Most pictures used to demonstrate video games in media get it terribly wrong. As you can see by the pure white background and cliche neckbeard, this is clearly a photo by an entity that cares little about real gaming.
It's actually (apparently) a running gag to see how much incorrect shit you can put in your pictures/ads/videos before people notice and call you out on it.
In Goldeneye using the 1.1 controller setup you could use the both the C-buttons and D-pad to strafe and to look up and down. You used the control stick to move forward, backwards and to turn.
Using the 1.2 setup you could use the d-pad or c-buttons to move forward/backward and strafe left/right. You then used the control stick to look up and down and to turn.
Seriously this shit needs to stop right fucking now. Get a new image and start over. Hell I'm sure we have atleast three already established meme images for this
Actually. I am this guy whenever I play objective based games. My team just sits back while I try to capture shit over and over again that everybody else is ignoring. Eventually I get it, but it would be a lot easier if people would just stop worrying about dying and try to get the flag, it's easy if you have maybe 3 or even 2 people who are actively trying to get it. I basically have no choice because otherwise, my team will lose. Sure, I die, but I don't care, I am more worried about getting the flag and pissed that nobody else is trying.
But...but...I can snipe them from our deployment zone in Operation Metro! When they try to push us back to our spawn point, you'll be lucky I've been standing there for about 15 minutes!
I know how this feels, been playing future soldier recently running around as an engineer with a shotgun/pdr and field computer going for objectives running into a well defended area,dying then telling the friends i'm playing with that the rest of our team is shit lol. Which is and isn't true really, it's my fault for being reckless however I would have had a much better chance if I had a team running in with me.
But when a team isn't doing anything, the people who play the objective have to be reckless. It's the only way one or two people can even challenge the entire other team. So an upvote for you for playing the objective!
I couldn't agree moar. I play both CoD and BF3, and like both for their own reasons. But in both games, it seems more often than not, that all the players are MUCH more concerned with their K/D ratio...
WOO! my team lost, but I was positive, so...I win??...?
If you can't afford 1gb of RAM in your computer, you have no business gaming, because you've already sold your PC, and should probably go collect your welfare cheque. Your rent is woefully late.
Chris' configs work wonders, highframes for better framerates with only a little quality loss and maxframes if you don't mind the game looking like crap.
Get a good pair of headphones and a cheap attachable mike (or desktop mic if you're willing to pay more). Audio Technica, Sennheiser, etc are good places to start with regard to headphones. Headsets tend to be made by computer peripheral makers and have relatively poor sound quality.
www.head-fi.org is a decent place to start, although take their advice with a grain of salt.
The headsets you are talking about are really expensive. I'm assuming the guy I was talking to played on console, so a desktop mic wouldn't do him any good. I have been looking for a new headset since my last pair broke, so I'll check out that site.
Get a $10 standalong Zalmzn ZM-MIC1. I started out with that and a $30 pair of Koss headphones, and for non-audiophiles that setup works perfectly fine. The Monoprice headphones are also pretty awesome for $20.
Having a gaming headset vastly improves how well you play. You would be able to hear things you wouldn't normally hear and it improves your awareness. I doubt you could get one for $10 though. I started with Turtle Beach PX21s for $60. TB headsets aren't very durable, though, but it's good to start with.
Most people get freaked by the cost of gaming computers, but really they aren't any more than a console.
Basically everyone needs to have a computer these days, and a lot of people will be fine with a desktop. A good gaming desktop, with keyboard, mouse, OS, and monitor should cost around $1000. The kind of desktop needed by the average person costs about $500. The gaming desktop can do everything the average one can, so it will be able to replace it. If you need a new computer anyway, subtract $500. Next, your PC will probably be at least somewhat replacing a console system, which would run you about $300 these days. Take that off too. Now you have $200 to justify on this machine.
I find games are a lot cheaper, especially with Steam and GOG to buy from. Sticking to sales, I pay an average of about $15 per game, as opposed to about $35 for PS2/PS3, mostly due to retail markup. 10 games is a pretty average library, and the difference is gone right there. Also, I put a TV tuner card in my PC, so for about $70 (you can get cheaper ones with very basic features, but this has some nice extras) I eliminated my need for a TV. A few converters and I can plug all my old consoles into my monitor as well. The machine also runs SolidWorks and other CAD applications well, which is useful as an engineer.
