Thread: Good Match Tonight!!

Originally Posted by FeareD

He is anti-versus because he doesn't get 100 chances to do the same thing over and over.

That's like someone complaining about legendary mode being to hard and say there anti-legendary. (Yes a Halo Reference)

Geez this guy must be anti-Expert, Anti-Advanced, and Anti-Normal.

well yeah, that and the fact that i didnt get into my whole "anti-versus" rants. Trust me, I'll start one. I think I'll start a thread right after I type this. After i check if there already is one....no, but I love expert and advanced. Its actually a challenge. Not like versus, not saying its not a challenge. You know what, I'll continue this in my new thread.

Originally Posted by Lady Pwnage

sticking up for the younger females :
if this is a matter of maturity, it is true (and proven) that females mature (MUCH) earlier than guys.

so younger girls should not be judged.

Untrue post is highly, highly untrue.

Originally Posted by Thunder

Of course the younger kids are going to be more immature. They are being pushed away by the older players, and those are the people the younger players look up to. They are pushed away into playing with only people of their age, and therefore gain no maturity. When they age into the 21 year olds, they will do the same to the next group of 14 year olds. All we need is a generation to accept the younger players and show them maturity, instead of merely pushing them away and blaming them for every problem in a game.

That's most certainly not true in my expirence, or my manner.

While I find a high squeaky voice rather annoying, I'll never kick for it.

As I said, I'll only kick if they are ruining play, usually by intentionally being an arse like using all the medkits/teamkilling, or spamming the mic.

And dispite seemingly having seen worst than most - I put this down to being in the UK and always playing random games - I haven't seen a single person kicked for the age, or perceived age. Obviously it happens judging by whats said on here, but I haven't seen it happen once.

I have to requote a bit

Of course the younger kids are going to be more immature. They are being pushed away by the older players

No, that's because of their age. You gain maturity by a number of ways. Blaming the older players for cutting them out is most definatly not a valid excuse. I daresay that maturity is not just gained via computer games.

And to echo Scase, why should we put up with mentoring them to be more mature? I get enough of that in life with my brothers, I don't want to have to do it ingame where I want to enjoy myself.

I just got back from playing some TF2 with some random little kid on my team. He helped the team out as best he could, telling us where spies where, getting the intel, capturing points, being a very good meat-shield, and a very good medic. He did absolutely nothing wrong, but i couldnt help but think:"Man, this kid is annoying."

I then realized:The kids aren't the real issue here, but merely their voices! It all made sense

Then, to add to the maturity, or detract from rather, my friend changed his gamertag from ACD951 to T McBaggsalot. Seriously.

This was someone I had known for five years. He came up with the name when he was twelve. We both had a good laugh about it while playing Halo 2's campaign, we were both twelve, mind you. He had said something about changing his tag earlier in the year, but i tried to dissuade him. It is a huge waste of 10 dollars.

So, i realized, these kids are getting kicked from games and muted and ridiculed, and more importantly -- stereotyped. It is all about how mature they want to act. We get a few kids who act like kindergarten-ers and then the majority of them who just want to play and coordinate as a team. But the small few who do act like kindergarten-ers make the dim think that they all act like that, and its really shocking.

Plus, if you want to stereotype little kids on live, or little kids on any game or console you might as well call all asians superb at mathematics, all black people derogatory names, and say they carry around firearms with them, and say that all latino-americans are "border-hoppin' mexicans" or "f-ing job-stealing beaners"

both latino-american stereotypes are examples of what T-mcbaggsalot has said

Once again things are called stereotypes not because of some sort of prejudice but because it is a common theme.

When 90% of the kids that I see are annoying squeeky little shits then yes I will call all of them that. When an adult acts like that he's a moron, kids have an excuse they are kids.

As for your "sterotypes" only the asian one is a sterotype, the others are just a thingly veiled way to berate someone. Calling black people or spanish people terrible names makes you a racist not a stereotyper lol.

Scase, you saved me typing a fair bit, well said.

How can anyone say we are stereotyping kids as immature? Kids are immature by nature. They are immature adults for crying out loud. That's a definition of a kid.

And how does anyone know that the majority of kids play in a mature way? What stats do you have? And don't say anything about people on your friends list - because you wouldn't add players that play badly on it would you?

I suspect the majority do play well, since that's the best way to get a good game.

But rather obviously, the vast majority of immature players will be kids. How can it be otherwise? Kids in general do not have the patience, tolerance, and many other qualities an adult has.

We have been over all this.

Yes there are young, good players.

Yes there are immature adult players.

Yes, some adult players do want the age limit enforced because of the amount of annoying players that are young.

No, there is no way of enforcing the age limit. Making this entire discussion interesting, but ultimatly pointless.