Beer battering Fish
Jul. 29th, 2013 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidn[Title stolen from Twitter and I’m sorry]
There’s some sort of war between a Beer and a Fish going on just now and I know little about either one of them so I can’t comment on who is the greater-proportioned of the two arses in this argument, but the whole thing brings to mind just the… ridiculous immaturity of the Internet.
The trouble is, on the whole... gamers are idiots. I’m sorry, but they are. I’ve spent a lot of my life doing what I can to disprove the “gamers are shut-ins with no idea how to interact socially" stereotype, and it feels like most of the Internet is going a long way to justify it. This is a world in which you can adjust the weapon reload times in a popular game by a tenth of a second and you get death threats! Even after releasing a low-key game for people to enjoy I got a few emails from people who could neither spell nor type that simply alluded to how bad my graphics were or that $5 was an outrageous capitalist price to pay for a game.
Even outside abuse that creators suffer, I saw an article a few days ago about someone logging into his wife’s PS3 account by accident and playing on that, and the article and especially the comments were… enlightening, to say the least. There’s a thread down there somewhere that predictably says “But EVERYONE gets talked to like this, it’s your thin skin, that’s how gamers work" (in much cruder ways than I’ve just paraphrased it). First of all, that’s untrue, I’ve never seen anything like the instant abuse that women get for daring to be part of this hobby - and second, why does that justify it! Why do people in these communities regard comments like “go and kill yourself" to be par for the course instead of completely unacceptable and borderline psychotic?
I suppose - like a lot of the community now seems to be - I’m just sick of people saying whatever the hell vitriol they like about anyone on the Internet and expecting it to be okay. And for them always blaming the people who want them to be civil to one another for taking some sort of moral high ground (an interesting phrase, that - it’s used exclusively to shame people when they’re right).
As for Fez II’s revival - I give it a week.
There’s some sort of war between a Beer and a Fish going on just now and I know little about either one of them so I can’t comment on who is the greater-proportioned of the two arses in this argument, but the whole thing brings to mind just the… ridiculous immaturity of the Internet.
The trouble is, on the whole... gamers are idiots. I’m sorry, but they are. I’ve spent a lot of my life doing what I can to disprove the “gamers are shut-ins with no idea how to interact socially" stereotype, and it feels like most of the Internet is going a long way to justify it. This is a world in which you can adjust the weapon reload times in a popular game by a tenth of a second and you get death threats! Even after releasing a low-key game for people to enjoy I got a few emails from people who could neither spell nor type that simply alluded to how bad my graphics were or that $5 was an outrageous capitalist price to pay for a game.
Even outside abuse that creators suffer, I saw an article a few days ago about someone logging into his wife’s PS3 account by accident and playing on that, and the article and especially the comments were… enlightening, to say the least. There’s a thread down there somewhere that predictably says “But EVERYONE gets talked to like this, it’s your thin skin, that’s how gamers work" (in much cruder ways than I’ve just paraphrased it). First of all, that’s untrue, I’ve never seen anything like the instant abuse that women get for daring to be part of this hobby - and second, why does that justify it! Why do people in these communities regard comments like “go and kill yourself" to be par for the course instead of completely unacceptable and borderline psychotic?
I suppose - like a lot of the community now seems to be - I’m just sick of people saying whatever the hell vitriol they like about anyone on the Internet and expecting it to be okay. And for them always blaming the people who want them to be civil to one another for taking some sort of moral high ground (an interesting phrase, that - it’s used exclusively to shame people when they’re right).
As for Fez II’s revival - I give it a week.
