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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

30-somethings going all boomer with regard to CoD lobbies is so funny.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

grill-broke : "You millennial snowflakes can't take a joke."

frothingfash: "Nuh uh, freedom-hating draft dodger! You wouldn't survive a CoD lobby!"

I want to see a generational CHUD war.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

is it a bunch of children screaming into voice chat? is that what theyre failing to "survive"?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] nothx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Ah, the variety of spine chilling screams of witnessing utter horror has increased 🥰

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It helps how frequently the hammer swings, I’ve only heard a single slur and the person got banned.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

frothingfash: "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.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it possible for a leftist to like "the people" but despise "people"?

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Every time I see someone say shit like that I'm half tempted to butt in on the conversation and be like bitch I was a Halo 2 kid

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Of course i'd never survive, my gaming reflexes aren't like what they were 15 years ago.

[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Is this the current discourse on Reddit or wherever gamers hang out now

[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I’m still glad I dropped FPS games when MW2 killed dedicated servers.

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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