Stereotypes and Imbeciles

We’ve all seen it, its out there, and it will eat our brains if we let it.

That’s right, the moron is still breeding and playing games with the rest of us.

I am going to have a looong rant about some pet hates I have for media misinformation and some fail parental roles. First off I guess I should explain why I’m so pee’d off and specifically what its all about.

Where to start. I was playing on WoW, minding my own business when some random player asked me “hey rouge, plz pix ma loxs 4 meh, or ur gayz”. I kid you not, in case you can’t understand this “leet” speak (formally known as retard speak), I will explain it. What the young chap was asking me was, since I was a Rogue, could I please pick his lock boxes for him, otherwise I was in his mind, a homosexual.

My fist instinct was to ignore the little git, in the hope that he would get bored of calling me a rouge and find someone else to ignore. After about 10 mins of this constant whisper I replied, asking him to first learn English, and when he could ask me using it, I will see what I can do. This was probably a tact the young lad had experienced before, since his reply involved his age, how hard he was, and how I shouldn’t mock his ability to speak English. I laughed, ignored, and when on with my business. Most people may have hit the ignore button a lot earlier, because we are all getting these kids harassing us in game, probably since the games inception.

Which leads me into my rant. I can’t understand how in all the games I play, most of which are for over 18 year olds can i easily find half the player base I’m up against or interacting with are between the ages of 12 and 18. We have all been privy to the ridicule that gamers are subjected to, and how playing games raises kids to become mass murdering nut jobs. I honestly think that are two halves to the issue that gamers are slated, underage and retarded.

The first half I can simply sum up to moronic slap dash thinking. How the association between playing a game and becoming a nut case/murderer/whatever else you think is wrong with the world can be made is just grasping at straws. For all those people that say a game manipulates people into being violent are clearly wrong. And for a few good reasons.

Reason One: Games that are violent, are for adults, who are subject to all kinds of influences such as violent movies, the real violence in the world. A game in a make believe world does not infuse anyone with a sane background to leap up and gun people down in real life.

Reason Two: For an adult to take what they see in a game and relate it to real life, and correct me if i’m wrong, but that means they are a little unhinged. Sure, anyone who plays games can see similarities, that’s why some gaming mechanics are so easy to slip into and relate to. You have to be properly nuts in the first place to think shooting people etc is justifiably the same in game and out.

Reason Three: For those that are already making this association, I would bet my next beer that they have never played a game properly, been involved in a community of gamers and shared great fun experiences, and are reading statistics from some pointless stats company in America, because we all know that those stats are irrefutable facts, much like if you eat chocolate you’ll get cancer, you eat lettuce you’ll get cancer, if you breathe air, you will definitely get cancer facts say so at at least a 88% chance.

This is obviously a bit of a slap dash way of summing things up, but at the same time, there is maybe a little bit of truth to the issues, which brings me to the second part of the problem.

Kids, underage, immature, none guided…. kids.

As I mentioned before, we have all seen them playing, especially games they aren’t of the legal age to play. Which in my mind is a problem. I don’t care how mature they really are, if they are of the appropriate age to play, they shouldn’t be. It’s damaging for everyone else who plays, because we all get roped into the same grouping as the annoying illiterates.

Obviously there is a basic reason for this half of the problem, and that sadly can only lie in one place. Parents. Parents these days seem to lets there kids do whatever they like, play what they like, and watch what they like. Turning them into the mindless zombies they are today. Obviously there are still parents out there that are doing it right, don’t get me wrong, or parents that are at least guiding kids, and monitoring their behaviour. Sadly though, we hardly see these kids/parents, because they are doing it right. No, we get to see the 12 year old kids, who’s parents are letting play 18+ games. This is where the problem starts, and is where the easy fuel for berating gamers in general is coming from. I label these types of parents as moron breeders. You know the type. They wake up in the morning, they don’t give two flying shits about their kids education and upbringing, and worry about how they will pay the next bill, usually the answer is to have more kids and claim benefits – I guess.

There are a lot of ash hats out there, quite a few play games.

90% of them are between the ages of 12 and 16. Fact.

/rant

i will think of something cool to put here so Mike stops complaining like a little bitch.