Do you ever chat while online gaming?

[Deja Q]

One guy was telling another "So you spawned on him?" (meaning that such an act would teleport the other person to death.)

I quickly responded "GROSS!" and got a couple of laughs. But that's just me, my humor is as clean as the elephant cage at the zoo...

Or do you prefer blowing everybody else up and not let conversation take over? :D

[NuttyFluffers]

1. it depends on the game and the conversation.

it's kinda hard in some games, like Phantasy Star Online, to maintain much of a verbose conversation in the heat of battle. i've had my share of frantically typing with pinkies still clutched to the controller, but grammar and spelling goes out the window. i've kinda gotten used to it, hence my lack of capitalization.

but then down-time, or lobby chat is always fun. but it really is dependent on the people. sometimes certain games/areas/times bring the most obnoxious collection of humanity you've ever seen. so a lot of the online novelty wears off by the Nth flashing of boobies (.)(.) or symbol chat spamming or whatever... let's just say, the ignore button is a godsend in most of these online games.

[Outrider]

2. Usually not

When I'm playing online it is usually 1st person shooters, and the only reason I'm playing is to blow off some steam with a little mindless mayhem. A couple of times my relative silence has gotten me booted because some punk accused me of running some kind of bot program because I kept shooting the same people time after time. Wasn't my fault that they were pattern runners who couldn't realize I had been able to work out the pattern they where runnning and setting up ambushes.