Your Anger Towards Young Gamers

[AngryMongoose]

Prejudice, as always.

People will have maybe one notable bad experience with younger gamers. From there they'll assume the age of anyone annoying online to be young, and then everyone young online to be annoying. Just count these people as amongst the assholes online. Mute, /ignore, and report exist for a reason.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I don't have any anger towards younger gamers. I don't care if a 7 year old is playing an M rated game like Call of Duty or Halo or whatever. It isn't my concern.

If they're being annoying, I can always mute them/group chat with friends/unplug my mic. I can do that for any situation. They don't have to be younger. The most annoying people I've ever played with happened to be in their mid twenties and British. If anything, I can get a good laugh out of an annoying little boy who sounds like a girl.

CAPTCHA: Ferbert, World

So now the CAPTCHA's are using old usernames, eh?

 

[I Have No Idea]

Sheesh, lay off the guy will you? We all were within that age range before - and don't deny it, every one of us was a jerk on some level.

I know. I was a huge jerk. God willing, I'd have died at the fangs of a giant lizard, and the world would have been spared one more insufferable kid.

And yet, you grew out of it, right? Most every kid does once they realize that the real world does not like whiny douches.

 

[Rawne1980]

I don't get angry with them.

Kids are kids and with regards to men we are always kids.

We never grow up.

But young folk will act like young folk and thats the whole point of being bloody young. We shouted and screamed when we were kids it's part of the being young and enjoying your damn self process.

Fuck what people say about you lad just enjoy the fact you still have 15 years until you get like them and have fun.

For arguments sake i'm 31 and still act like a kid. I still get excited when I get a game i've been waiting for or a film i've wanted to see comes out. I won't deny i'm a big kid at heart. My wife does enjoy that i'm a big kid it means i'm still fun (sometimes).

Enjoy your life and fuck what other folk think.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Sheesh, lay off the guy will you? We all were within that age range before - and don't deny it, every one of us was a jerk on some level.

I know. I was a huge jerk. God willing, I'd have died at the fangs of a giant lizard, and the world would have been spared one more insufferable kid.

And yet, you grew out of it, right? Most every kid does once they realize that the real world does not like whiny douches.

Your insufferable need to turn this into a serious discussion about the OP is making it harder and harder for me to fantasize about giant lizards mauling snot faced teenagers. Have you no shame, sir?

 

[Yosato]

Well, I'm nineteen and I still get called 'kid' all the time online even when I've only said a few words, that pisses me off. I think what people most hate is the arrogant, noisy little shits who sound about nine and scream down the microphone on Halo and CoD - I know they annoy the hell out of ME.

You (the OP) don't seem to be the kind of person who gets ripped online (forgive my presumption if this IS the case), you're literate for one thing, it's mostly people younger and/or less mature than you that generate all the hate.

 

[dibblywibbles]

young gamers are great. except the ones that speak. haha but seriously here's a recent example I've been playing the resistance 3 multiplayer beta and was stuck with a group of kids who kept saying the other team were a bunch of hackers. it was annoying because the rest of us realized one thing: their team clearly outclassed us(most of them also were much higher level as well). younger people are usually the first to complain about something if it doesn't go their way. or complain about balance when someone is better than them. yes of course that's a generalization but I was pretty self absorbed as a teen too, so I don't take too much offense to it.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Sheesh, lay off the guy will you? We all were within that age range before - and don't deny it, every one of us was a jerk on some level.

I know. I was a huge jerk. God willing, I'd have died at the fangs of a giant lizard, and the world would have been spared one more insufferable kid.

And yet, you grew out of it, right? Most every kid does once they realize that the real world does not like whiny douches.

Your insufferable need to turn this into a serious discussion about the OP is making it harder and harder for me to fantasize about giant lizards mauling snot faced teenagers. Have you no shame, sir?

 

[Jakub324]

I only hate the ones who have really high voices and scream in my ear. I'm only 17, been gaming since I was 6, so I don't hate them as long as they say something legible or shut it, which applies to people of all ages.

 

[FreakSheet]

This is a terrible assumption on your part. I don't hate young gamers. I hate young PEOPLE.

Seriously, everyone between the ages of 12-24 needs to be sequestered on a fucking island where they can forage and fend off giant lizards and where the rest of society doesn't have to be exposed to their bullshit.

7 years is a long time... can I at least get a volleyball to keep me company?

 

[BloatedGuppy]

7 years is a long time... can I at least get a volleyball to keep me company?

NO.

Volleyballs are for grown ups. You won't appreciate them on as many levels as we do.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

This is a terrible assumption on your part. I don't hate young gamers. I hate young PEOPLE.

Seriously, everyone between the ages of 12-24 needs to be sequestered on a fucking island where they can forage and fend off giant lizards and where the rest of society doesn't have to be exposed to their bullshit.

Wow, that's just... i don't know. For the lack of a better word "stupid".

Not only don't i get why you chose that spectrum of ages, but i don't see how you can justify such a grave generalization. Please explain to me how you can paint everyone with the same brush like that.

OT: Like others have said before it's not young gamers in general, but the tendencies that seem to apply to the majority of young gamers i.e. whiny little bitches who hide behind the anonymity of the internet and yell into microphones.

 

[teisjm]

I don't mind younger gamers.
I mind whiny bitches and griefers, despite their age.

