30-somethings going all boomer with regard to CoD lobbies is so funny.
: “You millennial snowflakes can’t take a joke.”
: “Nuh uh, freedom-hating draft dodger! You wouldn’t survive a CoD lobby!”I want to see a generational CHUD war.
Don’t even know why because those early lobbies were awful. Trying to play and you’ve got some prepubescent kid screeching in your ear and giving you early tinnitus.
Yeah but it shows how they’re not as sensitive as the woke gender snowflakes. Hearing a 12-year-old screaming the N-word really builds character.
CoD implemented some kind of llm powered slur detection system that would insta-ban people for using slurs and people were malding so hard and it was glorious
wait, really?
Yeah they use ToxMod.
is it a bunch of children screaming into voice chat? is that what theyre failing to “survive”?
In my experience yes. In the several hundred hours i played there wasn’t even much screaming of slurs. Or even much screaming. It was mostly people on console who didn’t realize they had mics yelling at other people in the house or blasting music. Idk what people are on about.
Romanticizing a mediocre era by imagining that everyone else must have been as openly rabidly racist as they were/are
It’s really funny how these guys are waxing poetic about “growing up” and “being a man” and shit while they STILL haven’t gotten over getting off screaming the N-word online as a 12 year old. Literally the most immature, tantrum-prone people you’ll ever meet
Voice chat was a mistake
Language was.
I’m at the point in my life where I don’t play games that rely heavily on voice chat. If I can disable it, I do. If i can’t disable it, and it is not deemed a necessity to have success in the game, I just ignore it and play the game on mute.
I play a lot of Hunt and it’s near unique in having local voice chat everyone can hear, but almost no one is an asshole. I’ve played with a number of women randoms over the years and never heard anyone given them shit about being women. I think that’s near unique in gaming.
Lethal Company has been very accepting and…well, joyous, in my time. Numerous women voice chatters, people using correct pronouns, and just generally supporting and helping others.
Ah, the variety of spine chilling screams of witnessing utter horror has increased 🥰
If I can disable it, I do.
This is the first thing I do when I boot up a new online MP game. The majority of people nowadays don’t even use voice chat and the few who do are usually the most obnoxious people you can imagine.
My only exception to this is Battlebit because the proximity chat is consistently pretty funny and people usually aren’t assholes in that game specifically
Yeah, I am way too much of a casual nowadays, so I’m either playing single player games, or games like WoW where I can get away with minimal interactions. The few interactions I need to have, I’m content with doing so in text chat.
It helps how frequently the hammer swings, I’ve only heard a single slur and the person got banned.
- : “Lol, you’re not kewl enough to handle a conversation with nazis! We’re too hardcore!”
Oh please, I’m well aware that 99% of the population are a bunch of worthless douchebags.
You’re not a real man if you don’t hang around with partially developed white middle schoolers screaming slurs online, the platonic ideal of maturity
Last time I played an online shooter it was still just twelve year olds screaming slurs. Literally the only thing that’s different is the average mic quality is better and a lot less likely to blow out your ears every time their voice cracks.
It is kinda cool that modern day video game lobbies are unironically more LGBTQ+ friendly so that racist dipshits get bullied out of them.
Kids today would not only survive COD lobbies but they’d be bullying the shit out of the loser with 3 frags screaming the n-word.
I only played games like CoD, Halo, etc, in parties with friends so I never experienced the lobbies for more than a couple seconds at most, and that was enough for me. I never got why putting up with a bunch of kids screaming or someone who didn’t mute themselves arguing with their spouse/partner/parent was a badge of honor. I just want to sit back, relax, and play some games with friends, not listen to someone blaring music over their shitty mic while someone else eats the loudest snacks possible
Is it possible for a leftist to like “the people” but despise “people”?
Back when I played multiplayer games on the Xbox 360 I had my voice chat volume permanently turned down to zero because I didn’t see how hearing obscenities yelled into those horribly low quality Xbox microphones added to the experience.
When the Master Chief Collection and Gears of War 5 launched on PC I ended up leaving the voice chat on because I became deeply amused and fascinated by the Xbox players I crossplayed with. People noisily munching Doritos into the void, middle-aged parent gamers talking to their children in between callouts, people who have really loud music blasting in their living room, groups of friends who like to play and chat together but for some godforsaken reason don’t just use Xbox parties or Discord.
Naturally, there have also been horribly racist moments, like the one time some
-brained gamer started being racist to a black person on the same team from the moment he heard his voice, at one point telling him that his ancestors were building aqueducts while the black person’s ancestors lived in mud huts 
In response, the black guy just made fun of how nerdy the white guy’s voice sounded and how badly he was playing. I kept dying in that match because the absurd banter had me dying in real life
Every time I see someone say shit like that I’m half tempted to butt in on the conversation and be like removed I was a Halo 2 kid
Of course i’d never survive, my gaming reflexes aren’t like what they were 15 years ago.
Is this the current discourse on Reddit or wherever gamers hang out now
People who say this don’t understand gen z being such a radical and chronically online generation. Like you’re more likely than ever to have some 13 year old try to dox you because you killed them. The kids are still as mean as ever, they just pointed their meanness in a better direction
I’m still glad I dropped FPS games when MW2 killed dedicated servers.
