TheManiacsGnome

@the_greg: That last line kinda got to me, I have a step father my biological father was a bit of a dunce. My step father knew I was a shy, quiet kid and he knew me playing games wasn't going to help with any of that, his attempts to get me interested or doing things that didn't involve a PC or a console mostly fell on deaf ears and his attempts to connect with me, with things that he could also grasp kinda just bounced off of me. I'm 30 now and the damage/time lost to what could have been our relationship isn't irreparable but it's still there. We've made strides over the years but I still feel a touch guilty about when I essentially turned him down multiple times so I could play more Starcraft or Tribes 2.

When you're young, even in your early 20's it's very easy to let games just rule your life. I'd disappear from parties, not show up to things, make up stupid excuses just so I could get back to what in my stupid mind was "important", then those people stop calling to invite you to anything and before you know it... you're alone. Games are amazing, great, wonderful things but learning to properly manage your time and what's important long term? Quake 2 doesn't teach you that, just the respawn timers on the armor.

OT: I don't need to add anything, you've already made the right choice.

I came in here to read all the Weebs complaining, wasn't disappointed 7/10. "for fans of the genre".

Not sure if I'm doing this right.

The Raging Clue

Everybody is welcome, but we're EST in Canada.

@flashflood_29: @grizzlybutts: I didn't word it that way, but it IS 1-2k. You're playing with the lowest of the low in terms of people, and that's going to be reflected in their attitude and unfortunately as you stated that rubbed off on you. The best thing I can suggest is muscle through and be supportive of those who are trolling and you'll get out of the rut you're in and begin to be matched with better friendlier people. Kill them with kindness has always been my MO with Dota 2 and it has worked fine for me, I've cultivated a large group of people I can play Dota 2 with even people who were initially hostile. The Giantbomb chat isn't nearly as active as it once was but you can find the odd duder who wants to play some Dota 2 in there too.

What Flashflood said is kinda on the money, you have to kind of accept that YOU got yourself in this mess. No one decides for you to be toxic in a video game, you made that decision yourself even though you have a tonne of other options. Like c'mon dude, I don't want you to quit Dota 2 over this, I'll even play with you if you'd like but don't pretend it's the communities fault you're in the position you're in. Man up.

I was asking a question, what do you expect when you're at the bottom of the barrel? To try to paint me as a "negative" person in game or anywhere is just rich, there's a reason I have Relax you're doing fine on the chat wheel. You know I think your response maybe kinda illustrates what your issue is, GLHF.

Not trying to be a dick here, but at 1k MMR what do you expect in a ranked game?

@archer88: @bisonhero:

Not sure if I'm replying to both of you properly, but hey it's the effort that counts.

Now, I'm not sure if I'm being over sensitive, but was anyone a touch irked by this line? "He has a profound understanding of what it means to be Canadian" Canadians have this habit of talking about what it means to be Canadian and for the life of me I can't understand what they possibly mean by that. I don't think he means anything xenophobic or nationalist about this, but to me it just reads as because I've never had to be protected from bears on the way to school I somehow have a lesser understanding of good ole Canadiana. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, it's happened in the past before.

Also Toronto Wildhogs.

Halo Wars 2 has to be the crashiest thing. Every time a mission or match ends I have to cross my fingers I won't get dumped out to the desktop, kinda disappointed especially seeing as how CA worked on this.

@plop1920: I've had the worst time playing L4D/2 on the PC. The vs community was just awful..So I played the 360 version instead. Problem solved.

@vampire_chibi: "One person talks shit about everybody on the server, you tell him to stop, a friend of his tells you to stop, stopping him, a third person comes in and blames both of you for the first person's rudeness. It seems like it has become so trivial as to who started the fight or why the fight even happened, aslong as you were part of it, you're just as wrong as the first person that started it. I can't stand by when someone goes after a fellow person on the server, yet as many of you say, simple mute them and move on.

Altho the damage has already been done, the few seconds or minutes of toxicity has already ruined that person's day and everyone else that had to listen to it"

This may sound rude, insensitive and whatever else. But you really need to evaluate what you just said here. If two people are bickering, that really shouldn't be the thing that "ruins" a person's day. If it's persistent, mute or leave the server. No one is asking you to gallop in and save some kid from being bullied online, and if that ruins his or her day they need more than just games.

I've been playing online games since the mid/late90's. Toxicity as you know it has always been there, someone is always going to tell you; "you suck" or whatever. Just get over it, if someone being rude to you ruins your experience maybe you should stick to SP sorry.