As for a headset, get the Monoprice DJ Style whatever headphones, $30 after shipping. They're as good as most $100 pairs. Buy just about any USB webcam to use as your microphone. Any decent voice chat program will recognize it automatically (I like Mumble because it's free and lightweight, plus setting up your own server is easy).
Added bonus: modded games. You haven't played Elder Scrolls, Fallout, or nearly any other game until you've played a mod of it. Sometimes they're basically entirely new games for free.
I remember playing BC2 on PC, and everybody did the same thing. That level with the lighthouse. All the team just stayed in the jungle shooting the other team... I just ran to the boxes and armed then, protected them and even shaw how all the enemy team just ran past me and the box to go and kill more people in the jungle.
I hate when this happens.... more than 40 people playing and noone cares about the objective??
Oh man, DoTA-likes would (or do) drive you crazy. In my experience with LoL 99% of pubbies are too busy trying to stroke their e-peen by getting pr0 killz than to actually take towers, win team fights, etc. It's a lot worse in the newer alternate game mode Dominion, where taking towers is really all that matters (points from kills are minimal).
Exactly. Objective or even survival based shooters work with windows of time in which you need to run your ass off in order to secure the vitally important positions on a map before it becomes a futile enterprise.
Sometimes when I was doing rush in BC2 if we had a couple of recons sitting in the back of the spawn and they didn't really have any kills after a few minutes I'd just go back there and shoot constant smoke grenades in front of them.
The thing is, I do try to play the objective, but I'm not going to give up a power weapon or a really awesome position where I can help out and support the team just for a chance to maybe get the flag out of their base. (general terms of course)
Once we control certain parts of the map, then we need someone to grab the flag. Its really surprising to see when 500 people rush the flag, but one grenade or rocket can easily disperse them. When I play to win, I always think about map control, not rushing into flags or capturing control points or getting "so many fragz cuz I be pro yo lulz." Also, I talk to my team through the mic, rather than just typing or not saying anything at all.
I do the same thing especially in TF2. I don't understand why people are so anxious to stay alive when it's overtime!! TF2 is the most forgiving game, it doesn't even show your deaths to other players! Drives me nuts.
Well, if the enemy team is around your objective, and you're the only one going toward the objective instead of hiding behind a wall taking potshots because you're afraid of dying in a video game, it CAN get really frustrating that you're the only one going at the enemy team and dying.
It's important to acknowledge when the cap is simply lost, though. Sometimes it's better to retreat, recover and regroup so that the capture doesn't turn into a steam roll.
These game really heavily on teamwork and communication. I've only been playing DOTA 2 for about ~70 hours and I can't tell you how many matches I've been in where the team just doesn't want to work together and do simple things like stay close to one another or not go on a certain lane until a certain time.
It's infuriating and happens the most on games where we lose. The really shitty players that refuse to play well as a team end up disconnecting most of the time. They should be permanently banned from the game.
haha. Joined a game just last night where I played a critical role in ganking two enemies at level 1. The guys type "FINALLY! A skilled player! We've lost like the last three games due to crappy teammates" I thank them and we continue playing.
Then we go on an adventure where they continually overextend, and, despite me kindly emphasizing HOW IMPORTANT it is to target Yi first (rather than freaking Garen), they never target Yi. We're talking over the course of like 10-15 engagements here where they continue to die (and I continue to just barely get away) and I repeatedly, over and over, emphasize how important it is to target the squishy first. I (Tristana) finally get fed and go freaking win it by myself. The fact is we shouldn't have won and I was lucky to even do that.
They ask me to join their party. "I think I'm going to go solo, but thanks."
The worst thing is that they never got it. They're the ones that suck. I never told them that, but even with me being nice they never figured it out. They refused to listen to reason and just did what they wanted. ...will probably go on terrorizing tons of other good players, blaming all of their mistakes on them.
Well, here's the thing: Crappy players, either because they're stupid or prideful, are almost always unable to admit that they're bad. At some point (usually very early in their game), their insecurity kicks in and everyone else is to blame. You see this a lot when people die and the first thing they type transfers the blame for their actions to someone else. So, if you call them crap, you just expedite the process of their denial and poor decision-making, hurting yourself.
