The Racist lives on Xbox life

In COD: World at War last night, I ran into a Timmy, while he sounded like he was 30, he was definitely a Timmy, his tag (though I can't remember it exactly I will be finding it tonight and giving MAJOR bad feedback) was something like WhiteManKKK...how did that one make it through the XBL content filters? But all this guy did was talk about how someone should kill Obama, and then McCain would be president again. (I know that there is TONS wrong with that statement, both ethically, and Procedurally, but I'm not going to get into that…it would be several pages long) What surprised me was the way the people in the room responded….simply put, they didn’t…there was one person, obviously African American from his Gamer tag(Da_afroninja or something like that) gave protest and asked all to give him bad feedback, and file complaints (which I will be doing) he presented himself very well, was very well spoken and gave some fantastic rebuttals, but beyond that, there was not complaint, no one calling him a bigot, nothing. I muted him and tried to give encouragement to the one standing up against him. But there was a major line crossed and most stood by and did nothing.  Was it simply something that was bred into me that that word that he used twice every sentence that started with an N, and ended with “I’m an uneducated hick” cuts through me like a knife of ignorance every time I hear it. But that was the way I was raised, there are ton’s of profanities out there, and all are used too much in ways that don’t contribute to the events at hand. (unless those events involve a hammer and your thumb) But what ever happened to the creative insult? The witty comeback? The heated debate? All have been replaced by some dick with a microphone and an XBL account who WON’T SHUT UP. There’s a time and place to make yourself heard on the issues you feel you need to address…let’s just keep that crap out of our XBL experience.

 

In the end I Give COD:WaW a big thumbs up for the campaign and the multiplayer. (the campaign was a bit short, but I think that may have been because we were playing on the Regular mode in Co-op.) I’d get into more detail but everything I’d have to say could be said about COD4, but I would like to stress that just because the games are similar and use the same engine doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.