Voice Chat and the Deterioration of Communication
Friday, January 11th, 2008 - 11:27am
2000, Counterstrike
Player 1 types: u gay noob
Server: Player 1 has been banned for offensive language.
Last Night, Team Fortress 2
Player 1 says: What's black, purple and green? A nigger going to church!
Is it the lack of screening software sophisticated enough to recognize voice, the fact that people no longer have to stop and type, or just a continuing breakdown of any semblance of humanity in online games?
I love chatting with Goodjers in Vent but the more I play games with built-in voice chat the more I absolutely hate it. It's come to be that before I play any game I figure out how to mute people in it.
Also, I don't get that racist joke either. Neither did anyone else on the server.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Whoa, really? WTF?
I "get" the joke, but a)don't find it funny and 2)don't think it's appropriate and d)think someone thinks they're more anonymous than they are, at least on PC.
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Please tell me this wasn't on Stan's. Please.
If it was, you ought to PM jakeleg and let him know.
Podunk wrote:
I don't get that joke at all...
As to the deterioration of Comm, from my personally experience, I think age does have something to do with it (More mature people that I have the pleasure of speaking to online are usually much more like themselves, and don't go out of their way to say things to get attention). Also, the lack of authority or moderation over the communication channels doesn't help either.
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Apologies for the picture, but it's the only way to be sure.
And that's why you only play games with Goodjers.
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I keep voice turned off in games and only get on a local Vent server that a friend runs. Problem solved.
Amen brotha.
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Pipe Threader Manual wrote:
Same here.
This isn't the result of a deterioration of communication, it's the result of a large population of people suddenly being able to communicate, but most have nothing particularly intelligent to send out into the world.
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That would be Penny Arcade, as in the image posted in the first reply.
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Strangely enough, I cannot see the image in the first reply. Oh well, at least I didn't get sodomized by a posse of 12 year olds for the response.
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That one is hosted at imageshack, so it might be filtered if you are at work. Here's the PA one: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
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No, it was on a public server. If it was on Stan's you can bet I'd have taken names.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Consider this problem fully diagnosed.
And could somebody do us a favor and resize that image?
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A Gospel Choir? Not much of a joke there though.
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This is pretty common on Live.
You get this sort of crap between every round on CoD4, or Halo...and it's usually some white kid whose voice is just cracking that thinks this stuff is funny...
Personally, after a night of mopping the floor with these retards, I start thinking about forcible sterilization and removing whole sections of that population to spur economic growth.
But that's just me.
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Yeah it's the internet f*ckwad theory combined with the fact that most of the 'normal people' playing video games are the Beavis & Butthead types.
GWJ needs to stop this evil discrimination and give these people a voice -- do they not deserve their own forum, after all? At long last, do they not deserve a forum?
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My brother and I have a standard rule when playing Halo 3 on Live with some of our friends. We play as a squad and basically all chat's used for is tactical communication. We'll joke around in the before and after-game screens, but if it's not related to tactics (out of range of the other team of course) it doesn't get said in game.
Why the strict behavior? Simple: there's nothing better than decimating wannabe l33ts when they talk sh*t on the comm without saying a word. Most of those idiots love it when people reply to their rants - so we choose to reply with ammo.
Other than that? Yeah, comms get shut off unless I"m in a GWJ game. What can I say, you guys rock.
No it's not.
I at times find I miss the text, but I guess my taste in games is shifting. I have CSS, Crysis, COD4, Orange Box, Bioshock, and Battlefield, sitting right beside me. It seems maybe this is a genre issue too. In diablo 2 I remember someone actually writing poems, (not little haikus (haikoos, highkoos, hycoos or what have you).. where was I, what does this post have to do with the subject? Oh yeah the genre thing, FPS and communication does not usually bring up in depth conversations or even in depth strategy and tactical observations. It is just simple stuff like, the pyros a spy! I could type a bunch more of illiterate sentences following this one, but I choose not to.
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Since I spend a good deal of my workday in conference calls, or on the phone with co-workers, one of the last things I want to do is put on a headset when gaming. GWJ BHA groups are likely to be one of the few exceptions to this rule. When I've been on a slow sever, and the voices are given that compression/artifact effect (it sounds like everyone has a heavy lisp), I was ready to throw my headset out the window.
Granted, I can see a lot of practical use in voice chat - I just don't see/hear a good deal of people making effective use of it.
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The top of my personal hate list is the prepubescent kid who narrates their exploits and whatever pops into their head when they play. The constant stream of high pitched and meaningless chatter drives me up the wall. I am thankful that the games I play with easy voice chat (TF2 mostly) have a really easy to use mute player option.
On the 4chan server for TF2 (which typically gives me a ping of 5 or so at work), they often have someone blasting terrible terrible music constantly through their mic. It is 4chan, though, so being obnoxious is pretty much their MO.
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Assholes and Annoying Kids. My two extreme dislikes on VOIP of any kind. I will always mute them and if I can't I'll change squads or teams and if I still can't away from them I will change servers.
I would rather play with adults or at least well behaved teenagers. Sure we get drunk once in a while and certainly have fun on certain nights on Teamspeak but taking crap from the general public is not worth anyone's time. Don't give the attention whores attention. Just reinforcement of a bad thing. If there was a way to mail these people an ass kicking in a box I would.
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This happens every now and then on PC. With my limited Xbox live experience it seem to happen a hell of a lot more.
Its what happens when you get kids who feel like they can do anything because it it the internet. I think the reason Stans is so much fun because we don't hear little kiddies like this.
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I should get some voice mod and piss the hell out of you guys at random. That ransom voice phone call guy would also be a cool one to have. (Lawl, JayKay?)
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Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
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