X-Box Live Rant, taking it too seriously

That looks fascinating and potentially far more interesting than the alternatives being debated here!

May I recommend this? 😛

*Runs*

Or play something else……….;):) Doesn’t sound worth all the aggro to me.

DrPepper I know where you are coming from. Some people just take it too seriousley. I get frustrated with all the England v Usa slanning matches. I have reached the point now that if I am not playing with friends then I just mute everyone because I just can’t be bothered with the bickering. There should be a option on xbox liver to play with like minded people and avoid all the tantrum areas. 😡

PMSL…
TonyT…I remember playing Pong so don’t feel too bad lol. Maybe, as a work colleague of mine puts it “when I get some adult games” (COD Modern Warfare or Battlefield 2 Bad Company) maybe we can have a few rounds some time

I have Halo and all the spin offs, played them offline but never bothered online……..

Talking of getting on ones wick,

I was invited to a company Paintballing bash once by the company owner, there was about 40 of them in total and one of them a senior manager was an absolute pain in the a*se and a bully……. none of her long suffering staff would say boo to a goose to her and she started to take the fun out of it for everyone on “her” side, She was the female equivalent of Adolf Hitler…..

anyway, I digress, she started barking orders to everyone including me a guest of the company….. then as she promptly stood up in front of everyone to lead the charge, I emptied several paintballs from pretty close range right onto her bum…… it nearly brought tears to her eyes and she could hardly sit down at lunch, needless to say, lunch was bought for me by some very grateful collegues of hers who by now were grinning like cheshire cats…… however they grin…:diablo:

I shouldn’t off, but I did.

…so I walked up to him and put an energy sword through his chest.

That made me giggle! 😀

Dr Pepper

Its easy, the moment your team get arrsy………..shoot them!!:diablo:

PMSL…already had one of those moments. Was issued with a dumb gamer tag when first went online with X-Box live. Started playing a team game and some kid who had been p***ing us all off with his singing screeched “what kind of dumb *********** name is that?”…so I walked up to him and put an energy sword through his chest…”Betrayal!” as the game would declare, much to the amusement of the other team members lol

TonyT…I remember playing Pong so don’t feel too bad lol. Maybe, as a work colleague of mine puts it “when I get some adult games” (COD Modern Warfare or Battlefield 2 Bad Company) maybe we can have a few rounds some time

As a 50 plus year old I know where you are coming from, the insults traded at me range from being the “P” word for playing “kids” games online simply because I end up owning their ar**s because they are so bad at it….. through to being a camper………. Pointing out, running around like a headless chicken went out in WW1 because we couldn’t stand the casualty rate falls on deaf ears.. tell em I will play my game, you play yours really riles em, especially when you own em LOL

No one likes a bad loser and believe me some of them are………. Myself I play COD all the time, no, not fanatically, but to enjoy it, suppose it is the ex serviceman in me, you can take the gun off a man, but cannot take the enjoyement in using one, all be it simulated…..

Then comes the prestiged………. never bothered on Black ops, did on the others, but it is just a cynical ploy by the makers to make the game look bigger than it is online….. Had a whole squad try to give me grief for not doing it………. told them as you I work for a living and to “get a life”…. you hear folks ranting and raging and I just say chill…it is a game……. Unreal!!

So called squads also get me, you might have one good player and the rest are garbage, nothing like kicking their butts too LOL…. the secret to all of the games is to use your mic and talk….. people rely on the likes of the airborne spyplane when simply talking will tell everyone where the emeny are jammed or not and give you the winning play…………..

Enjoy it and don’t take it tooo seriously 😀 Myself I started on the original Pong machine and have been playing ever since………………… not a bad record huh!

Dr Pepper

Its easy, the moment your team get arrsy………..shoot them!!:diablo:

…..”The other side of the coin of course is that you’re now able to interact with infinitely more people than you can in your everyday life.”… True, BB, but it is very limited form of interaction and not one which engages much more than gaming skills, does it?
And each generation grows up in a world very different from the previous one.. After all Dickensian London was only 4 generations ago. And, like you, I have no interest in games although I do fly Flight Sim at a fairly basic level, and not with other players.

