There should be no problem with younger players... as long as they're exceeding the age of 10, i guess it's fine. Someone was on a CS server earlier claiming that he was 7 in his squeaky voice, which is just plain scary.
And as long as you act mature and handle things like a grown man, it's great. If you insist on acting like a 3rd grader, get off the servers.
Hmm I remember one time on a NS server that a round just ended. And some kid started talking and he had this somewhat high-pitched voice. Everybody was annoyed by it, but too lazy to mute him. So the admin kicked him. Was very funny imo, kind of a bummer though 'cause he was a good player. Oh well lol. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I will make fun of anybody who writes "u" instead of "you". <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's not your actual age that counts, but how old you act. It takes years for the stupid to be beaten out of us, so age is a reasonable guage of your progress, even if some people reach a point and refuse to get any better. 12 is just an arbitrary number, but close enough to the truth to cause stereotyping. The same thing happens with two-year-olds, but they aren't usually self aware enough to care about it.
High pitched voices over low-quality high-compression mics are a different issue. Spreading literal headaches does not make you friends.
Squeaky voices at 13? nah. Just wait'll you hear my 4 year old on voice comm <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
just wait until you hear my 16-year old voice on voice comm (French accent included <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
TalesinOur own little well of hateJoin Date: 2002-11-08Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
<!--QuoteBegin--Cereal_KillR+Sep 8 2003, 02:00 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ Sep 8 2003, 02:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> just wait until you hear my 16-year old voice on voice comm (French accent included <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> ) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I think I may have already... but then, crazy french/spanish kids are an absolute trip. Nobody can understand 'em, and they're still in the stage of (clinical definition) egocentrism that leads them to think if they can understand themselves, others can.
We've had an entire team paralyzed by laughter in v1.04 by an insane french/spanish kid, listening to his tone of voice and nothing else (as no one could even tell for certain which language he was speaking, and I know a little of both) as he grew more and more agitated, frantic and angry, screaming into the mic toward the end as we lost Mother Hive on Nancy, as no one had any coordination left to fight back the five or six LMG Marines who wandered in and gunned us down after a moment of confusion as to why they weren't mincemeat, and the skulks were all just standing around.
I don't think it really matters until they needlessly spam with their high-voices. Most people never know my age, because I don't go, "OH MY G)D ISAW AN OHNSO IT BIG HOLY IT WASH MAZIGN!". Those are the kind of people that shouldn't be playing. If you hate them just for being a lower-age, well... You shouldn't. But if you hate them for spamming and talking like idiots and in high voices, then, I don't blame you.
Most people would never guess I'm 12. It's the best. "Hey, how old are you, 40?" "Uh, actually--" "30?" "..."
<!--QuoteBegin--Teflon+Sep 8 2003, 08:41 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Teflon @ Sep 8 2003, 08:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But yeah, what mainly annoys me the MOST about 12-14 year old kids:
THEY LOVE TO TALK.
<In squeaky voice, which makes it so much more tragic...> "Okay commander I'm going down this hall... Ohnos theres an alien! help help i need healing!" "Uhg. Where are you? I'm trying to get us vent hive." "HELP HELP OMG LERK LERK COMMANDER THERES A LERK HELP GIVE ME A SHOTTY AND JETPACK!" "No" "Okay I kileld him! Yay! Commander can you believe I killed him? Thatw as so cool, I mean, it was like matrix there!" "Great. Get to Reception." "Man I hope I get to do that again. That was so cool. Like leet cool. I bet I can never do that again: I jumped off a railing and went over the lerk and was like BANG BANG I shot him!"
<Grinding teeth noise> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> *cries* this is exactly right.
<!--QuoteBegin--Chackle+Sep 8 2003, 02:43 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Chackle @ Sep 8 2003, 02:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm 13, I dont get "bashed" I get complemented for my accent <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh wow chakle i just Love your accent in this post <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
I tend to judge everyone in NS with the same degree of disdain and groundless contempt that I hold for the general populous in real life, regardless of age.
I don't think anyone has a problem with the mature members of your age group, which are probably the only ones bothering to read this message board.
