Casual gaming rule

Or better, not team-based ones.

I don't mind losing 50% of the time. It's the toxicity

This.

Only time I downed a greenbeard is when I tossed the compressed gold to my homie, and the greenbeard caught it mid throw and deposited it in under 0.4 sec. Just had no time to explain, me and my homie were already pinging it so i thought they would catch on. They weren't brand new either.

I regret it, I was so caught off-guard.

DRG is the best answer

We are unbreakable!

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop the toxicity. I always found it strange when people insult me for being bad. Like, dude, we have the same MMR. You are as terrible as me!

Skill-based matchmaking sounds good on paper —and maybe it does help to an extent— but it doesn't work all that well when you take into account the top performing players will routinely play under low level, alt smurf accounts, to grind and keep the high rating of their main account intact.

Yep. I know there was recently a very dumb push against SBMM, but it's required for modern gaming in most contexts now. There's a lot more players now, so some of them are incredibly skilled, and others are incredibly bad. We don't really want them mixing if they're playing competitively.

It also used to be that most of our games were pretty casual. Most of CS wasn't the competitive DE mode we all play today. There were tons of servers playing custom silly game modes (and there still are!), but most players only play comp or (confusingly) still competitive unranked modes. Most games don't have casual game modes anymore that are designed for just goofing around.

I've stopped playing online games. Offline games have a big plus because you can pause at any time.