{"id":2039,"date":"2015-07-20T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:02:05","slug":"csgo-for-grownups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/07\/csgo-for-grownups\/","title":{"rendered":"CS:GO for grownups"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I\u2019ll be discussing abuse and toxic behaviour in the CS:GO community. Before we get to it, let me reiterate that I am madly in love with Counter-Strike. It\u2019s simply one of the best team games out there. This piece, however, is meant to highlight one important issue that I think we can overcome.<\/em><\/p>\n

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RPS is running that article<\/a> by Emily Richardson on abuse in CS. I have no idea why people freak out over freedom of speech being taken away or how anonymity allows abuse because there\u2019s no accountability. I\u2019m like what the fuck is wrong with you people?<\/p>\n

Oh I know the problem, I have pretty much never played that game outside LANs because of all the racial slurs online. But now I\u2019m a grown up and I still like this game very much. I play with bots and can\u2019t wait for that next LAN that will happen someday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe problem stems from the lack of consequence in these games for what would be arrestable real world conduct.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, the problem comes down to the fact that we\u2019re talking about teenagers. Maybe early twenties, you know that time when you don\u2019t know shit and you think you\u2019re smart and sleek but you\u2019re still testing boundaries. It\u2019s an age issue to me, by far. When I read this:<\/p>\n

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No one likes dying, and dying for something that was the responsibility of another player gets to people generally<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It gets to you when you\u2019re young and have no patience. When you\u2019ve been married, pay taxes, saw real death hit real friends and that you just want to have a good time strategizing on a Counter Strike map with people who share the same kind of life, none of that gets to you unless you have other issues that are not the game\u2019s problem. Isn\u2019t it obvious?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care who you are, I just know that if you\u2019re sixteen to almost thirty I mostly don\u2019t want to play with you. It\u2019s fine, you don\u2019t want no grumpy old gamer, I don\u2019t want none of your ignorance and lack of self-control.<\/p>\n

Now a lot of games are still played by young people and if games like LoL or DOTA2 have everlasting abuse issues, it\u2019s because early 20s+stardom+insane cash prizes leads to people losing their shit online and getting nasty.<\/p>\n

So Two Things To Save CS:GO and multiplayer games:<\/p>\n

– There\u2019s a Steam ID and FB connection? Let me filter by age and report age cheaters.<\/p>\n

– Let\u2019s log off. Let\u2019s have WAY more LANs. That\u2019s ultimately far better (hearing an opponent shout \u201cfuuuck\u201d across the room is always so satisfying) and if you want to fistfight on the parking lot, there\u2019s that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I\u2019ll be discussing abuse and toxic behaviour in the CS:GO community. Before we get to it, let me reiterate that I am madly in love with Counter-Strike. It\u2019s simply one of the best team games out there. This piece, however, is meant to highlight one important issue that I think we can overcome. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}