Why are there so many asshats on the server?

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I want to roll a cleric so I can use this line :-)

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Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe its just me, but if I were in a lot of these situations I would probably be laughing instead of getting mad. If someone told me "buff me bitch", I would probably reply with something like "make me a sammich bitch", followed by giving them reso. If they end up doing /em makes Uuur a sammich, that's just a bonus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some people have a harsh sense of humor...

A harsh sense of humor is what you might see exhibited in an ER or a combat zone.

A harsh sense of humor is a bunch of guys waiting to get processed into a stateside hospital cracking up when one of them politely informs a passing nurse that one of his lungs has collapsed, or making fun of a guy with a bullet in his ass, or cracking jokes about somebody with shrapnel in his testicles. That's a harsh sense of humor.

"Buff me, bitch" is not a harsh sense of humor because there's nothing harsh about an online video game, and because it's not funny to anyone above the age of 15 - the age when kids find it endlessly hilarious simply to say words that they wouldn't get away with around their parents, or to repeat the same line from South Park over and over again. Gosh, it never gets old.

The reaction has nothing to do with thin skin, it's just a choice the listener gets to make to not have to deal with something they got over 10 or 20 or 40years ago.

I've heard some actual humor in-game, but it's almost always because of the context; if it's not, it's just a cut and paste of some remark the particular player heard and thought was funny.

Now I will admit that there are contexts where addressing someone as 'bitch' might be funny, but simply saying 'buff me, bitch' to some stranger at a computer screen who might be a thousand miles away is not one of those contexts.

If you were to walk up to Brian Urlacher and say 'give me an autograph, bitch,' that might actually be funny.