What a shocker!

Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher's servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say "KYS KYS" in game if the people I'm playing with are okay with it.

That and it's easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
- i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
So unpopular...

A bit weird to use soyjak in this one, most mic munchers don't nor can have beards as they don't have fully developed balls yet

On a side note I shouldn't be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that's not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.

I agree but just to clarify "kys" isn't swearing it's bullying
- That's why it's a side note. Tangential but relevant.

Who makes fake kissing sounds in online games?! And why is it a bannable offence?

Didn't know that the offended wine moms of America got linked this post, sad that as an adult you can't control your feelings when someone makes jokes on a video game

offended wine moms of America
Too fucking funny, banned!

All I said was gg 5 times

The problem wasn't the gg, it was the two letters before and after...
Come to think about it, I haven't been called that online in a long time.
- EZ GG EZ
- It took me a minute, but I just realized that your description could actually apply to two completely different slurs.

I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren't free time activities supposed to be fun?

Offline games are mostly chill
But online games, even though people play it for fun but after sometime it gets too frustrating when you don't get the kills
That's why I left playing online shooting games, those made me more angry
- It’s funny too because it totally depends on the game and how it’s monetized and set up as well. I had some of the most fun in games in my life playing quick play in the original overwatch with my buddies, even though I almost exclusively prefer offline single player open world games.
  My skill increased dramatically with our constant playing, I switched between DPS, tank, heals and really learned the roster. Not that far off from playing N64 super smash with those same friends in college and switching to a new character when you felt like you had learned one pretty well.
  I would get annoyed at losing, but it was whatever, I wasn’t trying to rank in competitive mode. I work hard enough in life and work, I’m not playing the game to work harder.
  That being said, unless someone was a Smurf or hacking, I never got super mad at other players for simply being better than me, usually the characters felt pretty balanced and if we lost it was because of bad teamwork or lower skill. All characters were available to everyone, the only monetary value was skins.
  Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced. The game was “free to play” and “pay to win” right off the bat and I haven’t touched it again, even though I put countless hours into the first game. And that sour taste I have now makes it so I refuse to play any game with a battle pass.
- Real
  I would still consider myself young but starting to adult (bday today :D). But in middle school and early highschool online FPS were the best. Overwatch, tf2 stuff like that. Now the most multiplayer games are helldivers and recently Deep rock but I also have a ton of single player games like modding Skyrim and occasionally playing Skyrim, dead cells, noita (I do in fact have a skill issue) no man’s sky and blade and sorcery
  Now my most competition is among my friends rather than against them. Which is much less tilting
It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.
'Fun' and 'chill' are not the same concept. Fun things can be irritating, can make you excited and go through various emotions.
Gamers aren't well adjusted people
Personally speaking, I think it's addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn't enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can't help it. It's unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
Yes. But fun is relative. When I play rocket league, I like to try my hardest. If I'm not trying hard, it's not as exiting. So it's frustrating when playing ranked and for example your teammate is not even trying . Maybe RL isn't the best example because matches are under 10 minutes, so I can just start another one, but games where you spend an hour, it's just different
- IME in RL I don't get told to KMS because I'm not trying, I get told to KMS because my teammate won't rotate and I fail to defend a 2v1 while they're fucking around on the other end of the field. Or my favorite, where they'll fake rotate and then overcommit. Then I'm the one who doesn't rotate (even though I spent 80% of the match defending because "I got it! I got it! I got it!")
Sports.
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn't have Don't Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head... I just wasn't in the right mood to play.
- Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing in the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.

By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.

Use Krita
- Use Krita
  Okay, thanks then I'll watch tutorials like in the good old days. :3
I didn't make this particular one, but I usually just bash it out in a minute using Paint.
- Like the material or the program?
  (This was funnier in my head.)
Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they're designed for more complex tasks.
- https://getpaint.net/
- the linux equivalent is Pinta but it is not nearly as powerful

If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.

Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.

completely unfair ban, they said it three times the rule only had it twice, how could they have know?

