Motherfuckers don't need anonymity. They aren't hiding. They exist, right out in the open, because they are allowed to exist without repercussion.
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Racism in gaming is still alive and well
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Motherfuckers don't need anonymity. They aren't hiding. They exist, right out in the open, because they are allowed to exist without repercussion.
Basically. I'm a white dude and I don't even use gamechat. Fuck dealing with these toxic ass bitches.
She posted their screen names/gamertags. Anyway they can be mass reported?
This is almost every high ranked match in a competitive game on PC. Literally all of them have this issue, even more so if they are team based.
User Banned (1 Week): Dismissing concerns surrounding racism over a series of posts
What does that have to do with racism? "Racism in gaming is still alive and well" is like an implication that racism only exists in pockets, in certain areas of society. When it's all-encompassing.
That is true. The example in the OP just makes me shrug, because it's just how things have always been. You'd get drained if you had to lose your mind at every single example of this when it's one's life.
I don't understand how people in this thread thinks that racism should be curbed in gaming culture, yet in another thread, 90% of those who voted think that gaming developers aren't morally obligated to push against racism. Not that people in here are the same as in the other, but that people cannot simply be "racism is bad" and then in the same breath say that "developers aren't obligated to create anti-racist themes".
If gaming culture is rife with racism, game developers should obviously do something!
If gaming culture is rife with racism, game developers should obviously do something!
I'm shocked, gaming is typically a very inclusive hobby full of sane and friendly people.
Now, just I'm just gonna play a single round of Rainbow Six Siege and......oh.....oh no
Now, just I'm just gonna play a single round of Rainbow Six Siege and......oh.....oh no
Imagine being a person who has to live all the unfair shit reflected on that thread as a POC in real life, you're tired of this shit, you're tired of the world being rigged against you, you think to yourself, "okay, i want to relax, let's do some gaming, time for some escapism of this shitty reality i live in" and then you encounter this shit.
How is it not sickening that racism is so embedded into society that you can't fucking relax and play some overwatch without getting yet another dose of racism?
We know now, that anonymity isn't needed for behaving this way. Just give people access to an echo chamber without good moderation and you give the worst people a platform, where they can spread there bad behavior and ideas.
I think the people wondering are the people who've never been abused online for their race/gender/sexuality/etc.
Oh right, I was just thinking Blizzard. But yeah Sony should throw out some bans too. They should lose access to as much as possible, brick the consoles if that can be done.
Because that's the shitty reality they live in. So either you live your life being sick, or you come to terms with it. That does not mean sitting down and taking it. But it does mean that it shouldn't be surprising in the least.
plenty of gamers who also think service-side businesses, like Steam, shouldn't have to police their content. race and systemic inequity is a hard subject to navigate generally. i understand some of the confusion, but some of it, like this example, is pretty obviously hypocritical and shortsighted.
You're definitely right, but I still think anonymity makes things worse, because nobody can tell you anything (only online, but they don't know who you are).
Motherfuckers don't need anonymity. They aren't hiding. They exist, right out in the open, because they are allowed to exist without repercussion.
People expect everyone to be as jaded as they are
If you have more smoke for the OP being naive than the racists in the video, you might want to step away from your keyboard for a bit and rethink what you're doing.
"Still"? It's way worse than it was 10 years ago. I'm just happy that I don't play that many multiplayer games anymore. The shit that I'm hearing online.... Jesus Christ...
Yeah I really hate that PC MR thing, and am disappointed that so many use the term, people that are not to familiar with it like Terry Crews, and Tech Youtubers that are high up in recognition getting sponsors from high end computer manufacturers.
Her Platinum border shows that she's put AT LEAST 1500 hours into this game. I can't even imagine what else she's had to put up with before this.
A black woman that plays Mercy, she never had a chance with Overwatch's community. The video is sickening, I couldn't even watch the entire thing.
A black woman that plays Mercy, she never had a chance with Overwatch's community. The video is sickening, I couldn't even watch the entire thing.
IT's weird that it doesn't have an option, other blizzard games do, at least HotS does.
But was it really necessary to go all whataboutism about it? Racism is sickening, you shouldn't scold a person for saying that it sickens them just because other examples of racism are worse. Like what do you even accomplish by that?
Most people overall are sick and idiots.... like seriously how can they hurt someone else like this?
Not without torches and a rally of like minded pieces of shit at least.
Those guys sound fucking insufferable. This probably ties in with how predatory the game industry is to its customers. They are fucking idiots with low moral fiber. These people may not be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but they can be abhorrent human beings while funneling massive dollars to the corporate overlords they believe they are more similar to than any other common scum piece of shit.
Also I hope by some twist of logic that she doesn't get in trouble for revealing their game name. Some devs do that, make it so that if you reveal the game names of people that do bad stuff that you get in trouble instead, saying to send it in to their people instead of the public. If I remember correctly Epic had this type of policy with Paragon.
That's true, and it's a tad cynical of me compared to someone who is clearly more sensitive about it than I am. It's that I know the OP is black, so they should know full well what we live through. So it was more of wondering why they were framing this as if it's a surprise occurrence, and that we don't already know all about this.
Are most MP shooter communities like this? And is it true that the FGC is one of the least toxic?
Somewhere some white dude is wondering why no one talks to Randoms online anymore like the "good ol days".
Yes to both counts. The FGC is practically a haven when it comes to acceptance in video games, but it certainly isn't perfect.
This is what's key.
I had some kid jump in my chat party to call me a nigger after I killed him in fortnite.
I found the dedication for him to be killed, see my username, look me up on PSN, jump in my party, call me a nigger and jump back out before I could respond hilarious.
I know I shouldn't have, but how did He even know I was black? 🤔
And Sony and Blizzard aren't going to do shit about it. A slap on the wrist is the most they'll get. It got so exhausting reporting racism, sexism, transphobia, and suicide encouraging over the years of playing Overwatch on PS4 and nothing being done about it. If I could find a group of people who were actually loving kind people to play with, maybe I'd still be playing... But bottom line is you can only hear the N-word and told to kill yourself so many times before you ultimately bail...