Who wouldve thought that the barcode would be the hero of the story.

The best part of this series is listening to PiG mine the depths of his imagination in an attempt to model the states of mind that produce such superficially vitriolic salt.

I'm German and positively surprised by how well he translated the first sentence :D

0:28 Less then half a minute and the salt already flows, that's gotta be a new record for this series.

24:50 I used to be a pretty toxic player back in the day. Especially after hitting diamondfor the first time years ago, I had put a lot of time and energy into the game. Back then StarCraft was really the only thing that brought me joy. I was severely depressed and insecure (even suicidal for a long time), so when I would lose, I'd sometimes take it out on my opponent. Thankfully I never typed any of the more deranged things seem here, I'd mostly just type "gtfo noob" if I was winning or "op race" instead of a gg, and the occasional swearing. I think all of that stemmed from the fact that almost all my self-worth was derived from being "good" at sc2. Today I am in a much better state of mind and thankfully stopped with the toxicity. I don't believe the people who toxic do it because they are bad people. I'd like to think that when I am being flamed, the other person is just unloading his frustrations in the only way he knows how or in the only way that's available to them. When all your self worth is tied to a victory screen, it's difficult to not get angry when the other person outplays you.

When PiG's demeanor breaks and he can't even try to come up with a joke about it, is when you know shit has gotten very, very real. 18:57

Thanks for the content, my fellow Underhuman

Pig, unfortunately, the people who rage like that are exactly the people who wouldn't be able to express what's going on in their head and with their emotions. Self-reflection is hard.

Regarding game 1: 'Na?' means 'Well?' or 'Well then?' So that first sentence would read 'Well then you little [we all know what he wrote there]' And 'Hure' is a woman working in the oldest trade. In general I think WhiteRa was on to something, especially with 'more gg, more skill'.

This series is definitely #2 after the Florencio files.... but it's still amazing. Great idea PiG!

every competitive game needs a salt mine series. excellent work, PiG

I love it how PiG also rates the players trash talks thats a bonus for every episode.

Opponent takes natural "Greedy expansion" *Immediately starts 2 expansions at the same time while losing*

i love imagining these people are the generals of an army. that dude leviathan sitting in his command tent as he loses everything "hahahahaha idiot" then shoots himself in the head

Well, this episode did not disappoint =D edit: ok that ending tho. These people need help

Mensk and Amon aren’t the villains of sc2 , rangers who get angry are

Thanks for the entertainment while I'm stuck in bed not feeling well

Ooo that parting shot at Leviathan by Pig was.. *chefs kiss* glorious!

I thought you would run out of original content after a few episodes but it seems like the well of human salt creativity is endless

Those last one's in the second game were beyond salt.

First game's German is definitely neck deep in Schultenbräu

I think a big part of it is we're in what I would call the digital generation where most of our interactions are held through digital mediums (phones, social media, etc) where you don't see or acknowledge a person, all you see is a name. If you persist in this kind of environment, it tends to lead to sociopathic type behavior where you dehumanize anyone and devalue anything that doesn't serve your own implied wants or needs. So they lash out in some utterly destructive ways and feel fine about it because they don't even associate the person they're saying it to as an actual person... it's just a name that isn't serving their needs. Sadly this is something I see only getting worse as we continue to become more and more digital in our interactions.

As a german, the First Message really caught me offguard, i laughed so hard i almost choked on my mashed potatoes and had to replay to laugh again😂

That salt level went from 0-100 real quick 😅😂🤣.

the opponent forgetting the word subhuman is so funny

That was hilarious, I was listening to this in the grocery store with ear buds laughing like pycho lol 😂

I wish i was good enough at the game to harvest such levels of salt. I remember one game, it was a 4v4 and our team got rolled, but I was zerg and i kept a handful of drones roaming around, keeping out of sight and i would spawn a Hachery just long enough to reset the "show all units" timer the enemy team couldn't' find me, then kept looking for flying CCs in the corner or whatever. I made this drag on for over 20mins before they started just leaving, so i won the match while totally losing, and my team was just dying in chat at the ridiculousness of it. Even then, I didn't even get all that much salt from the enemy, just annoyance and frustration. I had another match were all i had left were infestors, back when they still made infested marines and the map was totally mined out and i just slowly wittled the enemy down with my .. 4-5 infestors until i won... even though i lost almost everything at that point... still not any significant salt...

