Does toxicity affects you?
Be honest. And some tips when dealing with it.
Sometimes nothing affects me but other times it does. It doesn't matter if I play survivor or killer I am either sensitive as snowflake or cold as a psychopath.
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It's everywhere and effect everyone. You can't escape and hide from it.
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Sadly, yeah. It gets me frustrated.
How I attempt to deal with it is by closing the chatbox and making people unable to leave comments on my profile.
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If by "toxicity" you mean bullying, insults in chat, then yea, it makes me angry. Which is good. Makes me more dedicated to go tryhard, and that's the most fun way to play.
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Just keep in mind that majority if not all of them are immature kids who live with their parents. I mean if you're over 21 and leaving nasty comments to people online, you seriously need to grow up, that's just embarrassing.
But kids are stupid. Extremely stupid. Nothing will change that. The older you get the more you realize it.
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I don't mind toxicity like teabagging or insulting people in chat.
But when a killer hardcore tunnels or camps, giving the survivor no chance and completely ruin the game for everyone including himself ( killer and 1 survivor get to stare at a hook the whole game, other 3 survivors get to stare at gens the whole game ) then i get mad and i don't enjoy the game at all at that point.
Same for good survivors who stay in the low ranks by D/C'ing whenever something goes wrong, who bully low rank killers by outplaying them and looping them way too good. I understand that that is no fun at all for the killer who's still learning the game.
I play to have fun, i can still have fun while being teabagged or when someone "insults" me at the end of the game, i can't have fun when i can't play normally with casual people.
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" I mean if you're over 21 and leaving nasty comments to people online, you seriously need to grow up, that's just embarrassing."
But what if they started it??!!!
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I was a kid once and I was not even close to behaving like they do but yeah, I remember lots of kids being really evil. I just don't get it, it seems to me that average human is a horrible being. Never understood why tho.
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If someone leaves me a nasty comment I just block them. Don't entertain them. They are immature and not worth your time.
It's just that most kids are immature and immaturity goes hand in hand with rudeness and being toxic. I know there are exceptions and there are some good kids out there. But it's generally true. That's why when an adult acts that way you say they are acting like a child.
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You're not alone. 💕 Toxicity isn't fun to come across and sometimes you get very unlucky and get like multiple games in a row that has rude people in them. It almost feels like it's everywhere these days.
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But there are also many people in DbD (and even in this forum) that are over 40 or something and behave like 10 year olds which is in the end much more pathetic and disgusting.
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Yeah, it's why i removed all communication with others.
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Make sure people cant message you or send you friend request then you are save from the toxic cloud
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I remember maybe a year ago when the game was super unbalanced (the old ds that 4 survivors were always running, exhaustion perks recharging mid chase, bad pallet placement, etc) playing as a killer was really frustrating, I've always played nurse so most of the times I didnt had any problem with the things I mentioned above, but when I got bored I used to play trapper and there were sometimes at red ranks that I just wasnt in control, there was nothing I could do to down survivors bc I was really bad at mind games and they were always blocking hits for the others and things like that, so I was at the edge of my seat with my heart racing faster than the in game terror radious, I had take a lot of breaks from the game because of that, after a bad match and seeing survivors tbag at the exit gates gave me ptsd or something lol
But I never had any problem as a survivor, if i got tunneled or camped I was just like "meh" and move onto the next match.
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Imagine a 21 year telling a kid to jump off a cliff because of a video game. Smh
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Personally,not always.
It makes me laugh when people text me "y u tunnel me ,u noob." When I literally tried my best to not tunnel the whole game,lmao.
Or when that Nea escaped with 8000 second chances and typed "gg ez", lmao.
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The most toxic players are usually the biggest losers in real life. Just laugh at them and move on, it's not worth getting upset.
You can try to fight them with intelligence but it will only lead to you losing faith in humanity because of their stupidity.
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Yes, the main reason that I stopped play as killer for a while
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100 this. Just move on and let them continue living their meaningless, empty lives.
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Not at all, toxicity is everywhere in our lives at the moment due to internet and people thinking they can say whatever they like because it's the internet - things that they probably wouldn't say to someone in real life. I don't let it affect me, I actually wouldn't be able to do my job here if it did. In fairness though, I'm naturally pretty thick skinned and a lot of things don't get to me - I can understand other people being affected by things.
I just wish people thought more about their words before they address someone, it would make life in general much more pleasant for everyone.
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No. Teabagging by survivors or Pig and now GF don't bother me. I kind of laugh. Same thing with Killers nodding while hitting you on the hook. With so few ways to express yourself in the game it is whatever. To be honest even the messages sent don't bother me. I laugh them off most of the time and turn it on them by trolling them back.
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@MandyTalk I'm in the U.S., born in 1972, a kid in the 80s, came into adulthood in the 90s, and even before the internet people were toxic. In the 80s, I watched white people (including extended family members) throw around the N-word like it meant nothing, including to black people. In the 90s, I watched people, as the buzzwords today describe it, bully and troll people face to face, particularly with a group of friends backing them up.
The primary difference today is the internet, but not in the way people claim. Back then, you walked away or avoided said people and you could turn some of it off, so to speak. With everyone connected online 24/7 in one form or another, not only is that not as easy to do, but the "social net" is also much, much wider, so it also reels in more of those people as a result.
Being connected to such a wide social net 24/7 skews perceptions that things are suddenly more prevalent today. That isn't necessarily true. Just like the 24/7 media news cycle would have people believe that crime is higher today in the U.S. than in the past, when the FBI crime statistics clearly show otherwise.
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