#toxic chat

[ryotaiku]

Bless competitive multiplayer games that let you disable chat

[vgalmanac]

New at the Video Game Almanac

New from Justin - http://vgalmanac.com/articles/negativity-in-the-gaming-community/

Negativity in the gaming community

If you’ve played an online game, you’ve most likely experienced the type of negative chat I’m talking about here. The type that just completely ruins the game for you and pulls the fun right out of the experience. How can we turn this around?

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[kydoon]

Ran into some really cool people on Overwatch tonight.

  First thing was we lost a Dorado defense in overtime, and this guy that had been barking orders at our team went on some rant about how he had such a terrible team and how we were all “retards”.  Then everyone else basically jumped the guy.  Pointing out that it was actually a close match, and someone laughed and said "Found the League player, lol."  Then some folks told us not to pay any attention to him (While he's typing in all caps in the match chat that we're all need to go through the tutorial again) And someone says "Hey, let's all just report him together."  And a bunch of people were getting hyped on it.  I didn't report the guy, but it was awesome seeing that kinda behavior get backlash.

 The second one was actually somewhat directed at me.  I got play of the game as Lucio, and it was shoving a McCree off Lijang tower before amping up some heals.  That was it.  In the chat a couple guys from the enemy team started complaining.  "That was potg?"  "That was stupid."  I was even about to apologize for taking up that slot when my teammates jumped in.  "So much salt!"  "No way, that was great!"  I also got a card for healing, and got voted to epic!   

 Anyway, that's my tale of lovely people telling angry try-hards to cool their damn jets. 

[crankypancake]

Norwegian band with like 800 fans

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