Bit idea: be considerate, helpful, kind, and patient to the people you're playing a game with, or even playing against, and if you get any pushback for that, say "it's just a game."

UlyssesT [he/him] · 10 months ago

Bit idea: be considerate, helpful, kind, and patient to the people you're playing a game with, or even playing against, and if you get any pushback for that, say "it's just a game."

CrushKillDestroySwag · 10 months ago

Even VideoGameDunkey's made the "being toxic in a video game is part of the game" argument which is crap.

As always I blame matchmaking replacing small servers each with their own admins and mods. Back in the day (before Halo 2 really) if you were in a toxic server you could jump ship to one that wasn't, nowadays the toxic server is the only server you can play multiplayer on.

Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them] · 10 months ago

This is why Hexbear is so cozy for me, it's like a forum equivalent of a regional 24/7 Two Fort server

WittyProfileName2 [she/her] · 10 months ago

Meet Your Match sapped most of the enjoyment out of TF2 for me because it created a barrier between me and those cosy servers where people were just fucking around.