18.

A title isn't "a good chunk" of your life, I'd guess for those who make it, it's about 8 years of work. Plus like you pointed out, this work needs to start young, so it's roughly 0% of a person's adult life.

Hikaru does throw tantrums now and then, that's true. In the past, he used to "rage quit" as soon as he suffered a single loss.

Though I'd say he has mellowed out a bit, over the years. Perhaps not completely, but certainly to some degree.

If you ask Super GMs who the "worst loser" is, though, they seem to all agree on "Carlsen" - which is something that I find interesting.

It makes you wonder how Magnus behaves away from the board, while he's still within earshot of these other GMs, but away from the cameras. We don't see his frustrated behavior so often, like we do with Hikaru. But the other top players do.

One can only speculate ...

(From what I've read, Kasparov had a similar reputation, in his day ...)

You can certainly call it my bias, but again, I think a champion has a few excuses. I think of it this way... when I lose a tournament game against a player who is clearly weaker than me, I'm upset. I don't mean a lower rated player, I mean a player who I can tell is weaker by their generally inferior moves.

For a dominating world champion (of any sport), this is nearly 100% of their games... so nearly 100% of their losses are painful... plus champions tend to be young, they lack life experience in general. So ok, they become upset. I think it's understandable.

In my mind this is very different from e.g. Hikaru being upset after losing to Carlsen. By every metric Hikaru is clearly inferior to Carlsen, so he doesn't deserve to be upset. It's just the natural order. Sure he can be upset for failing to play up to his own standards, we all have bad days where we disappoint ourselves, but e.g. the Sauron tweet isn't about reasonable standards, it's about blind idiotic arrogance.