The Current Phase of Xbox Live Part One

Xbox Live is one of if not the best online gaming experience on the planet. Many hours have been spent on this network by all shapes, sizes and types of people. While I tend to enjoy my time on Xbox Live, I have found many categories of people to become annoying to say the least. Stereotypes in society are bad, but in this instance I am going to stereotype these individuals since they always tend to do the same thing over and over.

Stereotype: A conventional image or characterization that is widely accepted.
www.oneontacsd.org/hs/murphy/terms.htm

Xbox Live began around 4 to 5 years ago and has been a premiere online game function for both versions of the xbox gaming system. I started using Xbox Live around 2 years ago playing Halo 2 and Ghost Recon. Both games added a whole new dimension for gaming for me. I had played the occassion online battle on PC, but they were low end games that just sucked online. The two above games kept me on the couch and enthralled for hours on end.

The games where great but also was the human live interaction with other individuals. I say individuals since most of the people playing at the time were not the same age group as those today. Voice communication allowed gamers to not only chat, but coordinated during cooperative and multiplayer game variants.

Most of the time people you played with during the INITIAL* phase were for the most part cordial and willing to work together to win the match. You had few instances that took away from the overall experience. The CURRENT* phase is basically what the intention of this blog is focused. The initial phase was basically an incubation period for the current phase. While during the initial phase, you would occasionally have an occurrence that would take away from the Live experience, but today this occurrence is DAILY......just so you know what I mean by DAILY.....EVERY FREAKING DAY!!!!!!!!! My play time on average is about 2 hours daily maybe a little less. I usually am playing late at night due to the job, but I still come in contact with these current* phase....idiots for lack of better adjective.

Disclaimer: I am not saying everyone who plays on Xbox Live is an idiot. What I am saying is that they have become more abundant during the current* phase.

Now I would like to explain the current trends and personalities of the Current* Phase. I will also rate annoyance level from 1-10.....1 being alright I can tolerate it to 10 being I wish I could send a trojan to your 360. The favorite dis is the phrase most said by that category of player.


The pre-pubescent adolescent: This male---er female are the ones who left from middle school and didn't talk to anybody all day. They get home sit on their parent's couch and plug in the mic into their controller. They go grab their copy of Halo 3 from the shelve while thinking to themself "I bet Billy made it home by now!" He fires up his TV, adjusts the mic pratically on his mouth.

The game is not the highlight of the day it is being able to talk across the internet ....oohhhhhh ..aaahhhhhhh ....Their intention is to make sure everyone knows how many kills they had and their weapon of choice. They swear on occasion which makes this class of Xbox live characters even worse. I tend to mute these individuals within seconds. If I really wanted to relax to that sound, I would buy the Barney Christmas CD and crank it to max volume on my home stereo. When your balls drop you have the right to speak on Xbox live, but until that magical moment please please talk at a low volume with your mic under the couch that way the sound will at least be muffled. I can't tell you how they play cause as soon as I hear one I either leave the match or mute the person.

Favorite diss: You suck!

Rating: 10 {I avoid like the plague and VDs.}



The adolescent: This male falls into many categories/characters that I intended to list. You basically can say that he is the chameleon which is able to adapt to any situation. He can be a racist or a gangster or a shit talker or a clanster. It all depends on the scenery. If the habitat is correct, you will know which one to find. They are repeaters which will take someone else's diss add another word and throw back. You will find them very lacking in dissing in general, but will throw plenty of swear words out their in general usually without any coherent intent. Most of time plays to win and most belligerent after winning. He will also make fun of your gamertag cause it rhymes with douche or another swear word.

Favorite Diss: You suck you douchebag MF SOB etc.......

Rating: 7 {annoying mostly try to avoid since they always want to dominate the airwaves of Xbox Live}


The College Student: The college student is like an adolescent, but less rash. Usually not much of a shittalker unless provoked or with his online friends. He may tend to get lippy after winning matches with friends or counterparts. Can be seen associated with the adolescent, racist, and gangster. He will not repeat as much as the adolescent. Most the time college students talk of drinking and parties. Mostly will play the game to win and have fun at the same time. Does not get along with the prepubescent. Will cause raucous with prepubescent during matches. Best to avoid situation when this occurs. The college student will get rambunctious during the WEE hours of the night.

Favorite Dis: STFU

Rating: 4 {Don't bother me as much, can handle them since it is not far removed from my past}

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The Racist: Not much explanation is needed for the racist. You will know how to spot them out fairly easy.

Favorite Dis: {insert racial slang here}

Rating: 1-10 {Sometimes they can come out of the closet, while others wear it on their sleeves. It may be hard to pick them out but when they surface it is easy to find}



The Gangstar: This is definitely my favorite type of character on Xbox live. I like them better than the racist since they tend to be more animated in their dialog.

EX:
ME: "hey you wanna do a different match type?"
Gangster: "What son you leaving cause you got your ass kicked?"
ME: "uh no and why are you calling me your son?"
Gangster: "Cause your my son Cuz!!"
ME: Now I am really confused....."so I am your son and cuz so that means our family is a little weird!"
Gangster: "What did you say bout my family Mother Fucker?!"
ME: "right......."

As you can see the gangstar allows for poignant conversation and good ole' fashion time. Most of the time your will see that the gangster and racist are often the same individual. Both tend to say the same thing just in a different matter. They both just spew hate cause they love being tough behind a fake persona that is a gamertag. Sometimes it would be nice to see the moron on the other side, but I would be afraid of being disappointed. The gangster sometimes sound tough, but I am sure they would be sitting on an old couch eating potato chips with holes in their shirt pushing 125 pounds. If you really think your TOUGH or HARDCORE, prove it just don't spray your mic with a punch of shit that doesn't make any sense. You wanna impress me: jump off a bridge with a bungie cord attached to your fun bag. You would then be the toughest most hardcore individual around but until then STFU. {FYI: I said gangstar since they think they are the best players as well. gang+star= gangstar. genius I know}

Favorite Dis: CuZ you fucking suck yo!?!?!

Rating: 9 DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THESE INDIVIDUALS....THEY CANNOT BE CHANGED! THEY WILL DO THE OPPOSITE!
ex: me: Please lower your voice response: F' you MF' suck my dick



Part Duece to follow