People who say this don’t understand gen z being such a radical and chronically online generation. Like you’re more likely than ever to have some 13 year old try to dox you because you killed them. The kids are still as mean as ever, they just pointed their meanness in a better direction

Back when I played multiplayer games on the Xbox 360 I had my voice chat volume permanently turned down to zero because I didn’t see how hearing obscenities yelled into those horribly low quality Xbox microphones added to the experience.

When the Master Chief Collection and Gears of War 5 launched on PC I ended up leaving the voice chat on because I became deeply amused and fascinated by the Xbox players I crossplayed with. People noisily munching Doritos into the void, middle-aged parent gamers talking to their children in between callouts, people who have really loud music blasting in their living room, groups of friends who like to play and chat together but for some godforsaken reason don’t just use Xbox parties or Discord.

Naturally, there have also been horribly racist moments, like the one time some

In response, the black guy just made fun of how nerdy the white guy’s voice sounded and how badly he was playing. I kept dying in that match because the absurd banter had me dying in real life

Last time I played an online shooter it was still just twelve year olds screaming slurs. Literally the only thing that’s different is the average mic quality is better and a lot less likely to blow out your ears every time their voice cracks.

It is kinda cool that modern day video game lobbies are unironically more LGBTQ+ friendly so that racist dipshits get bullied out of them.

Kids today would not only survive COD lobbies but they’d be bullying the shit out of the loser with 3 frags screaming the n-word.

Is this the current discourse on Reddit or wherever gamers hang out now