Sir Frags-O-Lot
Why is it so fun to play games online with other losers? I haven’t quite figured it out yet. It might have something to do with how it makes you feel about yourself. You know, kind of like when you go to the state fair. I know my self-esteem is never higher than when I’m surrounded by rednecks who save up just to buy a funnel-cake from the fat guy with a pony-tail.
So goes it with playing Halo 2… listening to nerdy teenagers talk very aggressively over a broadband connection is actually amusing to me. There was probably a time when it would really upset me and get me talking shit just as badly, but not anymore. You just have to understand where they’re coming from, which is mom’s basement. They have no other real outlet for their aggression or shortcomings, so they hone their skills at talking shit from hundreds of miles away. Here are some real gems:
- “Fuck you nigger!”
- “Fuck you faggot!”
- “Fuck you bitch!”
- “1v1 bitch!”
- “Nigger, fuck you!”
Do you see the common theme? These are probably 99.9999999% of the taunts the kiddies use in online gaming. Pretty interesting don’t you think? Think about how far a situation has to go for someone to say any one of these to a complete stranger. But online, a twelve year old will call anyone who even remotely sounds black a ‘nigger’ over and over again.
So what’s at the root of all this scatscripple? Hell, I don’t know. I never got my jubblies off by getting away with saying something over a little microphone. Makes you wonder about the future of communication a little though. We had gotten pretty good at communicating face-to-face in the past few centuries, but remove the responsibility for what comes out of your mouth, and out comes the cat poo.
I wish i had a tape of you playing Warcraft 3… I think some of those strings of profanity are still wafting through the universe, killing indiscriminately.
Yacs
Shhhhhhh… why you gotta bring up ol’ shit huh?
It’s kind of similar to road rage. Everyone is so damn tough in their cars, giving one another the finger and spewing out profanities from their moving “locked” car…but imagine if they stalled. Hmm.
:)
Very true indeed… remove the threat of consequences and we all revert to savages. Kinda’ makes you wonder how civilized we actually are…
My bro Yacs knows I was never immune to it, either… at least with the video games. Although he’s pretty good with the road rage…
[...] There were two women in front of me. The first one looked like your typical redneck with a whining little kid in the front of her cart. The next woman, directly in front of me, was one of those ‘I’m a crotchety over-weight old bitch who always uses the motorized carts‘ kind of gal. I should have been more aware of my surroundings before I stepped into this god-forsaken line. [...]