Everyone knows that the most important element when attempting to pick off virtual, foreign combatants is immersion. However, in an online age characterized by 1337speak and decidedly un-1337 bigotry, immersion's a tough commodity to come by. We can't remember the last round of Call of Duty: World at War (or any online shooter, for that matter) we played where we didn't want to climb through the expansive internet tubes to choke the life out of one of our half-baked (or, in some cases, totally baked, brah) teammates.
Sketch comedy troupe Whitest Kids U Know recently exposed this infuriating phenomenon (NSFW) to those who've never experienced it firsthand. You can watch their sketch after the break -- we warn you, it may invoke such strong feelings of familiarity that you might just call up the DABEARS in your life, and congenially tell him to die in a fire.
It was really good, except I felt it was played on just a bit too long, the vid shouldn't have lasted anywhere past 1 minute.
The funniest part to me for some reason was in the beginning when he says "they don't see us...fuckin' noobs." I just remember how many people have said that playing COD4 back in the dark days.
It's not actually that funny. I love the sentiment, and it works for a little bit. But it pretty much reaches a crescendo at the point where they show the status messages above them and then just limps from there.
it depends... maybe they were playing on the PS3. I have yet to hear racial slurs or homophobic comments, though there are alot of 12 year old kids on lately
Then again it could be that its because 5/10 people don't use mics online... but if it saves me from racists and homophobes then i'll take my odds
I personally don’t play PS3, but I understand there would be less simply because (1) fewer people online, and (2) fewer people using mics. However, I cite slycooper’s story of PS3 fun below: he kept yelling "die! die! die! aww yeah i shoved my shotgun up his ass, that gay f**!"
@ why not the LS2LS7? Indeed. The plot is paper thin. Why would these guys even make a comedic piece on war? I'll tell you why, they have no talent. How dare anybody, to try to be funny .
You see, here is the main difference between Kotaku and Joystiq.
Kotaku wants a shitton of posts from their writers no matter how irrelevent or unproven the data is. See: Xbox Pure scandal.
Joystiq wants posts, even rumors, to have a fair amount of validity to them so they don't have half their stories turn into fiascos like the Xbox Relaunch November 22nd story that Kotaku dedicated so much time to and Joystiq said "This is highly unlikely, quit sending us tips."
Kotaku is a regular partaker in yellow journalism. inciting flamewars and enjoying the traffic, any slight disadvantage or mild problem gets exploded to unreasonable proportions.
Joystiq tries to remain balanced and you can definately tell when their "bait stories" go up to consolidate all the console warrior fantards in one topic while most of the site goes by uninterrupted.
Kotaku is ran by perverts who feel the need to update everyone on Eros Games, or anytime a game character makes it into an eros book, or anytime a character even remotely resembles a character in an eros book.
Joystiq tries to keep things SFW, trashy stories rarely show up.
Kotaku is only concerned about posts, rarely updating their own stories. Go back two days ago when the Alice game was announced. I want you to notice that of Joystiq, Destructoid, and Kotaku, only one site has multiple stories on this. In fact, this is the hilarious part. Kotaku first ran a story mentioning the rumor and one hour later ran another story confirming the rumor. In their story list, these two stories are literally seperated by a single story.
Joystiq is not so much concerned about post counts as they are just dropping a story and then updating THAT story as it unfolds. Just because the story goes live doesn't mean they no longer have to stay on top of it. It's for this reason that you rarely see 12 different posts about the same issue going through various stages of updates on this site, unlike Kotaku.
Kotaku is located at www.kotaku.com...
Joystiq is located at www.joystiq.com
If you wish to be a prat in our community, please run the fuck back to Kotaku, the Weekly World News of the gaming world. I heard Crescente's sisters friends brothers aunts cousin twice removed boyfriends father worked for Nintendo and totally confirmed Batboy is going to be in the next Super Smash Brothers.
Anything owned by Gawker is terrible, period. The exception used to be the Consumerist, which was a diamond in a field of raw sewage, but that recently got sold because of poor (or non-existent) ad-sales. Life Hacker tries its damnedest but they get completely redundant when they post stories about programs that will improve your life, a day after they posted about a program that does the exact same thing better, while being open source and free. Life Hacker and Kotaku look like Pulitzer prize winners next to valleywag though, so they should feel good about that at least.
I'm not one to feed the troll though, so I'll end this with.... Good day sir.
who hasen't? if you play online shooters, you must have heard it before. two days ago, there was a guy that had the voice changer all the way up (damn you sony! DAMN YOUUUU!) and he kept yelling "die! die! die! aww yeah i shoved my shotgun up his ass, that gay f**!" and i said "dude shut the f*** up!" and he goes like "i'll shit in your mouth! come over here! come over here! i'll shit in your mouth! you'll like it you f**!"
at that point, every member of my team yelled "SHUT UP!" and we kicked him from the squad, locked it, and muted him.
Oh god. This is why it can be hard to play nearly anything on Xbox live, but especially COD4. I love the game's multiplayer, but every once in awhile - especially when you play with random teammates - you get morons like that. I have a set of headphones, but if I can get away with not having to use it (Most of the time, if someone has proven to be a smart gamer and taken the leadership role, I don't have a problem being open to what they want me to do.) - then I simply won't.
