What a shocker!
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]Use Krita
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.
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Okay you show up to a Sunday league amateur soccer match. You scream KYS to the ref, they red card you. Why you surprised?
Why isn't the ref stopping the guy in high heels and a thong?
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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.
Only thing I dont miss is being called the n word. Odk that's the go to for suburban kids.
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Didn't know that the offended wine moms of America got linked this post, sad that as an adult you can't control your feelings when someone makes jokes on a video game
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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.
Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they're designed for more complex tasks.
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I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
wrote last edited by [email protected]But silly squid game fun...
🥺At least my game doesn't have micro transactions!
~Yet...~ ~Nintendo~ ~please~ ~don't~
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Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they're designed for more complex tasks.
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Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they're designed for more complex tasks.
the linux equivalent is Pinta but it is not nearly as powerful
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On a side note I shouldn't be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that's not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.
I agree but just to clarify "kys" isn't swearing it's bullying
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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.
I think it's important for people to recognize the toxic effects of general misogyny and phenomena like Gamer Gate have on gaming communities. To this day, I see plenty of cis-male and trans-femme gamers wonder about why there are so few cis-women in gaming spaces without recognition of what gaming communities are like towards young women and girls who express interest. Nothing quashes your desire to join a community quite like incessant harassment, abuse, rape/death threats, and doxxing.
(To be clear, I am not insinuating that trans-femme folks have an easy time of things, but I can say they outnumber cis-women in gaming communities like Arma by a factor to 2 to 1 or greater. There are 3 trans-women in my Arma group and I'm the only cis-woman there.)
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Yeah, the answer is to just not play those games or give them your money in the first place.
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It would be nice if they were that explicit about what they don't want said. Instead it's more like, "Don't say stuff we might not like. No, you can't have a list and when we ban you we won't tell you why."
