I don't know If I should've put this blog in either the Rant category or the Games one. I guess it would of work either way because it's more of a gaming-rant, Ced121 style. Now to begin...

You know those nights where you just want to set back, enjoy a good playing session with some friends, mic's included, with the sole purpose to play non-stop until midnight. Perhaps stretching it to 1 AM...or 3? (Happens often during the summer) So you setup a party and set out to play a couple of matches of Gears of War 2, a relatively gruesome, ultra violent game which make great use of the colour red.

Note the brilliant use of the colour Red.

After playing for a while in this match you realize that your team lacks a certain sense of coordination. Your party agrees to go in game chat until you realize that the two strangers who you expect to be 17+ or at least to be mature enough to have a decent conversation turn out to be an incredible duo of kids who prefer trash-talking than using the simple to understand, brilliant concept of strategy. Now I have been in these sort of situations before when I use to play this game called Halo 3, which is also a mature rated game. I remember being bombarded with friend requests for no apparent reason until I realized something interesting. When my 11 year old brother got Xbox live, he too started adding people as friends just because he played with them only once.

Anyways the kids started yelling bad words and such at us. One of my friends told them to calm. Soon after he was called a certain reproductive organ. Following this argument we went back to party chat with no hope counselling these kids hoping that we may never meet them ever again on Live.

Looks cute now but just wait till you get on Live.

What impacts me the most is the following question: are kids always this aggressive or do they simply talk like bad people because they are protected by a TV screen? If they do, I'd be pretty worried because I have no memories of kids being this aggressive and calling each other reproductive organs. Ok, we would laugh our heads off at reproductive organs but we would not name each other in such ways. Perhaps it's because there are more and more mature rated games who receive much publicity? My first game was Pokemon Snap, which I loved and had no violent features. Are kids being introduced into violence too easily these days?

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