What a shocker!
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I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren't free time activities supposed to be fun?
Gamers aren't well adjusted people
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All I said was gg 5 times
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Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher's servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say "KYS KYS" in game if the people I'm playing with are okay with it.
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Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher's servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say "KYS KYS" in game if the people I'm playing with are okay with it.
That and it's easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
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Honestly, I’m not a fan of that sort of censorship.
I grew up in the Time Before Internet, and played all of the earliest online games. Trash talk is simply part of the experience as far as I’m concerned. On Team Fortress Classic, you had to abuse a motherfucker through text chat. And we loved it: everyone was enjoying that novel experience.
Back in the day of early COD on Xbox Live, lobbies were wild. Heck, even Uno subjected you to everything from ‘teach me slurs in your language’ to ‘random dude masturbating on camera while smoking a joint’.
I still play the occasional online game, but they’re boring and soulless. Very few people are on comms, as most seem afraid to actually talk. And with good reason; any sort of mildly spicy talk would get you banned on games. So instead of fostering a friendly atmosphere, from my perspective it ended up killing the entire vibe.
Let folks talk trash. Give as good as you get. And if that’s not for you? There’s other games to play.
It's not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don't get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn't trash talk it's being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.
Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it's so hard to apply that to online games.
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All I said was gg 5 times
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No. It's not mature. If you play it like a sport, then being a gentleman is very important for your fun and growth both.
Oh. No. I don't curse. But I understand the anger a frustration
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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?
I can play a lot of my games on a computer that cost me less than $100, plus peripherals. Gaming is cheap nowadays as long as you're not gunning for the newest crap, and it lasts a long while. Meanwhile, playing basketball regularly requires you either have reliable access to a car (I don't) or live in an area where there's a publically available basketball court, AND enough people to play. Yeah, you could set up hoops in the street or something, but literal cars run through there. And people need to back out of their driveway. If you can't do it in your neighborhood, then you have to spend time that a lot of low-income folks don't have traveling to and from somewhere that does have the requisite things. Not impossible, but not at as convenient as an old business laptop from 2017 off Ebay with Steam on it.
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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.
Ya don't get banned for saying "hey, I think you should try to prepare better."
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By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.
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I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren't free time activities supposed to be fun?
wrote last edited by [email protected]'Fun' and 'chill' are not the same concept. Fun things can be irritating, can make you excited and go through various emotions.
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That and it's easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
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i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
Classic pre-game lobbies
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Just play EA games. You can say anything.
Fuck EA.
Blizzard game chat is horrid lol
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One thing I don’t understand is why the built in tools for self managing are insufficient, such as mute and block. If willing, I would be open to hearing your experience with that.
These tools have improved immensely over the years. It was particularly bad in those days because there was no option for private or party voice chat and a lot of games came with 3-day trial cards for Xbox Live which allowed people to make tons of sock puppet accounts to evade blocking.
I don't really play FPS's any more and I haven't turned on an Xbox in about 7 years. I just play on PC now, almost exclusively with a gaming community on discord comprised of online and IRL friends. My experience is very curated now and the games I play either have minimal social interaction or are well known for their welcoming communities (eg Warframe). It felt a little bit like admitting defeat, but shutting off the public mic and just sticking to private VCs and servers has been a good way of dealing with it. I certainly don't get rape and death threats with a side of doxxing these days.
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with me! I'm sorry those things happened to you and that it had an effect on the way you play in the end.
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By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.
Use Krita
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Use Krita
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Okay, thanks then I'll watch tutorials like in the good old days. :3
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Oh, it's better to read the user agreement, there are such horrors there... Access to your PC at any time when you are connected to the network without problems...
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Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher's servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say "KYS KYS" in game if the people I'm playing with are okay with it.
So unpopular...
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So, what you won't raise your voice and just calmly ask them to kill themselves? What?
Nah but calmly muting them and playing better is your own option. Listen you don't want try hard DONT PLAY RANKED. That's like me going to a burger shop and getting mad that they freak out when you ask for a salad.
