Im a trash talker. I love talking trash. But where is it that you draw the line?

I keep all my comments to the game related, I ATTEMP to keep it witty (although often i fail), I curse, but always keep it threatening yet in a good natured way.

What i want to know is where people draw the line? Me personally, I hate those punk kids (we've all played with them) that keep yelling out random insults to one another, relating to sexual acts with your mother, general racism or just stupidity. Especially when they are losing.

does anyone have any worse case scenarios of this? Once I joined a game straight off the set of deliverance, bunch of rednecks in Halo 3, all with white armour claiming that they were the KKK of gamers. I did love the fact that they kept spurting out racial abuse to me even tho I am a white suburbanite from New Zealand... What a bunch of idiots.

I say, as long as you can keep it funny, you can trash talk me till the cows come home.

When insults aren't generic and directed toward you.

For example, we all know that we can say "Your momma's so fat" and everybody's cool with it. I think perhaps saying things like "Your sister is wide as a cavern" is probably overstepping the mark a tad.

Then again, I rarely ever game online so I'm not hip to the scene these days.

its OK... as long as its funny and is intended to be funny. if your not funny then SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DIE IN A FIRE! no. wait. TWO fires. and get kicked out of an airlock before one of them.

it just sucks the fun atmosphere out of the game.

i never trash talk. when people do it to me i ignore them. it confuses them mightily because they know i can see them talking, and that i can reply because im always talking to coordinate with the team. confused people spend more time trash talking, and are therefore easier to frag.

"Put up or shut up you little fucking twat, if you were getting as much pussy as you seem to think you are you wouldn't be spending your life playing videogames. Besides no girl is going to fuck a 12 year old who sounds like a woman, I know a few guys who like men that squeal like you though."

Trash talking doesn't get to me. What does get to me is the fact that so many immature little tards think they're king of the world cos they can throw a few pointless insults, it washes over me like water but at the end of the day it speaks volumes about the gamer community and that hurts. To be honest I would welcome the person who wants to say "Your sister is wide as a cavern" as trash talk, I mean heck this is the internet don't take anything to heart or get offended or you will die here. If I'm gonna be put down I wanna hear it with a bit of effort cos that's when trash talk gets real.

NeferX:
Im a trash talker. I love talking trash. But where is it that you draw the line?

I keep all my comments to the game related, I ATTEMP to keep it witty (although often i fail), I curse, but always keep it threatening yet in a good natured way.

What i want to know is where people draw the line? Me personally, I hate those punk kids (we've all played with them) that keep yelling out random insults to one another, relating to sexual acts with your mother, general racism or just stupidity. Especially when they are losing.

does anyone have any worse case scenarios of this? Once I joined a game straight off the set of deliverance, bunch of rednecks in Halo 3, all with white armour claiming that they were the KKK of gamers. I did love the fact that they kept spurting out racial abuse to me even tho I am a white suburbanite from New Zealand... What a bunch of idiots.

I say, as long as you can keep it funny, you can trash talk me till the cows come home.

My levels of trash talking are about the same, though it varies about the company I'm in. Being a child of the internet with many brothers, I have no real limits on subject matter, but in sucha setting as Xbox Live, there are limits. I've got no problem relating the inferiority of the darker races or my superior blood line AND HOLD IT, don't reach for that report button because I'm not actually some kind of racist, master-race obsessed jerk. I'm just A) very good at making people angry and B) a huge fan of 'racist' material, which in my book, comes second only to deadpan black humor. I just love racist humor because so many people think it's srs bsns. Let me just state again, I'm not a racist and do not advocate the genocide of non-whites, etc etc. I just happen to be good at employing it against idiot kids and getting people angry at a video game.

Now, then, I do have a distinction in this. I don't trash talk the other team. And I don't trash talk my team unless their my friends, and thus will understand my sense of humor, or I have somebody who has irritated me and thus needs to be mocked and offended into submission, surrender or fleeing. I don't trash talk the other team because I frequently find it annoying, between having such a small window for taunting, it's typically horrible noisefest and a good taunt is pointless. Besides that, I'm much more a fan of a series of "Good game" or "You, $player, sir, are the bane of my existence. You were responsible for 95% of my deaths in that last game. I look forward to fighting with you this round, oh, huzzah, we are on the same team! Joyous days are upon us!"

My only problem with trash talking is that console games don't generally have a "block" command.

Racist comments, anyone with a clan name in COD4 like NA2I or BNP too all yanks the BNP is the British nation party a bunch of racist skin heads in suits, whenever me and my friends find one we send them abusive messages and generally try to make them cry...we did once make someone cry though

Generally I talk 'trash' as you put it, only to a few very good friends. Usually I keep it witty and in good humour, and we banter and lighty insult each other. If I'm in a bad mood, they tend to be nicer to me, as I have a bad habit of ripping people to shreds, whether I like them or not. I'm just glad they don't take it personally.

In terms of material i will go pretty much anyway. I just only 'take the piss' out of friends. When its some idiot you don't know its neither funny nor fun. Unless they start it, then its genius.

Nimbus:
My only problem with trash talking is that console games don't generally have a "block" command.

