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[Neonivek]

I went on a fighting game board and got REALLY annoyed at these constant fights.

So I intentionally went out and tried to be as ironic as possible "Don't you know the rules? If you complain about a game mechanic you are noobscrubtastic"

Yet... The irony is completely lost... I might as well have been seriously calling people noobscrubtastic and tryhardsucktastic.

I didn't think fighting game communities sucked that much.

[kaijyuu]

Any highly competitive game community is like that. I dunno what it is about them that draws elitist assholes, but they're there.

[Loud Whispers]

Any highly competitive game community is like that. I dunno what it is about them that draws elitist assholes, but they're there.

What would an MLG Dwarf Fortress be like?

[kaijyuu]

Imagine the old arguments about danger rooms and multiply it by about a million.

EDIT: Oh, you mean if Dwarf Fortress was competitive. I imagine it'd be a weird sort of RTS.

[Loud Whispers]

Imagine the old arguments about danger rooms and multiply it by about a million.

Well you got it right the first time

Because you know, 'losing is fun' and all that, so would it be a bunch of elitist elitists all vying to lose in the hardest ways possible?

!!360 NO BOOZE!!

[Flying Dice]

Heh, I remember being able to get people fighting-mad just by saying, "Hey, why not just let people play how they want to? It isn't like anyone can affect other people in a purely SP game, after all."

Though the most spectacular incident I can remember is getting a 30 day ban from the bungie.net forums by suggesting that the battle rifle did not in fact require more skill to use than the assault rifle, back in the Halo 3 days. Yeah. Apparently that was trolling. Though considering how violently aggressive a certain segment of that community was...

[Sirus]

Stuff like the above is the main reason I tend to avoid game communities like the plague

[kaijyuu]

Stuff like the above is the main reason I tend to avoid game communities like the plague

Uh oh. Bay12 is a game community! Better run!

[Loud Whispers]

Stuff like the above is the main reason I tend to avoid game communities like the plague

Uh oh. Bay12 is a game community! Better run!

Oh no... Blood pressure rising... Urge to call everyone n00bs increasing... Compulsion to start invoking Godwin's Law reaching 1...

[kaijyuu]

You know, Hitler would call people noobs.

[Sirus]

Stuff like the above is the main reason I tend to avoid game communities like the plague

Uh oh. Bay12 is a game community! Better run!

Please note the "tend to"
And you know who else Godwins, by the way? Hitler does.

[Wrex]

Reminds me of the DiscoveryGC forums. Discovery was a mod for the old spaceship game, freelancer. The place is a nightmare of favoritism and bullshit. As in, modding resources were being used to give certain player factions custom shiplines which only they could use, as well as custom ships for rather long standing characters.


The economy is also hoplelessly broken. It works a bit like this:


Traders. Traders have no defense whatsoever. Escorts are worthless and completely ineffectual, but the pirate-bias'd developers, moderators, and faction leaders always retort that "Use escorts!". Funnily enough, most developers, moderators, and administrators either run pirate factions, or hold a high standing in them, and possess such vast reserves of cash that they have no need to trade.

Pirates. Pirates have the best weaponry, the most lenient ship restrictions, the widest operating zone, and can demand money from traders. Obviously the majority of the playerbase are pirates. No one trades anymore if they can help it, because you lose credits by trading, as the demands pirates make have increased exponentially. In addition, server rules designed to protect traders were repealled at some point, allowing pirates to interdict shipping with capital ships.

Lawfulls. Lawfulls are underfunded, ill-equipped, and limited in their area of operation. Some people play lawfuls, but never enough, nor are lawful craft equal to pirate vessels.


The community as a whole is so blind to the issue that the server hemmoraged players pretty aggresively. Certain parts of space are VERY deserted, due to the actions of the resident terorrist groups shooting everyone, who also have a story mandated alliance with the police and military forces which allows them to get away with their actions a majority of the time. So yeah. It's a good example of utter WTFitutde.

[Graknorke]

What I find even more infuriating about evolution is that as the proof of it becomes more strong, the Christians and that lot all just change the argument along the scale from "God made everything as it is now." to "God made everything, so how it is now is a result of God;s work.".
That really bugs me.

*le gasp*, people changing their minds when confronted with evidence contrary to what they previously believed! It's almost as if they had brains!

Sorry for missing this earlier, I was out today.
What I meant was how they initially state that what they believe is infallible and nothing will sway them from their faith, and then proceed to go back on what they said just a bit later in a way that they still say they're right, but meaning something different than they did before.

[Loud Whispers]

What I meant was how they initially state that what they believe is infallible and nothing will sway them from their faith, and then proceed to go back on what they said just a bit later in a way that they still say they're right, but meaning something different than they did before.

Dat faith complex

100% Immunity buff to critical thinking

[Karnewarrior]

Somehow, my computer can play skyrim without lag but Simcity 4 is a lag monster.

WTF computer, that game is ancient!