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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 101 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In online gaming, a smurf is an experienced player who uses a new account to deceive other players into thinking he's a noob (newbie). The purpose is usually to play against less skilled opponents who will under-estimate the 'smurf'. The expected result is that the smurf will pwn (dominate) his opponents and humiliate them further as they have been now beaten by an apparent noob.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smurf

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Orrrr your Smurf account is for when you’re drunk and you don’t want to try

[–] Batmancer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

lol yup that’s a strategy of mine. My inebriated alters are almost always my regular name or username just with the letter J as the first letter.

Once in high cool I was assigned a group with my buddies John, Justin, and James. We came up with the idea to be the J team so from then on in that class I signed all my papers as my J name and went by it as well.

Also commonly used by a good player to play with trash-tier friends.

TBT my friend restricting himself to only deagle no armor in csgo, WITH A CONTROLLER