When someone asks me what I think of Live or the Sony Network, I remember fondly on a CoD4 match where a few mates of mine where faffing about and not exactly trying to win the match. Our clan had joined mid-fight and the score was something like 500-50 and we were on the losing squad, so we figured since we're losing anyway we might as well have a bit of fun. As the match drew to a close, someone was added to our team at around the time the score was 700 and was rather displeased to see his 'teammates' acting like a bunch of idiots. In the lobby after the match, he insulted everyone of us, assigned us a sexual preference that quite contradicts the female wives the three of us have (no, not three wives per man...but that might be fun) and accused us all of being around the age of 14. I asked him if his mum knew that he was up so late, to which he responded he was 21 can do whatever the fuck he wants despite what his mother says. My answer was simple: "You're a great representation of your age group. I'm sure glad the future is in your hands."
This is typical of my encounters with strangers through any form of gaming. They are insulting and presumptious, and I respond with dry wit and pure liquid sarcasm.
And yes, I'm fully aware that we might have deserved some name calling for not even trying to win, but when the score is that far apart with less then three minutes to play...yeah, exactly.
