However, today I was playing my favorite of the month, Team Fortress 2. I joined a server to see a message in the chatbox straight away saying "I don't care, I'm 42". I try to ignore it, but on and on the same player keeps making references to his(or I guess it could technically be a her... Who am I kidding, of course it's "his") age; "Someone tell me a good joke, I haven't smiled since I was a teenager" "English hasn't changed since I went to highscool" it goes on and on, and as it goes on and on, i realize more and more that this man is probably about 12. He keeps trying to call other players out on bad grammar, or using slang. Well sorry we don't have time to write an 800 word Essay on the movements of the opposing team because all of us will have been shot, set on fire, or exploded in that period of time.
Finally someone calls him out for using "y'all" and he says "y'all is a real word. Fuck the north. the north sucks big donkey dick" and I thought, What the fuck, well, Deep South? (is it alright if I call you Deep South? Of course it is, You're your brother's son and dang proud of it) You put so much effort into the illusion that you may have actually reached the age of reason and maturity, only to throw it all away in an utterly stupid comment. Stop being such a damn hypocrite. Your age really doesn't matter when you're playing games. It's funny when 11 year olds use the microphone, it's great when an adult takes part of what most people would consider a young-folk's activity, but there's no need to go around bragging that you hurtled around the god damn sun X times more than person Y!!!
*Yes I'm well aware that I am bitching about pretty much nothing. The big difference is I'm not ruining someone else's game experience by doing it.
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I find this all too often... we find young kids in wow who try and gain " "street cred" (can you have street cred on a virtual plane? I'm not entirely sure....) by saying that they are older.. I dont care if your older, anyone can play a video game that’s the whole point.. its meant to be fun.. And then you get the reverse older people who try and speak "young" I say this because there is no other way to say it but it is not the correct word considering I have been able to spell antidisestablishmentarianism and use it in a sentence since I was 9.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are just trying to be "l33t" and failing, epically.
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