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Reading all this controversy over poor behavior really surprised me. I have played online games on and off in a highly casual fashion for about two decades now

Reading all this controversy over poor behavior really surprised me. I have played online games on and off in a highly casual fashion for about two decades now - the quake series, counter-strike since the beta days, starcraft 1/2, warcraft 3, etc. - and I have always seen these antics as mostly miniscule and harmless. Someone writes hateful/immature messages in the chat? Ignore them. Someone's audio-spamming the voice chat with their stupid music? Mute them. I mute voice chats by default these days because I am not interested in hearing other peoples' voices when I'm immersed in a game. I rarely use the chat, often removing it from my HUD altogether. It's a distraction and I think it gets in the way of the gameplay. Are we so easily offended that we'd rather be overly-sensitive towards the immaturity of others? Do we all need to remember the sticks and stones rhyme our parents taught us? Aren't we better off by learning how to be unbothered by this stuff?

woweeeee 9y ago
Helicopter parents don't teach kids about sticks and stones anymore. Instead, they stomp each other to death for minor slights at pee wee hockey. [0] [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/
s73v3r_ 9y ago
"and I have always seen these antics as mostly miniscule and harmless." Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it shouldn't bother others. I've talked to gay people who play games, and they want to do so as an escape from the world, like everyone else. But it's really hard for that to happen when they constantly have these slurs hurled at them just like they do in real life. "Are we so easily offended " Why do you find it acceptable to blame the targets of this, instead of blaming those that are hurling the toxicity. "Do we all need to remember the sticks and stones rhyme our parents taught us?" You mean the one that has never, ever been true? "Aren't we better off by learning how to be unbothered by this stuff?" Again, why do you seem to want to encourage toxic people to be toxic?
mto 9y ago
Well, I usually don't care for some time. But if you play a lot and you see this crap every evening for hours... it just starts to dampen the mood. For me at least. I can not ignore the chat, from time to time there's useful stuff in there. Actually when I was a teen it didn't bother me at all. I so played counterstrike when it was a HL mod, Ultima Online when killing, cleanlooting, horsekilling, resskilling, notokilling, blocking and cleanlooting, house raids etc were still the norm. Didn't bother me. Actually the older I get the more I don't have the nerves anymore for all this crap.

woweeeee 9y ago

Helicopter parents don't teach kids about sticks and stones anymore. Instead, they stomp each other to death for minor slights at pee wee hockey. [0] [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/

s73v3r_ 9y ago

"and I have always seen these antics as mostly miniscule and harmless." Just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean that it shouldn't bother others. I've talked to gay people who play games, and they want to do so as an escape from the world, like everyone else. But it's really hard for that to happen when they constantly have these slurs hurled at them just like they do in real life. "Are we so easily offended " Why do you find it acceptable to blame the targets of this, instead of blaming those that are hurling the toxicity. "Do we all need to remember the sticks and stones rhyme our parents taught us?" You mean the one that has never, ever been true? "Aren't we better off by learning how to be unbothered by this stuff?" Again, why do you seem to want to encourage toxic people to be toxic?

mto 9y ago

Well, I usually don't care for some time. But if you play a lot and you see this crap every evening for hours... it just starts to dampen the mood. For me at least. I can not ignore the chat, from time to time there's useful stuff in there. Actually when I was a teen it didn't bother me at all. I so played counterstrike when it was a HL mod, Ultima Online when killing, cleanlooting, horsekilling, resskilling, notokilling, blocking and cleanlooting, house raids etc were still the norm. Didn't bother me. Actually the older I get the more I don't have the nerves anymore for all this crap.