As much as I hate to admit it to the world at large, I play video games. Lots of video games. In fact since I moved down to Sunnyvale at the end of May they've occupied a significant portion of my time outside of work. I blame living in suburbia, and not having a car to escape to somewhere more interesting. Meeting new people is not as easy as it was when I was in school...but I digress.
One of the commonalities among online gaming is the trash talking. Everyone trash talks in competition (online or not) but the anonymity provided by the internet means that things can get rough really fast. Playing Warcraft guarantees many remarks about "your mom" each session. Yay!
These same people tend to get terribly angry when they begin to lose. The trash talk quickly switches from comments about my mom's size to "omg hax!" until either the loud mouth ceases losing or leaves, ruining the game for the remaining players.
I'd like to think that the majority of those that do that are 14 year olds that don't know any better, but I suspect otherwise. Still it makes me question my motives for playing--couldn't I find something better to do than sit in my apartment playing games with 14 year olds on the internet? The answer is yes! I can sit in my apartment playing games with 14 year olds while drinking a beer and eating a T-bone (3 minutes on one side, 2 on the other)!
But seriously, I need to get out more. On Thursday I'm going to spearhead the effort by going trail biking with a guy from work. Should be fun!
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Damn, are we peas in a pod. Well, maybe not "in a pod", because (1) we are on opposite coasts of the US, which is probably too big to have a pod, and (2) I'm not "teh ghey". Not that there's anything wrong with that.
But yeah, definitely trying the T-Bone thing soon.
-Y-
Hey Yooka,
Thanks for the comments. I checked out your blog and was pleasantly surprised to find it all about TF2. I didn't know it was finally being released!
One time, long ago, I was terribly addicted to QWTF. Back in the 56K modem days, where 200 ping was amazing and anyone with better was an "LPB".
Ahhh the memories...
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