Does anyone find the racism they find in online gaming that it has effected their decision to go online?

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Lonyo

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What about if you play online games without fvcktards who use racial slurs?
Where's the poll option for that?
 

PokerGuy

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Personally, I don't see any benefit in using racial slurs or calling someone gay as trash talk, there's plenty of better ways. Still, just the fact that it makes wussy politically correct folks upset might be a good enough reason to start doing it.
 

remagavon

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One of the reasons I stopped playing CS was due to the immature, ignorant, racist idiots that I played with daily. I literally believe that some people became more racist after playing with some other very racist people. It's not just trash talking, they would talk about doing things to various ethnic groups of people (probably joking, still disturbing) that just became so redundant and annoying that I left the clan that I founded and blocked most of them.

Just trash talking, however, is part of the game and is fine.

:)
 

xtknight

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Oct 15, 2004
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It's all the 13 year olds that turn me off from gaming. Not only racism, but all the swearing and threatening, etc. Not that I'm scared of them in the least but it's just depressing to see what a mess it's turned into.
 

Tom

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I voted the first option, even though I play GW a lot; because one of the reasons I don't want to pay to play subscription based games is I'm not going to actually pay money to associate with the 10% or so of gamers that are racist/sexist/ or just asses in general.
 

PingSpike

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Feb 25, 2004
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Its tiresome. Its not just the racist and "gay" remarks, but the general level of asshattery going on. CS is the worst...after playing some DoD and seeing it wasn't anywhere near as bad there I quickly moved on to that game. In small doses or with just a few morons doing it its annoying but tolerable...but when over %50 of the server is calling eachother racist slurs, and the admins basically sanction or join in on the behavior it just isn't worth while

Maybe I'm giving DoD:S more credit then it deserves, or maybe the servers I've played on have just been unusaully well admined but that crap usually results in a quick ban by an admin I didn't even know was there. And its rare that it happens at all.

As for trash talk...well, I only play team games to direct rivalry is usually a distant teritary objective. :p But I don't partake in it much myself, I usually just shoot them while they are typing. You want to chat? Go fire up mIRC.

My advice is to just find some good servers and stick with them. There's usually at least a few well admined ones by older players that JUST WANT YOU TO PLAY THE GAME.
 

jumpr

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Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Locut0s
I've been playing Perfect Dark Zero the last couple of days and it strikes me that it's hard to find a match of 15 or more people and play an hour or so without hearing the works dirty jew n*ger etc etc... I know racism is part and parcel of online FPS gaming, and it's one of the reasons I don't care for it, the other being I suck ;) But really anyone else find their experience with racism in online gaming so offputing that it has made them decide to quit or game a lot less?

I am really surprised to hear of this. I always assumed there would be lots of anti-gay sentiment (or at least, people freely using words like "f@g, f@ggot, etc). Never thought there would be lots of racism in online games, tho.
Yes, because AS USUAL, you assume that gays are the only victims in this world. :roll:
 

pontifex

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wtf? :confused:
racism in online gaming? are we talking like FPS and MMORPG gaming?
i rarely see any racism when i play. but then again, i don't play on KKK servers.

Either you guys find the wrong servers or you're making it up.
 

Night Blade

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Your playing on the wrong CS servers, find one with a decent admin & you don't need to deal with the trash talking 15 year olds.
 

Looney

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Jun 13, 2000
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I've spent thousands of hours playing online, and RARELY came across racist comments... but then again, i only play MMOs.
 

DigDug

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Racial slurs are fun because only anal uptight f'tards take them seriously.

Once again, pudgy pig, your arrogance is left unchecked. Who the f*ck are you to determine how someone should recieve your racial slur? As a pudgy white male, you have *no concept* of what it feels like to have your identity attacked - even when you claim to attack your own race, it is on your own terms and in a context of comfort. You just don't. And I know you'll attempt one of your characteristic "intellectual" retorts in response, but please do everyone a favor and spare us.

You know, of all the folks on this board, you are the only one who is so consistently pigheaded, malicious and downright mean. How maladjusted and left out are you in the real world, that you'd so continually need to vent out your anger here? Your life really does suck, doesn't it.


