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Weird my experience as a teenager in the early 2000s was being told how much everyone had carnal relations with my mother on multiplayer games on the internet.
by wincy 2y ago
Weird my experience as a teenager in the early 2000s was being told how much everyone had carnal relations with my mother on multiplayer games on the internet.
- philwelch 2y agoThat’s just socializing with other kids, not being preyed on by an abusive game industry.
- Apocryphon 2y agoIt was still a form of abuse, just not backed by multimillion corporations. Boys will be boys, but it’s less toxic when it’s in real life with kids you actually know and can see, vs. anonymous strangers over Xbox Live.
- philwelch 2y agoTrash talk during competitive games is normal, harmless behavior, not abuse. Boys back then weren’t sheltered and overprotected the way they are now so they could handle it.
- jmb99 2y agoI would argue the opposite is true. I would much prefer some faceless stranger to trash talk me over the internet, who will disappear from existence in 30-40 minutes, than have the same happen from someone I actually know and have to interact with on a daily basis.
- tshaddox 2y agoYeah, different games had different cultures. That’s why I hedged with “mostly safe.”