>What is trash talking >Boasting about your skills, intimidating

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>What is trash talking
>Boasting about your skills, intimidating or making fun of a competitor in an effort to up the ante, joke around or demoralize them.
>Why would you do that?
>Trash talking is not for everyone. Some might find it…. uncivilized. Toxicity and abusive behavior are already pretty rife in multiplayer gaming communities.Overall, it ups the ante and makes winning so much more enjoyable.
>When to trash talk
>Trash talking is best in in-person social situations with several people around to check you and your opponents’ manners. Local multiplayer games are basically the only acceptable context for this. Don't trash random strangers online.
>Who to trash talk
>Friends or family you have longstanding competition with are the most common recipients of trash talking. Childhood friends, siblings or anyone you’ve competed against for years and years have probably put up with your crap for long enough anyway.
>It is a bad idea to trash talk significant others while you are playing video games with them, especially if you are better than them at said game.
>With anybody else, including acquaintances and strangers, maybe don’t go into a match with shit-talking guns blazing.
>How to trash talk
>While waiting for a match to cue, you can hype your performance
>Cheer for yourself. If you do something clutch, you can point it out
>Intersperse boasts or jabs with praise and compliments, so you’re not just dumping on your opponent
>Be witty! Anybody can be rude
>How not to trash talk
>Personal attacks are bad. It’s weak and a reflection of your own bad trash talking skills if you insult somebody’s weight, race, religion, family, economic background, gender or mental health. It’s shitty and uncreative to tell your opponent that you “raped” them.
>Don’t trash talk people you don’t know. And have mercy, if your opponent is bad at the game you’re playing, or having a bad day, you could make them pretty upset.

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