"Try Hard"

[NeutralObjections]

I just read someone complaining about "try-hards."

I've heard (and know the definition of) this in online games but, in terms of online posting and online forums, what exactly is a try-hard like? Or do?

Someone who bites at every troll... or?

I really don't have any idea.

[Sekhem]

i would assume it's someone who tries hard to fit in, but doesn't

i guess it could be other things though

[Dragen]

Someone who's trying way too hard to be for example funny, I guess?

[BleachFanatic12]

At 8/24/12 05:50 PM, NeutralObjections wrote: I just read someone complaining about "try-hards."

I've heard (and know the definition of) this in online games but, in terms of online posting and online forums, what exactly is a try-hard like? Or do?

Someone who bites at every troll... or?

I really don't have any idea.

People who try hard to be things there not

[SubparTony]

Someone who is trying to be funny,look/sound sophisticated,be the smart guy but he isn't very good at it.

[Vasconium]

Somebody who fails at trying to stand out in the crowd.

In other words, a poser.

[tarahloveshentai]

I've only hear it when I play Black Ops or Modern Warfare 3. It's the stupidest negative slur I've ever heard.

It's basically a diss or bad talk towards someone that's "trying" too "hard" to be good or play. Like if you go the extra mile and try your hardest, apparently that makes you a loser/faggot.

[SpeedoSausage]

At 8/24/12 05:58 PM, tonypar16 wrote: Someone who is trying to be funny,look/sound sophisticated,be the smart guy but he isn't very good at it.

I am all of those things

[SneakyGameBoy]

At 8/24/12 06:18 PM, Tarah wrote: It's basically a diss or bad talk towards someone that's "trying" too "hard" to be good or play. Like if you go the extra mile and try your hardest, apparently that makes you a loser/faggot.

Which is another reason why I hate the COD community.

[SubparTony]

At 8/24/12 06:21 PM, SpeedoSausage wrote:

At 8/24/12 05:58 PM, tonypar16 wrote: Someone who is trying to be funny,look/sound sophisticated,be the smart guy but he isn't very good at it.

I am all of those things

YOU ARE A TRYING TOO HARD GRRRRAAAWWWW

[DarkMatter]

At 8/24/12 06:26 PM, tonypar16 wrote: YOU ARE A TRYING TOO HARD GRRRRAAAWWWW

Back in the Counter Strike days we called people Hackers, some times they were hackers though.

[beardkiller]

A tryhards somebody who trys to hard to win

[Boss]

im the try ahrd biatch

[VJF]

I would assume forum "try-hards" are people who either try to be funny with their posts when they are just being stupid, or they are users that try to get a rise out of another user in a flame war, but instead make themselves seem so stupid that the other user says something like "Wow, was that really meant to be an attack on my person? You try to hard man" or something like that.

[NeutralObjections]

At 8/24/12 06:15 PM, Bees wrote: someone who tries too hard it's not really a cryptic puzzle

Try hard at what though? That's a pretty broad term.

Instead of taking this as a chance to condescend someone and be a huge fucking tool, you could try explaining it in better terms.

[poinl]

At 8/24/12 06:21 PM, SpeedoSausage wrote:

At 8/24/12 05:58 PM, tonypar16 wrote: Someone who is trying to be funny,look/sound sophisticated,be the smart guy but he isn't very good at it.

I am all of those things

but you cant fly on crocodiles!

[HipnikDragomir]

Sounds like a retard's version of "wannabe" or "overachiever". The person who invented was probably in remedial English.

[yurgenburgen]

A tryhard is someone who is trying too hard to prove something of themselves.

For example, if you were discussing alcohol on the BBS or in real life or wherever, you always get one tryhard who comes in mouthing off about drinking everclear or some other nonsense.

[NeutralObjections]

At 8/24/12 09:34 PM, Bees wrote:

At 8/24/12 09:04 PM, NeutralObjections wrote:

At 8/24/12 06:15 PM, Bees wrote: someone who tries too hard it's not really a cryptic puzzle

Try hard at what though? That's a pretty broad term.

Instead of taking this as a chance to condescend someone and be a huge fucking tool, you could try explaining it in better terms.

lol i mean i can't dumb it down anymore than that. should i spell the words out for you? it's a phrase that's used in context. i don't ever see someone just say hey dude you're a try hard and walk away, because in this case it's okay to be as stupid as you are right now and have no idea why he just said that. but i could say right now, hey you're trying too hard in which i would mean trying too hard to seem retarded. but you aren't trying at all right now, it's probably just natural

Obviously it's definition varies in context, like video games or whatever.
Try hard at fitting in? Trying to be cool? Proving a point? What? I didn't ask for you to dumb it down, I just wanted to know what qualifies someone as a "try hard" on online forums. And you explain it as... "someone who tries to hard?"

I'm sorry I didn't actually think that saying the basic interpretation of the term "try hard" was a legitimate description. Whoops.

my b bro

[Timmy]

At 8/24/12 06:18 PM, Tarah wrote: I've only hear it when I play Black Ops or Modern Warfare 3. It's the stupidest negative slur I've ever heard.

It's basically a diss or bad talk towards someone that's "trying" too "hard" to be good or play. Like if you go the extra mile and try your hardest, apparently that makes you a loser/faggot.

This is basically what I was going to say - I've never heard of "try hards" outside online videogames, especially the call of duty games.

I've always assumed that people called others "try hards" in order to aim attention away from their own shitty results and try to knock bettter players down a peg.

Of course, there are always those players who scream into their mics trying to organize other online players, or telling people to flank this/camp that, etc. Those people do try too hard, and clearly are not having fun.

I have no idea what a try-hard would be on a forum - maybe someone who constantly spams in order to win "attention whore" or something?

[abbuw]

I am a try hard!

[NeutralObjections]

At 8/25/12 01:59 AM, Bees wrote: well theres an urban dictionary fuck off if you are this concerned with it's meaning holy shit why don't we just define the entire internet for you you dumb fuck

Lol. Still enjoy your posts Bees. <3 And thanks.

[Steff]

Tryhard = a player that copies the techniques of professional gamers and uses it in-game. Usually these players don't have any idea what the fuck they're doing, because they're copying somebody else.

[FUNKbrs]

In music, a try hard is someone, particularly a guitarist or vocalist, who goes out of their way to do all the most "difficult" techniques all the time without using the more effective simpler techniques that would really make the hard stuff stand out.

For example, a try hard guitarist would do nothing but sweep picking, taps and arpeggios for an entire 1 hour set, to the extent where it's just fucking boring to watch him play the same goddamn "difficult" riff over and over again. This is opposed to a guitar player that grooves his way up to the solo, using each major technique only one time and then never again, displaying massive chops while at the same time not being repetitive or self aggrandizing.

It's also for shitty bands with shitty music who overpromote like crazy to get "big" shows only to not clear their overhead and lose money hand over fist to sound engineers and venue owners, as opposed to guys who just play little bars and run their own sound for a modest profit.

[verycoolguy]

In the gaming scene, the term Tryhard is referred to someone who takes a casual match in a game very seriously and does their best to win it, when it does not really matter at all who wins since there won't be any prizes or money or even Ranked statistics involved for the winner.
Sore losers tend to use this term to insult their opponents and a way to say that they were not really trying to justify themselves getting outplayed.

I'd guess that a forum tryhard would be the type that would be a grammar Nazi and cares too much about his reputation on the internet, so they try as hard as possible to seem smart, funny, cool, tough, etc.