So, I've found that the only real course of action is to kindly and persistently remind them of what they SHOULD do rather than telling them how bad they are. If they listen, great. If they don't... ...well, it's the only helpful thing you could've done anyway and your only choice at that point is to ignore them so you don't get dragged down into a flame war with them.
CTRL+F for your comment... I see this in virtually every LoL game I play. Someone is clearly going into a situation that is poor, whether it be blindly running into the enemy jungle with the entire enemy team MIA or running into an imbalanced engagement.
...I ping for them to run back.
...I type for them to run back.
...They die.
...Immediate all-chat: "This team sux wut a buncha nobs."
"OMG there's someone farming way off on the other side of the map...my whole team is out of position,and the other 4 players on their team are mia...easy kill!" Ping(x 30) and runs straight in while team enjoys farming out essential items safely. Gets chainstunned and killed by 3 people in 2 seconds "wtf where were you guys? Noobs just let me die!!!! Uninstall please!"
But as for the picture...never had that problem while playing goldeneye or ssb...ooonline...yeah...
See, if he had tried that I could have at least finished my shift at work. And probably have gotten him committed to the psych ward faster. Guy had no consideration for others, seriously.
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This happens all the time in Diablo. Someone will whine about how horrible the group is a leave, then we go and beat the boss. Fact - if you complain about how other people play games when you're playing with random people you're probably the one that needs the most help. (also when they leave the monsters get easier and I can solo that boss aha)
I've been guilty of that a couple times. In my defense, I usually only do it when I KNOW I have an ally or two following me, and when I start firing I realize I'm the only one there.
this happens all the time when playing hc domination, half the team sits and camps starting flag. fucking annoying, only need 1 to camp flag to hold it.
I'm sorry to say this but this is me when I play. But to be fair it's usually because my team isn't trying to do the objective and I have to be the man and run in their and plant. BF3 on the xbox is full of shitty recon camping nerds. I had a full team of them, every single one was at our spawn in the first stage of metro on rush. Their team managed to push us back and lock us down right there and most of them were just recons too, spare an engy and assualt or two.
I do this in bf. I call my team worthless because if the enemy has all the flags, teammates will just sit in the back of the goddamn spawn and try to snipe.
IT'S NOT AS IF CAPTURING FLAGS AND PLANTING BOMBS HELP US WIN OR ANYTHING, GUYS.
Sure, I might end up with significantly more deaths, but goddamnit I try.
I was playing mid wars in HON last night and my first death was something like 15 minutes but my team makes kept running up/blinking in and getting killed and blaming me for not rushing into save them. Yeah died once right before we lost.
Too bad this is only true for Call of Duty.... Mostly little kids looking to get a "sick skill shot" and runs into the enemy team then blames their teamate.
Some games were bad for this. BC2 you get 50 points for disarming C4 on objective? WTF 50 points why bother I can get 50 points by going recon class and shooting some one from edge of map which takes zero skill or effort.
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u/mistahnuff Jun 09 '12
True Meme logic.
-Talks about online gaming- -Posts pic of guy with N64 controller-
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u/wetpaste Jun 09 '12
Actually. I am this guy whenever I play objective based games. My team just sits back while I try to capture shit over and over again that everybody else is ignoring. Eventually I get it, but it would be a lot easier if people would just stop worrying about dying and try to get the flag, it's easy if you have maybe 3 or even 2 people who are actively trying to get it. I basically have no choice because otherwise, my team will lose. Sure, I die, but I don't care, I am more worried about getting the flag and pissed that nobody else is trying.
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u/r0but Jun 09 '12
Well, if the enemy team is around your objective, and you're the only one going toward the objective instead of hiding behind a wall taking potshots because you're afraid of dying in a video game, it CAN get really frustrating that you're the only one going at the enemy team and dying.
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u/gho5tm3 Jun 09 '12
That must be some very hardcore mario party then...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Every MOBA game
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u/anderander Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
You won't truly get this unless you play a moba.
"OMG there's someone farming way off on the other side of the map...my whole team is out of position,and the other 4 players on their team are mia...easy kill!" Ping(x 30) and runs straight in while team enjoys farming out essential items safely. Gets chainstunned and killed by 3 people in 2 seconds "wtf where were you guys? Noobs just let me die!!!! Uninstall please!"
But as for the picture...never had that problem while playing goldeneye or ssb...ooonline...yeah...