I always thought a nerd was an extreme geek…i.e. a geek knows a lot about something where as a nerd knows a lot about something and could probably learn what he/she doesn’t know at the flick of a page

A geek is an obsessive fan of minutae, a nerd is a geek with brains!!:D;)

In other words, a geek. :diablo:

That’s another thing,why are there more male geeks than female geeks ?
I’m sure I read an article recently saying that it’s a myth that men and women’s brains work differently,it’s just that males and females are brought up differently. Yet the word geek always seems to me more appropriate to a man.
Do people know female geeks ?
And what’s the difference between a geek and a nerd ?

Yep, geek. Even I have been forbidden from playing World of Warcraft or Warhammer online lol….I didn’t know a 32 year old man could be “forbidden” from anything!!! 😮

Quote from the article posted by Bumblebee: “Life in the age of Google may even change how we read.” End quote. I’d agree with that, google translate has certainly changed…as in messed up…my ability to read!!! Now it doesn’t make sense unless it doesn’t make sense : )

baby Bee has a female friend who’s an absolute World of Warcraft fanatic.

In other words, a geek. :diablo:

This is actually a very thought-provoking topic.

OK,old git’s rant time ( skip if you’re under about forty ).

Thanks to technology,young people are growing up in a world that’s changed immensely since I was a kid.
In those days,if you wanted to see a film,you probably went to the cinema on a bus with your mates.You’d get all kinds of germs and smoke from other people in the process,which I think strengthened our immune systems.Today you can just watch a DVD in the privy of your own home,as Benny Hill would say,which cuts down on a certain amount of social interaction.
About the only technology we had was a transistor radio to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes.If you wanted to play games,it was probably board games with the family ( yuk ! ) A computer was a huge machine,which lived in its own room.

It was unthinkable that an individual could ever own one of these things,but now they’re so commonplace even I’ve got one. Again,you tend to sit at the keyboard in your own little world,meaning even less real-life social interaction. The other side of the coin of course is that you’re now able to interact with infinitely more people than you can in your everyday life.
It’s still relatively early days in the internet era,but there is evidence that the use of IT for anything,including games,is actually changing the way our brains work.
Personally I couldn’t be bothered to play computer games,but Mr. Bee and baby Bee each have some kind of games thing that fascinates them for hours,and baby Bee has a female friend who’s an absolute World of Warcraft fanatic.
This article from the Independent is interesting,if you can get over the shock of seeing the use of the word ” gotten “.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/is-technology-rewiring-our-brains-1051654.html

Errrm…..

What, exactly, is the OP going on about? :confused:

Would any young person care to translate?

Hi Grey Area,

Sorry, decided to start ranting about the situation with online game play. I am a proud owner of an X-Box 360 who, despite not having much time in between work and relationship, enjoys playing with other gamers worldwide. Forgive me if you already know this but with online gaming, players can communicate with team members while “in game”. All too often, some players get a little carried away and make rather abusive comments towards other players and it can get a “little frustrating”.

A lot of the older gamers (25-40+….believe me there are gamers in their fifties out there ; ) ) can get a little bit too excited about watching their teams lose. I’m just wondering if there are any players out there who can explain why a man/woman in his/her thirties or forties can take the game so seriously as to feel that he/she must resort to sending verbal abuse and threats of violence (not that I believe for 1 minute that a person living thousands of miles away would ever come to the UK and hunt me down over a friggin game).

I’m wondering, being a new online player, if anyone here has had any experience and if they came up with a way to avoid the more “enthusiastic” players that X-Box Live has to offer

I believe I may be in a position to translate, however, I’m on a train and train’s don’t like this forum 🙁

Give me an hour or so, but the gist is that people that scream in to microphones at other people they don’t know, whilst playing “war games” are strange…

Errrm…..

What, exactly, is the OP going on about? :confused:

Would any young person care to translate?

Not being a game player I am bemused at your post. Surely you have answered your own question and would be better advised to find something else to while away those hours otherwise spent glued to a screen.;):)