SubJeff on 10/1/2010 at 20:23
Well there you go. If I saw someone with names like that I'd automatically think they were a dick trying to get a reaction and I can see how it would colour any further interaction you're going to have. If you log on and get a myg0t tag wtf are you going to think?
They say you make your own luck. Think about it.
june gloom on 10/1/2010 at 20:48
Except I stopped doing that long before Left4Dead came out. I almost exclusively use "WINNERS DON'T USE DRUGS" now. And in any case I don't think most people really care what kind of playername a person has so long as they're not retarded. Sure, we'll make fun of an idiot after the fact- "hurr hurr look at SMOAKWEIDERYDAY420, what a big baby clan fag" but if he's a competent player, who gives a shit? Same goes with my shock site player names. I had SWAP.AVI up for a while once, and someone was like "I SAW THAT VIDEO AND THREW UP FOR A WEEK" but otherwise nobody cared.
For a while I had "Dot on the Sentry." Storytime: 2fort. There was this guy who kept screaming that a sniper on the other team was using a dot taped to the monitor (like he could possibly know.) He was like "I'm not usually one to scream hax every time I get killed but there's a difference between skill and advantage." He wouldn't shut up about it, so at one point the other guy, who had switched to engineer, says "well you know a dot isn't really helping me as an engineer". This is after the screamer had been slaughtered 5 times in a row by the accused's sentry gun. Kid's like,"The dot is on your sentry. Take it off."
Half the server was like "that doesn't even fucking make sense!"
I laughed my ass off, immediately changed my name to Dot on the Sentry, and said I was keeping it that way forever. The kid who was screaming about dots promptly left.
gunsmoke on 11/1/2010 at 01:52
Maybe I am thick, but what is a dot taped to the screen and what advantage would it have?
june gloom on 11/1/2010 at 02:09
Whenever you don't have an aiming reticle, like if you're using a sniper rifle but not zoomed in, or if you're playing one of those "realistic" games, put some tape on your monitor with a dot in the middle and you've got an instant home-made crosshair. It's a cheap, DIY, undetectable method of cheating.
steo on 11/1/2010 at 02:10
and it works really well in counter-strike...
gunsmoke on 11/1/2010 at 02:16
I guess it comes from my not having any desire to cheat. I am amazed by some people's ability to think so far outside of the box for such petty things. Thanks for the reply, btw.
Scots Taffer on 11/1/2010 at 02:49
People still play online games that aren't Valve?
That is funny.
Nameless Voice on 11/1/2010 at 03:02
If you ever come across an LCD screen with a dead pixel at the centre, you could probably sell it to such people for a tidy sum. ;)
CCCToad on 11/1/2010 at 03:49
Can't say I've had anything like that happen in TF2, I've had a pretty good time with it by and large. Plenty of idiots who don't play as a team, but very few flaming tards. One exception.....lets just say that I actually have the Pryo achievement you get for making somebody ragequit.
