(title added for lemmy by mod)
Image description: 4 panel Loading Artist comic. 1: Blue guy stands behind Red guy playing a game on the couch “oh it’s a SINGLE-PLAYER game?”. 2: Blue guy scoffs “no thanks. Single-player games feel too lonely”. 3: Blue guy puts on gamer headset “that’s why I only play MULTIPLAYER games”. 4: Blue guy happily at his PC, while tweaking his game settings Voice Chat: OFF, Text Chat: OFF, Friend Requests: OFF.
(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.world)
I played a mobile game for awhile called Brawl Stars and in it there was a mode that was FFA with maybe eight to a dozen players. You quickly picked up that there was this little dance people would do to communicate that they wanted to have a temporary cease fire with you so that together you could take down all the solo players not employing such a strategy more easily. The gaming jargon for this is “teaming”. Also by dancing I mean running or spinning in a circle, something that doesn’t really have preexisting meaning to players before coming across this phenomenon.