I was talking to one of my friends yesterday, about how his Guild Wars account kept being hijacked (this was the fifth time in a row). Eventually, the conversation turned into this subject. I'm interested to see if there are other stories like ours.
We've all had one. It could be the final straw that breaks your faith in the Internet. It could be something so infuriating that it results in something around (or of) your computer breaking.
It doesn't necessarily have to (though it can) be from a game. It's basically something enough to make you stay well-enough away from your computer (or just the Internet). It could be something to solidify the realisation of how cruel or moronic the Internet can really be.
Just to be fair, I'll start off with ones where I happen to be the bad guy, because I can be an asshole. I just happen to be drunk at (most of) the time.
In one match of 'Left 4 Dead', I discovered that my team were stupid to the point of brain haemorrhage. They insisted on doing their own thing and wouldn't listen to anything resembling "tactics". The enemy were beating us 5000+ to ~1200. So I waited until everyone got to the safe room and hosed them down with my shotgun and only promised to let them up after they listened to some sense. After they told me to f*** off, I executed them and left.
In a 'A Kingdom for Keflings' game (this was a pretty funny one), one of my friends kept stealing my material stockpiles, so I walked over to his base and told him to give them back. Every time he said no, I kicked his Castle in. On the third time (the time that destroys the structure), I just decided that I didn't want to kick a critical building to the ground anymore, so I kicked his portcullis down instead and ran away.
And the times where it's the rest of the Internet being assholes...
On a Halo3 game, someone's guest kept on shooting me and chipping away at my health (and letting me recharge so I couldn't die). Being a guest, I couldn't tell him to stop it, and his Parent was on the enemy team. Eventually, I just turned around and gave him a faceful of Spartan Laser. I was promptly told that 'TeamKilling is not acceptable' and I was booted. My friends (it was a clan match) left with me, we started another game, invited those same people (who seemed to think that this behaviour was entirely acceptable) and gave them every insult under the sun.
In the Gamespot forums, my very first post (a question in regards to the forum mechanics) turned into everyone (including the moderators) being a base full of f***wits. The first replying post was to tell me to sodomise my pets. About three pages in, though, someone stepped in and singlehanded slagged everyone out of the topic thread. I'm still friends with that guy.
In the Sonic-Cult forums, my signature was a diatribe to web-based censorship. It was like that for a day, before I discovered that the ROOT Admin (the guy in charge of it all) put a 1024x768 image of porno in my signature while I was on vacation. I came back to find 100+ outraged messages in my inbox, and a week-long ban on my head. When I got around to eliminating the porn and apologising, it happened again, with the words beneath it: "Remove this image and you'll be banned. Thanks for bumping dead topics."
I took it up with the administration, who all essentially told me to f*** off, using different action verbs, death threats, and insults.
This is why I don't like big forums much, but this one looked friendly and well-enforced enough.
Does anyone have anything like this?
We've all had one. It could be the final straw that breaks your faith in the Internet. It could be something so infuriating that it results in something around (or of) your computer breaking.
It doesn't necessarily have to (though it can) be from a game. It's basically something enough to make you stay well-enough away from your computer (or just the Internet). It could be something to solidify the realisation of how cruel or moronic the Internet can really be.
Just to be fair, I'll start off with ones where I happen to be the bad guy, because I can be an asshole. I just happen to be drunk at (most of) the time.
In one match of 'Left 4 Dead', I discovered that my team were stupid to the point of brain haemorrhage. They insisted on doing their own thing and wouldn't listen to anything resembling "tactics". The enemy were beating us 5000+ to ~1200. So I waited until everyone got to the safe room and hosed them down with my shotgun and only promised to let them up after they listened to some sense. After they told me to f*** off, I executed them and left.
In a 'A Kingdom for Keflings' game (this was a pretty funny one), one of my friends kept stealing my material stockpiles, so I walked over to his base and told him to give them back. Every time he said no, I kicked his Castle in. On the third time (the time that destroys the structure), I just decided that I didn't want to kick a critical building to the ground anymore, so I kicked his portcullis down instead and ran away.
And the times where it's the rest of the Internet being assholes...
On a Halo3 game, someone's guest kept on shooting me and chipping away at my health (and letting me recharge so I couldn't die). Being a guest, I couldn't tell him to stop it, and his Parent was on the enemy team. Eventually, I just turned around and gave him a faceful of Spartan Laser. I was promptly told that 'TeamKilling is not acceptable' and I was booted. My friends (it was a clan match) left with me, we started another game, invited those same people (who seemed to think that this behaviour was entirely acceptable) and gave them every insult under the sun.
In the Gamespot forums, my very first post (a question in regards to the forum mechanics) turned into everyone (including the moderators) being a base full of f***wits. The first replying post was to tell me to sodomise my pets. About three pages in, though, someone stepped in and singlehanded slagged everyone out of the topic thread. I'm still friends with that guy.
In the Sonic-Cult forums, my signature was a diatribe to web-based censorship. It was like that for a day, before I discovered that the ROOT Admin (the guy in charge of it all) put a 1024x768 image of porno in my signature while I was on vacation. I came back to find 100+ outraged messages in my inbox, and a week-long ban on my head. When I got around to eliminating the porn and apologising, it happened again, with the words beneath it: "Remove this image and you'll be banned. Thanks for bumping dead topics."
I took it up with the administration, who all essentially told me to f*** off, using different action verbs, death threats, and insults.
This is why I don't like big forums much, but this one looked friendly and well-enforced enough.
Does anyone have anything like this?
