Accused of being "foreign" when playing online?

[Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow]

Since I'm not much of a console player, prefering PC games like NWN, WoW, I don't get that many mistaken identities. However even using text as the medium to talk with fellow players can cause confusion, especially if the other player isn't all that fluent in written english, including native english speakers!

 

[stompy]

We're a young country, and the young are always subject to their vanity and ignorance as they grow.

I'm sorry, but are you suggesting that people suggest that people let idiots from the US continue spouting their idiocy, or at least excuse it (akin to one excusing a mass murderer due to social or medical reasons), just because the US is 'young' country?

Please tell me you are being sarcastic. I would never ask people to excuse Australians who are retards online, just because we're a 'young' country (a lot younger than the US actually- Australian federation occurred in 1901). Edit: Actually, I wouldn't ask anyone to excuse the idiots at all.

And to the OP, I don't play online (like hell I'm going to actually pay extra to play online), but the general idiocy on the net makes me mad.

**runs and hides**

 

[Anarchemitis]

I still do not understand this slur:

Spoiler

"Dirty Sanchez"

It's not very profain in literal terms and I think it simply makes for a stupid thing to say.

 

[Lazzi]

Dear every one who seems to have an issue with americans:I under stand your dsicomfort. As a naturaly born american i suffer from discrimination both online and in the real world (out side of my city). I would like to poitn out the the United States is made up of serveal groups of people and that we hate each other (i severly dislike the majority of the united states, no im not some pro anarchy bastard). There are so many groups of people and they all seem to belive that they are the great group in the world, i dotn care who you are we all suffer from this subcontious discriminatory state of mind (yes hate groups of peopel to). The east coast thinks that west coast is low class. Nothernes belive that southeners are inbred, whiel the southeners belive that every oen else is a complete pussy. Liberals think conservatives are evangicalist/coprate bastards, while conservative belive all liberals are hippys/communist/gays.
Basicly the thing is that if you not a carbon copy of what one person is then you are inferior in there eyes (yes i admit i get a bit high on being Cuban-american, yes that right people im cuabn befor im american). so basicly jsut asume that if you dot now the person in reall life the jsut guna be and ass hole, that when you can only fidn happy little surprises when some one acctuly desides to nice

P.S. im dyslexic so dotn ***** and moan about it, psycologist aroudn the world seem to think its a fine exucse for bad spelling, and be cuse they have the PHD's one the subject only there opionions matter.

 

[Easykill]

I usually just get the usual:

You're Canadian? So what's it like living in an igloo? Do you have a car, or do you just use your snowmobile 24/7?

An interesting one is when you Brits try and convince yourselves that I'm American:

"You live in North America, so you're American, right?"

So basically you're saying that just because the US was a little unoriginal with their name, and named themselves America, (already established as the name of both continents, the Americas) that all the other people living in Canada, Mexico, South America, and numerous other countries are American?

I know what you mean. Happens to me every now and then too.

Edit: Holy Shit! 666! I'm Evil! (Isn't it ironic how I chose to use the epithet "Holy shit" there?)

 

[redstar alpha]

i work the (almost always american) race ahte of sorts to my advantage by thinking about the last time i watched still game (the scottish people will get it) and i then copie tams vioce for the entire game.

another fun thing to do is to pretened to be a wigger and listen to the reactions.

 

[The-Big-D]

was playing cod4 once and some girl was riping on this guy for being mexican
when he wasnt he just sounded it that was quite a good arguement.
good hour of entertainment

also im english so yeah
people hear ya talk and you always get some nob
trying to be clever

 

[Voodoo Child]

Yes, I do think the USA is the greatest country in the world. I fully expect that an Englishman/Dutchman/Australian/New Zealander/et al will feel the same about his/her own country. We're all free countries; if we didn't love ours we'd leave, right?

I'm Australian, and believe you me, I want to leave when I can when I can.

Back to the topic at hand, maybe it's my mic quality but no one can tell what nationality I am most of the time. I've had a few cases where people refused to believe I wasn't American, French or Welsh (my grandparents are Welsh but it doesn't show in my lineage, let alone my accent.)

And there's also the one memorable time I was called a "Sand N*****" on H3. Yeah, I left shortly after I was for some reason unable to mute him.

 

[werepossum]

I'm Australian, and believe you me, I want to leave when I can when I can.

Back to the topic at hand, maybe it's my mic quality but no one can tell what nationality I am most of the time. I've had a few cases where people refused to believe I wasn't American, French or Welsh (my grandparents are Welsh but it doesn't show in my lineage, let alone my accent.)

And there's also the one memorable time I was called a "Sand N*****" on H3. Yeah, I left shortly after I was for some reason unable to mute him.

