This post is a result of people complaining about others using "cheap" tactics in order to gain the advantage and win games (shotguns, rocket launchers, supers, etc). The whole notion of there being some sort of chivalry, nobility, or ethical rulebook that we can apply to video games is nothing short of a losing mentality. There is no respect or moral platform when it comes to winning a game. Cheating is doing something that no one else in the game can do. Everything else is perfectly acceptable and within the bounds of the game. This is the best article I have ever read regarding "scrubs", being cheap, and what it means to play to win. The article is linked above. Here are some excerpts: "A scrub is not just a bad player. Everyone needs time to learn a game and get to a point where they know what they're doing. The scrub mentality is to be so shackled by self-imposed handicaps as to never have any hope of being truly good at a game. You can practice forever, but if you can't get over these common hangups, in a sense you've lost before you even started. You've lost before you even picked which game to play. You aren't playing to win" "Scrubs are likely to label a wide variety of moves and tactics as "cheap." For example, performing a throw in fighting games is often called cheap. A throw is a move that grabs an opponent and damages them even while they're defending against all other kinds of attacks. Throws exist specifically to allow you to damage opponents who block and don't attack. As far as the game is concerned, throwing is an integral part of the design—it's meant to be there—yet scrubs construct their own set of principles that state they should be totally impervious to all attacks while blocking. Scrubs think of blocking as a kind of magic shield which will protect them indefinitely. Throwing violates the rules in their heads even though it doesn't violate any actual game rule"