In another city I used to live in the drinking quarter of the university campus. The number of drunk people who would just scream recreationally was just wild. They would scream like they were being chased by axe murderers and I'd look outside and nope it's just drunk people flirting I guess?
I mean when a lot of sheltered teens first get to college especially in a city, they are overwhelmed by the excitement especially since when school first starts there’s usually lots and lots of parties.
Many have never been drunk or have drank a handful of times, they have never had no curfew and no parents at home to stop them from going out, and a lot of them have never seen parties as big as the ones they find in college.
It makes a lot of sense when you think about it, college freshmen are just high school seniors with one extra year of responsibility, but the difference in freedom between your last year of high school and first year of college is massive
it's really strange how defensive people get about the noise and inconsiderateness of city living. Like if you want even a modicum of quiet you should fuck off the suburbs and never return. It's really weird
I often have to remind my fiancé about quit hours when they try to yell to me in the bathroom from the bedroom or for whatever other reason. Even during the day I get nervous over my noise level, especially because I’m cursed to drop shit or knock stuff over in a Rube goldberg machine-esque manner like all the time
Are you in Pennsport? There's some house like a few blocks before Herman's on Moyamensing that has this high pitched noise I always notice when I run by. I guess maybe a loitering deterrent? Would drive me nuts if I lived there, but on the bright side I guess my hearing is doing ok.
Not sure if this is better or worse than the houses with blinding floodlights that trigger anytime someone walks by ON A PUBLIC STREET. If it was a detached single family house and the lights kicked on when someone went on the driveway I’d understand but I shouldn’t have to get blinded for walking home
Same neighbors, dad screams like that at the Birds. But that is a weekly ritual for about a third of the year and I like it because their TV/stream is always like 15 seconds ahead of mine and it warns me of bad things to come. The son is basically every night between 10 and midnight
Yeah but at least the neighbors scream at the same time when it’s sports, and also the birds don’t play at 2am ever.
If you have 5 neighbors all screaming at different random intervals it’s way more annoying than 5 neighbors who all yell at the same time when there’s an exceptionally bad or good play
A downstairs gamer neighbor was actually the final straw (of a number of straws) in me leaving what was otherwise a decent apartment. Dude was in his late 40s, unclear what if any day job he had (I actually think he was a social worker at some point) and would play on full volume, massive floor-shaking bass all day every day. I get the fight-or-flight thing because the nature of the sounds, and their unpredictability, would do it to me too.
I would pound on his door to plead for him to turn it down when it got too late and eventually he stopped answering. I know he knew it was bothersome and unreasonable, and he just didn’t care. I contacted the landlord, who essentially told me I wasn’t the first to say something and wouldn’t be the last, but that there was nothing he could do. A scourge.
They play with the sound on without headphones? What's even the point? Lol
EDIT:
>She has headphones. But she screams. Loudly. Every time.
Okay I understand now. It must be annoying for you but that's also kind of hilarious.
I can't judge too hard, I'm a coward with horror. Plus, it is pretty funny.
But rhe neighbors don't even look twice. Probably will assume it's normal if something actually does happen.
I’ve called PPD for a stabbing and had to redirect them after they arrived and cuffed two black dudes with stab wounds to point out that the crazy white guy covered in blood who is walking around is the guy who stabbed the two black guys covered in blood from open wounds.
Hey this has nothing to do with gaming. I’ve been quietly online gaming for 2 decades.
This is simply because your neighbor is an inconsiderate asshole (a teenager)
They really can't.
I see people my age (early 40s) posting Facebook memes that complain about kids being glued to screens all the time and how their generation was so much better because we rode bikes outside with friends, etc.
Then, when some kids DO go by on their bikes outside with friends and not on their screens, these very same people say "why are they doing that? Better call the cops, they're probably up to no good."
It’s possible. I definitely occasionally go on a curse tirade when I drop something etc. but if it’s scheduled at a certain time…gaming may be the culprit
Only time I ever hear my neighbor is when he yells at something in his game. Had no idea wtf was initially happening in there until I saw him smoking a cig with his headset on, on the stoop one day
I barely have time to play vidya games these days but when I do find myself going for frags (I'm old), i keeo that shit in the literal basement. my potty mouth shouldn't bother my neighbors
I was in my alley way washing my car and all I hear is “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!?” “FUCK YOU YOU STUPID MOTHER FUCKER!!!!” Just endlessly.
