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Honestly in my opinion rather you’re a kid, teen or an adult. If you don’t have manners and respect towards everyone (especially older people) you deserve to be thrown in a dark room of solitary confinement until you learn manners and respect, civility and humility. Just because it’s the internet and or online gaming (I also don’t care if you come from a wealthy powerful family) doesn’t give you the excuse to forget human decency. Though if you want to be treated like an animal I certainly wouldn’t mind finding where you live and kidnapping you and throwing you in a cage and brainwashing you until you think you are a dog which is most certainly possible. Don’t believe me read up on psychology.
Anyways lately I’ve just been encountering a lot of impudent players and even though it doesn’t bother me as much as it used to I just find it completely ridiculous and inexcusable behavior.
…dont judge, lest thee be judged also.
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If you’re not going to post anything relevant to the topic at hand. Don’t post anything at all.
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which topic? that u’re a crybaby who obviously takes video games too seriously? It’s rather a problem with yourself and not the community
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> which topic? that u’re a crybaby who obviously takes video games too seriously. It’s rather a problem with yourself and not the community
Why don’t you read my post again or are you that inept? Keep reading until it sinks it.
Just ignore them and move on.
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> Honestly in my opinion rather you’re a kid, teen or an adult. If you don’t have manners and respect towards everyone (especially older people) you deserve to be thrown in a dark room of solitary confinement until you learn manners and respect, civility and humility. Just because it’s the internet and or online gaming (I also don’t care if you come from a wealthy powerful family) doesn’t give you the excuse to forget human decency. Though if you want to be treated like an animal I certainly wouldn’t mind finding where you live and kidnapping you and throwing you in a cage and brainwashing you until you think you are a dog which is most certainly possible. Don’t believe me read up on psychology.
I’m very sure kidnapping people and putting them in an cage is the worse idea I heard and probably make the person lose his/her mental stability and doing that will further fuel the fire of hate going upon them.
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It is relevant. You just didn’t get it.
I hear the point you are trying to get across, but to suggest that they should be locked in a cage, psychologically tormented, is not right way.
With all due respect, you could simply mute them. That’s what I do, and I don’t get sh*t from other players. Also kidnapping people- I know its figurative but jeez.
OP, you ask for manners, but then in the same post say you would be willing to kidnap and torture people for screwing around online… now I’m not the most polite person here on Waypoint, some old timers around here know that, but what the -Yoink- man? That’s not how you try to get your point across at all. I think you may need a little brushing up on manners if you think that is acceptable… plus with how you responded to others on this thread a few hours back, just rude and not cool.
I’ll comment on the spirit of the argument rather than the poor choice of words.
I would say poor sportsmanship (hatemail, betraying, unsporting conduct, verbal trash talk), is a little more prevalent in Halo 5 simply because it’s a more competitive game. While it’s not to say that it hasn’t happened in previous Halo’s because it certainly has, one of the biggest issues is that since the competitivity (yes, I made that up) is ratcheted all the way up to 11, the trash talk increases accordingly. I’ve also seen even fewer examples of good sportsmanship in Halo 5 than in any other game. There are very few requests to team up after a good game, or well intentioned “GG” messages that I have seen in Halo 5 as opposed to other Halos.
It’s also a different generation of gamers than those of us that played Halo 2 and 3 and were growing up with the internet, as we experienced all its nuances in the beginning of online interaction (anyone else remember MySpace, AIM, or chat rooms?). They simply react differently in an online setting.
Wow OP that’s a pretty aggressive solution to bad manners in society. I’m assuming you probably favor the death penalty for more serious crimes like robbery.
As to the problem, yeah online gaming is one of the last few refuges of not just bad manners, but true, antisocial behavior. There are people who actually log on to vent hostility by betraying, griefing, throwing games, trash talking and the like. Some kids think that’s exactly what video games are for. The enforcement system is slow to act in the rare instances when it choses to do so which contributes to the problem, since studies have shown that the best deterrent to bad behavior is punishment that is 1. swift, 2. certain, 3. severe.
Maybe there should be a video game where the objective is to hunt people down, lock them in cages and torture them, although I’m not sure it would be very well received.
Good sportsmanship is a lot harder to come by than when I started (online) gaming. By that time I was already past my teens (mid 90’s) & had started off with PC shooters (Quake, Unreal/Unreal Tourney, CounterStrike, Jedi Knight 2, just to name a few). These days, with almost everybody hidden behind an IP address, you find a lot more folks willing to talk tough, figuring (knowing?) they’ll never have to back it up. Makes for some . . . interesting exchanges. If you’re a fairly well grounded respectful person, then maybe it’s not so big a deal to lose a match, or have an off day. For others, well, I myself have witnessed some EPIC meltdowns of toddler proportions for things as simple as getting the power weapon first. & I have three kids (15, 9, & 2), so I know a toddler-like tantrum when I hear one.
I guess I am just lucky. I encounter very little of bad sportsmanship or anything in H5. Probably 98% percent of my games I don’t hear anyone. If I do come across a squeaker, or static/music in the mic I just mute them. Of course I don’t care about teabagging also, that is kinda part of Halo to me. I guess maybe I don’t come across it because I pretty much stay out of the 4v4 playlist besides action sack.
Sentiment aside, words do matter. Making threats of abduction and psychological torture, even in jest, is highly inappropriate. This applies whether you are referring to a specific person or people in general.