>toxic
I'm so fucking sick of this meme. Why has this become such a thing in recent years? I'm 26, and grew up playing multiplayer games. Talking shit to the other team has ALWAYS been an integral part of multiplayer gaming. Hell, half the fun of gaming is talking shit to your friends.
It's not "toxic", it's called bants. It's all in good fun. Why are modern gamers so sensitive and opposed to this? And why are devs increasingly "anti-toxicity"?
SJWs
Spineless males who are also
never understood this meme because CS is still 100% shitposting and shit talking
I love shit talkers getting banned and whining more than shit talking. You know, "grow a thicker skin" goes both directions
I thought this was about the pokemon move.
There's bants and then there's straight up being a dick.
>no longer allowed to say gg ez in Overwatch
People cant really grasp that you shouldn't take anything personal from someone who doesn't know you personally. Before you ask, yes I am Coldsteel.
so you read one word and jumped to a conclusion. good luck with everything
>bants
Die in a fucking fire.
bm
i know right what a toxic guy
Eat this, faggot, and you won't have to worry about it.
The death of the dedicated server forces everyone to slosh around in the same dreadful "matchmaking" pot. You are no longer free to carve out your own niche community of players who frequent your server, one run with your own rules, maps, game modes. A place with its own culture and identity that can play and talk how they like.
No. Now everything is structured and static. You're buying into the sanctioned experience now. No choice. All because this way is slightly more profitable.
So why is toxicity a big thing now? Because now every paying customer is forced share the same boat together now. It's disgusting.
Mobabs and SJW fags invading casual games.
>it's called bants
Banter is, by definition, witty, funny and at least partially well intentioned.
Based on the shit I see here, you people are none of those.
There's a difference between bants in good fun and being an obnoxious little shit.
I'm okay with keeping constantly raging kids out of MP.
Videogames became mainstream. It's no longer a hobby for shall we say "nerds" that enjoy shit talking other "nerds" when they frag one another.
Modern Warfare really pushed gaming into tears limelight and brought a massive influx of "bro gamers" into the hobby. "Bro gamers" were as into shit talking as the "nerds" if not more.
Fast forward to the recent years and the thin skinned weaklings also jumped on board bringing casual games along for the ride.
Getting bored with the casual stuff they take the plunge into something else and when they can't handle the bants, they demand virtual safe spaces such as ow "gg ez" filter.
That's how I see it anyways.
>toxic is a word invented by SJW and moba players
when will this meme die?
>meme
The word itself became a meme
Not everything is a fucking meme you retarded niggers
Grow some thicker skin, you fucking pussy.
glad you got it
See? You are just parroting shit, you are not creative, you are incapable of true banter.
No one likes getting insulted.
If you were 26 you wouldn't be saying bants unless you're a inbred australian.
The problem is friendly sportsmanlike banter is a relic of the past. Now it's all "OMG YOU FUCKING CHEAP-ASS PIECE OF SHIT I'LL KILL YOUR MOTHER IF I EVER FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE". Playful ribbing isn't a thing that happens anymore.
You need to find a dedicated server with regulars for it. Too bad a lot of games don't have those anymore.
That's a pretty toxic attitude you got there, OP.
assblasted millenials that LITERALLY UNIRONICALLY can NOT handle the bantz
keep on slurping that riot-blizzard cum milkshake
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But user, we are all just trying to be friendly and enjoy the game together.
You aren't being toxic are you?
Are you retarded? That happened all the time.
>26 years old
>"bants"
Riiiiiight you are.
Wew sounds like someone's mad they can't say "gg ez" anymore in Overwatch.
Eat a dick, how's that for bants?
I'm not even saying I am offended, you goddamn imbeciles, I'm saying you are retarded and not nearly witty enough to call whatever you do "banter"
Call it shit talking or something else.
>american ""banter""
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Here is the thing, if you wanna talk shit to your friends go ahead, but I'm not your friend
Mostly League of Legends spamming that term everywhere to justify banning people from their "f2p" game. To a smaller degree people have gotten a bit more vitriolic and aggressive with their harassment.
so stop looking at me
You probably don't have friends because you're a thin-skinned faggot that can't handle seeing words on the internet.
>mfw a cum gargling nu-male tries to lecture me on how to not be rude online
Because people with autism can't distinguish between banter and psychopathy. These same autistic guys tend to play video games, and they're the type who will start out with simple meme banter like "lol get rekt noob gg ez" and eventually turn into "No, fuck you faggot, I'll find where you live and slit your throat in your sleep." These are the types of guys who will study the details of your player profile, stalk you on other parts of the internet, join your matches in other games just to kill you and spam the chat with "HAHAHAHAHAHA". Crazy dudes with fragile egos who will break out into autistic rage at anything that may trigger them. Those are the toxic players, the guys who tell you they're gonna kill you in your sleep and seem like they aren't joking.
