Gamers and common courtesy

[MercurySteam]

Most 'gamers' that act like that are just assholes who play a few games. Like one guy in my class who never plays any games except MW2. " Play a real game, play CoD". Yes he actually said that.

This is why everyone went back to CoD4.

 

[reg42]

It's not gamers who have no manners, it's the entire human race.

I can be fairly crude when I'm with my friends but we don't scream and preform like morons. It's actually kinda sad, I'm seeing 9 year olds throwing around "fuck" like it's... something. [I can't think of a good simile]

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Just as many percent of gamers are rude as the entire human race. 'Tis a shame that so few have common courtesy. I'm glad I try my best at least.

 

[Simonism451]

Well, I guess that behaviour is just perfectly normal if you're in puberty.
I don't know you, but I think you did similar things, when you were young.

 

[Vrex360]

I do agree that there is still a heavy emphasis on gaming being a 'man's man's manly maculine male ventuer for manly men' and that therefore any woman is considered an outsider or even as you (sort of) put it, treated with ill manners (that's the gist of what you said anyway) but it's worth remembering that people like that inhabit all parts of the world and it's not just gamers alone that carry that title.
Also sometimes it can be a blurry line because in this modern day it's really hard for a man to say he finds a woman sexually attractive without it being deemed offensive to that woman, the obvious exceptions being in the context of strippers or porn or women he is obviously expected to find attractive.
Point is I agree that sexual crudeness in conversation only has a few acceptable uses (even then in those other contexts it would do well to think of the women involved as human beings not objects) but while I acknowledge that gamers contribute to this, overall it's not gamers alone who need to answer for it but society in general.

 

[Paksenarrion]

People as a whole were much more polite to each other when everyone was allowed to carry small arms. You never knew if the person you were being rude to was packing heat, thus, politeness was self-enforced.

I know, seriously the words "pistols at dawn" aren't said nearly enough and meant anymore.

On topic I hate people who are extremely crude and loud while doing it. I make the mistake of being loud sometimes but most of our conversations get strange looks because of the bizarre content rather than crudity. And if I ever say something crude it is definitely said quietly and usually in passing.

I used to do this with friends, but we'd mumble songs from musicals like Les Mis and wait until people look at us funny, wondering what we're mumbling about, then we break out into song. Hearing a group of people suddenly belt out "One Day More" out of the blue is both startling and awkward.

On a somewhat related note to extremely crude and loud things, young girls these days wear clothes that are too adult for them. And by adult, I mean the industry. I don't know, maybe I'm just too conservative.

 

[TheScarecrow]

If you look around, it is not just gamers, unfortunately it seems most people don't have manners.
You just happened to be at a place where there was mostly gamers being rude.
Good Manners appears to be a dying tradition, unfortunately...

It won't die if I live to breed!

 

[Cody211282]

Mostly everyone is like that now, they think since they were told in school that they could do no wrong and were a little unique snowflake that everyone should see how unique they are, mostly by being asshats, example: I was with my friend going though a 24 hours mexican fast food join since it was 2 in the morning they had one person working, just like normal, the moronic college kids in front of us decided that waiting for their food for 5 min was to much(there was about 8 of them crammed in an SUV) so they decided to pound on the window and yell at the poor cook. So its just not gamers, its everyone 30 and younger.

 

[Contun]

I never talk that way regardless. I like to think I'm a polite and charming young lad!

 

[rt052192]

it's a legitimate complaint, but go to a sporting event or any public place other than the opera and you will find those people.

 

[Cody211282]

Mostly everyone is like that now, they think since they were told in school that they could do no wrong and were a little unique snowflake that everyone should see how unique they are, mostly by being asshats, example: I was with my friend going though a 24 hours mexican fast food join since it was 2 in the morning they had one person working, just like normal, the moronic college kids in front of us decided that waiting for their food for 5 min was to much(there was about 8 of them crammed in an SUV) so they decided to pound on the window and yell at the poor cook. So its just not gamers, its everyone 30 and younger.

Don't forget that public schools aren't allowed to fucking discipline kids at all. If a teacher tries in any way an angry parent is going to start screaming at them until they get fired.

God I know, between schools making it worse and parents not helping kids are growing up doomed to be asses

 

[Paksenarrion]

People as a whole were much more polite to each other when everyone was allowed to carry small arms. You never knew if the person you were being rude to was packing heat, thus, politeness was self-enforced.

