Other Sides of the Dagger

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Anonymity, the internet and dickheads

Been thinking today about a few sessions of Counter Strike: GO I played over the weekend and why it's a good idea to have comms turned off all together in any multiplayer game.
1.  The pre pubescent, entitled know it all barking orders with his high pitch whiny voice and getting upset as no one is paying him any attention. Devolves into a frenzy of abuse as some others on the server cannot help but to bait the kid into a more frenzied reaction. Prompting a door kicking by his Mum telling the kid she will 'throw that infernal machine out the window' if he keeps it up.
2. The apparent grizzled veteran of a particular game does the same as the pre pubescent, but has a larger vocabulary; but less frontal lobe capacity to understand what they are actually saying to anyone, leading them down the path of 'I'm capturing this point, go somewhere else, hurr durr' or random 'ptfo' messages via text.
3. Fantasy land man is the guy who probably gets bullied or is just a pushover in the real world. Working a menial job because he possesses no intestinal fortitude to confront his problems thus wallows in self loathing and pity.  However, give him an adsl connection and a headset and we have Fuckwit Man! Huzz zaaah!! This guy will berate you and call you out by username and abuse you and switch teams just to team kill you. All this while telling the whole server he is better than anyone else.



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