Master Chief is Not a Baby Sitter
What Adam fumes about is something that I and plenty of other people have expressed at one point or another. Xbox Live has been overrun by a legion of immature dicks who pay $50 dollars a year for the sole purpose of exercising John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. I challenge those who think this to be a wrongful stereotype of Xbox Live gamers to play a single game of Halo 3. Hell, even a game of Uno would suffice. You will find one of these pricks in your game. Guaranteed.
The great tragedy of all this is that Microsoft has, hands down, the best infrastructure for online gaming available and that there seems to be no real solution to this ever growing epidemic. You can mute everyone but your friends, but then you can’t hear their friends either. Attempting to communicate with these apes only makes it worse and ignoring everyone only upsets potential teammates. Microsoft can’t police every game less people accuse them of being Big Brother and a democratic approach would only be abused by the very same trolls you’re attempting to extinguish.
“Somehow, [we] gamers who get so upset when people misrepresent our games on Fox News, or are stereotyped as a bunch of fat mouth-breathers — well guess what. We’re about to acquire a much better stereotypes and that’s a bunch of ignorant, racist, homophobes that have no tolerance or understanding about how other people live.”
I love my fellow gamers and I will defend our nerd ways until the Sun explodes. I know that we’re mostly a good people. That’s why it saddens me to find truth in what Adam says. I fear we’re on the precipice of our new stereotype.
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Jared Rea is a resident of the California Bay Area where he makes a living writing a whole lot of nonsense concerning the video game industry over at 
Hmmmm. I feel Adam on how people have gotten so nasty on live. The sad thing is, its not just gaming on one platform PS3 and numerous PC games its there too. And I wish there was a way to do something about this. Reporting on XBOX Live is a joke. I know because I personally should have band from Live long ago but not for nasty racist nor homophobic
slander don’t get me wrong. I feel that if your going to say something, make it worth listing to. Like insulting someone but at the same time funny to like if someone says “stop pistol wiping me” and I said ” how ’bout a nice cold glass of shut the f*#k up” or ” I’ll beat you like you owe money” okay maybe not that but not racist gay bashing. But worst part that Adam was getting at was its not adults saying this kinda stuff is kid under 12yrs of age who really don’t know what there say they know that its harmful to some. I never thought I would say this but, I blame thous kids parents. And books I saw my 10yr nephew old reading “A diary of a dope fined” its good book but not for a 10yr old.
I Was a World of Warcraft player for the better part of the last two years. And you people have just discovered, what we like to call
“Halo Kids”
Ehh, most of the abuse these brats are throwing they got off /b/ or something similar, really, it’s more their parents failed parenting, they’re the ones who are gonna end up in Juvi, so, really, let them ruin their own lives
true that Anon