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i LIKE that xbl users are morons

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drohne

hyperbolically metafictive
texan accents, racial slurs, and pre-teens telling me they're TOTALLY STONED are crucial elements of my halo 2 experience (the other crucial element of my halo 2 experience is losing, badly). also i tend to play late nights, so i get a bit of the "chav" element. who are hilarious. and when a game consists of a francophone, two chavs, and a bunch of texans who can't decide whether to abuse the limeys or the frog? SUBLIME. the routine complaint against xbl (or online gaming generally) is that it brings the dregs of humanity into your home. as far as i'm concerned, the beauty of the xbl experience is that it brings the dregs of humanity into your home, only they can't steal your ashtrays or piss all over your toilet seats. it's like a nature documentary, almost.
 
Yeah but in my documentaries I wanna see a whale breach, or a lion take down a gazelle. Not just the parts with monkeys hurling feces.
 
when xbox 360 comes along with its little webcam, i'm sure you'll be able to do plenty of xbl whale-watching ohohohoho
 
Xbox live is cool cause it gives you an excuse to act like a total moron. You can't do all that stuff in real life but on XBL anything goes.
 
My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.
 
Synth_floyd said:
Xbox live is cool cause it gives you an excuse to act like a total moron. You can't do all that stuff in real life but on XBL anything goes.
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And then someone walks in on you being a total moron and your real life is over anyway.
 
Ponn01 said:
This is why I do not use XBL.
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Ponn01,

It's a lot of fun when you play with your "real" friends.

Random assholes suck, but when you have good people to play with - it is a lot of fun.
 
mosaic said:
My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.
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That sounds like it was a fun game.
 
mosaic said:
My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.
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That sounds awesome. :lol

I should try doing that but just loop Offsprings "Bad Habit" over and over again. I think that would be fitting.:D
 
Dr_Cogent said:
Ponn01,

It's a lot of fun when you play with your "real" friends.

Random assholes suck, but when you have good people to play with - it is a lot of fun.
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Yea, I could see that. Unfortunately my friends are cheap assholes that only come over and play on my Xbox on my HD TV. Bastards. I was gonna try it again on the 360 and maybe start making buddy lists and that would help more.

I did have one pleasent experience with XBL though playing Bust A Move.
 
mosaic said:
My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.
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:lol:lol:lol
 
We were playing a game where the opposing team was pumping out techno, and they would run to the middle of the level and start dancing. My team and I quickly gave up fighting, and joined them, using plasma pistols like glow sticks in our fake rave. This went on for about ten mintues.
 
Synth_floyd said:
Xbox live is cool cause it gives you an excuse to act like a total moron. You can't do all that stuff in real life but on XBL anything goes.
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welcome to online gaming circa 1998.
im glad you could join us
 
Lunar Aura said:
whats a chav?
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a brit wigger

perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama
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Use one of his many inspirational tools
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xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration. that's what videogames are about, on some level -- they're stupid entertainment for stupid people. perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama. or something.
 
drohne said:
xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration. that's what videogames are about, on some level -- they're stupid entertainment for stupid people. perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama. or something.
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I dont like confrontations =(
 
drohne said:
xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration. that's what videogames are about, on some level -- they're stupid entertainment for stupid people. perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama. or something.
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Speak for yourself. :)
 
drohne said:
xbl is kind of a throwback to the bad old days of arcades, when some pimply truant with a bad moustache would beat you at street fighter, put his cigarette out on the control panel, and then slap his underaged girlfriend's disturbingly fleshy hindquarters in celebration. that's what videogames are about, on some level -- they're stupid entertainment for stupid people. perhaps we lose sight of this on gaf, where we're surrounded by neurotic comp-sci majors who play games alone, in the dark, in order to commune with the exalted creative soul of magical miyamoto-sama. or something.
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'Cept you have the choice to mute individuals/everyone or disable voice output entirely if you don't want to deal with it. That or the already posted, play with people you know, suggestion.

Much like anything else, the Live experience is only good if you take the steps to to make it so.
 
After eight? nine? years of online gaming I finally got called "fag" yesterday during a BF2 game. I was confused at first, then I realized of the importance of being slammed by a snotty 12 years old. I am late, but now I am part of the family. Embrace me, brothers.
 
Funky Papa said:
After eight? nine? years of online gaming I finally got called "fag" yesterday during a BF2 game. I was confused at first, then I realized of the importance of being slammed by a snotty 12 years old. I am late, but now I am part of the family. Embrace me, brothers.
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Did you just not play that much online over the last eight or nine years?

Cause you not getting called a "fag" for that long is amazing.
 