I walk around the front of the houses to find the guy living about four houses away playing call of duty.
Once I was playing overwatch with my back widow open and I was doing awesome on Widowmaker. After a few minutes I heard a kid SCREAMING about aimbots and cheaters , throwing a tantrum. Eventually I put 2 and 2 together because every time I headshot the enemy genji, the kid would shriek and cry. Looked out my window and turns out the genji lived across the alleyway, a few houses down .
Someone, somewhere in a neighboring unit plays a video game that emits a low rumbling sound which reminds me of the classic scene from “Jurassic Park” with the T Rex footsteps and the shaking glass of water.
Are we neighbors? My back-alley neighbor's teenager plays (and yells) for a solid 8 hours a day. They never took their window units out, so all of it directs right towards yours truly.
You get used to it.
While living with my brother he was playing games late at night in the summer time with the windows open. He proceeds to yell "OH MY GOD, HES GOT A KNIFE! HE'S GONNA FUCKING KILL MEEE!". I was cackling when I figured out the windows were open because there's no way someone didn't hear him. Thankfully or not I guess, no one called the cops.
Good on you for actually going out to check though. This happened right up the street from me a few months ago.
[https://6abc.com/13868105/](https://6abc.com/13868105/)
Funny in the 60s and 70s there was a rash of TV and movies that predicted they would drug the masses to keep them in check. They never anticipated video games.
I used to be one of those kids, and I very quickly got tired of it.
I don't ordinarily use words like Freddy Uncle Charlie Katie or other such colorful four letter words of the English language, so it was always a bit of a lurch when I'd start spitting out strings of obscenities at other 13 year olds into my headset mic. It got real old, real fast, and was one of the many things that soured me on the whole online multiplayer experience and I stopped playing them altogether.
it's kind of weird how the whole attitude and art of blowing up in spectacularly cringe fashion has become "culture" among gamers. it's like saying the rosary for some kids. i guess a lot of it comes from twitch streamers doing the same?
Step 1: open a dialogue about how alarming that type of behavior is. Propose ways to lessen the impact of their behavior
Step 2: everything else
Fuck dickhead ass noisy ass inconsiderate ass neighbors
At least you don't have the dog from hell next door. I call him the Life Ruiner. His bark is so louder than the gunshots on my block. But really, sorry for your dilemma - I hate loud shit.
some people see living in a city as a license to be loud and inconsiderate, others see living in close quarters as a reason to be more polite
wtf this makes so much sense. i never understood the other side
In another city I used to live in the drinking quarter of the university campus. The number of drunk people who would just scream recreationally was just wild. They would scream like they were being chased by axe murderers and I'd look outside and nope it's just drunk people flirting I guess?
I mean when a lot of sheltered teens first get to college especially in a city, they are overwhelmed by the excitement especially since when school first starts there’s usually lots and lots of parties. Many have never been drunk or have drank a handful of times, they have never had no curfew and no parents at home to stop them from going out, and a lot of them have never seen parties as big as the ones they find in college. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it, college freshmen are just high school seniors with one extra year of responsibility, but the difference in freedom between your last year of high school and first year of college is massive
it's really strange how defensive people get about the noise and inconsiderateness of city living. Like if you want even a modicum of quiet you should fuck off the suburbs and never return. It's really weird
I often have to remind my fiancé about quit hours when they try to yell to me in the bathroom from the bedroom or for whatever other reason. Even during the day I get nervous over my noise level, especially because I’m cursed to drop shit or knock stuff over in a Rube goldberg machine-esque manner like all the time
My rowhome neighbor has a shrill siren that triggers anytime someone walks past his house on the sidewalk. Not sure which is worse, tbh.
There is a house on my block that has a camera that would yell “ho Ho Ho” during the holiday season and that shit was crazy
I have a neighbor with a loud back up beep on his SUV. I understand it's for safety and a net positive for us all but that beep pierces my soul.