I always say GG, and yeah I check the replay to understand how I lost, what my opponent did and how could I improve, because like WhiteRa said "More GG More Skill", so each lost game is a clear replay to check my own mistakes specially on games I felt I was winning or there were no way to lose. Sometimes I got some crazy guy like those but it is weird, I think the most common is the "EZ" from people feeling their paycheck is based on his GSL placement and still playing against a mid scrub ladder for some points when I take it as a game

"That's what I'm talking about, your playing starcraft, bring out the Asian slurs, its a bit more niche!" Had me in stitches!

I recently started playing Starcraft again, I've been learning some pressure builds Scarlet has used, excited to hopefully send you vids!

the perfect combination of salt + pigs reactions to the salt has me in tears every time

I think the reason people lash out this hard in games is because they're already going through a shit time, playing games is their outlet and when playing games starts adding to their stress rather than relieving it (for example getting dommed in starcraft), they just say all kinds of horrible shit to dump their negativity on someone else. It's likely we're both reading too much into it but you're bang on that it's an interesting thought lol

Hello from a new subscriber / fan here. I haven’t played StarCraft in years, not since heart of the swarm, when I was a diamondish Zerg. Love the content. God bless

PYSCHO was casually the most wholesome person featured.

Psycho really lived up to his name. I prefer to be called an underhuman now.

I don't talk crap on Starcraft but I did in a game called Caesary. As long as you dont go overboard and bring race or get personal it can be used effectively to throw your opponent off. When your opponent is mad or doesn't like you, they tend to make more mistakes and play on emotion rather than sound strategy.

Got a weird rage story: So I am in versus ai waiting for buddies. Get a match. Match starts I typ GlHf. Nothing. Then he typs the same. Followed by my bad, I'm new. Me: Np Then he almost exactly does what Pig discribes as 1 of the terran tactics, and on time as well. Marines, some marauders, medivacs and a few sieges. All good it seems. Then it happens, all of a sudden he starts cursing. But not at me, AT HIMSELF. WHY? Cuz he fucks up his buildorder. He wanted to stay bio but made the we rong buildings 2 armory a third starport. So he's going full meltdown. I try to calm his ass down. And tell him that: 1: It's vs ai so your trying new tactics or just training for ladder. 2: You have me your teammate to help you if you fuck up. And 3: THIS IS OUR FIRST MATCH, WERE VS VERY EASY AI. He didn't say anything the whole match anymore and haven't seen him since. So TeoJ-something if ya see this I hope yout doing great on ladder 🤣. I have seen guys go with F or shit if they fuck up, but never a full meltdown at something as small as build order and then going full tilt at themselfs. SC2 man shits wild.

Pretty sure I've seen Leviathan in one of the Florencio files.

Ive said insane shit, and i regret. I definitely think it was a dark place in my life fueling the lashing out, and that frustration losing battling your ego is accurate. Respecting the human on the other side of the screen is an important, almost critical aspect we forget.

Dude floating 2000 minerals so he could micro 3 marines against 8 roaches 😂

Thank you for the video! There is a legend told about the kids grown up on the internet: Once in the subway, some punk rides. All in tattoos head to toes. Jacket with the logo of his fav band. And suddenly some teen 13-15 years old approaches him and like drops: "His [insert band name] are f...ers and b..ches. And... ". He was not able to finish because his nose suddenly broke. Morale: In real life your actions have consequences. That boy may or may not learned it hard way.

I am almost sad that I don't get this level of salt, because the trolling would be hilarious.

Psycho was 100% agerman guy :D I can tell because of the "underhuman" :D

Congratulations for 60k subscribers!

I like to insult people when I m frustrated and losing, yet I do not say such things. I also hide in the map and prolong the game as much as I can. "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee." - Ahab's words to Moby Dick during the fatal third chase

I only wanted to send slurs to some people from ladder AFTER I watched the replay and realized how cheeky their style was

this made my day. GGs

The times I have had people do this to me my general reply is "because you lost at starcraft? ok" or "if you act this way losing a video game, I would hate to know how you handle real disappointment"

my favorite is "Oh you're such a daffodil"

I now fear for the safety of my third category family.