BF2 has been pretty good so far. You do get idiots calling others noob and stuff just because they get upset. But it rarely goes further than that if it even happens. BF2 bypasses alot of this with the excellent communication system which also ties into the radar. Also the squad system is a godsend.

CS:S was pretty good but all beginners would have a hard time and now and again some really bad stuff would happen unlike BF2. Also the image spray thing gets abused with porn.
 
I hope that the 360 incarnation of Live with the whole star-rating thing will make it easier to find non-a-holes. Or, maybe (just maybe), it will make those f'ers behave so they can keep their rating good. I've thought for a long time that XBL needed a user-viewable feedback system, and before the end of the year we'll get it. Rawk.
 
SuperPac said:
I hope that the 360 incarnation of Live with the whole star-rating thing will make it easier to find non-a-holes. Or, maybe (just maybe), it will make those f'ers behave so they can keep their rating good. I've thought for a long time that XBL needed a user-viewable feedback system, and before the end of the year we'll get it. Rawk.
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I doubt it will be fair. :lol Thats just asking to be abused.
 
SuperPac said:
I hope that the 360 incarnation of Live with the whole star-rating thing will make it easier to find non-a-holes. Or, maybe (just maybe), it will make those f'ers behave so they can keep their rating good. I've thought for a long time that XBL needed a user-viewable feedback system, and before the end of the year we'll get it. Rawk.
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Live has feedback right now. You can leave positive or negative feedback. I thought we already had "something" kinda like this.

Or maybe that's just used to give MS an excuse to ban people from Live who are being assholes.
 
drohne said:
when xbox 360 comes along with its little webcam, i'm sure you'll be able to do plenty of xbl whale-watching ohohohoho
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When I see the first penis on the Live cam, my initial thoughts would be to hunt them down and do serious bodily damage, but instead, I think I'll just take some still pictures of it with my digicam and post them all over the net with the gamertag captioned.


...and you all know that Live penis will be coming when that damn cam is released.
 
Dr_Cogent said:
Did you just not play that much online over the last eight or nine years?

Cause you not getting called a "fag" for that long is amazing.
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That's the best part. You just can't imagine my face after being called "fag" I guess that it's like having sex for fist time at 45, you know, like "so that's how it feels!"
 
My friend & I were told last night that we lost a particular game of Halo 2 because our assholes are bigger than our faces. We just kind of laughed dumbfounded.
 
pollo said:
welcome to online gaming circa 1998.
im glad you could join us
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Nah, XBL is different because of voice chat. I mean you could do it with Counterstrike and stuff already but you generally have a more intelligent sector of society playing that than the XBL stuff.
 
Dr_Cogent said:
Live has feedback right now. You can leave positive or negative feedback. I thought we already had "something" kinda like this.
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Yeah but right now you can't see that the tard who just joined your game has 100 negative feedbacks, whereas in the new Live the feedback system produces a star rating viewable by anyone. That's what I meant by user-viewable.
 
They should have it so someone with a -100 feedback score couldn't join your server. That way all the idiots would have to play together.
 
ToxicAdam said:
They should have it so someone with a -100 feedback score couldn't join your server. That way all the idiots would have to play together.
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One of the matchmaking criteria in Test Drive Unlimited is a user's feedback rating, so players can choose to only race with their class of scum.
 
Synth_floyd said:
I mean you could do it with Counterstrike and stuff already but you generally have a more intelligent sector of society playing that than the XBL stuff.
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I must have been playing the wrong Counter-Strike
 
mosaic said:
My greatest game of Halo 2 ever involved two kids piping banjo music into their headsets while driving around in the Warthog. Everyone else in the game was busy defending or trying to take the flag, and just out of the blue we'd hear the banjo zoom by outside... haha.
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:lol
 
Synth_floyd said:
Nah, XBL is different because of voice chat. I mean you could do it with Counterstrike and stuff already but you generally have a more intelligent sector of society playing that than the XBL stuff.
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I think the IQ variable varies to some degree by game. Also, I rarely do Live unless it's with friends.
 
I am a Texan that has ripped into some chavs on live. Im sorry but nothing sounds more ridiculous than a white kid with an English accent trying to act like a gangsta, especially when they bust out the rhymes. It would be one thing if they were joking around but they take themselves way too seriously and you know you HAVE to give em some hell.
 
Personally, most of my experiences playing with people from the UK have been anything less than enjoyable. I've been called a "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and other nonsense like that. Apparently there is a lot of hatred of America over there.
 
The best thing that's happened in recent times is hearing one of my party members having a racial slur tossed at them.

In the post-game lobby after we won, I said "You called a white southerner a _____, you morons" and they said nothing.
 
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