In the old days you’d go one after the other through public servers until you find one that’s decently moderated and not super toxic. And then people would get kicked/banned from the server for bad behavior. You learned to voluntarily avoid all the internet trash. That is actually a very important lesson that nowadays people mostly seem to lack. Thus they become mindless TikTok or Insta zombies consuming hidden advertising brainrot all day.
To be fair, there absolutely were Christian servers back in the old days, that absolutely would ban you for cursing or taking the Lord’s name in vain.
I saw this in … shit, Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/2, Garry’s Mod before it was even sold for money, various source games and mods… Red Orchestra… all kinds of games that had dedicated servers back in the early 00s, there would usually be a couple that were explicitly Christian and would ban you for swearing.
old days of the interwebs is like late 80s/early 90s, before centralized game servers were a thing. On the rare cases of fully online games (original Neverwinter Nights and other MUDs and MMORPGs), mods and admins were known to enforce rules if they were online
Maybe what anon considers “normal” is early 2010s Dota/LoL/Heroes of Newerth, where winning meant getting called a “fucking cheating retard that doesn’t know how to play” and losing meant getting called a “stupid gay cunt retard n* piece of shit” and everyone was happy*
* everyone playing those games was absolutely miserable
“I remember walking into a 50s-themed diner claiming to offer an ‘authentic experience’ only to get banned when I called the waiter the n-word. Fucking liars.”
Anon is looking for any excuse to say offensive ass shit
Every server I played on even back in the 90s would most assuredly ban you for being sexist, homophobic, or racist. I must assume “back in the day” for this anon was after developer owned servers and random matchmaking existed, but before they actually moderated anything.
Even in the 2000s, many of the good servers on tf2 would ban for racism snd sexism. (Probably not homophobia tho). Gmod was worse for it, but there were still servers that didn’t allow it.
And it makes sense. Even if bigotry isn’t a problem to you, bigots tend to be really fucking annoying about it. You don’t often find bigots that are chill with it. When you cut the bigots, you cut like 90% of the shit disturbers that made the game less fun.
Every server of what? If you were on private central servers, like a UO shard, perhaps, because GMs were very active in the community, although shards I played would probably just tell you to block users you don’t like. Lots of games had just a lobby for matchmaking and you connected to the person hosting the match, lots didn’t even have chat outside the match, it was just a list of available games, and only moderation was if the person hosting cared. Stuff with central servers like Diablo/StarCraft… was there even who to complain to? Back in the day you didn’t like someone you blocked the person or joined another match instead of calling the cops.
Besides MMOs, you had Quake and other shooters. Games with player ran servers, thay very often had the owner of the server playing on it, if not other players with admin powers for it.
You weren’t banned from the game entirely, just the server.
I was a line cook during the old school Xbox days and the language I heard there made me uncomfortable.
anon be like
n-word n-word n-word n-word
n-word n-word n-word n-word N-WORD n-word n-wordi got automatically kicked on an IRC channel because i had sent a bot command without the / and everyone saw it so i said “oh im retarded” and when i rejoined the mod says “you gotta be cardful with that word, 2 more kicks and its a ban” mfw
5 gets you 10 anon is a literal nazi
“Here you are once again, staring at tilted windmills.”
“They’re swastikas, Jeff. No one heils a windmill.”
Do it >:)
