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Words: Ben Richardson, GamesRadar UK

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Teabagging

Halo isn't the first or only videogame to enable victorious players to crouch-crouch-crouch over the face of an enemy's fallen corpse, thus simulating a celebratory dry-humping. But it was certainly the game that turned the habit of a few gamers into the teabagging phenomenon we know today. Such a simple action, but so very satisfying for the perpetrator. Especially when you know that the player whose in-game avatar you're treating to a spot of necrophilic skull-abusing is forced to watch the whole sorry business through their death-cam.

Teabagging is a perfect product of the community, a pure emergent gameplay quirk that only adds more enjoyment and appeal to any competitive FPS shooter. The care and attention shown by teabaggers is almost admirable, with the most meticulous 'bagging committed by the gleefully disrespectful online hordes of Halo 2 and Halo 3.

Though, of course, the obsession doesn't begin and end with Bungie's series. Most of all, though, it's an irresistibly hilarious practice to see in action. If you can watch the many (oh, so many) teabagging montages and clips that crowd for attention on YouTube without laughing at least a little, then you must be dead inside.