that's valid

SOURCE PLEASE

Still not disrespect, just playing properly. And taunting after a stock is called being an ass.

Not if it was a really cool KO. If I land a shoryuken with Mega Man you better gonna believe I'll taunt. Same with Lucas' PK Freeze -> PK Thunder 2 kill Setup. And I expect my opponents to do the same. I'm almost offended if someone kills me with a Falcon Punch and doesn't immediately down taunt.

It seems you think they're the same thing when used in context of the game. You don't call someone who spiked you when you're already dead an ass, and you don't call someone taunting disrespect.
Or, you know, you're completely free to do that. Just don't do it when you're in a local tournament or something similar, because people might look at you oddly.

Yeah, the tone of that remark should have tipped you off that I'm at least somewhat familiar with the term's relation to Smash.

>>#62 implies otherwise.

No it doesn't, that's you misinterpreting it and reading way to into it. I mean, unless you've been observing or made aware of my years of playing Smash and gathering information and tips through wikis, replays, tourney vids, streams etc, there's no way for you to deduce my experience or lack of based on that sentence.

Alright, please explain the point of the comment at all when we aren't really using regular definitions to begin with.

You said my first comment implied I'm not even somewhat famliar with how disrespect is used in the Smash community. >>#79 explained why you're wrong.

That didn't answer my question.

Yes it did. Basically, you told me I don't know what disrespect means in it's relation to Smash because you thought >>#62 implied that I don't, which completely denies my experience with the Smash community in the first place. So I explained why and how you were wrong by telling you of my ventures with it.

I'm asking what the point of your very first comment "Being an ass is like the text book example of disrespect." was. My question is completely unrelated to your knowledge about Smash or my assumptions about it.

Whoosie I just pointed out why "being in ass" is basically the definition disrespect in Smash, which is to say that you go the extra mile to humiliate the person or give them a tough time just because you can. That Bowser knew he was way better than Ike and he wasn't afraid to show it by taunting him, which is basically saying "You ain't shit," and then flawlessly defeating him in one of the most underhanded ways in the game.

Well, this became a pretty lengthy misunderstanding.
I can agree that disrespecting is an ass move to some degree, but that's more of when you have the right to be an ass and will leave the opponent thinking "Shit, alright then". Taunting just makes the opponent annoyed, which I guess is the whole point of it, anyway. Or maybe that's just me; I can take a disrespect any day, but fuck people who taunt after taking a stock the normal way.

I mean, no one's got the right to be an ass. That's what makes it such a stigma in the first place. Showing off just makes the other guy mad. Unless the guy taunts first as a sign or respect, I pretty much only taunt after scoring. Some guys have the gald to do it before or during a combo and that's just coky to the max. lol, the funniest disrespect fail is when they taunt but then you manage not to get knocked out only to knock them out. You ever do that before?

I mainly taunt in a friendly manner as you mentioned or against friends myself, but if I weren't so much of a coward when it came to going offstage, I'd disrespect whenever I'd get the opportunity. And yes, I try to smash someone as hard as possible when they taunt after I've died, but sometimes I can only manage to grab.

holy shit guys shut the fuck up