It's just when some of you guys err... get excited. Everyone's voice goes up when they get excited, and some people have it worse than others. Maybe if, when you get really excited... you just take your finger off the voice button and take a few breaths, it might help. It might also help you communicate what you need to in a more ... precise manner. And honestly, as much as it embarasses me to say this, I've been playing FPS type games for a loooooooooong time ... and just about any 13 year old who picks up a game can beat me at it. It's a testament to hand-eye coordination, and my suckitude. Uh oh... any of these people could be a student of mine! Now I'm going to get called a noob at school too. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
3) You don't use a microphone and people think your 19-26 <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> and, <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> dude , we were all 13-15 at some point.
and i can guarentee that every 15 year old i knew or met online was a jackass .
If for some miracle that you are not ( and its probably that 1 in a billion pre teens are like so, statistically its possible ) then
YOU ARE A FREAK /nod. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Am I a freak? OMG FLAMING !KB <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
^ it's things like THAT that make people go, "You can't be 90, you must be 12.".
Afterall guys, Lets remember to keep one of lifes most important goals in view:
-Getting older so you can laugh at younger people <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
On this other forum I go to, this kid PMed me and asked me some question. I don't remember what it was, but we spun off into me guessing how old he was.
Turns out he's a 12 year old kid in Singapore, who has a better grasp of the English language, spelling, and grammar then almost anyone here.
Yeah if your voice hasn't broken, please don't com or use your mic. It doesn't matter how mature you act, people are going to find it very hard to take you seriously. Stick to the keyboard and you'll get plenty of respect if you play well and follow orders. When you're our age, you'll understand why being told to go to reception by a person who sounds 10 is really annoying. Remember, we went through the same kind of things when we were younger. Just deal with it; we did.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> One of the most mature members of my old clan, which is largely composed of 18-35 year olds, is 13. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->That can be taken two ways y'know.
<!--QuoteBegin--_Creep_+Sep 9 2003, 02:34 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (_Creep_ @ Sep 9 2003, 02:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> One of the most mature members of my old clan, which is largely composed of 18-35 year olds, is 13. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->That can be taken two ways y'know. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Grendel = immature <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Both. Inside that middle aged exteriour beats the heart of a child <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
My personal opinion is that you should not be playing games at the age of 15 <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> You have other, way more important stuff, like... SCHOOL for example, to do.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Children! Leave home, get a job, get a house and mortgage, a nice car, get married, perhaps get a cat.
While you still know everything!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just something i saw on a post card, thought it was relevant to the topic. And being perfectly honest the reason imo why young players are "Bashed" is because the majority WILL try to assert authority over the older gamers, they will attempt to put us down, however the "young" group as i look at it is 13-17, the majority of players who call "OMG HAX" are in this age group.
You think older gamers dont understand you and thats why they bash you (dont argue i know <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->) but in all honesty human nature for that agegroup, is to assert authority, to "win" a mate, to make yourself the top of the group, whys this... well its what your bodies are telling you to do, its all to do with procreation, unfortunately for you 13-15 year olds the law being the age it is set at means you are going to be high on hormones for a while yet. I know how it feels, I also know how it affects you, up untill i was 17, I was one of those "disruptive pupils", I got into many fights, Its embarasing to look back, but i met my wife at 17 and calmed right down four years on and i do have a house, a car, a wife, a baby and even a cat, now im stressed out for real <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hope this helps, And to you younger guys we do know whats going on with you, thats why we make fun, because it happened to us, the aggression you display, we did that, any witty remark you find the funniest thing on earth and laugh for the rest of the round, we have heard it, any problem you feel you have to share with us over voice comms dont, save that for irc or dare i say, another chat form that is alien to you probably atm, speak to your parents <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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And as long as you act mature and handle things like a grown man, it's great. If you insist on acting like a 3rd grader, get off the servers.
I remember one time on a NS server that a round just ended. And some kid started talking and he had this somewhat high-pitched voice. Everybody was annoyed by it, but too lazy to mute him. So the admin kicked him. Was very funny imo, kind of a bummer though 'cause he was a good player. Oh well lol. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
High pitched voices over low-quality high-compression mics are a different issue. Spreading literal headaches does not make you friends.
Just wait'll you hear my 4 year old on voice comm <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Probably a leap year zodiac thing.
Or maybe Im just drunk :-p
I think I may have already... but then, crazy french/spanish kids are an absolute trip. Nobody can understand 'em, and they're still in the stage of (clinical definition) egocentrism that leads them to think if they can understand themselves, others can.
