So I don’t like gaming…which I
imagine is strange, being that I come from the generation that’s made it what it
is.
I don’t have a problem with
game violence, interactive story-telling (even when the story is stupidly
unoriginal) or people spending all day glued to a screen. What you do with your
own time, is your business. This is what I don’t like about gaming:
“you’re a noob”
“you’re a jew”
“that move is totally gay”
Why do people think that it’s
alright to be anti-sematic, homophobic and generally act in an
aggressive and bullying manner, just because they’re on a keyboard or holding
an X-box controller?
We don’t put up with this kind
of behaviour in any other medium, we wouldn’t let anyone on TV voice an
anti-sematic view, we wouldn’t support a film that was clearly homophobic, why
are gamers allowed to act in this way?
Before anyone says anything, I’m
not tarnishing every single gamer with the same brush, I’m saying that the
culture of gaming allows people to act in this way and barely bats an eyelash. Why?
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