OK. I'm one of those guys that's into the FPS's (that's "First Person Shooter's" for those of you who don't know), and I like to play online quite a bit. Now generally being an older guy from the average age group that plays these games I'm a bit more reserved. I go to play, not to win, because I consider winning a side bonus. The thrill of killing a computer generated character is what I like, and if I happen to win then all the better, but the fighting is what gets me fired up. After all if you win then it's over.
So I try to keep a somewhat more mature attitude while online, and I reserve trash talk for the only the most obnoxious people. This is because when you play games online, not everyone is 17, still living at home with mommy and daddy, and used their allowance to buy the newest version of Battlefield or it's ilk. There are varying levels of age and skill, so it makes the online gaming experience that much more fun. If everyone was super awesome with a sniper rifle, and had the ability to gank like nobodies business, then it would be BORING! Just because you're good doesn't mean you're the best. Chances are there is someone out there with a slightly higher level of skill, or luck that's waiting to take you down a notch. So why trash on people who are just their to play? After all do you know them? Likely not. If I'm playing a game next to someone, then I'm all about the trash talk, because they're there with me. That and chances are I've been drinking heavily, but if you knew me then you would know that alcohol just adds to the range of facial expression I generate. But then again drinking while playing is a rarity. Usually it's more pop and chips, or even better: coffee. I love to game and drink coffee.
Either way you can feel like a big man while trashing someone else, but online you can feel like a bigger man right. Chances are you probably don't know the guy you're playing with so how are they gonna settle your hash if you harass them into leaving in frustration? They won't because they don't know where you live, so trash on my friend. Really you don't sound like a complete arse while you're flaming some other player. Consider this though: You like to play online, and you had to start learning the game at some point, so do you remember what it felt like to be a 'n00b'? Forgot to reload frequently, fell off the tower once or twice, tripped the switch that sprang the trap on you.... All this and more made you look like an idiot and likely you got flamed for it, and at the time you got upset for hearing all the jibes coming your way. You hated that. Now you've been playing for a while and you're the cat's ass while online, and it's your turn to get the pokes in. How quickly your memory fades. Way to enhance the gaming experience for all those new gamers out there, you really made yourself look awesome.
So after I get off work I'll go home and game for a while, and listen to the trash talk flying across the inter-web, and think to myself 'you're time is gonna come'.
Just me bitchin.
Freeman
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