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Microsoft updates Community Standards for Xbox, provides examples of "acceptable trash talk"
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Really gross for a company to describe abusing other people as "acceptable" or saying deplorable things that puts them as the lowest shred of humanity as "going too far" as if the impulse to insult another player was fine to a point.
It doesn't encourage "healthy competition", it encourages people to stop playing because they don't want to be singled out and insulted for playing a game. Only a child would respond to a verbal assault with "I'll show you next game", most adults would walk away feeling unhappy with the game they played.
It doesn't encourage "healthy competition", it encourages people to stop playing because they don't want to be singled out and insulted for playing a game. Only a child would respond to a verbal assault with "I'll show you next game", most adults would walk away feeling unhappy with the game they played.
What's a online game without a little banter and trash talking.
Get destroyed. Can't believe you thought you were on my level.
This remind me that I used to get so much "1vs1 <profanity>" messages sent to me on Rocket League lmao
i don't think that's the origin of the phrase 'potato aim' and I don't think that people generally make the connection that you're making here, either consciously or otherwise, when they hear the phrase 'potato aim'
anyway I'm not even sure what "I can Count to potato" means. Count Dracula is a vampire. how do you Count a Potato? Do you give it wax vampire teeth or something?
^^^ that's how silly it looked to me when you linked this common twitch bantz to a rare meme that happens to share one word, but that's mainly because I watch a decent amount of twitch and I know that the phrase is not slung around with the intent to demean someone's intelligence or mental state.
"That's ok. I think some day with practice you could actually be good" said in a very patient and encouraging voice to someone who's put in hundreds of hours of play
I've seen "potato" more often used for something super low quality or cheap. Eg. a "potato computer" being a super old one that can barely run games and take forever to load in multiplayer games.
Because it's never going to leave the sports / competitive mentality so why bother.
This reads like a very common sense things not to say online like
"You got raped"
"I'm going to rape you"
Etc etc
I'm more accustom to it being used to describe less than intelligent teammates in many F2P games as a substitute for something else. But yeah, your interpretation is probably more in line with the majority.
Come on now, "abusing other people" is a bit strong. I think these guidelines are good, there's nothing wrong with a bit of banter and piss taking.
I am disappointed with the lack of Monkey Island pirate sword fighting memes. People can be really toxic in general, so them trying to hamper it and try to encourage "better" trash talk is good.
This is not encouragement, it's their guidelines. Trash talk will happen, they're trying to better define acceptable limits for its occurrence on their platform.
Come at me when you can make community standards intended to rein in toxic behavior without implicitly endorsing a limited form of that toxicity
I do like that they provide useful guidelines, but anyone who would say these sound like they would be toxic assholes that I'd block immediately (and probably report) anyway
I do like that they provide useful guidelines, but anyone who would say these sound like they would be toxic assholes that I'd block immediately (and probably report) anyway
Someone not only had to write those acceptable trash talk guidelines they also had to publish them. This is so awkward.
Trash talk is as unavoidable as farting. Feels good, annoys everyone else and it's not going to stop anytime soon.
Reads like something Ryu would say in Street Fighter 2 after kicking your ass
"Go home and be a family man" should be in the acceptable list.
It's definitely encouragement, they claim trash talking promotes "healthy competition".
This. I haven't heard chatter in games in a long time.
I thought we already did that once and that was the whole point of Australia smh
My god. It's like I'm reading the script to those on-stage online multiplayer performances.
When I play Apex with my friends we constantly shit talk our own potato aim
I'm always in party chat across all games to avoid hearing any of the examples provided by Microsoft.
I'm always in party chat across all games to avoid hearing any of the examples provided by Microsoft.
even after this I won't respond to messages over the Xbox App. just not worth a ban for some salty kid.