I like the way you think.
OT: I agree with most of the people who have responded to this thread: people are rude, it's not just gamers. Then again, sticks and stones...

On a somewhat related note, I hear Canada is the utopia both political parties dream of: most everyone owns a gun, people live at home with their doors unlocked, and they have universal healthcare. Why can't we be more like Canada? Or, to put it succinctly:

What Would Canada Do? WWCD?

 

[omega 616]

I think your narrowing the field too much, it's not gamers that talk like this anybody above the age 6 talking like this.

They think it makes them seem "big and clever" or be one of the lads were all it does it make them look like knuckle dragging Neanderthals with less culture than yogurt, an IQ lower than a snakes belly, who are about as much to a society as a condom machine in the Vatican.

I think the odd swear word is ok but not every other word being a swear and about things you don't want to hear off strangers .

 

[WhiteRat07]

meh That was just the way i was raised respect women and your elders.

 

[clipse15]

People as a whole were much more polite to each other when everyone was allowed to carry small arms. You never knew if the person you were being rude to was packing heat, thus, politeness was self-enforced.

I like the way you think.
OT: I agree with most of the people who have responded to this thread: people are rude, it's not just gamers. Then again, sticks and stones...

On a somewhat related note, I hear Canada is the utopia both political parties dream of: most everyone owns a gun, people live at home with their doors unlocked, and they have universal healthcare. Why can't we be more like Canada? Or, to put it succinctly:

What Would Canada Do? WWCD?

Really because the majority of that is completely wrong

 

[Cody211282]

Mostly everyone is like that now, they think since they were told in school that they could do no wrong and were a little unique snowflake that everyone should see how unique they are, mostly by being asshats, example: I was with my friend going though a 24 hours mexican fast food join since it was 2 in the morning they had one person working, just like normal, the moronic college kids in front of us decided that waiting for their food for 5 min was to much(there was about 8 of them crammed in an SUV) so they decided to pound on the window and yell at the poor cook. So its just not gamers, its everyone 30 and younger.

Don't forget that public schools aren't allowed to fucking discipline kids at all. If a teacher tries in any way an angry parent is going to start screaming at them until they get fired.

God I know, between schools making it worse and parents not helping kids are growing up doomed to be asses

I really feel sorry for teachers too. They don't get paid enough to deal with the shit they're forced to put up with.

No they really don't, and every time they up taxes for education all the new money goes to the administrators, like they need more

 

[Cody211282]

Mostly everyone is like that now, they think since they were told in school that they could do no wrong and were a little unique snowflake that everyone should see how unique they are, mostly by being asshats, example: I was with my friend going though a 24 hours mexican fast food join since it was 2 in the morning they had one person working, just like normal, the moronic college kids in front of us decided that waiting for their food for 5 min was to much(there was about 8 of them crammed in an SUV) so they decided to pound on the window and yell at the poor cook. So its just not gamers, its everyone 30 and younger.

Don't forget that public schools aren't allowed to fucking discipline kids at all. If a teacher tries in any way an angry parent is going to start screaming at them until they get fired.

God I know, between schools making it worse and parents not helping kids are growing up doomed to be asses

I really feel sorry for teachers too. They don't get paid enough to deal with the shit they're forced to put up with.

No they really don't, and every time they up taxes for education all the new money goes to the administrators, like they need more

Yeah, my high school couldn't even afford paper for the students. What few textbooks we had were years out of date, our computers were ancient and constantly being destroyed to the point where what few computer literate students were actually hired by the library for extra credit to help piece computers together out of salvaged parts from the dead broken ones. Our library had no books that weren't missing tons of pages. Oh and the no child left behind act then cut all of our funding.

My high school wasnt that bad, but they raised taxes "for the children" and whhat do you know 6 months later the district had 2 new buildings(1$ million each) and new computers, and a larger budget. The schools got nothing.

 

[Hollock]

well i'm a gamer and id say i am the opposite of crude, polite thats what i be

 

[Sir Kemper]

Manner's, Polietness, and general courtesy has been slowly dying out in favour of a more frat-boy mentality.

Hopefully, my Bomb-shelter should be complete for when the Douchpacolypse comes about, don't worry, i'll have games, food, and dedicated server's all set up for anybody who would like to join me.