[guide] How to be unhappy in PoE and unpleasant in the forum

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Bars wrote:

Oh, it certainly isn't a classical sandbox game. I just meant you could enjoy it more if you treated it as one and you do have a great variety of possible builds and goals to set yourself. And focusing more on what YOU want to do and YOU are enjoying instead of what the others are doing.

But enough seriousness for this thread. I didn't intend it to be entirely serious. Not sure what I intended exactly apart from offending everyone in the forum :P

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raics wrote:

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Devonor wrote:

Yeah i remember the internett cafes with games like that . i really didn't care for shotting games , only 1 shooting game was cool imo : fallout series.

Hmm, right, if you're referring to Fallout series as a shooting game it's no wonder you don't remember times when playing games was also a real-world social experience. It was no different then, players would argue over same things, who's better, who's more hardcore, which game is better. Except when you visit an arcade or console parlor you're withing hand's reach of the one you're arguing with, getting your head busted a few times develops your sense for polite argument quite rapidly.

You can probably notice that older players are usually more polite and reserved online, that isn't because age somehow brings wisdom, stick is just a very efficient personality modeling method.

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Devonor wrote:

You probably are right about being more "understanding" but it bugs me they are ( some ) disrespectful to noobs etc.

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raics wrote:

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Devonor wrote:

Yeah i remember the internett cafes with games like that . i really didn't care for shotting games , only 1 shooting game was cool imo : fallout series.

Hmm, right, if you're referring to Fallout series as a shooting game it's no wonder you don't remember times when playing games was also a real-world social experience. It was no different then, players would argue over same things, who's better, who's more hardcore, which game is better. Except when you visit an arcade or console parlor you're withing hand's reach of the one you're arguing with, getting your head busted a few times develops your sense for polite argument quite rapidly.

You can probably notice that older players are usually more polite and reserved online, that isn't because age somehow brings wisdom, stick is just a very efficient personality modeling method.

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Bars wrote:

Yeah, nothing like the hands-down approach to beat some sense even in the thickest head. But it isn't just that - age also helps, at least some people.

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Bars wrote:

Raics was referring to Fallout 1 and 2 which were isometric 2D RPGs. Not even close to shooters.

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raics wrote:

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Bars wrote:

Yeah, nothing like the hands-down approach to beat some sense even in the thickest head. But it isn't just that - age also helps, at least some people.

I'd say very few, friend Bars, very few.

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raics wrote:

Of course, about that personality modeling, not saying any which way is clearly superior. Unrelated to games, you can notice that younger generations tend to be more assertive because of all that entitlement but lack patience. It's like building a starter char in an RPG, +1 to this, -1 to that, add background bonus to spice it up, but the stat pool total is the same.

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raics wrote:

I'd say the forum here is about average, there are much better and much, much worse. It has the usual assortment of elitists, bumbling moderators, Santa's little helpers, high-handed programmers, underhanded wannabes, village idiots, game balance and ancient weapon experts, former marines and MMA champs.