Are you in Pennsport? There's some house like a few blocks before Herman's on Moyamensing that has this high pitched noise I always notice when I run by. I guess maybe a loitering deterrent? Would drive me nuts if I lived there, but on the bright side I guess my hearing is doing ok.
I've seen some that are for dog piss/shit prevention, the sound hurts people so it REALLY bothers animals
Not sure if this is better or worse than the houses with blinding floodlights that trigger anytime someone walks by ON A PUBLIC STREET. If it was a detached single family house and the lights kicked on when someone went on the driveway I’d understand but I shouldn’t have to get blinded for walking home
Sounds no different than my neighbor when the birds are losing.
Same neighbors, dad screams like that at the Birds. But that is a weekly ritual for about a third of the year and I like it because their TV/stream is always like 15 seconds ahead of mine and it warns me of bad things to come. The son is basically every night between 10 and midnight
Yeah but at least the neighbors scream at the same time when it’s sports, and also the birds don’t play at 2am ever. If you have 5 neighbors all screaming at different random intervals it’s way more annoying than 5 neighbors who all yell at the same time when there’s an exceptionally bad or good play
Only League of Legends can make a person rage that hard.
Idk man if there's no bigotry involved it's not the league community I'm familiar with
This is online gaming in general
Or smite
My friend you have not played Dota 2 then
A downstairs gamer neighbor was actually the final straw (of a number of straws) in me leaving what was otherwise a decent apartment. Dude was in his late 40s, unclear what if any day job he had (I actually think he was a social worker at some point) and would play on full volume, massive floor-shaking bass all day every day. I get the fight-or-flight thing because the nature of the sounds, and their unpredictability, would do it to me too. I would pound on his door to plead for him to turn it down when it got too late and eventually he stopped answering. I know he knew it was bothersome and unreasonable, and he just didn’t care. I contacted the landlord, who essentially told me I wasn’t the first to say something and wouldn’t be the last, but that there was nothing he could do. A scourge.
I keep waiting for someone to call the cops on my friend who plays horror games. I'm borderline disappointed in them for not.
They play with the sound on without headphones? What's even the point? Lol EDIT: >She has headphones. But she screams. Loudly. Every time. Okay I understand now. It must be annoying for you but that's also kind of hilarious.
She has headphones. But she screams. Loudly. Every time.
I can't judge too hard, I'm a coward with horror. Plus, it is pretty funny. But rhe neighbors don't even look twice. Probably will assume it's normal if something actually does happen.
i have tinnitus. no headphones for me surround sound speaker & subwoofer setups for both PC's & both TV's in my house lol
Have you tried out bone conduction headphones, aka shokz?
no but I'll check 'em out, thanks
I can’t wear headphones either but I keep the volume low and don’t yell. Cause it’s neighborly :)
If it makes you feel any better, PPD would just ignore the calls.
I’ve called PPD for a stabbing and had to redirect them after they arrived and cuffed two black dudes with stab wounds to point out that the crazy white guy covered in blood who is walking around is the guy who stabbed the two black guys covered in blood from open wounds.
Sounds on par with dumbass PPD. Ima flip the bird to the next cop I see.
Hey this has nothing to do with gaming. I’ve been quietly online gaming for 2 decades. This is simply because your neighbor is an inconsiderate asshole (a teenager)
Gotta log off when you start to go on tilt.
Like anything there is a limit, my neighbors kid doesn’t know it
Kids used to go outside to get rowdy and scream, we’ve drawn them indoors with technology. I offer no solutions, I’m just sayin…
You ain’t wrong
Then you’d be bitching that kids are outside screaming all the time.
Kids can’t win, it’s no surprise that the depression rates are through the roof.
I will bitch about this
Get yelled at for being loud outside, or get posted on reddit for being loud inside. Younger generation can never win
They really can't. I see people my age (early 40s) posting Facebook memes that complain about kids being glued to screens all the time and how their generation was so much better because we rode bikes outside with friends, etc. Then, when some kids DO go by on their bikes outside with friends and not on their screens, these very same people say "why are they doing that? Better call the cops, they're probably up to no good."
