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08-18-2016, 08:00 PM
'Overwatch' update trolls the trolls with wry humor
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A funny thing is happening in Overwatch when players start to misbehave in chat: the game turns their own words against them.
Typing "gg ez" — shorthand for "good game, easy [win]" — into the in-match text chat returns a random phrase that twists the writer's unsporting intent in humorous ways.
SEE ALSO: Overwatch players, your time has come: Introducing the Overwatch World Cup (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/overwatch-world-cup/)
One reads: "For glory and ho**r! Huzzah comrades!" A**ther: "It's past my bedtime. Please don't tell my mommy."
It's an appropriately metered response to an an**ying behavior that isn't so much toxic as it is a dick move. **w, if you type "gg ez" into the text chat Overwatch makes you look like the tool that you are. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/overwatch-gg-ez-filter-update/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A funny thing is happening in Overwatch when players start to misbehave in chat: the game turns their own words against them.
Typing "gg ez" — shorthand for "good game, easy [win]" — into the in-match text chat returns a random phrase that twists the writer's unsporting intent in humorous ways.
SEE ALSO: Overwatch players, your time has come: Introducing the Overwatch World Cup (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/overwatch-world-cup/)
One reads: "For glory and ho**r! Huzzah comrades!" A**ther: "It's past my bedtime. Please don't tell my mommy."
It's an appropriately metered response to an an**ying behavior that isn't so much toxic as it is a dick move. **w, if you type "gg ez" into the text chat Overwatch makes you look like the tool that you are. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/overwatch-gg-ez-filter-update/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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