One of my absolute fondest somewhat recent memories is a couple of years back in some random, backwater TF2 surf server that always had horrendous micspam, i mean 24 fucking 7, no matter the hour, someone would be spamming just some straight garbage. Anywho, some map turned into straight up deathmatch and we managed to camp the enemy spawn and this little squeaker is screaming bloody murder at us over some dude blasting some godawful reading of some mushroom kingdom smut, holy hell, the whole thing felt like a fever dream. And that'd probably be a ban by today's standards
My fondest memories of TF2 are the channer servers - The Weebootique, idort's re/v/enge, etc.
You join and server message tells you immediately: This is a micspam server. Talking = Ban. Complaining about micspam = Ban.
24/7 youtube poop sounds, dramatic readings of sonic the hedgehog piss fetish stories, iconic screaming soundbytes, WTFBoom, rickrolls, blaxploitation movie themes (usually Boss Nigger), just... an absolute audio assault on your sanity.
Every 30 minutes some random uninitiated joe-public would join having no idea what sort of crowd he'd just walked into, would complain, and then get immediately vote-banned by everyone.
Even on regular servers I remember the sonic the hedgehog porn and people laughing and having a good time.
And all kinds of offensive sprays. Somebody would do their goat.se spray and it'd get covered over with boobs.
Must be an equivalent around somewhere on discord servers or wherever, but maybe kids are just in such a panopticon society they can't ever experience realness.
One of my absolute fondest somewhat recent memories is a couple of years back in some random, backwater TF2 surf server that always had horrendous micspam, i mean 24 fucking 7, no matter the hour, someone would be spamming just some straight garbage. Anywho, some map turned into straight up deathmatch and we managed to camp the enemy spawn and this little squeaker is screaming bloody murder at us over some dude blasting some godawful reading of some mushroom kingdom smut, holy hell, the whole thing felt like a fever dream. And that'd probably be a ban by today's standards
My fondest memories of TF2 are the channer servers - The Weebootique, idort's re/v/enge, etc.
You join and server message tells you immediately: This is a micspam server. Talking = Ban. Complaining about micspam = Ban.
24/7 youtube poop sounds, dramatic readings of sonic the hedgehog piss fetish stories, iconic screaming soundbytes, WTFBoom, rickrolls, blaxploitation movie themes (usually Boss Nigger), just... an absolute audio assault on your sanity. Every 30 minutes some random uninitiated joe-public would join having no idea what sort of crowd he'd just walked into, would complain, and then get immediately vote-banned by everyone.
Good fucking times with MY PEOPLE.
Even on regular servers I remember the sonic the hedgehog porn and people laughing and having a good time.
And all kinds of offensive sprays. Somebody would do their goat.se spray and it'd get covered over with boobs.
Must be an equivalent around somewhere on discord servers or wherever, but maybe kids are just in such a panopticon society they can't ever experience realness.
didnt they ban spraying? tis very gay how much big tech and the current culture has ruined the hobby.
Now there's a term I absolutely needed in my vocabulary. Thanks, man.