 

igowerf

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I was pwning in the original Desert Combat mod once, and I happened to be using the black soldier skin that day. I think I just randomly chose a skin. When the other team finally killed me, they started shouting racial slurs at me. Unfortunately, I'm Asian so their racial slurs didn't really hit home for me.
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: DigDug
Racial slurs are fun because only anal uptight f'tards take them seriously.

Once again, pudgy pig, your arrogance is left unchecked. Who the f*ck are you to determine how someone should recieve your racial slur? As a pudgy white male, you have *no concept* of what it feels like to have your identity attacked

oh really? Is that so? You sure about that?

- even when you claim to attack your own race, it is on your own terms and in a context of comfort. You just don't. And I know you'll attempt one of your characteristic "intellectual" retorts in response, but please do everone a favor and spare us.

From what, logic?

You know, of all the folks on this board, you are the only one who is so consistently pigheaded, malicious and downright mean. How maladjusted and left out are you in the real world, that you'd so continually need to vent out your anger here? Your life really does suck, doesn't it.

:laugh: Your post is hilarious. I'm not sure if you're attacking me to make a point regarding the concept of online attacks or doing so just to conform to your twisted description of myself. Either way, you're so far out there that it's pretty funny.

Please, do continue. :beer:
 

dugweb

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Oct 17, 2002
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"Only a fool is offended when offence isn't intended...
but one must be much more foolish to take offence when offence IS intended"
 

Queasy

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Aug 24, 2001
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It doesn't bother me bother me because I know they are just being a-holes and it is more satisfying to whoop on them.

However, I have to be careful with it around my kids to make sure they don't hear these idiots. I don't really think it is something I want to expose them to until they are older.
 
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Originally posted by: dugweb
"Only a fool is offended when offence isn't intended...
but one must be much more foolish to take offence when offence IS intended"

white dude said that?
 

Acanthus

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Aug 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: Snagle
it's really annoying but it just makes it more satisfying when I own the ignorant douche who is proudly displaying his racism.

same, i dont think it really makes me not want to play.
 
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: DigDug
Racial slurs are fun because only anal uptight f'tards take them seriously.

Once again, pudgy pig, your arrogance is left unchecked. Who the f*ck are you to determine how someone should recieve your racial slur? As a pudgy white male, you have *no concept* of what it feels like to have your identity attacked

oh really? Is that so? You sure about that?

- even when you claim to attack your own race, it is on your own terms and in a context of comfort. You just don't. And I know you'll attempt one of your characteristic "intellectual" retorts in response, but please do everone a favor and spare us.

From what, logic?

You know, of all the folks on this board, you are the only one who is so consistently pigheaded, malicious and downright mean. How maladjusted and left out are you in the real world, that you'd so continually need to vent out your anger here? Your life really does suck, doesn't it.

:laugh: Your post is hilarious. I'm not sure if you're attacking me to make a point regarding the concept of online attacks or doing so just to conform to your twisted description of myself. Either way, you're so far out there that it's pretty funny.

Please, do continue. :beer:

let me break it down for you superchunk...what he's saying is that you're a fvcking idiot and I agree with him.
 

jumpr

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Jan 2, 2006
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: DigDug
Racial slurs are fun because only anal uptight f'tards take them seriously.
Once again, pudgy pig, your arrogance is left unchecked. Who the f*ck are you to determine how someone should recieve your racial slur? As a pudgy white male, you have *no concept* of what it feels like to have your identity attacked
oh really? Is that so? You sure about that?
- even when you claim to attack your own race, it is on your own terms and in a context of comfort. You just don't. And I know you'll attempt one of your characteristic "intellectual" retorts in response, but please do everone a favor and spare us.
From what, logic?
You know, of all the folks on this board, you are the only one who is so consistently pigheaded, malicious and downright mean. How maladjusted and left out are you in the real world, that you'd so continually need to vent out your anger here? Your life really does suck, doesn't it.
:laugh: Your post is hilarious. I'm not sure if you're attacking me to make a point regarding the concept of online attacks or doing so just to conform to your twisted description of myself. Either way, you're so far out there that it's pretty funny.
Please, do continue. :beer:
Your sputtering and blubbering is funny to read, but it's not "logic," as you claim it to be.