Chavette, on 16 June 2013 - 07:01 AM, said:
You have to play a lot and get to know people. Something that won't happen if you spend most of your time trolling here.
Same with getting better.
Probably not coincidental, lol.
I actually agree with most of that, though I can`t help but sense that there was an undertone directed at me in the post, I could be mistaken as a result of all teh Elitist BS taht has been posted this weekend by others....
Nonetheless, if so, I`m sorry that I have a very fulfilling real life that many here and in other places probably wish they could lead. NOT!
However, "getting to know people" I disagree with entirely. Names mean nothing, conduct and performance mean everything. I don`t play games to make friends, I play to have fun, and if possible win /kill someone doing it. If i did play games to make friends, the Internet is the last place I would start, a local basketball court the first. Friends are at best a side benefit of online gaming, and I generally do not regard people I know exclusively from Online contact as any more real than the game that I made them in, with a few exceptions. A purely "virtual" friend has no influence on reality.
Which is why I find most of the people laughable that boast about how many "friends" they have, posting online statistics as "proof", but spend 90% of their life without actual human interaction. It breeds elitism, egotism, and an perception of truth that has no bearing on reality and is generally entirely detrimental to real social interaction, and thereby the human race as a whole. "The internet is just one big LAN-Party" is something I still hear often... ehm, no, it isn`t, and it`s not even close to being the same experience. The only people that can say this with a straight face are the ones that have never been to an actual LAN-Party.
But all of that says what about my ingame performance? Correct, exactly nothing, and a whole lot of it.
Edited by Zerberus, 16 June 2013 - 08:21 AM.