There's this wonderful feature in Xbox Live called "Mute". And every game is doing as Halo 3 did by letting you hit the back, scrolling to somebodies name and hitting a button to mute them. In COD4 this only blacks them for the game, but afterwards you'll be able to mute in teh lobby via the guide. You can also put a bad player review on them that will keep matchmaking from placing you in games with them.

I don't let it get to me as the best way to respond to a trash talker is to destroy them in the game.

I have made the occasional bit of witty trash talk with the more racial-minded people on the net during games. My favourite piece was during a game of Worms Armageddon, with a particularly verbose frenchman, who seemed to have picked up the rudiments of insulting in our language (so no different from most english-speakers). After he made fun of my country, which I privately found hilarious, as I care little for my prime minister or the royal family, I cheerfully insulted him in his own language, telling him that I hated him, his country, his food, his language and his face, all in french.
After that, he decided to counter with "The queen suck black dick". Which he perhaps thought I would find offensive. Instead, I replied "Which means she gets far more action than you ever have.". The foul-mouthed frog was stunned into silence, and was delivered an arse-whupping to boot.

"huzzah, we are on the same team" - I love that feeling lol. excellent post.

DirkGently:

Nimbus:
My only problem with trash talking is that console games don't generally have a "block" command.

There's this wonderful feature in Xbox Live called "Mute". And every game is doing as Halo 3 did by letting you hit the back, scrolling to somebodies name and hitting a button to mute them. In COD4 this only blacks them for the game, but afterwards you'll be able to mute in teh lobby via the guide. You can also put a bad player review on them that will keep matchmaking from placing you in games with them.

I wouldn't know. I tend to stay away from cosoles nowadays, if only to justify the insane amount of money put into my gaming PC.

The problem is that certain terms are ubiquitious in trash talk "Gay/Fag/Fat Mom/Virgin/Squeaker" etc. etc. where no real flare is given to the talk itself.

but as Oscar Wilde (King of the Trash Talk) once said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde once referred to a friend of his as a "blinkering cockslot". If only people could come up with that sort of stuff on Xbox live.

I think trash talk has just been lowered to a slure of slightly racist terms, I remember when trash talking was fun. Not to say I havn't been drawn into arguements online but it's not very entertaining when all they can come up with is a string of swear words suffixed to a member of your family.

singing is the worst though, who sings online and thinks its a good idea? :S

Elurindel:
Oscar Wilde once referred to a friend of his as a "blinkering cockslot". If only people could come up with that sort of stuff on Xbox live.

I'm so using that on TF2.

Where do I draw the line? When it's trashtalking between teammates, especially when there's no voice program and it's all typed. Don't care what they say to each other but it means they're distracted and they'll be playing worse which means we won't do as well and that's not cool ;/

Generally I don't care what other people say to me as far as trashtalking goes, it's just some other guy all the way on the other side of the internet. What does s/he know about you? As for my own trashtalking, I don't do much more than point out the other team's failures in an overly sarcastic manner. "Nice shot." and the like.

When people use my damn shotty, if anyone yells at you for using a blue shotty with a grip, its me

I really can't abide by this. I come home from work/school looking to unwind, and I come into lobbies looking for like minded people. What I get is a clan of black guys cussing incessantly, and then one white racist comes into the fray (not me, mind you) and the whole match EXPLODES even before we're in game. I like games, and I like other gamers, but why the hell does everyone seem to feel so personally inadequate that they have to immediately pick up a headset and fire off every slur, curse, swear or dirty insult, at whoever will listen? I like other gamers, I like hearing what they have to say, I like talking with my friends while we're playing online, I don't like people screaming about all the nasty things they want to do to my mother while I'm talking with these friends. And besides personal objections, we're already venting by fragging each other online, isn't that enough? I mean sure its ok to laugh and say "haha, I shot you" but can't that be the end of it. No, instead i get someone using the crouch button repeatedly on Halo 3 (which by the way, has it ever been used for actually CROUCHING?!?) while vehemently attempting to hump their headset in contempt for my very existence. And thats just not kosher with me, so to all trash talkers out there, please, lets have some good will towards fellow gamers.

I draw the line at swearing ten year olds. I'm catching grief from a little punk who's testicles haven't even dropped yet?? Trash talk is fine, my brother and I throw insults at each other every time we get together, but it always ends with both of us laughing ourselves sick at our increasingly lame attempts to one up each other. And one other thing T-bagging has never been cool, so knock it the hell off.

The major joy of EvE for me was often the smack-talk. Nothing pertaining to real life whenever possible, and definitely nothing with an 'ist' at the end. Any comment about someone's personality and behaviour, all utterly fair game though.

I remember becoming a murderer in Lineage 2 (old MMORPG), killed off farmers and the occasional by standers, I would get abuse left, right and centre. I swear ,I never had so much fun in a game, the abuse just made it funny, I don't take crap from people who are dead!

However, any other time like when your trying your best but it's not good enough for some asshole in the group, then it is not funny! I draw the line when people talk shit when you are not pleasing them in some way. Even in CS there is the occasional dick head who calls out hacker or that you suck because you die straight away.