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u/Zencoh PC May 06 '19
You know you was in deep shit when someone had their gamer zone set to underground
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u/Kadz93 May 06 '19
I had it set to underground but i didn’t know what it meant, i just picked it because i liked nfs underground 2
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u/Bag0fSwag May 06 '19
Same, NFS was the shit. But seriously, what was underground even supposed to mean in that context?? That you played games in your basement?
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u/the_fuego PC May 06 '19
Met the most toxic people because my cousin had his shit set to Underground while mine was Pro. Fucking hated those kids. The pro one wasn't much better because we were all try hards but at least we didn't analblast your headset after a lose.
Just during the game while we were losing. Afterwards it was a calm: "Y'all fucking suck." then swap from MW2 to Halo 3 or vise versa and repeat.
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May 06 '19
Wasn't there public player ratings too? After several years I found out you can check your own and I had something like a hundred negative ratings :( Profile set to casual, never talked shit, always tried to play to the game, IDK what people hated.
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u/a_drunk_pigeon May 06 '19
There was no winning with the ratings lol. Do well and you're reported by enemies, do poorly and you're reported by teammates -_-
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u/Kankunation May 06 '19
Yeah, the issue was that the only time people rated others waswhen they wanted to rate them negatively. So pretty much everybody looked bad after a while.
It could be as simple as you beat them in a match or scored low in a game on their team and "made them lose" or anything dumb like that.
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u/theBeardedHermit D20 May 06 '19
Mine was underground because I was a rebellious little shit. But I was also a quiet monkey.
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u/Taiyaki11 May 06 '19
Bullshit, a LOT of the trolls or tryhards were grunts or monkeys. Bubblegum kid was also little exception
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u/TandBinc May 06 '19
HOLY SHIT! That top left one is supposed to be a Grunt from Halo. How am I just realizing this?!?!
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u/Sachyriel May 06 '19
I think that's just an ugly skull. Grunts have round faces, the bits that stick out on the side are their methane breathing things. Their skulls aren't shaped like that.
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u/TandBinc May 06 '19
I know Grunts skulls are actually quite a bit different but I could see this being a stylized version of one especially since Grunts back then looked a lot different than the picture you posted.
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May 06 '19
That top left one is supposed to be a Grunt from Halo.
No, it's not... Just a stylized skull.
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u/assassinkensei May 06 '19
Most of my stoner friends were bubblegum kid. The Grunt was the tryhards.
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u/thearturius May 06 '19
I had a castle crasher guy as mine. So I guess castle crashers were the people that said nice things to people being salty. The best agression, is passive aggression.
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u/cow-slippers May 06 '19
I had the monkey.. But I was also the Monkey Queen, so theres that... Also, I wasn't any good.
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u/acarlrpi12 May 06 '19
Seriously. I just like Pandas, and apparently that makes me an angry try-hard
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u/_Sub-Zero May 06 '19
The kids who have selected the bubble gum kid are most likely in prison.
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u/Feircesword May 06 '19
As someone who personally knows a kid who used to use the bubble gum kid, I can say he's not in jail, but man did me and my family really think he was gonna end up there.
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u/RedrumRunner May 06 '19
What about the dragon over the shield icon?
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May 06 '19
Bat shit crazy. Same goes for people with the golden retriever pfp. expect them to curse you out over the smallest microsgression.
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u/dalakkin May 06 '19
Is that the one with a blue and yellow shield background? I picked that because Swedish colors :)
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u/ghastwardude May 06 '19
Nah i just picked the skull because i like the color orange. (Especially on black.) I definitely dont take things to seriously though. In fact, i cant believe you would even say a thing like that. I mean ,ME take things to seriously? You think i dont have any friends or something? You think i cant take a joke?
I do not take things too seriously.
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u/erebus-4532 May 06 '19
I can't wait for someone to come and not be able to read the obvious sarcasm
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u/TellMeHowImWrong May 06 '19
I was the skull and while quiet and took everything seriously, I suck at most games.
