The 10 Golden Rules of Online Gaming

http://www.destructoid.com/ten-golde...ng-64474.phtml

A few snippets:

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3: If a feature in a game is popular/effective, it is cheap:

Be it the chainsaw in Gears of War, or snipers in any FPS ever made, there are a number of cool features and tactics in games that people not only find enjoyable to use, but are often highly effective methods of securing victory -- never use them. If you do so, you are cheap and will become a noob.

7: Everyone is gay:

Before the Internet was invented, gay people were those in society who were attracted physically and emotionally to members of the same gender. Since the Internet, everyone and everything is gay. From the gun they use to kill you, to the voice they use to communicate with you, it is all gay, gay, gay.

10: Team members who score are kill stealers:

Kill stealing is one of the most abhorrent and despicable crimes ever committed, and is even listed in some modern Bibles as the eighth deadly sin. Every opponent is a victim waiting to die by your hand alone, and if anybody dares shoot them before you, they are a kill stealer.

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Excellent find.

That list is pretty much perfect and dead on. Awesome.

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If these pukes were good at the game like you, they wouldn't need to rely on such cheap tactics, would they? They'd be like you, running around with the shotgun, not having fun and despising everything everyone else is doing. The fact that they have killed you so many times is proof of how bad they are at playing.

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This was basically my experience with Halo 2, in a nut shell. I can't even count the number of times a kid doing just that told me I was cheap for using a rifle.

Awesome article.

Good stuff, pretty much all true.

#11 should be: If you can do something at the expense of your team, but with the sole benefit to yourself, it is the right thing to do."

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3: If a feature in a game is popular/effective, it is cheap:

Be it the chainsaw in Gears of War, or snipers in any FPS ever made, there are a number of cool features and tactics in games that people not only find enjoyable to use, but are often highly effective methods of securing victory -- never use them. If you do so, you are cheap and will become a noob.

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Play to win, imo.

12) There are at least 1,000,000 people without jobs that spend 15 hours a day playing whatever game you are playing. They will always be better than you, get over it.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

12) There are at least 1,000,000 people without jobs that spend 15 hours a day playing whatever game you are playing. They will always be better than you, get over it.

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Takahashi Meijin only played one hour per day and he became the best gamer ever. No excuses.

i bet i can out-mash that dude

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One of the most original and beloved songs to sing is anything done by Rick Astley.

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This is the Eleventh Commandment of Existence Forever.