Ideally, yes. But we are talking about humans, and we should not be naive about their nature. They are simply not as civilized and dignified as us apes.
I wouldn't judge the person, but judge the behaviour.Ideally, yes. But we are talking about humans, and we should not be naive about their nature. They are simply not as civilized and dignified as us apes.
Unacceptable for sure. But I'd really recommend caution when judging a person based on one (outrageous) rant. Even these kinds of unacceptable rants.
Believe me I really hope, that the behaviour of those people does not reflect on how they act in the real world.Ideally, yes. But we are talking about humans, and we should not be naive about their nature. They are simply not as civilized and dignified as us apes.
Unacceptable for sure. But I'd really recommend caution when judging a person based on one (outrageous) rant. Even these kinds of unacceptable rants.
if its reported, yes. Auto-censorship is so strict it filters out a near-endless stream of phrases which they cannot manually check or punish.
Its not just generational, its also cultural. In the Netherlands cursing with diseases/illnesses is tradition. There is an excellent wiki page about 'Dutch profanity' (which I wont link to but is easy to find). Cancer is popular, but as it is a very old tradition we also use (for us) old-timey things like the plague, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera and so on. We use it to indicate annoyance ("Pff, get cancer mate") but also use it against inanimate objects. You walk into a door? Thats some typhoid-door right there! Hit your thumb with a hammer? Tuberculosis! A bully is called a plague-head. You can also opt for the generic "Get the disease!", and leave it to the listener to pick whatever disease they feel is appropriate in the context. To some locals and most foreigners, this is pretty abhorrent behavior. But if it is how you grew up, it kinda loses its edge completely.I wouldn't judge the person, but judge the behaviour.
People say a lot of stupid stuff on the Internet. Stuff they'd never say to your face.
There was a young girl (!) at Gamescom once who lost to me in a War Thunder match and she calmly looked at me and told me she wished I'd die of cancer. So I stood up and asked her, what she'd just said. And she repeated it as if it wasn't a big deal, but slowly realized that for me it was a big deal.
She explained to me that it was something people say at her school, it's nothing serious. I explained to her what it felt like to watch my grandma actually die of cancer, including the last hours where her lungs slowly filled with water internally. That's what you wish happens to me?
We came to an agreement that maybe it's not cool to say something like that, but that she didn't really mean for me to die in a horrible horrible way.
Then we both went our merry ways.
Today it's Covid. Same stupidity.
Now, in a game we can only report people, we can't talk to them directly eye to eye. But I think we should report them, it's simply a step to help them improve.
Might be partly cultural. The first time I heard the cancer thing was from the son of an US friend of mine. Wasn't amused then either.Its not just generational, its also cultural. In the Netherlands cursing with diseases/illnesses is tradition. There is an excellent wiki page about 'Dutch profanity' (which I wont link to but is easy to find). Cancer is popular, but as it is a very old tradition we also use (for us) old-timey things like the plague, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera and so on. We use it to indicate annoyance ("Pff, get cancer mate") but also use it against inanimate objects. You walk into a door? Thats some typhoid-door right there! Hit your thumb with a hammer? Tuberculosis! A bully is called a plague-head. You can also opt for the generic "Get the disease!", and leave it to the listener to pick whatever disease they feel is appropriate in the context. To some locals and most foreigners, this is pretty abhorrent behavior. But if it is how you grew up, it kinda loses its edge completely.
Personally I like to live my life Michael Massi-style: life is more fun when you dont take everything too literal.
...unless it means he's 110,000,000,100,000,001 years old0x39?
Surely that would be 0x6F 0x37?
No, you say whatever you want and people deal with that however they want. I just presented some facts, nothing more, nothing less.
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Indeed. Had it been an adult said that to me, I might have felt compelled to show him the error of his ways in a more direct, one might say forceful manner.Good to know - and very interesting. My son is learning Dutch and I am looking forward to the surprises I will learn from him in the future.
However, you should be aware that without such a friendly explanation - especially in an international forum - most people have little chance of understanding the real spirit behind such a statement. I am also not sure that everyone who wishes cancer on me is Dutch! At least I will ask from now on. Otherwise (as always): it's all a matter of context!
Where we at it... Germans tend to take everything very literally. Just so you know...
Dont worry, the dude hasn't played the game in years and just hovers around telling everyone that both the game and the community is poopypants. To each his own, I suppose, but you wont run into him in-game anyway.
That's not really competitive. Competitive is when you and I are both trapped in a wood and the only edible thing there is blueberries.I'd say Elite is highly competitive: Community Goals and their rankings and rewards, BGS, Powerplay, Squadron Ranking, explo tagging, direct pvp combat.
It's just some people don't want to be competitive
I hate blueberries but I love raw meat.
That's ok as long as there's still enough blood left pumping to understand the analogy.
The main reason IMO that your observation is true is that the average age is somewhere in the mid 40's which boils down to more social experience which equates to being wise enough to not take everything personally, know the difference between what's worth fighting for and what isn't and probably most importantly a deficit of testosterone compared to the kids in competitive gaming for the simple reason that as men age we lose about 5% to 10% of our testosterone per year starting around age 30 or so.
Gosh I wish I lost more of mine. I get more resentful of puberty every year. And I'm 53.
I will add to this too, there is a lot less risk of loss in ED compared to other games, which added a lot to it. Like in eve, loosing a ship in eve is a BIG deal, and can result in literally hour, if not months of work to replace, so there is a lot more hostility and toxicity in the game because of that.
