Yeah, I was seeing a lot of pro "skill" in getting one-shotted by Laser Gatling insta-deaths. It's about as boring as playing against somebody who has cheat codes in place.
That's precisely a scrubs way of thinking, your own mental rules which prevent you to fully participate in certain activities and compete, what did you except if your not wearing armor? Or you don't have an appropriate character and the rest of your buddies are the same level, naive thinking scrubs. Then suddenly it is boring and your having fun differently on top of million excuses.
I have fun, the rest doesn't really matter to me. I don't care about "the most efficient" if it involves activities which are boring for me or things that I don't find very interesting or annoy me. It makes no sense for me to be the most efficient if I won't enjoy the game. I would rather stop playing altogether.
Play to win is just only one way how to look at it, there are far more effective and universal approaches to this subject.
Indifferent, at this point of discussing your and my own personal preferences are below anything objective.
Look, the article makes perfect sense if you play a game like Street Fighter (that's what the author of this article used to do and that's where the "scrub" term comes from), because the only thing there you can do is to bash your opponents with fists, throw at floor etc until the match is over and there is nothing else to do. So yea, I understand what "scrub" means there. It's basically equivalent of PvP losers in FOnline, who lose a fight, try to find excuses and whine about swarms, militia, mercenaries, sneaks, bombers etc. But MMORPG games (even 2238 with so little content) are much more complex, and you can have fun in various different ways as long as you don't have too narrow mindset, players have different mindsets and different goals.
The article is universal to any game, but it doesn't touch certain subjects relevant to 2238, like player interaction in general.
Player interaction should be key focus at any time, for all players and there's a real problem when most of players of the server simply aren't interacting with anyone, their invisible, they do not contribute to make a living, breathing game environment fun to play. Look, proper player interaction is the milestone of all successful such type of games, it doesn't matter whether the guy likes to shoot scorpions and be happy or he is some mad, refined pro that kills people with his mean look and achieves the highest level of play in his own light, but the most important thing is for players to fucking meet and play together, what this game lacks that brings players together in some, any way.
I don't really think most of Mad Maxes could be called scrubs, from my experience many of them actually enjoy the harshness a lot and don't whine about unfairness. Some might, but not more than you can see "pro" players doing this in gang issues. Calling them scrubs, noobs or bad players makes no sense, because they simply aren't trying to compete the way you do. They aren't trying to beat the shit out of everyone and be the biggest badasses on the server. They are here to have fun time with their friends, play the way they like, explore, hunt, when they stop having fun, they move to another game. And you are treated simply as a part of hostile environment of the game, nothing more - like some overpowered Enclave with a brain on top 
Scrubs is not only whining, and being in denial with something, it is a way of thinking. They are scrubs, because they have their own mental set up of rules that prevents them to play in the most effective fashion which intelligent players will do and then there are plenty of scrubs here on 2238 which come and whine on the forum how hard it is to farm and do anything, but yet their own play-style, way of thinking makes it so. Scrubs. They chose to not have fun in a part of game which they observe as too complicated or time consuming whether the good players will leave question marks.
You seem to be incredibly butthurt, because some people have fun and you don't even notice them because they don't participate in TC and New Reno skirmishes like you do. What's worse, they seem to have fun together. How dare they 
Nessy, the only one who is hurt here is you, this reeks of hurt of players like us that just beat you to the wall in every aspect of the game in a pathetic display of how are you having fun.
I understand you are so excited about this article, because it perfectly represents your mindset. But I'm afraid you have to simply accept that in this game some players can really have fun in different way than you do, even if you don't understand it. It really doesn't make sense to apply your mindset to everyone, it's not Street Fighter or Quake Arena match. If you play it like that, that's perfectly fine, but you have to acknowledge that some people don't and aren't interested in playing the game the same way you do.
I discuss to win, that's why I am good at a verbal play, because I'm motivated to do it and not just another bad troll like the rest of the scrubs here. Yes, even if it means insulting players to set them off balance and point just manipulate them in the direction I desire.
Like I said, personal preference is kinda below the whole point of the problem.
