I think with 700 hours in this game and easily 5,000 hours in CS in general across the past 15 years of my life, I know when someone is smurfing or hacking.

And the problem honestly isn't with the smurfs, it's everyone in the game's reaction to them. The smurfs are obviously the problem, but the people playing against smurfs, it's just not fun. There's nothing I can do, and I'm forced to sit in a match against some asshole teenager as a grown adult on my day off. I work 50 hours a week in stressful conditions, then I have to deal with some 14 year old kid with inadequacy issues trying to prove to themselves that they're good? Yeah, no. It's definitely just in my head, right?

Maybe the problem is that it's just summer. I used to actually be able to talk to people in games during the day, now it's all douchebags with anime profiles, less than 100 hours in the game with no other games on the account except free to play ones. Those guys, aren't they the ones everyone else complains about? Oh, but I don't post here often--I'm just wrong, right? Of course I am, I'm a noob! What do I know?

Seriously, I have almost 1,000 hours in this game, and as an adult with a job that's a fucking lot. I play this game literally as often as I have time to play, I love CS, it's one of my all time favorite games, up there with Space Invaders and Goldeneye 64.

I know when I'm just getting outplayed, I do, trust me. I also know when someone is way better than they should be.

Someone who came from a different game, do they know when to prefire corners or how to listen at apps, or which walls are bangable? Does someone with 50 hours in the game? Usually not, no.