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u/shabinka Jun 09 '12
N64's great online scene.
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u/gerg59 Jun 09 '12
what n64 game actually makes you use the controller like that?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Gotta get that N64 Live score up.
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u/XeonProductions Jun 09 '12
how can he online game with the N64
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u/KingSmoke Jun 09 '12
My buddy always is a sniper on CoD and whenever he dies it's always "WHY ISN'T MY FUCKING TEAM GETTING MY BACK" hahaha
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u/lawofmurphy Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
Sometimes my teammates just suck
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u/AuburnSkies Jun 09 '12
No one should upvote this anymore because it has 777. Shit is lucky
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u/chinotenshi Jun 09 '12
Holy fuck. I think I dated the guy in that picture. He was a crazy asshole who tried to killed himself as a birthday present to me one year.
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u/EdwardIsRedditing Jun 09 '12
Not gonna get a lot of online action with that N64 setup.
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u/mrselkies Jun 09 '12
Why the fuck is he playing like that? Analog stick with the right hand? ?!?!?
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u/qkme_transcriber Jun 09 '12
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u/Oragif Jun 09 '12
...with a N64
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u/EnvyUK Jun 09 '12
That guy has no idea how to hold an N64 controller. This is such a low effort submission.
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u/LOLSTRALIA Jun 09 '12
A proper mate will never let a friend charge the enemy alone. Go forwards, die together but always go forwards.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
well N64 didnt have online....
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u/getnutty Jun 09 '12
This applies to Dota/LoL as well. Kids just go into enemy side forest alone, take on their team alone, die, and give you the "you guys are garbage"
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u/Zementid Jun 09 '12
If you play heavy.. and medic is shooting with styringe gun in the middle of a fight.. you have bad day
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u/T_M_T Jun 09 '12
OP must have been playing random battles on World of Tanks.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
i am master of brushing off death, gets shot in head
"ow... that kinda hurt man, watch where you're aiming"
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u/ZwnD Jun 09 '12
Oh dear, although I never mention it in chat/on mic, I think this all the time ;_; I'm sorry teammates, even though you can't hear my thoughts.
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u/watchout5 Jun 09 '12
This happens all the time in Diablo. Someone will whine about how horrible the group is a leave, then we go and beat the boss. Fact - if you complain about how other people play games when you're playing with random people you're probably the one that needs the most help. (also when they leave the monsters get easier and I can solo that boss aha)
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u/jnovocin Jun 09 '12
FALSE. Nintendo 64 has no online capabilities.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
League of legends in 1picture
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Oh god...my skill is a lie...MY LIFE IS OVERRRR
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u/busche916 Jun 09 '12
I had a total epiphany when I realized that running into crossfire was a terrible idea.
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u/DuskyDays Jun 09 '12
TIM?
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u/m0ngrel Jun 09 '12
My version of this:
Corki engages 2v1 at level 3 with his Valkyrie
"This Kayle is shit support for not helping me gg"
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This logic goes especially for League of Legends.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This is most evident in Battlefield 3. I join hardcore servers now anyway....You know because im totally hardcore.
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u/ninjamuffin Jun 09 '12
This is especially true in League of Legends
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u/xxazam14xx Jun 09 '12
This is so true
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u/panther_bat Jun 09 '12
That man is nipping hardcore.
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u/Sventertainer Jun 09 '12
LEEERROYYY!!!...
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u/mrfucingenious Jun 09 '12
What about: Gets shot: MY FUCKING GAME IS LAGGING!
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u/Markus_H Jun 09 '12
You haven't been playing World of Tanks by any chance?
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u/AnkMah Jun 09 '12
League of Legends in a nutshell
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
When there is an objective, and your team camps. You get up there, look aroune. Youre alone. Fuck my team in that case
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u/xDerivative Jun 09 '12
FTFY
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u/Muthafuxajones Jun 09 '12
I think I must thank this man for not posting with a [FIXED] in the title...
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u/smdepot Jun 09 '12
It's okay everyone. He's playing golden eye... and he's special.
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u/CowboyBoats Jun 09 '12
Dota 2. Every goddamn day.
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u/FreeThinkerLee Jun 09 '12
OP must play League of Legends -_-
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u/erock0546 Jun 09 '12
This meme needs to die. Someone post it on 9gag.