We've had an entire team paralyzed by laughter in v1.04 by an insane french/spanish kid, listening to his tone of voice and nothing else (as no one could even tell for certain which language he was speaking, and I know a little of both) as he grew more and more agitated, frantic and angry, screaming into the mic toward the end as we lost Mother Hive on Nancy, as no one had any coordination left to fight back the five or six LMG Marines who wandered in and gunned us down after a moment of confusion as to why they weren't mincemeat, and the skulks were all just standing around.
Most people would never guess I'm 12. It's the best. "Hey, how old are you, 40?" "Uh, actually--" "30?" "..."
THEY LOVE TO TALK.
<In squeaky voice, which makes it so much more tragic...>
"Okay commander I'm going down this hall... Ohnos theres an alien! help help i need healing!"
"Uhg. Where are you? I'm trying to get us vent hive."
"HELP HELP OMG LERK LERK COMMANDER THERES A LERK HELP GIVE ME A SHOTTY AND JETPACK!"
"No"
"Okay I kileld him! Yay! Commander can you believe I killed him? Thatw as so cool, I mean, it was like matrix there!"
"Great. Get to Reception."
"Man I hope I get to do that again. That was so cool. Like leet cool. I bet I can never do that again: I jumped off a railing and went over the lerk and was like BANG BANG I shot him!"
<Grinding teeth noise> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
*cries* this is exactly right.
Oh wow chakle i just Love your accent in this post <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
-Cpl. Hicks
It's just when some of you guys err... get excited. Everyone's voice goes up when they get excited, and some people have it worse than others. Maybe if, when you get really excited... you just take your finger off the voice button and take a few breaths, it might help. It might also help you communicate what you need to in a more ... precise manner.
And honestly, as much as it embarasses me to say this, I've been playing FPS type games for a loooooooooong time ... and just about any 13 year old who picks up a game can beat me at it. It's a testament to hand-eye coordination, and my suckitude.
Uh oh... any of these people could be a student of mine! Now I'm going to get called a noob at school too. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
DustBunny
Sucking since Wolfenstein
1) You're a preteen.
2) You play NS.
3) If you don't use microphone, but people can *STILL* tell by the way you speak.
1) Your a preteen
2) You play NS
3) You don't use a microphone and people think your 19-26
and i can guarentee that every 15 year old i knew or met online was a jackass .
If for some miracle that you are not ( and its probably that 1 in a billion pre teens are like so, statistically its possible ) then
YOU ARE A FREAK /nod.
1) Your a preteen
2) You play NS
3) You don't use a microphone and people think your 19-26 <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and, <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> dude , we were all 13-15 at some point.
and i can guarentee that every 15 year old i knew or met online was a jackass .
If for some miracle that you are not ( and its probably that 1 in a billion pre teens are like so, statistically its possible ) then
YOU ARE A FREAK /nod. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Am I a freak? OMG FLAMING !KB <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
^ it's things like THAT that make people go, "You can't be 90, you must be 12.".
-Getting older so you can laugh at younger people <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Turns out he's a 12 year old kid in Singapore, who has a better grasp of the English language, spelling, and grammar then almost anyone here.
[Cult]Creep.
Grendel = immature <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
You have other, way more important stuff, like... SCHOOL for example, to do.
Leave home, get a job, get a house and mortgage, a nice car, get married, perhaps get a cat.
While you still know everything!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just something i saw on a post card, thought it was relevant to the topic.
And being perfectly honest the reason imo why young players are "Bashed" is because the majority WILL try to assert authority over the older gamers, they will attempt to put us down, however the "young" group as i look at it is 13-17, the majority of players who call "OMG HAX" are in this age group.
You think older gamers dont understand you and thats why they bash you (dont argue i know <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->) but in all honesty human nature for that agegroup, is to assert authority, to "win" a mate, to make yourself the top of the group, whys this... well its what your bodies are telling you to do, its all to do with procreation, unfortunately for you 13-15 year olds the law being the age it is set at means you are going to be high on hormones for a while yet. I know how it feels, I also know how it affects you, up untill i was 17, I was one of those "disruptive pupils", I got into many fights, Its embarasing to look back, but i met my wife at 17 and calmed right down four years on and i do have a house, a car, a wife, a baby and even a cat, now im stressed out for real <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hope this helps, And to you younger guys we do know whats going on with you, thats why we make fun, because it happened to us, the aggression you display, we did that, any witty remark you find the funniest thing on earth and laugh for the rest of the round, we have heard it, any problem you feel you have to share with us over voice comms dont, save that for irc or dare i say, another chat form that is alien to you probably atm, speak to your parents <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->