Whats With All The Hostility On Xbox Live
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I've only once or twice had a problem with this. It's only a very small number of people like that. I find just going to make a cup of tea then finding another lobby solves the problem.
It's kind of like when you get on a bus with plenty of people on it. Yeah there might only be one little shit playing loud music from his phone and shouting at people, but you don't really notice the other 40 people on the bus who are just there to get from A to B.
It's kind of like when you get on a bus with plenty of people on it. Yeah there might only be one little shit playing loud music from his phone and shouting at people, but you don't really notice the other 40 people on the bus who are just there to get from A to B.
Allow me to translate that for you Synny.synobal said:
xxXSSJChaos666SephirothXxx: I often am made fun of online over Xbox Live voice chat for being annoying, rude and immature. I find myself upset, and unable to deal with these complex emotions so I run and cry to my mother who assures me that everything will be alright, and that those filthy savages from another country are, in fact, big stupid doodieheads despite the fact that I have never met and do not know anyone from those areas.
Joking aside, I like a little trash talk, it breeds good competition. What I don't like is when people who can't play well feel compelled to make up for it by being loud and obnoxious. If I am destroying you in Tekken (and I probably am) don't start shouting in the mic that I'm a prostitute and a dirty foreigner (and I probably am, redux). It won't hurt my feelings (I'm a grownup, I can handle this stuff) and it is not going to make you any better.
What??? Seriously what???? If you are going to get all offended by some random strange talking crap then you should ask your mommy to disconnect your internet and hide under your bed for the rest of your life. It is going to happen online. It is going to happen outside. It is going to happen wherever you have contact with other human beings.InterAirplay said:
I cannot believe that people give random strangers this kind of power over their lives. It is just sad. Newsflash not everyone is going to be your friend. Not everyone is going to like you. Not everyone is going to give you a chance to let them know you. If they aren't what you call a friend then it shouldn't matter what anyone says to or about you (or in this case your country). This is why they have things like a mute function in the first place.
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so, most western countries have histories like that, look at England or Spain, compared to the states those guys have done much worse. The only thing that saved the aboriginal people of Australia from extermination like the natives here was the white people there not really caring about moving further inland like they did here. Really compared to most nations the states arnt that bad in a criminal history type way, fuck, look at what japan did to the chinese in ww2, makes the holocaust look quaint in comparison666Chaos said:
I don't know what's up with people from the U.S. and U.K. picking fights with one another. I'm too busy at the moment trying to avoid a certain foul-mouthed Canadian kid who insults the U.S. constantly and somehow he keeps showing up wherever I go.
There's no need to even continue after that sentence for I already know what's going to happen.Malikaw said:
Wow take things personally much? This isn't just for you. It is for everyone who makes these ridiculous threads on a daily basis. Trash talking exists everywhere. It isn't just confined to XBL or the internet. And TBH it isn't the trash talking that set me off. It is this PC crap that has turned everyone into a bunch of crybabies that has. And that is a topic that is worthwhile. I shudder at the thought of living in a future where everybody is sniveling little boys and girls clutching to their mommies teet because some big bad stranger might say something mean to them.InterAirplay said:
I usually stay in party chat (one of the greasiest invention ever for playing multiplayer). I usually get the whinny 12 year old when I am in game chat.
FPSs on XBL and PSN (never played PSN but just generalizing) always seem to attract the young kid who thinks he's so grown up for playing halo 3/the kid who gets bullied at school and feel that he can trash talk people who don't really want any trouble to make himself feel big again. Half the time I find that the worst trolls/people who just yap all game are the people who "think" they're really good but actually suck and just need to compensate.
