The Trouble With Rust And Online Gaming In General Today

Found this video from earlier in the year.

A grown man (okay, a grown manchild!) of reasonable intellectual and emotional intelligence enjoying making a child cry.

It’s taken from his brother SebbyK’s video, which can be found without the analysis by Niccaman above (which doesn’t make Niccaman appear to be a nice human being but another smug cocky hipster) but is shorter.

Rust is one of the many Battle Royale games out there, but alliances are more important as there’s also NPC animals trying to kill you as much as the other players. You need resources to eat, sleep, find shelter, defend yourself from others and the environment if you are to survive.

It’s another of these games where there is a difference between theory and practice – theory is players learn to work together, practice being the place is full of trolling little shits either too young to be playing it in the first place and those old enough to know better trolling the kids, no one learns anything other than new ways of being cruel.

The kid in question Ultimand (Mr.Clean on Steam) was rude, arrogant, and every time SebbyK made a deal with him and his mates (the assumption is he wants to get back to his own base with the loot he has before nightfall), they tried to double-cross and kill him – and to no surprise he stops attempting to deal with them after one double-cross too many. He’s holding all the cards. He has a gun. Yet still they try to double-cross. Stupid!

Ultimand also has a ban for cheating on Valve’s online system:

It is a sign of the world we live in he tried using his notoriety from the above video to get himself into other gaming clans, not realising they did not show him at all in a good light.

SelbyK is lectured over his behaviour from someone called VelkPwnsAll – nullifies his morality card play though having such a chest-beating gorilla name.

Watching the above videos the amount of casual racism was depressing:

Closing up on what Kappa KaaNo said:

His channel is full of such crap.

The big sporty car picture. The endless vids about ‘pwnage’ and griefing other players. All the trappings of an aspiring meathead – and so much for Darwin.

Competitive online games are fun – or they used to be. They’ve changed so much since I was a kid. Now wherever you go tantrums, everything being deadly serious, and so much selfish behaviour in order to get points for oneself ahead of team goals is so much the norm I’ve given up on them.

Would sooner spend hours wandering around Skyrim once more or playing Sims 3 instead of getting miserable about what the human race seems to be turning into if online gaming is anything to go by.