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Darth Wong wrote:When you're playing a game, do you talk at the screen? Do you crow in triumph when you score a good kill in a shooter? Do you bark out "attack" when you order your men to blow something up in a real-time strategy game?

Just wondering.

Oh God yes. I did lots of screaming to my ships in Homeworld a few minuites ago.

Chris OFarrell wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:When you're playing a game, do you talk at the screen? Do you crow in triumph when you score a good kill in a shooter? Do you bark out "attack" when you order your men to blow something up in a real-time strategy game?

Just wondering.

Oh God yes. I did lots of screaming to my ships in Homeworld a few minutes ago.

0_o That did not sound quite right. BTW since you reminded me, that was a nice performance you put on in El Tee Hit-Man's fic 'How To Deal With A Starfighter Thief." Y'all had me ROFLMAO!

EDIT: OMG WTF damn url tags... LOL

I talk at the screen *way* too often.

"FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!"

*often in Steel Panthers: Main Battle Tank when fighting Oberleutnant*

"HIT HIM!"

*Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Throne of Bhaal*

"Got ya ya FUCKER!"

*Any game where something dies and it was difficult and involved much loading of saved games*

BTW, I think my comp gets more verbal abuse that I got as a child (on average, per day).

~ver

I usually don't yell at my computer. I might mutter a few extraordinary evil curses to it when I find out that those 100+ errors that comes up when I'm compiling something is caused by one missing semicolon. And when the bluescreen of death appears and ruins half-an-hour of work. And when the Internet is slow as hell.

Though the goddamned Donkey Kong in Mario Kart 64 should have very little self-esteem left (if he had been real, that is) after everything me and my friends hade yelled at him when drives past us 10 metres from the finish line the last lap and Toad and Peach!! They always cheat as hell!! But that's not on the computer so maybe it doesn't count?

Ah, what I always screamed when playind Diablo 2:

LAG! FREAKING LAAG!

Watching what Nick does to his computer when it pisses him off is scary.

It includes hitting nearby objects (once he had an unworking cd drive he used to smash the fuck out of, with a wrench) throwing pens at his monitor (it has a large chip in the screen from that) and shouting "YOU FUCKING WANKER, FUCK OFF!" often when his mum returns home and bollocks him for it.

"Nuh-uh motherfucker! No fucking way, goddamned sonofabitch!"- One of my heavy units recieves a critical hit.

*Basso profundo chuckle*-I deliver a critical hit. Especially on a battleship.

And "nonononono!" at a close range torpedo attack, screws up my entire fleet structure unless I manouver the whole damned thing....

Talk? no.

Scream, rant, and rave when an assault isn't going like I expected, or laugh demonically and gloat when I've just crept up behind someone cloaked in AVP: hell yes!

I realy hate it when people shout at my software. End users simply do not realise the amount of effort programmers put into their work. It is not humanely possible to write bug free programs.

I swear often and in various languages when playing certian games
Normaly thats it but certian games drop me into a completly diffrent mind set



Natural Selection(Move bastard... mooove... yesssss HA CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP! Tasty! mwhahahaha)

Day of Defeat(Mostly saying commands even as I chat them)

BF1942(Mostly when being flow/driven by someone else I regulary yell driving m)directions to them)

I've found a new game for unbridled shouting: Mechwarrior 4: mercanaries.

"SHOOT HIM YOU IDIOTS!"

"MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!"

"DON'T OVERHEAT NOW"

"POWER UP YOU STUPID THING!"

baldur's gate I swear at the targets all the time. dungeon keeper, I act very playful, inviting enemy heroes into my deathtraps. mechwarrior, I act panicked. "turn around! turn around! fire! fire! . . .run!!!" tiberian sun I make little observations - "wow. that colony line just killed 200 of my men."
same with warcraft 2.

One time a few days ago in MoH.
"DON'T BLOCK THE DOOR YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!"

I used to talk alot to the comp while playing XWA, almost everytime I scored a kill.

Plus, of course with a mic.

Cyaround,
Jason

All the time, especially in Championship Manager. There's just something about that text commentary that makes me hurl abuse at my cheating bastard of a PC. Especially when the ref disallows a goal.

Crazy_Vasey wrote:All the time, especially in Championship Manager. There's just something about that text commentary that makes me hurl abuse at my cheating bastard of a PC. Especially when the ref disallows a goal.

"YES! YES! YEEEEEESSSS- WHAT!!! YOU BASTARD!!!!!"
Ref disallowing your goal

"NO NO NOOOOOO!!!! YOU INCOMPETANT USELESS - YES YES YESSS. YOU BEAUTY!!!!"
Ref disallowing opponents goal

"SUCK IT DOWN BITCH!"
Me thrashing Man Utd.

I tend to shout at the screen, as in 'Nooooooooo, my team should have won that match, they're better!!!!!' or 'stop pissing me off you crap team, do better!!!'

The only time I talk "at" my screen was when they added the voice communication feature to CS, and that was just merciless taunting of those I has just killed (regardless of how poorly I was doing overall). Otherwise, I'm quiet to the point of not responding to real people when they ask me something, or taking about ten sections for the question to make it through the queue so that my brain can process it.

2000AD wrote:

Crazy_Vasey wrote:All the time, especially in Championship Manager. There's just something about that text commentary that makes me hurl abuse at my cheating bastard of a PC. Especially when the ref disallows a goal.

"YES! YES! YEEEEEESSSS- WHAT!!! YOU BASTARD!!!!!"
Ref disallowing your goal

"NO NO NOOOOOO!!!! YOU INCOMPETANT USELESS - YES YES YESSS. YOU BEAUTY!!!!"
Ref disallowing opponents goal

"SUCK IT DOWN BITCH!"
Me thrashing Man Utd.

The ref disallows the computer's goals!?

I doubt you can top my 6-1 mauling of Man Utd with Hartlepool

The ref disallows any goals he can, their all heartless bastards!

I also get worked up over penalty shoot outs.

2000AD wrote:I've found a new game for unbridled shouting: Mechwarrior 4: mercanaries.

"SHOOT HIM YOU IDIOTS!"

"MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!"

"DON'T OVERHEAT NOW"

"POWER UP YOU STUPID THING!"

You must be a realy good Mechwarrior. When I played Mechwarrior4 the first time my lancemates outclassed me despite the fact that I am a Battletech and Mechwarrior veteran for six years.

Only the first two apply to the lancemates, the second one normally aimed at my second lance which is hanging around at the atart point. I have shouted the last two at lancemates a couple of times though, but they are mainly for me. Heat management can be a bugger.

Also this is on Normal difficulty so i assume the lancemate AI is tailored to such.

But the game isn't too hard. If you have a fairly good aim you can take out your opponent quite efficiently, or you can take out his weapons and have some fun.