@CrazyStorm: Honestly, it seems more libraries have "game nights" and the like, which I encourage. I don't want people to lose sight of the resources a library provides, but, much like the youth center I worked in way back in the day, you do what you can to get bodies in the door and let them decide if they're going to hang around or not.
I don't see where this is wrong. Unless he was disturbing other people by cussing out people on xbox live or just talking too loud.
Unless maybe it is a college library and they want it to be used solely for studing purposes. But even with that, how many of the college students do other things on there for stuff other then studing. Like facebook, and myspace bullshit waste of time stuff. No one needs to socialize, espcially with total strangers......What am I doing here?
@Psychopathic Assassin:
Likely when he was "yelling out instructions" he was pissing other people off. Probably no one would have cared if he was quiet.
"What the fuck you fucking noob I'll fuck you up your asshole motherfuck-- What? No, I'm just reading the New York Post... this economy just gets to me sometimes..."
I don't see a problem with this as long as he wasn't disrupting other guests of the Library.
10 years ago when I went to college and used the computer lab there was always some asshole looking at porn in public and no one ever said a thing about it. I rather see someone playing Halo than looking at porn at public terminals.
@Tch0rT: I'm actually a supervisor for my college's computer labs and last summer at the annual training someone brought up the question of pornography watching because there was a guy who would come in and watch. Apparently he has all right to watch. It's not illegal unless he is watching child pornography, which then we have to call the cops for.
We were told if there were any complaints that we should ask the person watching the material to relocate to another computer away from the location or not watch in the labs.
Geez...if you're gonna leech off of a library's wi-fi...play something single player, you fucking toolbox...not something that requires you to communicate with other people through a headset because before you know it you are YELLING IN THE FREAKING LIBRARY!
@Xagest: Oh, I dunno...leaderboards? Vs games that don' require talking (i.e. SF4, Burnout Paradise, Bomberman, Madden 10, etc) to coordinate? He coulda just downloaded some new demos/XBLA titles...just sayin'...
@Polite Society: Every game that uses some sort of communication for teamwork (mostly used for smack talk) people just can't keep quiet.
I can't believe that people can't put 2+2 together on the situation and figure it out themselves.
Sad, desperate attemp to use public *education* resources for nefarious gaming.
Pretty tame compared to my experience though. About two years ago I was in my local University Library doing work for the University. As I crossed through the computer cluster, I spied an older fellow sitting at a station with the video display of an attractive woman undressing herself, item by item. He occasionally typed something into the chat bar at the bottom of the screen, and whatever he was requesting the girl was complying with.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing here. Nobody else but me seemed to notice. And with this University in particular, the letter of the law is the most important thing to them, so was this 'cool' with the Lib rules? The guy didn't make a sound, not even a breath. Weirded me right out.
08/27/09
Her thought on this is: "As long as he is in a library, I'm okay with it".
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I would love to see that
08/27/09
There. Want to play some more?
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Unless maybe it is a college library and they want it to be used solely for studing purposes. But even with that, how many of the college students do other things on there for stuff other then studing. Like facebook, and myspace bullshit waste of time stuff. No one needs to socialize, espcially with total strangers......What am I doing here?
08/27/09
Likely when he was "yelling out instructions" he was pissing other people off. Probably no one would have cared if he was quiet.
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10 years ago when I went to college and used the computer lab there was always some asshole looking at porn in public and no one ever said a thing about it. I rather see someone playing Halo than looking at porn at public terminals.
08/26/09
We were told if there were any complaints that we should ask the person watching the material to relocate to another computer away from the location or not watch in the labs.
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What an idiot. -_-
08/26/09
and second, you arent exactly REQUIRED to to talk to your teamates, yoiu just have to be stupid enough to do it in this situation
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Why would you need wifi for singleplayer? >_>
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I can't believe that people can't put 2+2 together on the situation and figure it out themselves.
08/26/09
How can it be stolen if it's free?
Also, nice to see Joe public still not having the slightest clue about video games. "Some nerd fighter game" ROFL!
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08/26/09
Pretty tame compared to my experience though. About two years ago I was in my local University Library doing work for the University. As I crossed through the computer cluster, I spied an older fellow sitting at a station with the video display of an attractive woman undressing herself, item by item. He occasionally typed something into the chat bar at the bottom of the screen, and whatever he was requesting the girl was complying with.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing here. Nobody else but me seemed to notice. And with this University in particular, the letter of the law is the most important thing to them, so was this 'cool' with the Lib rules? The guy didn't make a sound, not even a breath. Weirded me right out.
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08/26/09
While playing COD4 for 20 seconds he realized that auto-aim is built into the game engine and since he is a real man he shut that off quick.
Finally he got to quake, realized how awesome it is and was then kicked out for being too awesome in the library.
Or maybe the writer was exaggerating.
08/26/09
We need to stick together agints these "media" assholes. Head up player! Hope you found wireless somewhere else.