gg is arrogance

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blake78613
fbhjr wrote:

@blake78613: this is preposterous.  First, chess is a game, ergo, this is a gaming site.  Secondly, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.  If someone extends you a courtesy, whether they be winner or loser, accept it, this is a far longer human tradition than any supposed one you claim for chess.    


Gaming site has the connotation of electronic games, and generally does not include traditional board or card games.

BazZen
KillaNinja wrote:

ok im just sayin here, dont mind me at all, but gg means owned. if your gona play me and not even say hello to me or anythin, and you say "gg" after you win, your basicly sayin 'hahahaha noob owned lol'. im just letin y'all know. if its a friends game or whatever obviously say whatever you want but if not, dont say gg to me. im just sayin.  kthxbai :)


When I say gg after I beat someone, it means that I think they played well somewhere in the game, and that I enjoyed playing them. I won't say gg if I win easy and nothing they do catches my attention as being interesting/well played.

ilikeflags
lazy arse
e4nf3

Next thing you know, saying "frick you!!!" will be picked apart with some on the one side and others on the obverse.

ilikeflags

"frick you!!!"?  yeah i'd pick that apart.

e4nf3

From where I come from, that would be a compliment.

A beheading, though, would be the ultimate insult.

Bodhiwan
LordNazgul wrote:
Bodhiwan wrote:
ilikeflags wrote:

i also understand that saying "gg" and saying something nice to your opponent are not really the same thing.


Ecxept in the eyes of most people as well as in most situations where it is commonly used. That fact should conclude the debate, but my guess is it won't (not to critisize replies, it's a forum, people discuss)


I don't think that we know what "most people" think do we ? 


Good point and would normally refrain from such grand assumptions, but judging by my 20 years of active online and networked gaming I feel that I do, honestly :) and this thread if anything only adds to that conclusion.

e4nf3

We could keep quibbling. Maybe FIDE or USCF should step in and develop a norm.

I suggest:

If you win: gg!

If you lose: fu!!!!

ChessEagle333

gg is a virtual handshake.  It's respectful.

stubborn_d0nkey

ChessEagle333 inspired me to propose a new acronym, vh (virtual handshake), who likes the idea?

ilikeflags
ChessEagle333 wrote:

gg is a virtual handshake.  It's respectful.


not for everyone.

eddiewsox

gg has become Good Grief!!! Charlie Brown.

Ziryab
You may intend certain courtesies with gg in your ignorance, but having read this thread, your ignorance exists only by choice. Thanks for the game.
Ziryab
thx
whitebull

GGG

Dan Savage and his readers often use the abbreviation GGG. In his March 1, 2007 column, Savage summarized: "GGG stands for 'good, giving, and game,' which is what we should all strive to be for our sex partners. Think 'good in bed,' 'giving equal time and equal pleasure,' and 'game for anything—within reason.'"
LOL
sryiwannadraw

gg

Bodhiwan
Ziryab wrote:
You may intend certain courtesies with gg in your ignorance, but having read this thread, your ignorance exists only by choice. Thanks for the game.

With all due respect, which thread have you been reading? There are only a handful of posters here that keep pushing the idea - ironically often rudely so - that "gg" is somehow rude :)

Robman6

GAL--get a life. If you are offended by a polite courtesy then you probably know that it was not a good game and that you sucked compared to your opponent.

Your opponent was using what we generally call courtesy and acknowledgement.

Jesus Christ what is this world coming to.

I am of Anglo Saxon descent. I am neither from the causcus or white in color, yet I do no not get into such a big yip about.

PC= Please control

Robman6
KillaNinja wrote:

arrogance. i should spell it out: a-r-r-o-g-a-n-c-e


 Too bad you missed my 3000+ post on arrogance, because YOU are the arrogant one-originating from I G N O R A N C E.===self centered stupid self esteem problems.

Ziryab
I weigh opinions rather than counting them.