View Full Version : Everyone online is an asshole but me
retartedhampster
11-18-2003, 05:04 AM
Do you feel like the only civilized person online? Have you noticed this? It seems that almost every server for counter-strike or any other online game is full of people who cheat, accuse you of cheating or scream and shout into the mic. What is wrong with you people?
Sam Jones
11-18-2003, 05:24 AM
Do you feel like the only civilized person online?
I've recently started playing Star Wars Galaxies, and it's been the most pleasant online gaming experience I've ever had. Everyone I've met in the game has been brilliant, with people falling over themselves to help a newbie, or even just chat.
In contrast, Neocron was easily the worst. I got PK'd 5 minutes after leaving my player apartment for the first time, and it went downhill from there.
Guido Jones
11-18-2003, 05:28 AM
This wasn't the funny the first time around.
Veefy
11-18-2003, 05:33 AM
Sartre was right.
Rob O'Boston
11-18-2003, 05:55 AM
Do you feel like the only civilized person online?
I've recently started playing Star Wars Galaxies, and it's been the most pleasant online gaming experience I've ever had. Everyone I've met in the game has been brilliant, with people falling over themselves to help a newbie, or even just chat.
Perhaps the fact that the gameplay revolves around playing dress up and dancing, or acting out the fantasy of being a Walmart manager, has something to do with the desperately friendly people in SWG. Is there any notable difference between SWG and the sims online?
-Lord Ebonstone-
11-18-2003, 06:31 AM
Sartre was right.
Indeed.
Rywill
11-18-2003, 08:04 AM
I would just like to chime in that I've also read Sartre, so I'm as smart as anybody.
Sam Jones
11-18-2003, 08:10 AM
Perhaps the fact that the gameplay revolves around playing dress up and dancing
Yes, that's it, right there. I went into SWG wanting an interactive SW action figure simulator, and it does that pretty well.
Is there any notable difference between SWG and the sims online?
A few hundred thousand subscribers.
SpoofyChop
11-18-2003, 08:30 AM
For any of you who don't want to be bothered to Google Sartre to find out what these smug ding-dongs are referring to, here ya go:
"Hell is other people."
-Sartre
etc
For any of you who don't want to be bothered to Google Sartre to find out what these smug ding-dongs are referring to, here ya go:
"Hell is other people."
-Sartre
etc
God bless you SpoofyChop. I was getting ready to look through all my Cliff's Notes.
Ragnar Oppedal
11-18-2003, 08:40 AM
Most servers are full of retards. This is why I almost only play on Arsclan.net's servers.
Supertanker
11-18-2003, 09:29 AM
Let me drag in Hobbes, then. Servers need a Leviathan to offset the greedy, evil nature of humans.
Jakub
11-18-2003, 09:37 AM
No, I'm pretty much an asshole.
I get so absolutely pissy if my teammates let me down, I get voted off and muted more than people who actually cheat, I think. I hate losing. That's all there is to it.
Robert Sharp
11-18-2003, 02:33 PM
No, I'm pretty much an asshole.
I get so absolutely pissy if my teammates let me down, I get voted off and muted more than people who actually cheat, I think. I hate losing. That's all there is to it.
At least you admit that makes you an asshole. Most people would say they are just "competitive". 'Competitive' has become a cover up for being a bad sport.
Rod Humble
11-18-2003, 04:33 PM
For any of you who don't want to be bothered to Google Sartre to find out what these smug ding-dongs are referring to, here ya go:
"Hell is other people."
-Sartre
etc
I prefer the Red Dwarf version
Holly-"Jean-Paul Sartre said, 'Hell was being locked forever in a room with your friends.'"
Lister - "Yeah, but all his mates were French..."
:)
Jakub
11-18-2003, 05:14 PM
At least you admit that makes you an asshole. Most people would say they are just "competitive". 'Competitive' has become a cover up for being a bad sport.
Well, see, I find that being an asshole does two things for me:
1. I can let off some steam, obviously.
2. More importantly, it CAN improve the performance of the team. I mean, obviously when I get completely frustrated and start suggesting that if my teammates want to fuck up big, they can just get their mom and grandmother together and try some Rocco A2M incest action... that's counter-productive. But as long as I hold my cool and make discriminate use of "assclown", "shit-flinging-monkey", and "homofag", it's a way to get someone's attention and a way of humiliating them into proper performance.
Bitchiness in short bursts is perfectly acceptable. People will take your side, and peer pressure will make the assclown or homofag in question shape up. But you can't express your frustration at the entire team or go overboard against one member.
Lee Johnson
11-19-2003, 07:25 AM
Bitchiness in short bursts is perfectly acceptable.
Especially when you have a reputation for being pleasant, helpful, and even-tempered. When my character flies off the handle, people know something's wrong.
Bill Dungsroman
11-19-2003, 01:14 PM
Do you feel like the only civilized person online? Have you noticed this? It seems that almost every server for counter-strike or any other online game is full of people who cheat, accuse you of cheating or scream and shout into the mic. What is wrong with you people?
No offense, but do you call yourself retarted [sic] hampster [sic] when you're playing games online? I'd have trouble thinking you're any more civilized or sophisticated than a 12-year-old, unless the spelling errors are meant to be ironic. In that case, swell.
