In Which I Jive With Xbox Live
Awhile back I dropped a fair bit of plunder on an Xbox 360, some games and Xbox Live. I started playing GTA IV online with other gamers.
My eyes have been opened to a new level of racism and discrimination. You don't know how ugly hate speech is until some 14 year old kid from Kentucky is calling you every racial slur in the book after you run over his avatar with a dump truck. This is the world of gaming,I understand this, I know that my corpse will be humped and I will be told how I suck testicles when they take a bullet to my face, but even with the line of decency moved so many yards ahead, they surpass that by several football fields.
I like to think I am a hard guy to offend, but when I hear someone yelling "I'mma kill you, I'mma send your ass back to the end of the welfare line you dumbass n*****." I can't help but file a complaint with Microsoft and click on the button marked Avoid This Player. If I did the same thing every time the word fag was bandied about I would have no one on Xbox Live to play with except for a handful of moms that thought they were buying a Wii.
What bothers me about this trash talking, aside from all the racism and homophobia, is that it is completely unoriginal. Come on people, what happened to insinuating someone liked to sleep with animals or their mother? What happened to making fun of someones good ol fashioned low intelligence? Even if you can't stray away from homosexuality at least have the decency to be unique enough to call me a pole smoker or butt pirate instead of fag this and fag that.
I don't have a mic set up, partly because I don't want to get sucked into the hate speech that comes with the trash talking and also because every time I get shot I always end up saying something like "How the hell did that happen? I had full fucking health."
My gamertag is Jsun4hees, do you has what it takes to make me wonder how the hell you killed me?
My eyes have been opened to a new level of racism and discrimination. You don't know how ugly hate speech is until some 14 year old kid from Kentucky is calling you every racial slur in the book after you run over his avatar with a dump truck. This is the world of gaming,I understand this, I know that my corpse will be humped and I will be told how I suck testicles when they take a bullet to my face, but even with the line of decency moved so many yards ahead, they surpass that by several football fields.
I like to think I am a hard guy to offend, but when I hear someone yelling "I'mma kill you, I'mma send your ass back to the end of the welfare line you dumbass n*****." I can't help but file a complaint with Microsoft and click on the button marked Avoid This Player. If I did the same thing every time the word fag was bandied about I would have no one on Xbox Live to play with except for a handful of moms that thought they were buying a Wii.
What bothers me about this trash talking, aside from all the racism and homophobia, is that it is completely unoriginal. Come on people, what happened to insinuating someone liked to sleep with animals or their mother? What happened to making fun of someones good ol fashioned low intelligence? Even if you can't stray away from homosexuality at least have the decency to be unique enough to call me a pole smoker or butt pirate instead of fag this and fag that.
I don't have a mic set up, partly because I don't want to get sucked into the hate speech that comes with the trash talking and also because every time I get shot I always end up saying something like "How the hell did that happen? I had full fucking health."
My gamertag is Jsun4hees, do you has what it takes to make me wonder how the hell you killed me?