me personally, in the off chance that I do play online, I just txt one of my friends to play with me and then we just private chat while were playing so you dont have to deal with anyone trying to ruin you just trying to have fun. I mean let's face it, too many ppl take their K/D ratio waaayyyyyy too seriously (I'm all for not letting down the team but come on
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me personally, in the off chance that I do play online, I just txt one of my friends to play with me and then we just private chat while were playing so you dont have to deal with anyone trying to ruin you just trying to have fun. I mean let's face it, too many ppl take their K/D ratio waaayyyyyy too seriously (I'm all for not letting down the team but come on
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OMG I've heard this topic seriously more than 100 times.....Your playing a game where all you do is kill each other......I think hostility is implied
Nope sorry but you completely got it all wrong. I am not saying they should be dicks (and in a perfect world there wouldn't be dicks). But since this isn't a perfect world guess what people are gonna be dicks. What pisses me off is people giving the dicks power. If you get all butthurt and feel the need to cry about it to what 100's or thousands of people you are letting the dicks win. If it bothers you so much that you have to either pause your game or stop playing it to come on a forum and make a post crying about what some random stranger said to offend you you are giving the dicks power. Do you think that only non dicks read these posts? Do you believe for 1 second that some jackass is not going to read this post and think "hey I should use that the next time I wanna be a dick online? Look at the reaction it got from this wussie."InterAirplay said:1. Well, you did address me directly... and then went on to use vague language which included me in it. you also said "this isn't just for you". Oh, right, well now that I know we're all sharing the lesson today then I guess I can rest a little easier, like it alleviates some of the impact, right?squid5580 said:
2. You know that your wording, at least, gives you the air of someone who has adopted an equally emotional position? the original poster wonders why people on XBL are so hostile, you come back with an extraordinarily hostile rant about how people should stop worrying about hostility.
To go into finer detail, you attribute the "PC crap that has turned everyone into a bunch of crybabies" to being the cause of.... well, everyone turning into a bunch of crybabies (really? have they? have they? HAVE THEY? CAN YOU HONESTLY BACK THAT UP? NO? OK THEN). Is that how you choose to refer to people who earnestly wonder "why can't we just get along more politely?"? with a statement that manages to offend everyone while simultaneously being confusingly vague? what "PC crap" are you referring to, and what "topic" is it that you believe is worthwhile?
Then, some outright kneejerk insanity...
"I shudder at the thought of living in a future where everybody is sniveling little boys and girls clutching to their mommies teet because some big bad stranger might say something mean to them"
oh, right, so that's what we want, is it? if I complain about a foulmouthed kid on the internet, I'm just some pathetic weak-willed milquetoast-in-waiting rather than someone who just wishes these things could be cleared up with a bit of common courtesy?
I struggle to understand what on earth gave you the impression that this imaginary future of yours was any closer to reality because a lot of us don't like being sweared at, but apparently if we take a few seconds of our day to say "those people should stop being dicks" then the ubermensch within us dies inside and we become helpeless innocent sheep.
Why is it that in your comments, you seemed to act as though those of us who find this objectionable have spent our entire lives wrapped in a ball of cotton wool living on fucking dream juice? hey, we have lives as well, and just because you're sitting there adopting the position of hardened veteran of real non-virtual life that doesn't mean you don't have to validate your position and explain your goddamned comments, or at least why you saw fit to hurl insults at everyone who you've dragged into this stereotype which you have just whipped out of thin air to rant at.
Actually, yes! let's talk about people who are easily offended! let's talk about the poster who took issue with a jokey (although yeah, unfunny) comment regarding the sheer morbid foulmouthery of the internet, and decided that instead of construing this comment for what it was, instead - saw it as an out-and-out confession of pathetic mental frailty and a nervous disposition regarding anonymous internet-folk out there, and chose to imagine that this individual fell into their own personal vendetta against people who not only...
(A) Never did anything to harm him, but
(B) DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST.
How's THAT for easily offended?
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We will never all get along until we live in a perfect world. So we gotta make the best of the world we got. There is tools in place to combat dickery online. If people suck it up and use them they take away the power of the dicks. Afterall if a dick makes a noise and there is no one there to hear it does it make a noise? The answer is NO! When people don't they enable them and you know what??? THAT DOESN'T HELP!!!!
1. If we all know this then why happening every day with a new "waaaah someone said this to me while playing this game" post? Are we supposed to be surprised? Is it supposed to be a shocking revalation? If not then what purpose do posts like this serve other than to people ***** about people being dicks? Does this not give the dicks the exact reaction they are looking for? I mean clearly it upset him/her. 1 point for the dick. And guess what? THE DICKS ARE WINNING. Why? Because they are just like trolls and people keep on feeding them instead of letting them starve. If we aren't feeding them on one format we are feeding them on another. You want to get rid of them? You want a perfect world free of dicks? Don't acknowledge their dickish behaviour. PERIOD!InterAirplay said:
2. How do you know what Malikaw did? how do you know if he/she paused or stopped the game to make this post?