I'm fairly stuck playing Modern Warfare 2 online. I feel like I can hold my own most of the time. Yea for me. Generally I find the folks online fairly quiet, occasionally helpful, but sometimes offensive, and this I don't get.
It isn't terribly unusual for some thug to badmouth other players, and sadly it's often racial epithets.
I can certainly understand trying to gain "hand" by smack talking an opponent. There are a few guys who just keep up a constant mumble of bizarre word salad that creeps me out. But when some yahoo starts in on someone's suspected racial origins, maybe it's time to leave the room, pack it up, watch something harmless on TV, and try to forget the foolish idiocy that permeates even the most pointless of pasttimes: the video game.
Can't we all just shoot zombies together, or wage a war, or banish a wizard? Why in the anonymous world of onlinearity do we have to recognize or ignorance and foulness?
Monday, February 8, 2010
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