BDR
Do you feel like the only civilized person online?
In contrast, Neocron was easily the worst. I got PK'd 5 minutes after leaving my player apartment for the first time, and it went downhill from there.
That lack of friendliness and saftey was supposed to be one of the Neocrons draws (cold cruel post apocalyptic world) but the developers just didn't have anything in place that would allow newbies to gain experience and do their early leveling up in (relative) peace. They (Reakktor) learned too late that no matter how much they insisted that the PK'ing aspect was part of the gameplay, new arrivals are going to take it as griefing.
such a potentially great game pissed away
SpoofyChop
11-19-2003, 02:10 PM
Do you feel like the only civilized person online? Have you noticed this? It seems that almost every server for counter-strike or any other online game is full of people who cheat, accuse you of cheating or scream and shout into the mic. What is wrong with you people?
No offense, but do you call yourself retarted [sic] hampster [sic] when you're playing games online? I'd have trouble thinking you're any more civilized or sophisticated than a 12-year-old, unless the spelling errors are meant to be ironic. In that case, swell.
BDR
I don't see why Bill Dungsroman is any more civilized or sophisticated than retartedhampster.
Just because it's an extremely esoteric word play does not mean that it is good.
In fact, all retartedhampster demonstrates is that the person is silly. Calling yourself Bill Dungsroman is pretty snobbish.
I prefer silly.
Bill Dungsroman
11-19-2003, 03:30 PM
I don't see why Bill Dungsroman is any more civilized or sophisticated than retartedhampster.
Just because it's an extremely esoteric word play does not mean that it is good.
In fact, all retartedhampster demonstrates is that the person is silly. Calling yourself Bill Dungsroman is pretty snobbish.
I prefer silly.
I'd never have guessed.
My point is...oh, who fucking cares.
BLIL RUNSGRDOOMN
SpoofyChop
11-19-2003, 04:22 PM
I don't see why Bill Dungsroman is any more civilized or sophisticated than retartedhampster.
Just because it's an extremely esoteric word play does not mean that it is good.
In fact, all retartedhampster demonstrates is that the person is silly. Calling yourself Bill Dungsroman is pretty snobbish.
I prefer silly.
I'd never have guessed.
My point is...oh, who fucking cares.
BLIL RUNSGRDOOMN
That was pretty funny!
:D
I like you Blil.
Warlord of Mars
11-19-2003, 05:16 PM
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Jason Cross
11-20-2003, 12:27 PM
Nearly all the pick-up games I play on Xbox Live (ie...games where I just optimatch into something, not play with people on my friends list) are full of civilized people. I mean some of there are supreme dorks, like the guy on PGR2 last night who would not stop talking about RC cars with this other guy, whose life revolves around that hobby in a way that would embarass even game geeks like *US*! But he was nice, and virtually all the people on Live seem to be.
Or at least, nice by contrast. They might be a jackhole and leave the game when they're losing or something, but they don't try to ruin your game for you or act like an ass over the headset.
I wonder if the fact that you have one Gamertag forever, and your voice coming over the headset, takes away a bit of the anonymity that frees up people to act like jackholes? Hmm...
I could be just getting lucky, though. I don't play on Live a WHOLE lot, and I'm just one person. On the whole, it might be as full of jackasses as everything else.
quatoria
11-20-2003, 12:30 PM
I've never run into a jackass when playing mechassault live. It's always been good natured people, even when someone is stinking up a game. Even the tertiary nature of voice-to-voice contact seems to filter out a ton of the assholishness that accompanies the total anonynimity of the internet. I'd be a hell of a lot less likely, for example, to call someone a mother-raping shit-eating camper whore via the headset than I would via a keyboard. But that's just me.
Rimbo
11-20-2003, 12:31 PM
I'm pretty much an asshole.
In person, too.
quatoria
11-20-2003, 12:33 PM
I'm pretty much an asshole.
In person, too.
Yeah, I can buy that.
Are you calling me an asshole?
JessicaM
11-20-2003, 02:06 PM
Well, I wasn't going to bring it up, but...
Warlord of Mars
11-20-2003, 11:42 PM
Jason, that's my experience, too. But play on long enough, you do meet one. But then again, that's why there's a saying, "a rotten apple in every bunch". Those gamertags do hold their owners accountable.
In Rainbow Six 3, one guy was killing his teammates. Not only did everyone bitch him out, but the server killed his character the next round and made him sit to watch and think about his actions. He did not make a peep the rest of the hour that he stayed. He changed his ways and was a much better teammate.
Things like that make me glad I got Live instead of trying to mess with PC online gaming again.
MauxFaux
11-21-2003, 12:10 PM
Votekick jackass
Votekick jackass
I have never seen a votekick in BF1942 succeed. Ever.
MauxFaux
11-21-2003, 12:24 PM
works all the time in Raven Shield. I stay in Coop games, so maybe its clear to everyone when someone is working against what the group is trying to achieve.
Same here, haven't seen a successful vote kick attempt on the BF1942 servers I was on. It's usually one person initiating one and maybe one or two others actually voting. The rest doesn't know what to do or doesn't seem to care. It might work on a somewhat 'organized' server (involving clans), but I personally haven't seen it happening so far.
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