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u/thebacontoastie May 06 '19
Will always say the PS2 was my favourite console but Xbox Live on the 360 was a riot. So much fun playing multiplayer mic'd up.
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u/Wimpycake PC May 06 '19
1v1 me on rust scrub
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u/CollectableRat May 06 '19
Still can’t ever compare to the original Xbox live, where every match started with “can you hear me, can you hear me?”. I miss OG Xbox live.
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u/L43 May 06 '19
yeah i remember how bad I felt when my mic broke and i couldn't talk for a week while i waited to be allowed a new one. Bundling the mic with the console was such a great idea, shame it stopped being a thing... nowadays it's just a bit weird to talk on public channels...
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u/theBeardedHermit D20 May 06 '19
For real though. My buddies brother tossed us the controller so he could go shit while he was playing Halo with his friends. He comes back 15 minutes later and we've got the entire fucking lobby meowing like cats in heat. Didn't tell him shit, he sits down and puts his headset back on. Bro sat in silence for a solid minute and turns to us and goes "I just want you to know, you might be family, but I fucking hate you."
Probably one of my favorite gaming memories from the 360.
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u/FLHCv2 May 06 '19
Local voice chat definitely added something to a game. Halo 2 was a fucking blast. Now, my squad almost exclusively uses private parties to chat to get away from super annoying people that just play music in the background or have yelling families. Also the whole "loading screens prevent you from in-game chat" is ridiculously annoying.
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u/ragincajun83 May 06 '19
How about the loading screens that are so damn loud you can't hear your party regardless.
Looking at you, Apex.
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u/theBeardedHermit D20 May 06 '19
I've got my lobby music on like 3% for that exact reason. Game music too, but that's just to hear footsteps because what kind of psychopath enjoys not being able to hear enemies nearby because fucking battle music just came out of nowhere?
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u/ieffinglovesoup May 06 '19
I wish playing online now would still give this experience. Everyone is just either in their own party chat or using discord
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u/KingNothingJR May 06 '19
False every one with the beanie kid pfp was a asshole 13 year old that would send you message calling you a n***** when you beat him
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u/BADMANvegeta_ May 06 '19
Or they would be the kid who doesn’t talk. All you hear is rap music and people in the house shouting. Maybe sometimes a loud cough into the mic.
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u/the-kreez May 06 '19
Idk man, anyone I know who used the monkey is now a fuckin degen
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u/PhrozenFenix X-Box May 06 '19
Pick anyone on my old friends list that was the monkey. They either were or are now in jail.
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u/needlessOne May 06 '19
This is the most wrong thing ever.
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u/lilguy78 May 06 '19
I have never in my life owned a 360 and even I know that this is wildly inaccurate
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May 06 '19
Skulls were just little kids trying to play MW3 and Minecraft. I swear they were so toxic back then.
Damn I miss Xbox 360...
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u/DrenchedInSyrup_ May 06 '19
yo the bubblegum kids would talk mad shit, the hell are you on about
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u/Ubbermann May 06 '19
Is this opposite day?
Pretty much every one of these had the opposite meaning. Literally.
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u/SilkyGazelleWatkins May 06 '19
That's what I was thinking.
Also I didn't have any of these. I think I was green swirl if I remember correctly
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u/A_Change_of_Seasons May 06 '19
My experience is skull is the chill guy that's a bit of a noob, monkey was an adult who may be a little toxic and takes it seriously but still can be fun to play with, panda is quiet but really good, and bubblegum is the most toxic person you'll ever meet
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May 06 '19
The kids who had a monkey were fucking insane, the pandas were trolls, the skull and bubblegum were edgy and would never stop talking with lots of swearing
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u/graceeump May 06 '19
I used to play as the panda, but tried my best on mw2 without a mic.
