games

Love yourself and everyone around you

Pvp games brings out the absolute worst in people. Just say no.

In a society that revels in performative cruelty, kindness is the most subversive thing of all.

A Gamer is:

• Trustworthy,
• Loyal,
• Helpful,
• Friendly,
• Courteous,
• Kind,
• Obedient,
• Cheerful,
• Thrifty,
• Brave,
• Clean,
• and Reverent

Challenge: don't use 'it's just a game' after you were a jerk to them interpersonally

What are you, some kind of commie?

I do not play PvP because I'd be bad and people are toxic.

My solution is just insta mute everyone and simply refuse to interact. And after a full game of no interacting put gg in the chat regardless of how the match went.

Thats why If I play multiplayer games I pick coop games these days. Just lends itself to have a better time by design. (To be fair I mostly play with a fixed group of nice people so its chill anyways)

It would be really cool if there existed a vanilla PvP Minecraft server where the landscape isn't littered with swastikas and the chat isn't overflowing with queerphobic and racial slurs. Alas, I suppose the advanced technology required to invent such a thing is still far beyond modern science.

Joined a PvE thing and the squad talks about "leechers"

bit idea be considerate helpful kind and patient to the people in your life consistently

play game

Cringe

One of the baffling things I saw on reddit was the claim that "if I were playing against my kid or inexperienced player, I wouldn't play down" as though they were proud to punch down in what would be an extremely boring match. Like, some of them claimed that it would help the new player improve, as though getting torn apart constantly is good for learning (psych research says no). Or like, maybe some sort of weird honour thing?

Weird claims from what I imagine are very popular people who get all their social needs met.

I've almost entirely given up on PvP in games nowadays (other than invader duels in Dark Souls games and the occasional counterstrike match), but from my experience Co-op stuff with randos is just an unrelenting mass of toxicity now as well.

MMOs are the worst of it but, like, I've had some vile language leveled at me for not taking matchmade L4D games seriously.

Killing people with kindness is absolutely a thing and it's great for two reasons.

Wither you catch people off guard and have a genuinely pleasant interaction

Or the person never wanted to have a pleasant interaction, in which case there is literally nothing that makes them more angry than you refusing to engage.

Being raised by a narcissist it's hilarious to watch them get furious at the fact that you aren't giving them anything to get mad at and realizing they can't articulate that frustration.

I've experienced this in foxhole and I suspect it's mostly because it's a game that's designed to make you loose if you literally do not cooperate with other players, whether spontaneously or coordinated. Like sure, you can get all the shit you need to make your own artillery piece and shells, try and construct your own defensive line, then try and shell the enemy at some position or another all by yourself. But the moment enough people on the other side give enough of a shit, they're gonna roflstomp you, shell barrage the shit out of your position, and break your defenses like driving a tank through wet paper.

I even got my own story about Fort Alaska that I made many wars ago and I couldn't have held it alone lmao.

I think you just made DarkSydePhil have (another?) stroke.

this but for Stackoverflow/programming help forums

Bit idea:

1. You listen intently,
2. you name their feelings, and
3. you fulfill their demands in fantasy.

Then you,

1. ask for their suggestion,
2. negotiate tactics, and
3. make a written agreement.