shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!
I fully admit that one day I’d like to have a child of my own. A kid to play video games with, maybe go toss a football and teach how to make the perfect martini. Hell, I’ve got interns currently, and I like doing that whole “passing on knowledge” thing.
Last night I was playing Texas Hold ‘Em on Xbox Live with some of the guys from GamersEx. One of them was talking about how he was in one game with a 10 year-old who kept screaming into the mic, “FOLD, FOLD, FOLD!”
My Xbox nightmares are fully realized every time I decide to do a pick-up game with a group of random people, and I hear that child voice in the crowd. I almost always instantly disconnect at that point. I would pay extra for an “Adults Only” section to Xbox Live at this point.
A gentlemen by the name of Frodo from WeeklyGeek sums up my feelings almost perfectly here
Alexander
Posted to Video Games on 25 August 2006
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I’m waiting for my first son. His education will be based on lots of videogames and violent comics.
But XBoxes are out of question.
As a gay dad myself, I know exactly what you mean. Although gaming technology may eventually advance to a point beyond my grasp (doubtful), I fully intend to know what my son is playing because the likelihood is I will play it first. (I was the one who insisted to Fruit Brute that we register this site with Net Nanny and the like. I mean, while we keep things mostly clean around here, there are certainly adult themes which IMHO aren’t really suitable for a pre-teen.) However, in the heat of online play, it’s easy to imagine that you’re playing with your peers…even if in fact you’re playing with kids.
“Go on XBOX Live and play some Halo with voice chat. You will be inundated with munchkin voices so homophobic and racist, they’d make a KKK member feel insulted and slightly intimidated.”
I for one find the voice chat in games like Halo really quite offputting because of this. It’s a really cool feature, but most of the time I don’t feel like I could have any kind of connection with the smack talking twats that seem to comprise 89% of XBL.