• abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
    98·
    10 days ago

    Smurfing on a dating app is a level of masochism I didn’t think is humanly possible. Those apps are already soul grinding enough.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
      94·
      10 days ago

      In online gaming, a smurf is an experienced player who uses a new account to deceive other players into thinking he’s a noob (newbie). The purpose is usually to play against less skilled opponents who will under-estimate the ‘smurf’. The expected result is that the smurf will pwn (dominate) his opponents and humiliate them further as they have been now beaten by an apparent noob.

      https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smurf

      • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
        283·
        10 days ago

        Orrrr your Smurf account is for when you’re drunk and you don’t want to try

        • Oppopity@lemmy.ml
          8·
          10 days ago

          I wouldn’t call it smurfing if you had a separate account for being drunk as it would just put you in a skill level suitable for how you play drunk.

          If you’re making fresh accounts so you can stay at a lower level then that would be smurfing.

          • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            9 days ago

            As a fun aside, nearly every game with matchmaking if they define Smurf, it is ANY account other then your main account.

            For the one part you are only allowed one account period for match making purposes. All others are smurfs. No expections.

            Since Match making systems are unable to hand when the same person plays on multiable accounts. They just break, and it ruins games for everyone.

        • Batmancer@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          10 days ago

          lol yup that’s a strategy of mine. My inebriated alters are almost always my regular name or username just with the letter J as the first letter.

          Once in high cool I was assigned a group with my buddies John, Justin, and James. We came up with the idea to be the J team so from then on in that class I signed all my papers as my J name and went by it as well.

      • kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        Also commonly used by a good player to play with trash-tier friends.

        TBT my friend restricting himself to only deagle no armor in csgo, WITH A CONTROLLER

    • dino@programming.devEnglish
      283·
      10 days ago

      when a high ranked player uses a low ranking account for practice and avoid losing ranks

      • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
        481·
        10 days ago

        “Practice”, or in reality, mop the floor with anyone who is unlucky to get paired with them.

        There’s a reason ranked and casual exist, there is not a single legitimate reason to create a new account and Smurf.

        • Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world
          151·
          10 days ago

          Not defending smurfing for egotistical reasons as explained in this thread, but I can think of one legitimate reason. A friend of mine is a prodigy in Rocket League and literally couldn’t queue with myself and our friends due to his rank. He has a Smurf account just to play with us

          • LwL@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 days ago

            This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that’s definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

            There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn’t use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

            Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

            • AEsheron@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 days ago

              Many games still use SBMM in casual modes, they just don’tshow you what your elo equivalent is. As long as they generally all play together, the average skill of the group will hit equilibrium far faster with the smurf account than with the original one. There’s really no good answer here, but in this case at least the friends get a play session where they can participate meaningfully, even if they get a lot of wins they don’t deserve, and the opponents get one bad game. The alternative is the friends are crushed almost every game they play together, and the opponents get one easy game.

        • 3rdXthecharm@lemmy.ml
          4·
          10 days ago

          I agree, 99.9% of the way. My brother makes a smurf now and again to play competitive marvel rivals with those of us that don’t play but would still like to have a 2-set match instead of a single side push.

          Noncompetitive is locked to single push and so you don’t have a chance to play as both attacker and defender, so it doesn’t really feel like a full match.

          I don’t really care much, some in the group do. He’s not ridiculously good, just a few ticks higher than people who don’t play competitive unless the whole group is in