I'm really glad I was able to develop good communication skills in my life of work. When I just started out I made some pretty bad communication errors and I got to see the effects of the errors and learn from my mistakes.

Pretty much learned from the start to just never assume anything. If it's important, say it even if you think the other party knows it already. Because at "worst" you just said something obvious but at best you realize there is a communication gap ASAP.

So many people going "opposite sex does X in relationships" and me just being like "you could stop dating people who do X" and they always look at me like I've sprouted horns. Like seriously, people who do X in relationships don't need to be enabled to continue uncriticized

It's always high school. Always has been, always will be. After generations of learning how to interact with each other in romantic contexts from media, what do you expect? Especially when we spend our formative years watching media that's written to appeal to people in their formative years, you end up with a lot of people acting like poorly written characters because that's how they learned to interact with each other.

Not to say that our generation is worse than previous generations, of course. Back then dudes didn't know how to not hit their wives. Now we just don't know how to talk. A marked improvement, I'd say

Also all gamers immediately Rock and Stone!

We're rich!

You've never heard Goonswarm Comms. Utter chaos until someone utters the word "Check." Then we all turn into pilots with complete comms silence except the guy calling for help and the fleet commander that gets to jump in to save the dummy.

Also people can definitely be passive aggressive playing competitive games.

You're playing with silvers

it's not a problem in CS at least, just look where he is on the minimap

I used to solo-queue almost exclusively. Almost always every teammate communicated. This was like 5+ years ago though, so maybe things have changed. I also frequently initiated the communication and kept things going and didn't get mad at people, so that all helps too. From my experience, be nice and communicate and general the same will be returned, but against this was a while ago.

(I'm assuming CS is Counter Strike, and not like competitive multiplayer Cities Skylines or something.)

I could never figure out the built in callouts... Anytime I played with the bots in CS:GO, they would always do callouts and I'm pretty sure they're just baked in, but I have no idea where, or how to use them.

I've been exclusively queueing Office since CS2 dropped and most people know the call outs. Idk what it is about that particular map. (Dust2 is okay too)

Oh yeah, even with friends. Everyone in my discord has had a good sook at the others. "I thought you were with me!" proceed to scatter like cats yet again with everyone 'leading'

QTF

we got a fossil over here

(I'm too young to have played Quake when multiplayer was a thing ;-; but I do speedrun it)

It's a response in kind to a equally dumb comment.

The original comment is massively generalist so the response is equally generalist.

This was more "guys bad. Nuh, uh, girls bad." Everyone getting dunked on in this one.

Maybe it was the communication issues we gained along the way.

Both sides have to talk and just as importantly, be willing to listen. Otherwise you're just spinning your wheels and getting nowhere.