Draugr wrote on Sep 8, 2011, 20:42:
PropheT wrote on Sep 8, 2011, 18:37:
That's a pretty big stretch and a ridiculous conclusion to come to. Gamers shouting epithets or using questionable language at each other isn't exactly something new, whether it's people calling each other fags on Xbox Live or a gamer proclaiming how he "raped" someone else at any other game out there. I don't think anyone has ever claimed, outside of maybe Jack Thompson and Fox News, that it's the games making those people act like that rather than being a problem with the community members who do it and the culture of the gaming community that, for the most part, allows it.
Took the words out of my mouth!
As nonsensical as those words are...
The vast majority of gamers don't spew hate-fuelled bile at random strangers. The tiny minority that do, don't do it because gaming culture is more twat-friendly than other walks of life. They do it because they're cocks, and because the anonymity of the internet allows them to say things that would earn them a broken nose if they tried it in person. You walk past those same cocks on the streets every day. They just keep their moronic thoughts to themselves while they're in punching distance.
It's all irrelevant shite, anyway. Nobody's called anyone anything. Some guy typed something unfunny in some code that was never meant to be seen by anyone else. It's no more offensive than a kid writing four-letter words in his school books. Now that same guy has lost his job, just to appease people like you, and the scary words have been plastered all over the net, causing way more offence than if they had been taken for what they were. Congrats.