Griefing
Deliberately ruining other players' experience in an online game — destroying their builds in Minecraft, blocking lanes in League, stealing kills, sabotaging objectives.
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Deliberately ruining other players' experience in an online game — destroying their builds in Minecraft, blocking lanes in League, stealing kills, sabotaging objectives. Distinct from inting in that griefing is broader (any antisocial play) and inting is specifically about feeding kills. Bannable in most games. Twitch chat uses 'griefing' loosely for any teammate who acts in bad faith.
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To deliberately ruin another player's experience — blocking their build, stealing resources, sabotaging objectives. A "griefer" is hated in every gaming community.
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Verb in gaming: to deliberately ruin a teammate's game. Different from the noun (mourning); separate etymology in the gaming context.
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Intentionally feeding in a competitive game — running into the enemy on purpose to die and benefit them, usually to grief teammates. 'Int' is widely used in League of Legends, Dota 2, and other MOBAs. On Twitch, accusations of 'inting' fly in chat any time a streamer's play looks self-destructive. Reportable behaviour in most games.
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(online gaming) One who griefs: a player who plays a game primarily to reduce other players’ enjoyment of it.
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Short for 'intentional feed' in competitive games — running into the enemy to die on purpose. Used as both verb ('don't int') and noun ('that was a hard int'). Twitch chat uses 'int' loosely for any bad death, not just genuinely intentional ones, which annoys players who insist on the original strict meaning.