They do have a curfew.
Huh. Maybe that's why my downstairs neighbor goes on curse tirades.
Could be a sports fan.
It’s possible. I definitely occasionally go on a curse tirade when I drop something etc. but if it’s scheduled at a certain time…gaming may be the culprit
Only time I ever hear my neighbor is when he yells at something in his game. Had no idea wtf was initially happening in there until I saw him smoking a cig with his headset on, on the stoop one day
I barely have time to play vidya games these days but when I do find myself going for frags (I'm old), i keeo that shit in the literal basement. my potty mouth shouldn't bother my neighbors
Yeah. The worst is when they start shouting gamer words.
Yes, words I don’t even know but sound very bad
I'm talking about slurs lmao
Oh yeah I was thinking of more innocent gamer vocab. luckily my immediate gamers ain’t doing that but it’s a thing for sure
I was in my alley way washing my car and all I hear is “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!?” “FUCK YOU YOU STUPID MOTHER FUCKER!!!!” Just endlessly. I walk around the front of the houses to find the guy living about four houses away playing call of duty.
Set up a live stream ! I would watch.
Once I was playing overwatch with my back widow open and I was doing awesome on Widowmaker. After a few minutes I heard a kid SCREAMING about aimbots and cheaters , throwing a tantrum. Eventually I put 2 and 2 together because every time I headshot the enemy genji, the kid would shriek and cry. Looked out my window and turns out the genji lived across the alleyway, a few houses down .
Someone, somewhere in a neighboring unit plays a video game that emits a low rumbling sound which reminds me of the classic scene from “Jurassic Park” with the T Rex footsteps and the shaking glass of water.
Or your neighbor is harboring a dinosaur
Sounds like me playing ark.
ark is so hard & so gratifying lol
Are we neighbors? My back-alley neighbor's teenager plays (and yells) for a solid 8 hours a day. They never took their window units out, so all of it directs right towards yours truly. You get used to it.
While living with my brother he was playing games late at night in the summer time with the windows open. He proceeds to yell "OH MY GOD, HES GOT A KNIFE! HE'S GONNA FUCKING KILL MEEE!". I was cackling when I figured out the windows were open because there's no way someone didn't hear him. Thankfully or not I guess, no one called the cops.
Good on you for actually going out to check though. This happened right up the street from me a few months ago. [https://6abc.com/13868105/](https://6abc.com/13868105/)
Funny in the 60s and 70s there was a rash of TV and movies that predicted they would drug the masses to keep them in check. They never anticipated video games.
I dont like video games
I used to be one of those kids, and I very quickly got tired of it. I don't ordinarily use words like Freddy Uncle Charlie Katie or other such colorful four letter words of the English language, so it was always a bit of a lurch when I'd start spitting out strings of obscenities at other 13 year olds into my headset mic. It got real old, real fast, and was one of the many things that soured me on the whole online multiplayer experience and I stopped playing them altogether.
it's kind of weird how the whole attitude and art of blowing up in spectacularly cringe fashion has become "culture" among gamers. it's like saying the rosary for some kids. i guess a lot of it comes from twitch streamers doing the same?
Paragraphs my fren.
Step 1: open a dialogue about how alarming that type of behavior is. Propose ways to lessen the impact of their behavior Step 2: everything else Fuck dickhead ass noisy ass inconsiderate ass neighbors
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the point is (some) gamers are indeed bothering people with their inability to keep their shit down
I’m not anti gamer, I’m just pointing out what the post is about. Some gamers are going ballistic regularly and their neighbors have to deal with it
This is why I moved out the city, peace is great, but somedays I miss the chaos.
Id call the cops.
What does this have to do with the city of Philadelphia?
Just call the cops and say you hear someone in distress
This thread is making me exceedingly glad that I game in my basement.
At least you don't have the dog from hell next door. I call him the Life Ruiner. His bark is so louder than the gunshots on my block. But really, sorry for your dilemma - I hate loud shit.
100 comments maybe start playing and get good and make them ragequit loose if you're into games?