And for the record, tubers/snipers/campers/rushers/knifers etc. are not griefers, they play the game by the rules, trying to win. IT's the people whining about it that bothers me.

The only difference between younger and older gamers is, that the youngest ones sometimes have a more irritating voice, when whining over a mike

 

[WindKnight]

My anger is only really directed agains the spoilt, selfish and offensive teenagers you get online who have no qualms whatsoever with abusing human players like they were AI bots. And not just the venomous language, the abusive insults and general airs of racism, homophobia and misogyny, but the attitude of 'if I'm a more skilled player than you, its perfectly ok for me to ruin your game for my enjoyment'.

Spawn killing (camping, trapping, whatever you want to call it, its the same thing) 'holding' or ignoring objectives so they can pad out their kill count by continuous spawn killing till they get bored or time runs out, and just slipping in that extra insult by teabagging or abusing your corpse, just because they can.

 

[the spud]

I'm 15, buy my own games, pretty much whatyou described, and I still think that more than half of the people in my age group who play video games fall under the steryotypical image that you desribed (at least in my school).

 

[BloatedGuppy]

This is a terrible assumption on your part. I don't hate young gamers. I hate young PEOPLE.

Seriously, everyone between the ages of 12-24 needs to be sequestered on a fucking island where they can forage and fend off giant lizards and where the rest of society doesn't have to be exposed to their bullshit.

Wow, that's just... i don't know. For the lack of a better word "stupid".

Not only don't i get why you chose that spectrum of ages, but i don't see how you can justify such a grave generalization. Please explain to me how you can paint everyone with the same brush like that.

OT: Like others have said before it's not young gamers in general, but the tendencies that seem to apply to the majority of young gamers i.e. whiny little bitches who hide behind the anonymity of the internet and yell into microphones.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm ? "in satire, irony is militant"[2]?but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.


Please note I'm quoting Wikipedia here, I don't want to be held responsible for any inaccuracies.

 

[mandaforever]

I just hate immature babble and immature attitudes. It's not only the whiny, high-pitched voices, but it's the ignorant things very young people say that make me cringe. That and a lot of them are spoiled rotten, coddled/babied by their parents, and it shows in the selfish way they play group games and the things they say.

You don't fit this mold though, so youre safe from my wrath :>

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

This is a terrible assumption on your part. I don't hate young gamers. I hate young PEOPLE.

Seriously, everyone between the ages of 12-24 needs to be sequestered on a fucking island where they can forage and fend off giant lizards and where the rest of society doesn't have to be exposed to their bullshit.

Wow, that's just... i don't know. For the lack of a better word "stupid".

Not only don't i get why you chose that spectrum of ages, but i don't see how you can justify such a grave generalization. Please explain to me how you can paint everyone with the same brush like that.

OT: Like others have said before it's not young gamers in general, but the tendencies that seem to apply to the majority of young gamers i.e. whiny little bitches who hide behind the anonymity of the internet and yell into microphones.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm ? "in satire, irony is militant"[2]?but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.


Please note I'm quoting Wikipedia here, I don't want to be held responsible for any inaccuracies.

In that case... Please note that sarcasm doesn't translate well onto the internet unless made blatantly obvious(Which i guess yours was, but as this rule illustrates you can never be sure).

Note i'm not quoting anyone as this seems to be a general rule of thumb online.

 

[michael_ab]

This is a honest question. I only ask you respect it. I'm 15 and I'm sure that makes some of you have a surge of anger or resentment towards me. I understand that you have these feelings, but I don't understand why. I am not the kind of teen who plays Black Ops all night over and over. I enjoy a wide variety of genres and I am not a console fanboy. I own the 3 current "in" consoles, using money I've earned from my summer job and money from my birthdays and gifts from Christmas. I'm not the little shit who stays in his room and ignores his parents. I've enjoyed all the great games many of you do, and I share your love of games. So why the hate? Please share your anger about my gaming generation and how to improve my interaction with the older members of the gaming community so I can improve my interaction with you all.
Thank you so much for reading.

my issue is that i view online games as a social medium, i use them to meet and discuss things with people i dont usually come across. but the games i play and talk about most (castle crashers, oblivion, fable 2 and 3, and borderlands as examples) always come off as needy, screechy, assholes.

it never fails in borderlands or castle crashers, the first words out of their mouths:
"CAN I HAVE MODDED GUNS PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!?!?!?"
and
"HEY IS ANYONE LEVEL 256?!?! CAN YOU BOOST ME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEEEEE?!?!?!".

i am only too happy to help people having trouble with games, but (for oblivion) my patience runs a tad thin after i give you very specific direction on how to get here, or how to get around this bug FIVE TIMES. i have met and enjoy the company of gamers of any age, but every now and again, you just find this gamer that is insufferable

edit: split it up into paragraphs to make it eaisier to read

 

[BloatedGuppy]

In that case... Please note that sarcasm doesn't translate well onto the internet unless made blatantly obvious(Which i guess yours was, but as this ruel illustrates you can never be sure).

Note i'm not quoting anyone as this seems to be a general rule of thumb online.

I take total responsibility. I thought my repeated emphasis on children being attacked and devoured by giant lizards was sufficient evidence that I was not being entirely sincere, but I see that I was mistaken.