Rant of the Day

Yeah, so I was reminded last night of why I enjoy ITOE so much. I joined a game of versus last night on L4D. Ended up being on a team with three other people who apparently know each other and play together a lot. They had their own server and everything. After we all join the game, we have to type "!ready" into the console to even start the game.

We play as survivors first on Blood Harvest. I can tell this isn't going to go well because the first thing that happens is they start making weapon selections and how we should only have one person with an uzi, etc, etc. I just grab a shotgun. Whatever. About half way through, we get a tank. We all have molotovs at this point and they all throw theirs at the same time. Not accidentally, by the way. This was the plan. I figured if the tank already has three molotovs at his feet, it's probably not a bad idea to save one for later. Apparently that was not how I should be playing the game and they start whining about me saving my molotov and then resort to talking about me as though I wasn't even there. They even tried to vote kick me but luckily the other team was decent guys.

By this time, all three of them had been incapped by the tank and I was the only one left. I start reviving the closest one and one starts shouting that I should revive him first because he claims, no joke, that he's "pro". A few minutes later, we're all incapped. Now it's our turn as infected. Before we even start, they're saying they wish they had admin privileges so they could just boot me. I had had enough so I figured I'd make it easier on them and left of my own accord.

Crazy thing is that I had been chatting with them in the lobby for about five minutes and they seemed cool. As soon as the game started, I pretty much went on mute because they were such jerks. By the way, at no point were any of the comments said "to" me. They were all just "about" me between themselves.

I just can't help but wonder how you can get to a point that the way you play a game is the "right" way and anyone not doing things your way don't deserve to even play on the same server as yourself? Do they actually have people come in and say "Wow, your way of playing is so much more fun than my way. I think I'll stick around and be your understudy in the arts of proper weapon selection and molotov timings."

So yeah, nothing of real importance in this post but I just felt like ranting a bit. Take it for what you will. Also, normally I wouldn't point fingers, but this case was a bit extreme. So if you happen to run into "k1 Mayhem", "Scumbag", or "Lexi [deviant_obscurity]" in-game, feel free to blast them in the face with an auto-shotty for me. Or just don't throw a molotov. Either way.

(I didn't do my usual proof-reading, so hopefully this is at least coherent.)