[QUOTE="phynixblack"]The saddest moment in gaming history hasn't occured yet. It might happen though.With people like Jack Thompson out there, complaining and creating a false stereotype for gamers, we all come up with a tighter noose around our neck. There are hundred if not thousands of people waiting for us all to screw up. Since people are out there who would rather do nothing but greif and curse endlessly into their mic, more people will beleive idiots like Jack Thompson.
Eventually, the crap communities in shooters, MMOs and the like will bring the hammer of reality down on games because it will make people who don't accept gaming fear us and become convinced it is defending themselves.
When some guy who already dislikes games hears someone say gamers are killers waiting to happen, they might shrug it off. Then they get online and bump into youtube videos with some nine year old screaming about how he is gonna take a knife to some persons family. Sure this is all in a game, over a mic, but a person who already dislikes change will fear this. Some people who fear are rather powerful. All we need to do is become a loudmouthed enough group to let the government realize the craphole gaming might become and BANG, games can start being treated like cigarettes, maybe even banned entirely in some places.
The saddest day in gaming will be the day all the people talking trash realize there is MANY ways they can be punished for their acts. We all got lucky that Mr. Thompson was a total retard but how lucky can we be? Only as lucky as it takes for someone with a brain and a silver tongue to start to hate on us.
SexyPorkins
Stop.Took the words right out of my mouth.
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