If you've been on Sup Forums or Steam for more than like a year you've no doubt run into one.
it's all funs and games till someone's feelings get hurt OP you insensitive fuck
>People talking shit to me on internet
>Mute him
>Report him
I really don't care what people say on internet, but again, if you wanna talk shit with your friends do it, but not to me
Even if we're distinguishing banter from being an obnoxious shit, why does it matter? Why are people not free to do this? Do "gamers" really need to be coddled so much? Its a fucking game
Your so called 'banter' is an aspect of toxic masculinity.
Luckily the past couple of generations have been properly educated. Such actions are not acceptable in our modern culture.
You can't go around making people feel uncomfortable, even if it is in a virtual environment.
Everyone deserves respect, without having to fear over masculine voices shouting them down online!
Not everyone is as thick skinned as Sup Forums users. Not everyone is like you.
I got into an argument with a random dude on Overwatch in voice chat for the first time in almost 100 hours of playing it. It was a rush and reminded me of the old days of Halo 2 shittalk when it was completely no-holds barred.
Hows your wife lyte?
This entire thread is fucking toxic. I mean, seriously? I can't even...
Mods, delete this.
Dead just like me
You are a millenial.
>cant handle the bants
>cant just use the mute button
you are the problem here
I've never had an issue with people talking shit to the other team. If I get stomped and the other team is all "gg ez" whatever it was ez.
When people on your own team spectate while dead, etc and do nothing but complain about what you do it's really goddamn annoying though.
>26 years old
>sees no difference between bantz and verbal abuse
You are a part of a problem, mr. "mature" gamer.
"gg ez" isn't banter.
Banter is funny/witty. "Mercy, you gotta stop walking into my gun" when you been chasing and focusing her down or responding with "well stop chasing me like a loveless virgin" to the Reaper.
>i just got banned from league of legends and am going to bitch and whine about it on Sup Forums for masturbatory levels of echo chamber: the thread
ok, im 27 and have been playing games my whole life... theres a reason why you were never invited into private servers or groups growing up, trust me.
>can use mute function on the faggot rather than on myself
You can't even argue it's not the better option.
I remember when talking shit either had some actual creativity to it or when they went so far overboard that they became a laughingstock. Sportsmanship was an old aspect of shittalking, the kind of shit you'd say to friends while competing with one another but ultimately you can still laugh about it over a few drinks. Now the only reason a lot of people shittalk is to rile up people they don't know and have no kinship with.
It's a similar de-evolution to pranks and trolling where it originated as something you could go back to laugh about (even if you were the target) and turned into just being a knob to random people. It's become low-effort low-quality regurgitation of other people's insults and simple acronyms. That's why people have made a distinction between banter and being a prick.
yes it's just two clicks and your triggered cuckold feelings will be restored and protected
if you use the mute button you're no better than the weak sjws that used that gamergate blockbot on twitter though
The death of the dedicated nation forces everyone to slosh around in the same dreadful "diversity" pot. You are no longer free to carve out your own niche community of people who frequent your local area, one run with your own customs, ideas, laws. A place with its own culture and identity that can play and talk how they like.
No. Now everything is structured and static. You're buying into the sanctioned experience now. No choice. All because this way is slightly more profitable.
So why is toxicity a big thing now? Because now every paying customer is forced share the same boat together now. It's disgusting.
>defending this stupid gg ez meme
Are you done sucking your own thumb?
>b-but I'm old and mature gamer!!!!11 I played games long before u!!!
Oh yeah, in that time you were calling everyone "noobs", no matter if they were genuinely bad players with no desire to listen to good advice, or genuinely new and inexperienced players, while gg literally meant to praise an opponent for a well played game.
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how much are you guys paid lmao
not enough from the looks of it; you've been peddling these same arguments on this board for years
>>>/tumblr/
>lose match in overwatch
>say "gg ez"
>EVERYONE gets triggered
>mafw
>millenials
get out of here you meme loving fuck
I'm more of a corrosive guy myself.
>>>/reddit/
how can anyone be this buttmad at being banned from league of legends, just go make a new account
jesus fucking christ you are a special form of retard
>"lol kill urself faggot"
>it was just banter
"gg ez" and saying other simular troll things to randoms is obnoxious and It's really nothing at all like banter.
I go online and play games and I just want to have fun after a hard day of work or what have you, hell maybe make some friends, if not just practice good sportsmanship, because that's what maturity basically is.
When you say "gg ez" you're not being witty because it took literally no brain power, you're just being a lazy troll to people you don't even know, trying to make them irate for your own (and only your own) amusement. above being obnoxious it's also completely autistic.
That's why people call such behaviour toxic, because all it does is selfishly put people in a bad mood, and ruin any atmosphere of positivity or sportsmanship. you are the only one laughing. You are not funny.
Any non-genetic/learned trait or bit of passed-on information is a meme.
