having been a tf2 player and a wow player for going on two decades, i can kind of understand where they're coming from with the "toxicity makes it fun" idea; blowing shit up, teleporting people off of cliffs, owning someone so hard they quit, rude emotes, etc is part of the fun to a lot of people - like, some of the things i've heard that you can get done for in some more recent games (like "bming"?) does seem excessive, trolling has always been part of the experience, but there are a million ways to fuck around with people that don't involving being a racist prick. Theres a massive difference between healing the opposite team or tea bagging vs just doing the laziest possible thing and calling people slurs.
Hell yeah I remember those Jedi Knight servers, they were great. We have very much moved from a system where people choose their communities and environments to just having a 'monoculture' for all games and websites everywhere, and it does hamper a lot of previously fun aspects of internet interactions.
having been a tf2 player and a wow player for going on two decades, i can kind of understand where they're coming from with the "toxicity makes it fun" idea; blowing shit up, teleporting people off of cliffs, owning someone so hard they quit, rude emotes, etc is part of the fun to a lot of people - like, some of the things i've heard that you can get done for in some more recent games (like "bming"?) does seem excessive, trolling has always been part of the experience, but there are a million ways to fuck around with people that don't involving being a racist prick. Theres a massive difference between healing the opposite team or tea bagging vs just doing the laziest possible thing and calling people slurs.
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Hell yeah I remember those Jedi Knight servers, they were great. We have very much moved from a system where people choose their communities and environments to just having a 'monoculture' for all games and websites everywhere, and it does hamper a lot of previously fun aspects of internet interactions.