Current Events > Online gaming is the best.

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I love when you are low key flaming a member of the team, and they hitting you back, but it's not like, malicious, and there is real advice hidden in there. Kind of like how athletes talk to each-other on the field (at least in my experience) and when you pull it together and win the match, even though you were calling each other out, you still commend each other after the game. This happened to me in Dota 2 last night.

That's like the highest level of respect.

There were legends in Halo 2 about this. Lasting friendships were born. You would get trashed all night by some guy, talking smack, but you would add the player and play with them and learn from them. It's a beautiful thing, there are good people online.

I wish I could go back to 2012 and really try to go pro instead of smoking dope and playing.

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Online gaming is horrific, it makes it about exploiting the engine over the actual point of the game.

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This is pretty much how all my real life relationships are.

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I Like Toast posted...

Online gaming is horrific, it makes it about exploiting the engine over the actual point of the game.

Certain games sure.

But games that are meant to be multiplayer make it so exploiting the engine IS the point of the game.

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I Like Toast posted...

Online gaming is horrific, it makes it about exploiting the engine over the actual point of the game.

I can imagine what you mean, but I can't think of any examples that I've actually played.

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As someone who started with the Atari 2600, online gaming still amazes me. I enjoy it but I always play on the side of jolly cooperation. Fortunately I'm not interested in games that attract a lot of kids so I avoid a lot of the toxicity. YMMV.

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