Oct
2009
Homophobia In Online Gaming Brought To Light
Well, glad someone took the time to actually record video of what I’ve always talked about happening in the online gaming community.
Duncan Riley over at The Inquisitr stumbled across a video on YouTube entitled “Halo 3: Homophobia Evolved”. This was a video recorded by an openly gay gamer who spent 11 nights recording his interactions with other players of Halo 3. I’ve talked twice before about the sort of thing, and also about the young people you encounter, but it is hard to convey that absolute vitriol that comes from these people unless you hear it.
The video contains extremely harsh language, you have been warned.
Luckily I find players on Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare to be far more polite, and you never hear this amount of garbage on that game, this seems fairly restricted to the Halo games for some reason. I actually skipped buying Halo 3:ODST when it came out a few weeks ago because of the way its online community acts.
Kinda makes you fear for the future of the United States, doesn’t it?
Kudos to xxxGayBoyxxx who thought to record this.
