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> So, when people would say things to the group like “the other team raped us because our mid kept jungling,” I would attempt to reflect back more appropriate l

> So, when people would say things to the group like “the other team raped us because our mid kept jungling,” I would attempt to reflect back more appropriate language by saying back to them “so you’re saying your team lost because you weren’t working together.” I've noticed this in my gaming group and in the gaming culture at large. There's been this integration of much more sexual terms in the last three or four years - "raped", "cucked", "my butthole", "gaping", "shoved down the throat", etc. I feel like 10 years ago the words/phrases were less offensive - "destroyed", "wrecked", "owned", "dumpstered", "get shit on", etc. I'm not really sure why this is, but I'm not a fan of the change. It feels like in the last half a decade stuff that used to be limited to the uglier parts of the web has bled out across a much greater area and become more accepted.

taurath 8y ago
10 years ago it 12 year olds on xbox-live shouting as many overtly racist terms as they had ever heard in their lives. Now thats generally going to get you banned, at least. I don't honestly think its gotten worse. The stupid thing is if you go and play League of Legends and say most of those sexual terms you will be BANNED or at least muted for a week. And yet its cool to say that in the office.
- bigiain 8y ago
  Exactly. Some of those kids are now 22 year old "team leads" or "managers" or "founders". And way too many of them haven't grown up at all.
zumu 8y ago
> I feel like 10 years ago the words/phrases were less offensive - "destroyed", "wrecked", "owned", "dumpstered", "get shit on", etc. Eh, I've been gaming since the 90's, and in my experience it's more or less the same. Honestly, with the proliferation of in-game voice and reporting tools it's probably gotten a bit better, esp. in regards to racist name calling.
- Jach 8y ago
  In the 90s "suck it down" taunting was very common, among many others. Gaming is a counter culture, I'm shocked, shocked that anyone is shocked, shocked that working at a gaming studio which hasn't had all its life sucked out of it by Business People isn't like some "Professional" (we say that despite our products having no warranty or any implied fit-for-purpose!) Corporation.
CleaveIt2Beaver 8y ago
Really? In my experience, it's been the opposite; I graduated high school in '06, and had to make a point to unlearn some of those phrases which had become habit, when it finally became clear to me how problematic that actually was. I'm seeing the same thing happen with my younger brother as he enters high school, but to a lesser degree; at least now, it feels tongue-in-cheek rather than simply ignorant. All the same, I'm trying to steer him away from it becoming habit when we game, but when all your peers use a certain vocabulary, it's a struggle.

taurath 8y ago

10 years ago it 12 year olds on xbox-live shouting as many overtly racist terms as they had ever heard in their lives. Now thats generally going to get you banned, at least. I don't honestly think its gotten worse. The stupid thing is if you go and play League of Legends and say most of those sexual terms you will be BANNED or at least muted for a week. And yet its cool to say that in the office.

bigiain 8y ago
Exactly. Some of those kids are now 22 year old "team leads" or "managers" or "founders". And way too many of them haven't grown up at all.

zumu 8y ago

> I feel like 10 years ago the words/phrases were less offensive - "destroyed", "wrecked", "owned", "dumpstered", "get shit on", etc. Eh, I've been gaming since the 90's, and in my experience it's more or less the same. Honestly, with the proliferation of in-game voice and reporting tools it's probably gotten a bit better, esp. in regards to racist name calling.

Jach 8y ago
In the 90s "suck it down" taunting was very common, among many others. Gaming is a counter culture, I'm shocked, shocked that anyone is shocked, shocked that working at a gaming studio which hasn't had all its life sucked out of it by Business People isn't like some "Professional" (we say that despite our products having no warranty or any implied fit-for-purpose!) Corporation.

CleaveIt2Beaver 8y ago

Really? In my experience, it's been the opposite; I graduated high school in '06, and had to make a point to unlearn some of those phrases which had become habit, when it finally became clear to me how problematic that actually was. I'm seeing the same thing happen with my younger brother as he enters high school, but to a lesser degree; at least now, it feels tongue-in-cheek rather than simply ignorant. All the same, I'm trying to steer him away from it becoming habit when we game, but when all your peers use a certain vocabulary, it's a struggle.