I happen to play Team Fortress 2 in my free time, and oftentimes I end up playing on Japanese servers. For obvious reasons, the ping tends to be quite low.

I also found it amusing when I noticed that at the beginning of most every round most of the people mic on and say　「よろしく。」 or 「よろしくお願いします。」. Those sentences are some of the first Japanese I learned way back in high school, yet sometimes I’m still hearing news ways it’s used that have never really occurred to me.

And for the record, after the initial よろしく is said most people don’t say another peep for the duration of the game.

NOTE TO THOSE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS:
よろしくお願いします (yoroshiku onegaishimasu) and the shorter version, よろしく (yoroshiku) have no real equivalent in English. It has connotations of “Nice to meet you.”, “Look forward to working with you.”, “I’m counting on you.”, and a few other phrases/usages all rolled up together.

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