~7:05: the word in question was not 'sure', but rather german again. for english add a "w" in front and make the "u" an "o".

No life lessons in this episode but did learn new insults. 3rd catagory family is under human

the first one is golden, I nedd more in my life. lol

One aspect of this phenomena is that video games appeal to people with ADHD because it allows them to enter a hyperfocus state. When you put them in a losing position, suddenly they lose their hyperfocus and this is very disruptive to a person with ADHD. Games are one of the few places in life where they can easily enter a state of focus, which is why they are so satisfying. Another difficult symptom of ADHD is emotional dysregulation. So you've broken their hyperfocus which causes negative emotion and then they have difficulty controlling that emotion and their subsequent behavior in the wake of it. While this behavior should not be condoned, I think it is worthwhile to look at the psychological roots behind it and give the benefit of the doubt to people who may just be lashing out in their suffering. Part of why I love this series is that you humanize it and acknowledge this is a real person to be understood instead of writing it off as a one-dimensional asshole who should be shamed for his behavior. Giving the benefit of the doubt opens the door for apologies and forgiveness. All the love, PiG!

I've been watching your channel forever and I finally started playing the game....I suck!!

Not gonna lie, these threats on family and wishes of cancer on people actually starting to disturb me a little. I mean I love a good salt and usually laugh at it no matter what naughty words are being employed by the salt producer, but some people do go way too dark.

Entitlement is what you're looking for. The raging ones are highly likely younger individuals who has grown up getting most things they point at. They are probably having a fairly easy time in most other things they do in life, like school, sports, higher education, etc. They have been taught that they are "successful" without really having to put any work into it. At the same time, they have never really had to suffer any real consequences when showing a bad manner. In other words, they are spoiled brats who can't take that the majority of people they play against are better at something than they are. Thanks for a great channel by the way. This series is very entertaining.

19:07 games like this is why i leave all chat disabled in parental settings

The "underhuman" guy must be german too. He just translated it from german 1 by 1 -> Untermensch = "Underhuman" = (Subhuman)

I'm pretty sure the last guy was german aswell 🙂 Rough times for german "patriots" xD

26:20 Do Zerg believe in heaven?

Love your work bro. Keep it up. Underhumans of the world... UNITE! :D

YESSS the next episode

Just another tuesday in SC2

LegendaryPooFighter.... I'm stealing that name

This made me laugh too much.

This guy's bring that League energy into SC2. Good times.

That was some solid German pronunciation. I'd rate 8/10

I liked railroad's comment, "not for you"

More like the sociopath mines today.

stuff like this is precisely why i prefer singleplayer games to multiplayer ones

Lmao when pig was suggesting names he mentioned my name

considering the people blizzard has working for them, i assume when they look at reports for chat like this they just go "whats the issue here?"

VIleda op! all that Saltshaker wanted was to get to him.. but no. Vileda stayed cool that must have hurt pyocho so bad,,xD

Has anyone put in the time to figuring out which race is the saltiest over 15 eps?

and i thought i had issues.

While I only have 3 useable fingers on my left hand I am trying. I admit im still terrible. I starterd doing ranked and just really doing marines and practicing hotkeying. I got called "a F-ing blowjob". He destroyed a mineral line in a base that had 4 scv's because it was almost mined out. He then goes "round eye butt mad" I almost let him come back I literally had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard. I went onto win with marine/medivacs but oh my god im still dying.

I used to be toxic piece of shit back when I used to play games on the ranked ladders. Never held myself accountable and things I could've done differently. When I lashed out, it was meant to be disrespectful, but I never insulted family members or anything. I was much tamer with my insults, but the amount of trash talking I did was nearly every match or game regardless of win or loss. As with all younger people, I think ego and "knowing-it-all" is a big part of what creates that mindset, and a lot of it was moving past that and realizing I don't know it all whatsoever. Nowadays I'm just chilling with more things going on in my life that takes precendence over video games. I still play ranked, but I always look at what I can improve and do better in my next game. I've thankfully moved past that phase, I do banter with friends and opponents but it's all in good fun.

hugs man.