Chat disabled for 5 seconds
Good thing I checked the comments before posting the Uhm Ackshually

Oh, it's better to read the user agreement, there are such horrors there... Access to your PC at any time when you are connected to the network without problems...

I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).

I used to love getting foreigners who've only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don't translate for some reason and swear words.
You'd get "eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT"
I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won't understand or enjoy that time.

'Kys' simply means 'kisses' in Danish. I refuse to read it as any other meaning.

"Gentlemen, you can't kiss in here! This is a war game!"
- Boy have I got some news to share about what goes on during wars!
I know how to French kiss, but not Danish kiss. Thanks for teaching me, stranger.
- Danish kiss is when you squirt cheese or fruit into their mouth beforehand
- Is that where you do two in the pink, one in the stink?

I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.

True, $70+ is becoming the new standard...
- Only if you want the peasant option, the RealGamer™ edition starts at 100 plus dlc.
But silly squid game fun... 🐙🫟🥺
At least my game doesn't have micro transactions!
_Yet... _Nintendo _please _don't
Maybe spending 600 bucks on microtransactions?
- neither, just play the game
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
- Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?

It would be nice if they were that explicit about what they don't want said. Instead it's more like, "Don't say stuff we might not like. No, you can't have a list and when we ban you we won't tell you why."

Yeah, the answer is to just not play those games or give them your money in the first place.

Just play EA games. You can say anything.

Fuck EA.

I’ve had voice chat disabled since forever. I will not listen to the tools I play against. Racist and political trolls along with just general assholery. Not worth it. The only time VoIP is worth it these days is of you’re playing with a known group that polices its chat.
Blizzard game chat is horrid lol
- I'm in genuine fucking awe at how awful Blizzard chat is. It's so so bad I'm actually sorta impressed at how bad it is. They don't even filter spam.
  It's so insanely wildly impressively bad it doesn't even belong in the last decade, and that's before you even get into the rancid garbage the non-bots are saying.
Sis, yeah, fuck EA. EA not spending money on caring one way or the other checks out.

Meh. Just mute people. That's what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I'm not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they're probably just actual kids... I'm patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.

It's more that it's exhausting than anything else
I don't want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience
I've always seen chat filters as a test in creativity. Telling someone they "misclicked when they hit install" or to "Go 0-1 irl" is way better
- Or tell them the way to reset bugs in the game is Alt+F4

Honestly, I’m not a fan of that sort of censorship.

I grew up in the Time Before Internet, and played all of the earliest online games. Trash talk is simply part of the experience as far as I’m concerned. On Team Fortress Classic, you had to abuse a motherfucker through text chat. And we loved it: everyone was enjoying that novel experience.

Back in the day of early COD on Xbox Live, lobbies were wild. Heck, even Uno subjected you to everything from ‘teach me slurs in your language’ to ‘random dude masturbating on camera while smoking a joint’.

I still play the occasional online game, but they’re boring and soulless. Very few people are on comms, as most seem afraid to actually talk. And with good reason; any sort of mildly spicy talk would get you banned on games. So instead of fostering a friendly atmosphere, from my perspective it ended up killing the entire vibe.

Let folks talk trash. Give as good as you get. And if that’s not for you? There’s other games to play.

It's not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don't get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn't trash talk it's being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.
Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it's so hard to apply that to online games.
i fucking hate the "that's how it is, go do smth else if you don't like it" attitude. can we please acknowledge that online gaming would be overall more fun for everyone if people stopped being toxic towards each other?
- As long as we can also agree that over bearing forced positivity due to fear of triggering a black box automated ban system is also total ass and fucking ruins games.
  I don't want to see racism and sexism every single match, but I also don't want the game to censor every single possible thing to the point the community basically becomes lobotomized and unhuman out of God damn fear.
  League is a great example. It was a toxic cess pit of unholy levels. Now everyone is so fucking fake and scared to anger the AI black box over lord that no one acts like a normal person.
  Or you end up with half your team muted cause of bullshit fake reasons the AI thinks could offend a made up Karen on a power trip so you can't communicate at all.
  It's not fun on either extremes.

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