People Piss Me Off
It should come to no surprise to anyone who knows me, and fairly unsurprising to anyone who doesn't, that I have a temper. (And if you don't know me, why are you reading this?) Well, guess what. My temper has been inflamed, and in an attempt to cool myself down, I am writing about it here.
It started, actually, with a good thing. I finally, finally, finally got my demo of Halo to work. It turns out, it wasn't that the graphics card was glitching. It was a distributed computing project I was running in the background, that was sucking away huge amounts of processing power. The game would boot, run out of processing oomph, and die. I quit the background program, Halo runs fine. I played the Silent Cartographer level for a while--then decided to try the limited multiplayer included with the demo.
Apparently, Halo also stands for "Hellacious Assholes Lurking Online" or something like that. I can't remember ever being beaten so thoroughly by anyone on a demo version of a game. Y'see, it turns out that the room marked, "For Beginners" was created by a guy who apparently considers it great fun to use his great Halo skillz to beat up on newbies. Such as me. I was killed 20 times in two minutes. Even Lt. Dan can't do that to me.
So, I fume and storm, and watch WWE Smackdown! for a while to help myself cool off. I finally decided it was safe for me to start playing an online puzzle game. After all, how bad could puzzle games get?
Just as bad as Halo, apparently.
Long story short, bad teamwork, idiocy, morons, assholes, and plain old irritations abound in that game. I called another player on making a bad move that hurt me--and he blamed ME! What the hell is wrong with people? More importantly: What is wrong with me?
I know what one of the big problems is--I hate playing cheap. I hate cheats, shortcuts, backstabs, and all other manner of ways to get ahead unfairly. I like playing games how they were meant to be played, in the manner and style I enjoy. But, apparently, that's not cool. Apparently, I should be playing Halo for three years, just to get the opportunity to go beat up on 'stoopid n00bs'.
People piss me off.
It started, actually, with a good thing. I finally, finally, finally got my demo of Halo to work. It turns out, it wasn't that the graphics card was glitching. It was a distributed computing project I was running in the background, that was sucking away huge amounts of processing power. The game would boot, run out of processing oomph, and die. I quit the background program, Halo runs fine. I played the Silent Cartographer level for a while--then decided to try the limited multiplayer included with the demo.
Apparently, Halo also stands for "Hellacious Assholes Lurking Online" or something like that. I can't remember ever being beaten so thoroughly by anyone on a demo version of a game. Y'see, it turns out that the room marked, "For Beginners" was created by a guy who apparently considers it great fun to use his great Halo skillz to beat up on newbies. Such as me. I was killed 20 times in two minutes. Even Lt. Dan can't do that to me.
So, I fume and storm, and watch WWE Smackdown! for a while to help myself cool off. I finally decided it was safe for me to start playing an online puzzle game. After all, how bad could puzzle games get?
Just as bad as Halo, apparently.
Long story short, bad teamwork, idiocy, morons, assholes, and plain old irritations abound in that game. I called another player on making a bad move that hurt me--and he blamed ME! What the hell is wrong with people? More importantly: What is wrong with me?
I know what one of the big problems is--I hate playing cheap. I hate cheats, shortcuts, backstabs, and all other manner of ways to get ahead unfairly. I like playing games how they were meant to be played, in the manner and style I enjoy. But, apparently, that's not cool. Apparently, I should be playing Halo for three years, just to get the opportunity to go beat up on 'stoopid n00bs'.
People piss me off.
posted by Jonathan at 10:06 PM
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