There's an extremely easy technique I employ to circumvent nationality and accent problems.
Speak with the same accent, or, if possible, pretend to speak the same language.
I've fooled hundreds of people. I can imitate a host of dialects from American, British, Italian, French, German, Russian, Spanish and other language's accents.
You haven't experienced online-play until you've heard raucous, constant laughter in eight different languages.
Just don't act like an asshole. If they act like assholes, don't act like an asshole. They'll either get bored of arguing and ragequit, or laugh with you.
KillerMidget said:
My friend told me about the time an American kid (why are the kids of countries nowadays so thick?) told him whole-heartedly and without an inch of doubt that America settled Britain. I mean, who is that stupid? As if it couldn't get any worse, he called in his mother to talk over Xbox Live to reaffirm this fact. Oh yes, mothers are always correct ladies and gentlemen, they might not have the damndest idea what you're on about, but if they tell you cheese is a mammal, by God they must be correct.
I just wish there was an option to electrocute players in Real Life, usable when the other player has genuinely said something unforgivably stupid (Another example being an American girl who had asked, when told the person they were talking to was English: "So, do you, like (yes indeed, "like" was used), speak English then?"), this stupidity being scanned and analysed by a wordbank run by Microsoft, which would then grant other players the right either to show mercy, or to fry the monstrosity of nature's brain, or at least, area in which the brain usually resides.
However, I think in that sort of case, a couple insults and a quick enlightenment on the speaker's obvious ignorance would be socially acceptable, if not a requirement as a citizen of Earth.
Xyphon said:
I've run into more British assholes than any other nationality. Some are cool, and some I really can't understand what the hell they say.
Then again, it's mainly British CHILDREN that I end up being on a team with.
I've also noticed this trend.
Usually whenever i'm speaking with someone who's above the age of 16, the ratio of "asshole" to "non-asshole" and "insufferably stupid" to "sufferable" is somewhat even, regardless of nationality or race.
However, ALL children are annoying, ignorant, stupid and useless players. (Or most of them, to be fair. Maybe someone in this forum has played with a small child who isn't any of the traits I listed.)
Kids of all sorts of nations have pissed me off, and I think a couple Russian teens once. (Except they talked in funny English. So it was better than normal.)