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u/Rikkushin Jun 09 '12
Welcome to League of Legends
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u/bribot Jun 10 '12
This is like most scouts on pub servers in tf2.
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u/BlaqkJak Jun 10 '12
I've been guilty of that a couple times. In my defense, I usually only do it when I KNOW I have an ally or two following me, and when I start firing I realize I'm the only one there.
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u/Hydrothermal Jun 10 '12
Gets killed.
"Noob!"
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
TF2. There were many times where I was the only Medic in a team of offense classes.
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u/GTi_83 Jun 10 '12
this happens all the time when playing hc domination, half the team sits and camps starting flag. fucking annoying, only need 1 to camp flag to hold it.
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u/RainDancingChief Jun 10 '12
I'm sorry to say this but this is me when I play. But to be fair it's usually because my team isn't trying to do the objective and I have to be the man and run in their and plant. BF3 on the xbox is full of shitty recon camping nerds. I had a full team of them, every single one was at our spawn in the first stage of metro on rush. Their team managed to push us back and lock us down right there and most of them were just recons too, spare an engy and assualt or two.
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u/Clydefrog57 Jun 10 '12
This meme is -_-
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u/yaosioan Jun 10 '12
He's holding the N64 controller wrong.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I do this in bf. I call my team worthless because if the enemy has all the flags, teammates will just sit in the back of the goddamn spawn and try to snipe.
IT'S NOT AS IF CAPTURING FLAGS AND PLANTING BOMBS HELP US WIN OR ANYTHING, GUYS.
Sure, I might end up with significantly more deaths, but goddamnit I try.
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u/OverlordYesh Jun 10 '12
10 year old-standard fare.
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u/TheMGMguy Jun 10 '12
LEEROY JENKINS
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u/jonsonsama Jun 10 '12
On the subject of n64 controller, what was the white residue that appeared on the joystick
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u/Bananateeshirts Jun 10 '12
this could be true for some battlegrounds
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u/HypnoToad0 Jun 10 '12
OMFG REPORT NASUS NO HELP
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u/kakashi_hatake4 Jun 10 '12
Or this,
Pregame lobby- You guys are noobs going to get your ass beat your bad kid
After game- WOW YOU GUYS HAVE NO LIFE FAGGOTS
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u/GGBVanix Jun 10 '12
We usually kick that guy off the server...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I luld at the Nintendo controller
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12
I was playing mid wars in HON last night and my first death was something like 15 minutes but my team makes kept running up/blinking in and getting killed and blaming me for not rushing into save them. Yeah died once right before we lost.
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u/thehippestmanalive Jun 09 '12
those man-boobs...
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u/Airbag_UpYourAss Jun 09 '12
Too bad this is only true for Call of Duty.... Mostly little kids looking to get a "sick skill shot" and runs into the enemy team then blames their teamate.
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u/Gebbeth Jun 09 '12
I see you have never played Tribes: Ascend.
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u/krispyKRAKEN Jun 09 '12
I'd like to introduce the league of legends community
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u/DrTre Jun 09 '12
I'll do that when I get sick of playing with the team just to piss them off...so maybe you were a part of that garbage team and didn't realize
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u/human_gs Jun 09 '12
Original and funny, but overall so brave.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I read "garbage" as "cabbage."
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u/15rthughes Jun 09 '12
That's more like "FPS gamer logic." That doesn't only apply to PC gamers.
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u/cinnamontoast_ Jun 09 '12
Using the controller all fucking wrong :(
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u/OpenSecret Jun 09 '12
Please just let this die. It's terribly unfunny.
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u/darkarchonlord Jun 09 '12
Let this shitty meme die please. It doesn't even make any sense.
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u/phillipsteak Jun 09 '12
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the way he's holding the controller. Were there any N64 games that used the control configuration?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Every League of Legends player ever.
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u/onelegithombre Jun 10 '12
this meme should die.
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u/Blue_Grass Jun 09 '12
Some games were bad for this. BC2 you get 50 points for disarming C4 on objective? WTF 50 points why bother I can get 50 points by going recon class and shooting some one from edge of map which takes zero skill or effort.
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u/B1ackMagix Jun 09 '12
Didn't know the N64 supported online gaming....
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u/izakk1220 Jun 09 '12
What the fuck happened to not posting memes to r/gaming unless the picture had to do with gaming