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Idk how to say this exactly, but one thing I've learned from playing online MP games is that people aren't socializing on them, they're just being antisocial as
by hot_gril 2y ago
Idk how to say this exactly, but one thing I've learned from playing online MP games is that people aren't socializing on them, they're just being antisocial as a group.
- nineplay 2y agoI'm sure it varies. The peals of laughter coming from her room suggest her experience is different.
- randomdata 2y agoI laugh at the funny HN comments. It is still a solitary activity.
- hot_gril 2y agoIt depends on whether the laughter is about the game itself or some personal experience a friend has shared over VC. Cause the loudest room on our dorm floor was always the League+Melee room, and it wasn't cause they were sharing funny stories, it was because Falcon did a moonwalk short-hop reverse-knee fast-fall L-cancel.
- nineplay 2y agoThey are laughing because someone got killed by Glitch. Fortunately I do have conversations with my kid.
- Spivak 2y agoThat's a function of the games you play. Online games are a 3rd space for hanging out with your friends. Like sure if all you're doing is joining public matches on CoD or whatever then yeah it's pretty antisocial but hoping on Discord with your friends and playing Minecraft / Roblox / Fortnite / the current meme game de jour then it's a great time. My friends and I currently have a long-running game of Don't Starve Together going. And it's one of the few activities you can do with friends when you're stuck home on a school night.
- hot_gril 2y agoOh our main thing was Minecraft. Must be the longest running popular video game ever.
- hammyhavoc 2y agoMinecraft isn't even close to World of Warcraft. Several times the billions and been around since 2004.
- lovethevoid 2y agoThis really isn't the case anymore. People are socializing in Valorant, they're socializing in Lethal Company, they're socializing in Roblox. Very little of this "antisocial in a group" stuff, which I assume you're mostly referencing to stuff like COD players screaming in mic at others (but mostly themselves), mostly because there are now better tools to detect and ban those participating in such. They've really become digital third places, especially when IRL third places have been overly monetized or destroyed.
- hot_gril 2y agoI was the Minecraft server admin of my high school, csgo was big in college, I know how it is. Not referring to public matches like CoD. Just cause we were unaliving mobs and building stuff together doesn't mean we were socializing.
- lovethevoid 2y agoIt doesn't, but many people do socialize in current games rather than just mindlessly unaliving mobs.