Just out of curiosity, why do you so badly want to leave? I was under the impression that Australia was a pretty nice place to live, other than the plethora of poisonous stingey-bitey things once you leave the pavement.

It is amazing how brave people get when they're online and you can't actually get to them.

 

[Saskwach]

But World War 2 jokes with all that team laughing their heads off. Then of course there are the Americans yet again, with the "you'd be speaking German now if it wasn't for us" bollocks that is often touted.

Not only do they take a blind look at World War 2 - the war they 'won', they feel the need to try and make us feel inferior because we're such a small island that needed a little bit of help from the insanely sized superpowers that are Russia and the USA.

Ah well.

Hey now, you WOULD be speaking German now if not for us! But if it makes you feel any better, some of us do realize that Great Britain was much more powerful militarily than the USA when WW2 broke out. Actually, even France was, at least on paper. The USA had a pretty well equipped navy, but not much in the way of land forces until it became clear in the late thirties that Hitler would have war. What we did have in our favor was a vital and reasonably large population of reasonably recent immigrants with a reasonably high literacy level and a reasonably large tech and manufacturing base, conveniently located in a place largely beyond air attack. But hey, we've got your back as long as you have ours. That goes for you too Australia, you great big dry sweetie!

One of my favorite quotes was during Operation Market Garden. The armored push was far behind schedule, and when they showed up one of the American paratroopers asked the officer commanding the leading British armored regiment what took so long. His reply was something to the effect of: "Mate, you've been fighting five weeks. We've been fighting five years!" So yeah, we did show up rather late to the party. Sorry 'bout that.

Actually, I can't say for sure but I'm pretty sure Europe would be speaking Russian (well not really but you get the point). The thing is that the German advance through Russia was fast and vicious but it ground to a halt a) because Hitler abandoned the central teachings of blizkrieg and more importantly b) because Russian industrial capacity, when it was fired up, positively dwarfed German industry. This is a half-remembered stat but I think at one point in the same week that Germany made 800 tanks Russia made 2,000. Moreover, most of this industrial capacity was behind the Volga, the furthest eastern reach of Hitler's lebensraum. In other words, Nazi ideology only called for a move to the Volga, beyond which Russia was still capable of matching or slowly grinding down Germany almost by itself.
Still, America was hugely important. Thanks for protecting us Aussies from the Japs.

 

[werepossum]

Actually, I can't say for sure but I'm pretty sure Europe would be speaking Russian (well not really but you get the point). The thing is that the German advance through Russia was fast and vicious but it ground to a halt a) because Hitler abandoned the central teachings of blizkrieg and more importantly b) because Russian industrial capacity, when it was fired up, positively dwarfed German industry. This is a half-remembered stat but I think at one point in the same week that Germany made 800 tanks Russia made 2,000. Moreover, most of this industrial capacity was behind the Volga, the furthest eastern reach of Hitler's lebensraum. In other words, Nazi ideology only called for a move to the Volga, beyond which Russia was still capable of matching or slowly grinding down Germany almost by itself.
Still, America was hugely important. Thanks for protecting us Aussies from the Japs.

That's spot on. Stalin's plan was to allow the Allies and Germany to batter each other into exhaustion, then Russia would invade and rule all of Europe. It's amazing how much Stalin and Hitler both knew of Germany's and Russia's plans, although Stalin didn't believe what he was told until Hitler actually invaded. America delivered something like 350,000 military trucks and hundreds of tons of food to Russia, which certainly helped and sped up the march across Europe, but it's apparent that Russia could have beaten Germany by herself.

I think that tank production stat is probably for a month. Russia produced more tanks than even the USA, and theirs were great. Ours were crap, except they were very mechanically reliable, the UK's were crap and not mechanically reliable, and Germany's were excellent and generally mechanically reliable. That T-34/85 was probably the best overall tank of the war.

And you are certainly welcome for our help against the Japanese. Those of us with some small grasp of history also realize how much Australia contributed in WW2. I grew up wanting to be the Aussie in Rat Patrol, after all.

EDIT: Added tank paragraph and corrected estimated number of trucks.

 

[redstar alpha]

well since we have turned to wars and who helped out who, we help you lot out in iraq even though when we ask for some help in the falklands (witch we won wven though we where fighting on the what was basicly the enemys door step) you didnt help so i will just say this, you owe us two america.

p.s. i have nothing against most americans just the "we won every war ever and or armed forces are way better than the paras" demographic

p.p.s. your armed forces arent better than the paras

EDIT: replaced SAS with paras after i remebered just how amazing the paras are (as anyone who knows about the falkland war will know)