Comments on: Users Manual – Microphone

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:34:27 +0000

I dont think there is anyone out there that hasnt encountered this infestation before. It seems to some unwritten law that every server has a ‘village idiot’, that just p***es everyone around, causing everyone to have the inescapable desire to mangle their undoubtedly scrawny neck into their voice-command binded keyboard (you know the ones i mean – the b*****ds that bind every available key to a voice command)

By: Jigglesthefatman

Jigglesthefatman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:23:10 +0000

I pisses me off to no end how sexist people are online.

By: Players you don’t want on your team: Alt-code expert | ubercharged.net

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:22:21 +0000

[...] presence of such a strong team ethic encourages communication. That means that every team member should be able to address each other. This requires the use of a [...]

By: Respect, bruv | ubercharged.net

Respect, bruv | ubercharged.net — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:36:05 +0000

[...] not expecting everyone who plays online games to buy a microphone so you can share the many ‘wonderful‘ singing/raging talents you possess. If you don’t have or don’t want to use a [...]

By: IdleHands

IdleHands — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:30:29 +0000

Himmelstoss -
Aw thanks. Dang I thought I got all of them, and re-reading I can spot some your/you’re mistakes in there too.

Carsonist & Max -
I’m sure I’ve missed a few more mic abusers, but listing them all may make me lose too much faith in humanity. Plus I’m sure some new form of ear torture is being produced by some squeaky voiced players.

yer mum -
Ring of fire deserves a good machinima with pyros I feel.

By: yer mum

yer mum — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:53:21 +0000

“Team DJ” always annoys the heck out of me, particularly if you get auto-balanced from the team with useful chat over to Team DJ’s side (or, as is typical in these situations, from the winning to the losing side). The exception is that Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” in a TF2-style, which is quite funny, the first time at least.

By: Carsonist

Carsonist — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Prio, you have almost what completely enrages me. My problem is the situation that you described, (The cart is protected by a wall of death, and you simply don’t have the ability to take the area yet) except the person telling you to get on the cart definitely ISN’T trying to get on the cart. He’s busy maintaining his hidden sentry gun, or sniping some obscure corner of the map. He wants SOMEONE to get to the cart, but he can’t be bothered.

The worst part is, he says, “get on the cart”, like you aren’t aware that that’s the goal.

@Most definitely not Mooman, I absolutely agree with every part of your comment. Wish I had more people like you on my team.

By: Prio

Prio — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:41:21 +0000

Snipers are a poison. Spies are the antidote.

By: Mooman

Mooman — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:51:20 +0000

I once had a sniper on my team who would say a sniper quote every time he got a headshot. He sounded well into his 30s.

This was in a one-sided match. On Turbine.

Daytime TF2 is avoidable.

By: supremesonic

supremesonic — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:13:18 +0000

Uh, I mean “Pretending to RAPE me”.

Although pretending to rap with me is still a terrifying prospect.

By: supremesonic

supremesonic — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:12:42 +0000

The one I hate the most is cocky snipers. Partly because I don’t like Snipers full stop (In any game), but partly because of the misplaced smugness they have.

For instance, Gears of War – The lowest of the low for voice comms. I was playing this for some unknown reason a few days ago, and started avoiding two snipers. I kid you not when I say SEVENTEEN shots missed me, until one got lucky and got me down because the damn thing is overpowered. Cue pretending to rap me and lots of “Ooooooooh oooooooooooooowned” over the headset after the round.

Hmm.

By: Prio

Prio — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:49:17 +0000

@Most definitely not Mooman: personally, when I read carsonist’s comment, I immediately thought of the medic on offense with 20% ubercharge level who yells “get on the cart!” when there’s like 45 seconds left, and the cart is a couple of feet away from the next checkpoint, but THE ENTIRE ENEMY TEAM — which, I should point out, is on defense — is swarming around the cart and spamming it with stickies and death, and the ONLY people on offense who are NOT running back from respawn are the aforementioned medic and one heavy, and maybe one pyro.
Obviously one medic-heavy combo without uber will do lots and lots of good against a small army of demomen, soldiers, medics, heavies, pyros, and snipers! Why wait like five or hell we could even afford fifteen fucking seconds for a few more of our teammates to show up, it’s not like the enemy team can heal themselves in three seconds after the heavy does about 45 points of damage and then gets headshotted or blown to bits by stickies. It’s not like this game is called team fortress, it’s really throw-bodies-at-the-enemy-one-at-a-time-and-maybe-drown-them-in-our-own-blood fortress.
…
Sorry. Bad personal experience.

@Pad See Ew: or they go “PRESS F10 TO MUTE, FUCKHEAD.”

By: Pad See Ew

Pad See Ew — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:42:55 +0000

It’s funny because it’s true….

Man, I especially hate those people who think they are the DJ gift to the server. Then they get *insulted* when you don’t want to hear their trash. They’ll say “OMG JUST MUTE ME”. Well, as an admin banning is muc preferred.

By: Most definitely not Mooman

Most definitely not Mooman — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:52:04 +0000

@carsonist: I hope you’re not talking about the people who remind the team that they’d just sent an uber out to distract the team, so you can push the cart/cap the point. I’ve seen many a game lost (first stage Gold in particular) because people just decided that pushing the cart would be too much work, so they decide to stay (in the case of first stage Gold, up the top level in the left building) where they are.

The mic is MADE to remind other players of what to do. Perhaps when someone says “Incoming uber” you shouldn’t stand there with your cock in your hand, it’s time to run. If not, you’re going to die and we’re all going to lose that point. Of course, that depends on the other team not standing around with their cocks in their hands when the uber comes along. Seeing a pattern? Now you might not be one of the dumbasses that just choose not to listen to people and you might be talking about people that have no idea what they’re talking about. I’m sorry if this rant looks aimed at you, believe me it’s not. Yor post just reminded me of something that pisses me off and I’m not in too charming a mood right now.

Sorry.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:08:12 +0000

You forgot to mention that if you lose a game, give your team the super useful advice of “Okay guys, this time let’s NOT get steamrolled.”

By: General Balls

General Balls — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:30:54 +0000

…

Well that last post was a failure.

By: General Balls

General Balls — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:30:07 +0000

>>”in possession of several egregious spelling errors”<_>

By: certainly not clubtheseals

certainly not clubtheseals — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:27:12 +0000

Nice first rant (albeit in possession of several egregious spelling errors)

By: Himmelstoss

Himmelstoss — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:14:26 +0000

Nice rant – but they’re != their != there. Why do so many people confuse those words? “unless their n00bs” should be “unless they’re n00bs”.

But I love the part about girls playing TF2- it’s so true!

By: carsonist

carsonist — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:12:05 +0000

you forgot about how you have to tell everyone else how to play the game. No one’s on the cart? You can fix that with a quick, “get on the cart, guys.” Now that they know what to do, you’re sure to win.