Boy I'm getting tired....

[RumbleB]

I'll tell ya what.. Players in AH tend to be older.  Grumpier.. But generally wiser behind any wiseassery or rudeness.

on the flipside, in many cases.. some of them seem to think age automatically makes them wise and right even when they're incredibly wrong.

[CAP1]

I'll tell ya what.. Players in AH tend to be older.  Grumpier.. But generally wiser behind any wiseassery or rudeness.

well...i am older......47....i try like hell to not be grumpy. it's hard sometimes, as i'm sure you know.

 i have my own shop, which is up and down, with people in panic about the economy...either way, being new, it's like having 2 jobs. then i work a part time job a fewe nightrs a week,,,,,,then i do pretty much in CAP........

 i try to not be a wisearse, although sometimes i am......if i have a whine or complaint, i tend to try to bring them here or fw, rather than cause a poopstorm on open channel.

 i don't go nuts cursing people out on country channel, i don;t care if i get a check6, and will gladly give one to those i know.......

[Clone155]

and now it's time for


***USE ANOTHER WORD***

                                                                    Campaign!
 

When someone says Unkind things to you or someone else, or just uses a swear word, Say "Use another word!" to remind them that Kids play this game, you older players set an example for those kids, Make it a good one!

 

When ever I see some one using obscene language, I warn them ONCE to watch the language. If they continue then they get reported.

[TwinBoom]

yawn

[Bosco123]

Hey, who cares, it's a game.

We're all kids.

[Scotch]

You all suck.


 

[Sincraft]

when I get frustrated, I take large needles and poke them through my Achilles tendons.

I try not to get mad often, it hurts too much... 

[uptown]

I just squelch whoever gets on my nerves.

[PiratPX]

I do call people names for all things mentioned in the first post as well as for other actions I find unsporty and dirty. Though i usually feel stupid immediately afterwards and will try to apologise if I can . For me AHII is like any real life team game, be it soccer, basketball, handball or anything similar - you're pumped on adrenaline trying to perform best you can, and when you feel your effort is wasted by some dirty play of your opponents or screwed by your team mate, you need to vent out the frustration and tell a few words at the person. I don't believe that anybody playing these games never cursed anyone in a way and for the reasons I mentioned. I think it's OK in a relaxed atmosphere of a computer game. I myself never pay any attention to ch200 insults anyway. Real life and everyday situations are totally different things and I doubt if any of ch200 loud mouths would offend somebody like he does in arenas. I wouldn't and never had. Even though my work sometimes provides me with more stress, fast action and interacting with twisted characters than AH .

[DrDea]

I rarely even tune to 200 unless its to <S> someone.

[Shuffler]

Actually, no, not everyone is "racist".  There's no arguing over it in this thread, so I don't see how it'll get locked unless you want to argue that calling people N* or "blackie" this, "blackie" that, which I've never heard once in all of 10 years in AH, is "not racist".

Don't forget whitey or the "C" word.

[uptown]

yeah, what the cracka said

[dev1ant]

In my opinion I'd say most of you are just spoiled.  Go play a game like COD4, CS, Left 4 Dead, pretty much any "popular" multiplayer game and listen to what the ingame chat is like in there.  Even the most extreme things you hear on range doesn't even come close to the norm in other games.  It really doesn't bother me, and I will openly admit I will say something on range to someone who interrupts a good 1on1, or HO's a con I am about to kill.  Maybe if people were more respectful of other peoples gaming experience you wouldn't have so many outbursts on range.  Also, the whole "peoples kids play this game" angle is pretty much ridiculous at this point.  Kids hear and see much much worse on a daily basis.

That being said, being able to mute range would help with this problem.

[Steve]

This game involves competition.  In any encounter between two  or more competitors there can be stress and high emotion.
Frankly, those complaining about the language are Nancy-boys. If you don't want to risk exposing yourself to colorful language, don't tune, play with the sound off, hide under your bed. At what seems to be an exponentially expanding rate, the world is being populated by sissies.

Kids play this game? So what? Parents who choose to allow their kids to compete in a game with hundreds of people, most of whom are adult age males and strangers, should expect their kids to be exposed to colorful language. Anyone who expects otherwise is a fool, and an unrealistic one at that.

I can understand that the owners of this game would strive to minimize the colorful language.  It makes sense both socially and economically. To expect to eliminate it entirely is unrealistic.

What happened, by accident, is I guess I drove thru another WW by mistake and the guy kill-shot himself.

 

Geez, what a lost opportunity for a good  long laugh. The guy was a turd for whining no doubt, but this is funny as heck. I'd laugh about this every time I thought of it if I were either party.

[Rich46yo]

Any man that would call another man names like that, either behind his back or protected by Internet anonymity/hundreds of miles, is a coward of the douchiest sort. Anyway thats my code. Look into a guys eyes if your going to bad mouth him or be branded a sissy.

And I was raised like that. Most men my age here were. This was before the electronic revolution and before boys were expected to get in touch with their inner-feminine. Back then you talked like that about another guy odds were you were going to have to fight. There was no calling the cops, or your parents. Even the teachers then would tell you "ya had it coming".

We get them calling 911 all the time, screeching into their blackberrys, when they are out at a bar or ball game and get trimmed after opening their big mouth, "most times to woman". When the squad pulls up you should hear them yammer and bleat that they were beat up and they want to sign complaints. And usually they start talking smack again when enough uniforms are there to protect them.

This game involves competition.  In any encounter between two  or more competitors there can be stress and high emotion.

Yeah, gee. Real stressful competition. Sitting at your desktop, in your Jam-Jams, yanking on your little plastic joystick... Thats some real serious, stressful stuff. Especially when your little cartoon airplane goes down and your rank goes from 451 to 453. Boy, I'm shaking from the stress.

Anyone can get caught up in the game and get a little excited. Its happened to me and part of what makes for a great game. Ive felt anger too when a check 6 didn't come my way, "tho within seconds I reminded myself its only a silly computer game".

But a few of these characters?? Why would anyone 1/2 decent even enable them by making exuses for them. If I was a parent, with a kid online when this fool went off? I'd be pretty mad about it.