![]() My wife and I don’t keep tabs, trust me, but for as much as I have been glued to gaming, she managed to get her own form of rest-n-relaxation this weekend, too! Instead, I sip a pint to you, wink, and say: my word, I feel my age after binge gaming, but it is satisfying. Besides, I’m in competition with my brother, so while I had planned to catch up on topics that seemed to be relevant for this blog… The first player I unlocked within Heroes of the Storm was that of the (now infamous, yet younger generation forgotten) Kerrigan: the alien that graced the original StarCraft expansion pack.Īnd she told me to grind out the game all weekend. What is really fun is that the game – which will have endless characters – all are from the Blizzard Universe of games. It is meant to seriously work as a team, be as fast as possible, level up, and move on. The game is awesome, but like endless reams of bad reality shows, it isn’t played to boost your brain cells. Then, I log in to see what Heroes of the Storm – an online, free to play MOBA – had unlocked EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER this weekend for anyone to play. Hey – they both brought home perfect scores, so I’m not going to kick them outside. The week was busy and with soccer (proper football) tryouts coming up this week, my boys were planning on taking it easy and they opted to relax in front of our collection of consoles. Sip a beer or two, have some dinner, and bust out a family night of board games, card games, etc, etc, etc. I come home Friday night to hang out with the family. Sadly, the more you play I am betting the less you will realize you have been completely trolled. Yeah, so I guess I need to develop a Massive Multiplayer Online Troll Game where your kind can roam the ends of electron hell. Keep in mind that with almost all on-line games, we true gamers can block you, out number you, but more importantly… report you, have your account suspended, or in the best case scenario, get your account banned. Once I publish this I will have appeared to have sent invitations to such creeps to troll me, but at the same time, I will have briefly sunk to the lowest form of Internet-connected life forms: Trolls. ![]() ![]() The irony of this entry has not escaped me. It becomes you having to Troll your own inner Troll to out troll other Trolls with the end game being that your trolling keeps you – in reality and in gaming – as a level zero… or a lower form of this: You take the fun out of a game and it is no longer a game. Whatever the means or your ends might be, the intention – especially now – is really nothing more than an endless, self induced cycle of becoming your own Greek Tragedy. Your computer was (or maybe still is) your parental figure, means of escape, stepping stone to a wrap sheet, or even a place to vent. Hehehe – they are trolling you, I suppose! I personally like the psychological break down, albeit it is Wikipedia. Truly, you do none of the above as the words “annoying waste of space” would have been sufficient. In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. I get it, or I used to get it because I mean “good job” - Wikipedia now holds a definition of your kind: The Internet grew and so did these anonymous, endless time having, low life losers. Bully and screw up the lower level game players. Why not? Especially in other games where they were already level-capped, you understood they were just bored and had no game objective: they invented their own. Sure, in Quake III Arena, it was funny to see these newly named “Trolls” rock their skills because they could. They do not exist solely in online gaming, but pretty much everywhere across the Internet by a new name: Trolls. And for seemingly no good reason, no known grudge, and completely self-defeating to their own progress in a multiplayer game where success hinges on everyone. However, as much as I have fun, my age lends me zero patience to those individuals we once called “poor sports” or “assholes”: the random player that sucked the fun out of the game for their own amusement. Oh, to be young again and face first getting the CRT tan from a game of StarCraft, Age of Empires, and so on. Over the last few months my off-line hobbies have circled back to gaming: specifically online, multiplayer, co-op based games with team strategy involved.
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