I have the weirdest boner right now...

...I really can't stand the anticipation for BF3. I wish we could get a Videosift Group setup like we have in Steam...but until then, feel free to add me to your friends list (Gamertag: Hyperplasia)

.. did you just call me flaming?

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>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.


Fag!





**Sorry. J/K. I have not a predjudiced bone in my body, but in context, I channeled one of the fucktards in the video. Honestly, I have no problem whatsoever with you and wish you well. I think I've said it elsewhere in here, I have several friends I think are gay, never asked, don't care. Well, two of them are married to each other, so it's a bit obvious, but oh well.

Fag!



Flamer!

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>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.


Fag!





**Sorry. J/K. I have not a predjudiced bone in my body, but in context, I channeled one of the fucktards in the video. Honestly, I have no problem whatsoever with you and wish you well. I think I've said it elsewhere in here, I have several friends I think are gay, never asked, don't care. Well, two of them are married to each other, so it's a bit obvious, but oh well.

Fag!



Flamer!

Shitcock!

>> ^davidraine:
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.

Sounds like someone's unfamiliar with John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/



I think X-box live is especially full of dumb adolescents. In RPGs, like oxdottir mentions, this is much less widespread.

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>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.


Fag!





**Sorry. J/K. I have not a predjudiced bone in my body, but in context, I channeled one of the fucktards in the video. Honestly, I have no problem whatsoever with you and wish you well. I think I've said it elsewhere in here, I have several friends I think are gay, never asked, don't care. Well, two of them are married to each other, so it's a bit obvious, but oh well.

Fag!

This is even more interesting because of the current trend towards evangelising on XBox Live. At this time I have easily a dozen people I play with regularly who have gamertags like GamingForChrist, GodsWarrior or something similar. The presence of overt Chrisitianity online almost appears organized.

This is all well and good, most of these guys are tolerant and accepting people. The problems seem to happen when the prepubescent christians (small 'c') join the group. Then you get all the Christian hubris and none of the life experience and wisdom to balance it out. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I've witnessed the squeaky voices launching verbal attacks on gays, jews, blacks, atheists...Obama supporters, all backed by Christian rhetoric and all spoken with an air of certainty that the world is in total agreement with their opinions. I just sit quietly but I do sometimes wonder why none of the older Christians in the group bother to reign them in, knowing full well that I'm an Atheist AND a Liberal.

Oh well, I guess religious tolerance is meant to be a one way road.

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>> ^Gabe_b:
Bwahaa. Glad I don't pay for Xbox live


Why does this statement strike me the same way as someone saying "I'm glad I don't have a tv, I get so much done, and save so much money."

Why does this video make you glad you don't pay for xbox live?

Seems like random trolling to me.

It disturbs >> ^davidraine:
>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.

Sounds like someone's unfamiliar with John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/


I am familiar with it... but it makes things that bit more unsettling. That these people would never call me a faggot to my face is perhaps true, but if we take it that (perceived) anonymity is all that it takes for them unveil their antisocial/homophobic tendencies, then they must have these tendencies in the first place. I don't believe that Internet anonymity makes people express opinions and attitudes that they don't already have. The strip you linked to is based on the premise that these are ordinary people - and that's disturbing too.

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>> ^Psychologic:
Anonymity really brings out the best in people.


They are not necessarily anonymous.

I think rather its more the feeling of being anonymous, while not really anonymous.

Every one has a unique number, and it usually fits inside this range: 255.255.255.255.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
As a side issue, may I add that online gaming is possibly the hardest place to come out as gay, and the choice of insults by these wankers is testament to why. I've come out to my family, my school, my university, my friends, to the first girl who told me she loved me... the place I've got the worst reaction was online gaming. Seriously.


I never thought about this, but I can TOTALLY understand your point. Why are people such trolls on xbox?

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>> ^Payback:
>> Sorry. J/K. I have not a predjudiced bone in my body, but in context, I channeled one of the fucktards in the video. Honestly, I have no problem whatsoever with you and wish you well. I think I've said it elsewhere in here, I have several friends I think are gay, never asked, don't care. Well, two of them are married to each other, so it's a bit obvious, but oh well.

You didn't need the disclaimer, I knew you were joking.

Yeah, I pretty much assumed that. Others on the Sift might take offense by proxy.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
Wow, what a tolerant society you've created there Americans. Good job teaching your young!
Oh and who cares if Jesus died? He was just one of hundreds of people with the same story trying to make a quick buck. It just happened that his story became the most popular (I bet he'd have been shocked at how things went and he'd probably want a good chunk of the tithe money if he were still alive).


Do you really think that the Xbox live community (and even then only the ones offensive enough to make it onto a gag reel) represents American society? Lets go to a football match in England and wear a jersey making fun of the local team. Or go to Brazil after Pele's eventual death and wear a "Pele died LOL" shirt. There are juvenile wankers in every society - America never claimed to be an exception.