Everything's a meme. Everything's always been a meme. Get used to it.
Did you even read what I wrote?
Damn right you sound like someone who's been here for years.
There is a difference between what people would call "competitive banter" and trying to find an excuse to be an insufferable cunt.
Whenever I'm playing with people, I remind myself, "Is what I want to say something I would say to someone in person outside of the internet? Would I say it to someone I don't know?" People act like the anonymity of the internet gives them reason to act inappropriately with others and it's plain childish. Of course, we're all playing the vidya - we're all manchildren here.
I'm all game for "da bantz", but when shit bothers me, I just ignore it. Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes. If you're incapable of making use of in-game functions to ignore people, you're a shiteating faggot and, if you're incapable of holding any amount of respect - even for strangers - you're a shiteating faggot.
>someone makes a clever/playful insult in good fun
>people laugh out loud and the atmosphere is still relaxed
>someone goes fuck you kill yourself or the like after every death
>he's ignored, told to shut up or muted by an admin
>gets hilariously butthurt
It's always been like this on dedicated servers.
I'm not even disagreeing with you, I'm telling you to take your entirely unprompted and lazy reworking of a vidya-related post into a rant about diversity to the board we have for that topic. If you can't handle that then maybe you should go to reddit and make your own subreddit.
>everybody must be as underaged as me!!!!!!!!!!!
laffin
Toxic is a "I lost/had a bad day so I'll bring it on others" attitude. It isn't trolling or banter, it's straight up being shit or throwing a match. The attitude spreads to others because you cause them to have a bad time, so that's why it's called "toxic." It's like cancer.
Does this board like having teammates that purposefully play to lose?
>he gets triggered by words
this has only become a problem within the last decade
if anything, people should be growing thicker skin as the internet becomes more seemingly "toxic" and learning to laugh about these things, instead of retreating by mutes and bans and becoming sheltered little gentrified flowers
kill yourself faggot, unironically
And I'm telling you to go fuck yourself, nigger.
>banter
Yeah no. Its just "gg ez" and "u mad?" and "hacker noob" for 99.9% of the time
>There is a difference between what people would call "competitive banter" and trying to find an excuse to be an insufferable cunt.
hello riot staffer
The reason toxicity spreads is that it drives away people who don't want to bother with that shit.
Same reason Sup Forums is shit.
We can do nothing but hope that people will quit gettin' mad at video games.
I like trash talk and think it's a defining aspect of competitive gaming, but it seems that the concept of trash talk itself is going over nearly everyone's head these days; we have a lot of people who take video games too seriously, a lot of people who have no wit, and a lot of people who don't know where the line between trash talk and straight up ridicule goes.
It's very noticable in the Smash tourney community, with dudes doing victory dances, banging on the other player's head and other autistic shit, the crowd going HOO HA watching a Diddy match and so on.
Seeing some kid write something in the vein of "rekt like ur mum" doesn't make me angry. It does however make me disappointed and embarrassed toward the people I share a hobby with.
>stalking me on social media and creating alternate Steam accounts to find me in games and send me death threats
>bants
that isnt banter u retarded nigger
is this thread being spammed by sjws with proxies or is neo/v/ just this fucking bad?
How is it not?
>GG EZ MY TEAM IS SHIT REPORT ALL THESE KIDS... MM IS FUCKED YOU ARE ALL NOOBS
>it was just a banter!
Sup Forums pls
Either stay on topic or stay on your board.
Sup Forums is full of 12 year old retards who get upset over mean words on the internet now so your message is not going to go over well.
>all of these service offer mute buttons which take just two clicks
>NO IT'S TOO HARD AND HE'S E-STALKING ME IT WiLL HAVE TOO MUCH OF AN IMPACT ON MY INTERNET EMOTIONS
grow up and then kill yourself
It is most certainly not called "bants"
That's some dumbass new term I assume was coined by niggers just like all the other stupid terms kids use
I fucking hate niggers
You know that kid that always cried and told the teacher whenever someone made fun of him, and never really developed the thick skin any adult man should. Well he became older and used the internet as a tool to gather all the pussies and beta males in a semi movement that has creeped into industries with a typically large amount of betas like programming and online journalism, thus encouraging cuck behaviour in online gaming communities.
Do people actually kill themselves ironically?
Your life a meme
You're responsible for your own emotional state. It's your own choice to feel angry or offended, and only your own choice.
If you're even capable of being offended at this point, the Internet is not the right place for you.
i wish the butthurt millennial trash that posts in this thread would
I always fling shit irregardless of my performance.
>I lose
2EZ & YALL HACKING.
>I win
Wow easy. "gg" :^)
I've never been reported. You must be playing shitty games.
Reddit invaded Sup Forums a long time ago. we're just a board for thin skinned nu-males who only play the latest meme games like Cuckwatch these days.
>That's some dumbass new term I assume was coined by niggers
try chavs m8