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The Online gaming community is raw shit. Play EverQuest for a few hours. It really is ridiculous. Players are so obsessed with being better than new players that all you can do is say NOTHING to anyone until you are a high level. If you ask a question in the game, you're a newbie. If you die, you're a newbie. If you use a certain weapon in counter-strike, you're a newbie. It's fucking pathetic. Games like EverQuest and Asheron's Call should ban the world "noob." Those who use it should have their accounts suspended for a week at a time.
Just as bad as using "noob" is using "l33t speak" in an online virtual world. Nothing is worse than seeing a clan of people in EQ shouting "OMG WE JUST TEH PWNT THAT DR4GON!!!!" When I played EQ (I quit about a year ago simply because of the people I'm describing...and trust me, I was addicted) and saw anyone l33t speaking, I asked them what they were talking about. That just pisses them off even more. And the number one question that will get the noob-callers: "What's a noob?" Ask them what a noob is after they've called you one. Trust me, it will piss them off to no extent.
-Lasereth
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