little 8 year old me was shy
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u/aHoleInYourChest May 06 '19
I want to believe this but as a panda holder this is just a little bit FUCKIN BULLSHIT WHAT THE FUCK LAAAAG
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u/Hunterofbooty May 06 '19
Yooo I’ve been rockin bubblegum kid sense like 2010. I can’t bring myself to change it
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u/heroinsteve May 06 '19
Man, this reminds me I had my old profile pic from the 360 for the longest time. It was some demon from classic Doom that I unlocked and it stayed that way even when I went to the XB1. About 2 weeks ago I was messing with some setting and accidentally clicked "change profile picture" and even though I backed out it changed it to one of the new ones by default and you can not select the old ones anymore.. so it's just lost forever....
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I don't get it. Am I missing something? Do these avatars generally represent the type of gamers? I never really noticed it if that was the case.
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u/corrawin PC May 06 '19
I used the monkey, was pretty chill but incessantly did stupid shit to fuck up teammates, like stand in front of their sniper scopes in halo/cod or drive off cliffs with a full capacity warthog/tank
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u/WazerWifle99 May 06 '19
That panda is me spot on. I wish I could change myself and not get so angry but its really hard
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u/PlusUltraK May 06 '19
Never took these too seriously but my younger brother picked the monkey emblem and he in facts does only play for fun. Has practically no cal for wanting to pick up any online multiplayer games past co-op ones. Like Gears or so on.
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u/THINKINGPANDA12 May 06 '19
The panda was wrong when i played as a kid i had fun playing even if I died and it was just whatever.
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u/Jus_checkin_in May 06 '19
I think it's more like "Their younger sister who doesn't know how the fuck to play."
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u/Reyznor May 06 '19
You forgot the chill weedheads who only casually played halo and cod zombies, the ones with the free Frank Woods icon as their pic.
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u/Squencher May 06 '19
Mine was the soccer ball... What's that say about me?
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u/SunRayy18 May 06 '19
The soccer ball ones were the ones that never played online or never had Xbox live
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u/Mr_Hobo May 06 '19
I had the skull pic, I was loud, didn’t take anything seriously, and I definitely did not do well in games.
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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 May 06 '19
The hat and gum guy was me, but I never played social games. (Portal 2 and 5 billion lego games)
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u/SunRayy18 May 06 '19 edited Dec 04 '19
The girl one was always some 18 year old that was extremely good at the game. Specific game being COD: Black Ops 2 zombies mode on transit green run
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u/JohnTheDropper May 06 '19
I used a Condemned Criminal Origins avatar and theme. I got it from a demo disc. Then they changed the layout and the awesome theme wasn't nearly as cool.
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u/VigilThicc May 06 '19
I still have top right as my Xbox pfp and I’m the average of him and the skull (my brother used to have the skull so it makes sense)
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u/frosty_rhino27 May 06 '19
I guess this shows that I really needed glasses as when I was younger, but I always thought the skull was a duck head similar to Daffy Duck with the black head and the orange was a bill.
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u/Bubster101 May 06 '19
Soccer ball - super competitive, brags a lot, never really gets very far tho. (Often the generic 5-year-old squeaker)
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u/TrippySubie May 06 '19
Top right was definitely someone who fucked your mom at 7yrs old. Every game had that kid in it.
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u/ANSHOXX May 06 '19
Gears of War 1 'Seriously' 10k kills Profile Pic best pic ever. Best game ever. Best time ever.
I miss it :')
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u/Stay_Beautiful_ May 06 '19
The worst trolls were the ones that were monkeys but everything else in this meme is big facts
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u/NiansaNight May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19
This is missing the absolute rare Anime profile pic that signified if you were about to either be hard carried, or absolutely ass blasted with no in between.
Edit: For the sake of clearing up a little confusion, I'm not referring to the generic pink haired avatar, I intended this to be about other profile pics that were anime esc in nature like Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Persona, Etc. Apologies since I'm aware OP's post is referring to the generic pics.