If you didn’t know, we played a game or two about a week ago or so, even assisted each other on some kills. I think you were also mic’d up. I don’t know if my son’s computer is mic’d up as well…but I wouldn’t even know how to activate the mic.
Thought the name looked familiar!
Please don’t do this. Play to win or leave. Goofing off won’t help a struggling team turn it around.
Yeah, how dare Chaos have a little fun once in a while on a game.
:rolleyes:
No, but it is fun and amusing.
I don’t think TF2 is meant to be taken as seriously as “Play to win or leave.” The art style, promo videos, and general atmosphere work against that. Just my opinion, though.
I’m a second-grade teacher, and for Christmas, one of my students gave me a gift certificate to Best Buy. I used it to get the Orange Box, which I told the kid in the thank-you note, figuring he would never have heard of the game.
Not so. The next day his dad came in to ask me what sort of video card I’d had to get to play the game well, and all day long, all the kid wanted to talk about was tips and tricks for playing the game that he’d picked up. (Remember: 8 year old kid, playing a rated M game). He wanted my phone number so we could arrange times to play together. WHen I wouldn’t give him that, he wanted my email. I gave him my school email, and within an hour of getting home, he’d sent me two more emails, describing possible achievements in Portal and how to sticky-bomb jump. This kid is goddam awesome.
So, my question. Would it weird you out if your kid’s second-grade teacher took up your kid’s invitation to meet him in an online FPS? Right now I’m leaning toward, “yeah, that’s weird,” and not going on the servers where I know the kid hangs out. But I tend toward the paranoid, so I figured I’d get other folks’ opinions.
Daniel
I would lean towards the “that’s weird” camp too…especially if the kid tells his classmates that he’s playing together with the teacher a violent computer game…and those classmates tell it 2nd hand to their parents any variation of that…you might get some pretty wacky assumptions going on about the two of you.
That sounds like one big headache for the rest of the school year.
Yeah. I also realized that the only reason I’d want to do this is as a favor to him: playing alongside an eight year old just has no upside that I can see*. Either I kick his butt, in which case I feel guilty, or he kicks mine, in which case I feel pathetic. And frankly, I do enough nice things for kids when I’m being paid for it. My off-hours aren’t for their benefit. Even if it weren’t weird, I’m not gonna be joining a server I know he plays on.
As for kids repeating it secondhand to their parents, I’m afraid that cat’s out of the bag. We teachers all eat lunch with the kids, and for the past two days all he’s talked about is different maps and strategies, and I’ve been willing to talk about them; it’s just barely possible some other kids have heard me describe how many times I’ve been killed by snipers :).
Daniel
- Yeah, yeah, I’m sure I’m already playing alongside plenty of eight year olds who are kicking my butt. Don’t rub it in.
My six-year-old first-grader likes building turrets & dispensers. Knows how to watch for those spies, too.
The last couple of threads make me feel all squishy inside. I’m hoping if we ever spawn another mob for our LAN party that they’ll grow up sitting on my knee whilst “Mummy caps a bitch!”
I was playing World of Warcraft, running a (then) high-level instance called Sunken Temple, and our tank was being kind of an idiot. Playing solidly, but not reading his chat for any group tips, not waiting for his healer to catch up, and occasionally going Leeroy Jenkins into rooms where a clever pull would be a better strategy. Finally I got him to talk to the group after he got killed, and after a deciphering a few lines of AIMspeak I said “Wow, you type like a twelve year old.” He replied “Really? thanks, I’m only eight!” :smack:
His dad took over about halfway into the instance, apologized for his son’s still-developing tanking skills, and let the group know that he regularly let his son play his high-level characters so he could learn teamwork (and earn his dad free XP). So if we saw him online again, we should ask whether it was him or his kid before doing anything that might get us killed.
Anyone interested in getting SDMB members together for some games? We have the SDMB steam community which has an event scheduling calendar - we could use that to get together at a time that works well for everyone. We’ve done that in the past with other games and have had games with 5-8 SDMBers at a time, or we could only get a few, we started with SDMB players and opened it up to the public. It’s been pretty fun in the past.
I’d be up for trying an organized game or two!
I’d be up for a game on the weekends. Are we allowed to post our steam ids on here to friend one another?
Mine’s DeadlyAccurate (real shocker, huh?)
My account is starsong82, but I usually play as Manifold Density.
I go by Snowblindfrog on Steam (big surprise). Look me up, I’m always interested in playing. I try to play for about an hour each night if I can get time.
Sweet. I’ll add everyone when I get on this weekend. Mine’s chewyhamster04.
Perhaps it’s just me, but I’ve got no problem with sentry guns when playing an ubered pyro. If I don’t have Uber then I have to pray the sentry is close to door or corner, otherwise I’m a sitting duck in it’s presence. Dustbowl Stage 1, first cap area I’ve racked up 14 points in a just under 30 seconds. This was all done with the assistance of an uber, but I took out 2 sentries, 2 dispensors plus a handful of kills. I was playing a defending pyro and when those gates opened I got uber and ran in. It was total carnage. Still goes down as one of my all time favorite moments in TFC/TF2 so far.
Wait–you were defending, and you took out sentries and dispensers? I don’t understand how that’s possible. Maybe I’m confused about which is stage 1.
Daniel