For the most part, online gaming is utterly detestable. The servers are almost always loaded with despicable American mentalists who should be sealed inside a barrel and kicked into the ocean. And, as the omnipresent rumble of indecipherable mumbling coarses through your headset, you ask yourself "Why am I here? Why am I playing videogames with a bunch of feckless, furrow-browed simpletons?". Then you retreat to the cosily predictable world of artificial intelligence, snug in the knowledge that ...