Hi PiG! Great stuff! I was wondering if u have any advice on builds for practicing with certain units? For example, it'd be awesome to know of a modern, optimized storm r ush build. Or some sort of good build for practicing sentries that isn't from like 2014 immortal sentry all in video where the build order still is reliant on mothership core. Now that SC2 is "figured out" by everyone, it seems like new players don't have any good builds / build order or updated guides. I know I can find don't crazy modern pro builds online but they are so niche and often are focused on micro intensive stuff like warp prism archons or some crazy timing of warp gate chrono plus blink. I'm trying to play something that isn't just me being put at huge disadvantage cuz I'm practicing with some trash storm rush build I made up on my own. I thought It'd be awesome to have a service where I could pay someone in like high master league or something to write me some decent build orders that I could practice specifc strat but also not so niche that I'm not working on my normal transferable Fundamentals.

Underhumans for life! Though. . . Wow. I guess I don't play at the right times to get these sort of horrible human beings.

"Going with the heterosexual insults for once." Equality.

So good.

Looks like you hit a vein of pure salt.

Vileda being called ani is a star wars refference. But idk why

PiG. people drink alcohol, that is a drunk person. I'd like to see you play a drunk game :)

Lol he guessed it what legoland said

That last game's salt was really funny. Where did that guy get this stuff?

Where did you get your Starcraft T-shirt??? I WANT !!!

Also I definitely grew up on the internet in the era of it being very toxic and everyone saying horrific shit to eachother cause it was to someone nameless. I started playing SC1 when I was 6, CSGO when I was 9 and in CS I’d say some horrendous shit to people because the culture of the games at the time was very toxic and it was just the standard, as a kid you just absorb whatever it is you are consistently getting thrown at you and the defense mechanism (online at the time) was just to try being even more over the top until the other person just stopped replying. I think people of my age group (young 20’s) have grown out of that as it’s like damn. I shouldn’t have grown up hearing slurs, typing slurs, getting called horrific things, getting death threats to my home address from people who can doxx, etc. it was just the unfortunate happenstance of my generation. There are, of course, the basement dwellers who haven’t touched grass this month and never grew out of it because “it’s just a joke, bro” when we all know they’re absolutely fuming about their life in general and just trying to drag someone else down.

I am pretty sure I played leviathan on my return after six years first game. He was the exact same way

I am loving how you make fools of bigots. You never shy away because you’re an adult but you remind them of who they are each time

7:08 no, that's definitely not supposed to mean "sure". there's a relatively obvious english cognate that kinda sounds like "horror".

Psycho wanted to know when Vileda's mom died of cancer so they could send their condolences. Duh. What else could they possibly mean there?

Underhuman... nuff said

I've BM'd on the ladder before. Not proud of it but will admit it. Never any slurs or anything horrible like that just stuff "you are terrible I should have won, learn a real build, EZ EZ EZ", stuff like that It was almost always because of outside factors. Stress from work, personal issues, etc... that had me in a bad headspace before even hitting the ranked button. And then I'd put all my self-worth into the game. The losses then feel like a reflection of my own failing as a human and the gut reaction is to lash out. That's why I did it.

1:00 and there goes that sweet youtube money.

Just the thumbnail had me like 0.0

A theory for toxicity (In Korea mainly) is high levels of stress from work or school and they use video games as a vent to their frustrations. Watching Korean LoL the amount of "momdie?" ive seen in games is impressive in how unoriginal it is

At times I get sour in CO-OPs, when a juvenil is deliberate selecting an OP commander like Tychus in Lone Wolf, plays deliberate for a high score, ignores patrols, and constantly has a unit aside of my units to scam kills of me. For me it feels like a waste of time, when I try to have some entertainment and I'm used to serve the other player as dummy for his ego run. CO-OP went down the drain, when commanders got introduced, that don't require resource management or micro of their units any more. The core values of a good RTS game got diluted, and often the players playing these kind of OP commanders deliberate do it to get an ego kick or are seeking recognition in a video game. There are also the stealth commanders, that often show players with a narcistic love for the stealth game play, ignoring the rest of the tasks. It makes me feel as if I suppose to run behind these people and do the clean up for them. I consider CO-OP as a team play, where players augment each other. To often I cross path with pushy players, attempting to patronize me. Often they justify their actions with the phrase "I'm helping you, you are soo slow, I already cleared the first wave" etc., when I ask them the reason for their behavior. The conversation turns sour, when I turn down their help, mention the OP commander they play, and ask them to be modest, humble. Then it's getting toxic fast.