Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn't know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?

What world do you live in where more people play basketball than online video games?

Even then, I don't think there's a way someone on my team could be so bad that I even raise my voice at them, much less verbally belittle them. Whenever I have a useless teammate I think "Damn, they must be new. I don't think we're winning this one." And then I do my best and I have fun.

This is easily the bougiest comment I've read in a while. What world might they live in, where more people play IRL sports than more expensive online games?

Just play EA games. You can say anything.

Fuck EA.

I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).

Aren't you playing games to have fun?

Let's put it in my terms: you're in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you're not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right?

I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won't understand or enjoy that time.

Wow alts that's sad. Anyways that's why you're defending your poor game play.

Did I say raise my voice? That's how you'd react. Not I'm saying when people show up not ready ro play Damn right I'm going to let them know that's inappropriate.

It's more that it's exhausting than anything else

I don't want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience

Sis, yeah, fuck EA. EA not spending money on caring one way or the other checks out.

Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing in the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.

So, what you won't raise your voice and just calmly ask them to kill themselves? What?

What else do you expect, giving up your freedom of speech to faceless corporation and their bureaucratic corporations ?
Really at this point it's a choice. No one is forcing you to interact with these totalitocrats.
Play on your own terms, or just don't play at all. Reject convenience, K Y S

It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.

Okay you show up to a Sunday league amateur soccer match. You scream KYS to the ref, they red card you. Why you surprised?

I used to love getting foreigners who've only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don't translate for some reason and swear words.

You'd get "eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT"

As long as we can also agree that over bearing forced positivity due to fear of triggering a black box automated ban system is also total ass and fucking ruins games.

I don't want to see racism and sexism every single match, but I also don't want the game to censor every single possible thing to the point the community basically becomes lobotomized and unhuman out of God damn fear.

League is a great example. It was a toxic cess pit of unholy levels. Now everyone is so fucking fake and scared to anger the AI black box over lord that no one acts like a normal person.

Or you end up with half your team muted cause of bullshit fake reasons the AI thinks could offend a made up Karen on a power trip so you can't communicate at all.

It's not fun on either extremes.

Idk, the rules of the Internet say women don't exist so from here on, you shall be treated as a man instead. Suffer the terrible existence of menfolk, featuring highlights such as: people believing you, male defaultism and so on.