Noobs in Online Gaming

We've all been in this situation. Let's pretend you're playing a good game of, say, Call of Duty. You just got an epic kill and you feel like nothing can stop you. But then, somebody hiding behind the nearest tree gets a cheap kill on you and brags about it being skill. That wasn't skill there. That was called being a noob. A noob is a term used in online gaming to describe somebody who downright sucks at playing online games. There are many types of noobs out there, and all of them piss not just me off, but every good gamer out there as well.

From personal experience, I've pretty much encountered every type of noob there is. Through some "research", I've sorted each one into a group.

Group 1: The Regular Noob
This type of noob thinks that he's good at the game he's playing when really he's not. This is the most basic form of a noob.

Group 2: The Camper
I've encountered this type of noob the most throughout my online gaming experiences. The Camper likes to hide in various places, waiting for people to come near it. The objective of the camper is to get cheap kills off of other players in order to get their rank up or just to piss people off. In games where you can't hide, such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the camper just runs to various places and does various motions or taunts that seem to indicate that he's mocking the other players.

Group 3: The Spammer
This type of noob is mostly exclusive to games that aren't of the first person shooter genre. This type of noob does the simple task of using the same move over and over and over and over again. Spammers are just as common as campers in online gaming.

Group 4: The Uber Noob
This type of noob isn't as common as the other groups. The Uber Noob is mostly a combination of the other types, but can be even more annoying by using hacks that affect gameplay. Some refer to this group as hackers. However, not all of them have access to hacks, so saying that they're all hackers is a common stereotype.

My overall summary of all these groups: GET SOME F*CKING SKILL PEOPLE! YOU'LL MAKE CERTAIN PEOPLE MUCH HAPPIER!

This doesn't end here however. It also turns out that the very game itself can determine a type of noob encounter. This time, there are only three stages, so there's a little less reading to do.

Stage 1: You encounter any type of noob, yet aren't sure if he is mocking you or not. Games that lack a voice chat system, like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart, can be placed in this stage.

Stage 2: You encounter a noob and you know for certain that he's mocking you. Games that have a voice chat system, such as Halo, Call of Duty, and Gears of War, fall into this stage.

Stage 3: You encounter an Uber Noob using gameplay affecting hacks at his disposal for the sole purpose of winning. Any game can fall into this stage, regardless if there is a voice chat system.

You're probably asking, why did I sort this out like a research study? The answer to that is that I couldn't think of any other way to sort it. And if anyone is offended by how I sorted this, then I'm sincerely sorry and open up to any suggestions on how to make this feel less like a lab experiment.

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