Sometimes..

[Perseus]

Sometimes, you just gotta hate (http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/106/1060720p1.html) being a gamer.

I've never met a a gay gamer on XBL, nor have I heard people being insulted for being gay.

[Mr. Smithers]

Then you have never played Xbox Uno.

Homophobia is up the scale on that game. I'm an eyewitness to that.

[Perseus]

Then you have never played Xbox Uno.

Homophobia is up the scale on that game. I'm an eyewitness to that.

Oh yes, I have played Uno. Things that go down on that game are just....
Holy shit.

[Sugaree]

It's XBox Live. It's filled with a bunch of 12 year olds acting like top shit. I'm not surprised, but I AM surprised that the company isn't doing anything about it.

[Perseus]

It's XBox Live. It's filled with a bunch of 12 year olds acting like top shit. I'm not surprised, but I AM surprised that the company isn't doing anything about it.

Not entirely. I don't know anyone that's twelve, and when I rented MW2, I heard mostly 16 and up. I never meet little kids.

Haha, time to correct myself. My friends brother, when I met him, he was twelve, and had XBL. And his other brother has XBL, and he is now elelven.

[The Joker]

That is horrible. The guy in the video telling "Gay Boy" to hang himself, ugh.

[Perseus]

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Here's the video Matt is talking about if you didn't click the link in the article.
Read the description of the video.

It's XBox Live. It's filled with a bunch of 12 year olds acting like top shit. I'm not surprised, but I AM surprised that the company isn't doing anything about it.
There's nothing Microsoft can do without listening in to conversations, which would not be right. You can file a complaint on people for using offensive langauge, but it has to be a lot of them to be banned.

[Zero Beat]

*sigh* Its just sad really. That theses people say such things, most of them say it cause they know they can get away with it. Its stupid.

[Giles]

Ok... Over CoD4,5 and Mw2 I've played a total of about 50 days... I've never actually heard that much discrimination - Although I don't openly let on that I'm gay.
There's nothing you can do about the homophobia in the gaming community. The phrases "That's gay" and "What a faggot" have become so common within every game, it's not going to change anytime soon. Even if it could be reported and dealt with instantly... Who's going to report when they agree with the person that's doing it?

[JackOfClubs]

A lot of people use the word gay lightly, as in stupid or annoying. I don't, but I know most do. Its the internet; you're going to get douches making fun of you for whatever reason they can. I have been made fun of for being Irish (he was Mexican.... no offense, but I could have really gone off on him, but I didn't). Microsoft, or Sony or Nintendo for that matter, aren't going to do much about it, so its just best to get used to it.

It is sad that people make fun of someone on the internet for being gay.

[Perseus]

A lot of people use the word gay lightly, as in stupid or annoying. I don't, but I know most do. Its the internet; you're going to get douches making fun of you for whatever reason they can. I have been made fun of for being Irish (he was Mexican.... no offense, but I could have really gone off on him, but I didn't). Microsoft, or Sony or Nintendo for that matter, aren't going to do much about it, so its just best to get used to it.

It is sad that people make fun of someone on the internet for being gay.

I say gay and faggot all the time. I would never call a gay person a faggot, nor would I make fun of a gay person.
And people use dumb, lame, and stupid all the time, which all are words for someone who is different than the majority.

People just need not to get offeneded by stuff that are in the place for stupid or annoying. Lame means a cripple and dumb is someone who can't speak. But we don't mean that a dumb person is equivalent to something that is not smart. When people say gay, they don't mean for it be mean that a gay person is equivalent to someone is who is annoying or not smart or something like that.

So I mean, words change meaning over time. Gay used to mean happy, now it means homosexual or stupid. Words change, soon I bet, gay won't even mean homosexual anymore. It will mean stupid or something on those lines.

[MadManWithaBox]

You've never been called faggot or queer on Xbox live? Have you even been on xbox live? I get that every other game of Halo. Kill an american guy OH YOU FUCKING CHEATING FAGGOT. Kill another STOP CHEATING QUEER. Bloody riddiculous.

[Perseus]

You've never been called faggot or queer on Xbox live? Have you even been on xbox live? I get that every other game of Halo. Kill an american guy OH YOU FUCKING CHEATING FAGGOT. Kill another STOP CHEATING QUEER. Bloody riddiculous.

No, I said I've never heard someone being made fun of for being gay. Way different.

[Cloud]

As soon as someone says gay fag or queer in a lobby
i imediately pretend to be gay
to jsut piss them off
for one
its fun that they get so pissed about it
2 its funny that there letting it get to them that much
and 3 its funny to creep them out

always get stupid people on xbox
but hey ho
jsut gotta let it slide and not let it get to you

[Sugaree]

jsut gotta let it slide and not let it get to you

Not an easy thing to do for some people. Some can take the insults, but others can't.

[Cloud]

Not an easy thing to do for some people. Some can take the insults, but others can't.

i know that but really there isnt much you can do
other than mute them and then report em
thats pretty much all you can do

[IowaBoy]

Just shows how ignorant some people are, i have seen this happen to people before, once it started I will run up and just start tubing the hell out of them (even if we are on the same team).

I have had this happen to me also (even though I am not gay or anything) when that started I raged on them.

[The Joker]

I'm glad that there is a straight person that genuinely cares about this.

[Giles]

Just shows how ignorant some people are, i have seen this happen to people before, once it started I will run up and just start tubing the hell out of them (even if we are on the same team).

I have had this happen to me also (even though I am not gay or anything) when that started I raged on them.

Which probably got you allot more insults and accusations of being gay I guess?