If you missed last week's "Sessler's Soapbox," you missed Sess calling out the legions of Xbox Live racists, bigots, homo-phobes and other mouth-breathers that make gaming crappier for all the normal people.
Check it out:
Sessler challenged the loudmouths to contact us to provide an explanation for their actions. While his post elicited a lot of responses--nearly unanimously in the "right on, Sess!" camp--a few posters identified themselves as people who fling sexists and racist language around on Live.
We emailed each Xbox Live jerk to try and set up an interview. Only one person responded to our emails, and he didn't have the sack to talk to us. So, in a piece of hardly surprising news, it turns out that players who hurl the N-Word and slur people's sexuality are actually cowards.
"It doesn't surprise me," Sessler said. "They know what they're doing is inappropriate, and may not even reflect how they feel in real life. Real-life racists usually keep that kind of talk to their own kind, so what's shocking about this isn't what's being said, but the fact that it's put out there in public the way it is. You'd be pretty surprised to find a KKK rally, but racists on Xbox are an every day thing."
So apparently, the prospect of speaking to another human being on the phone is too scary for the tough guys who grief Xbox Live. But we get why. We understand that a discussion with a semi-intelligent person who disagrees with you will likely make you look like idiot (after all, if you had any other way of making people listen to you, you wouldn't be spamming the N-Word over Xbox, right?), so we'll meet you on your turf. Make it nice and easy on you.
G4 would like to propose a Bigots Vs. G4 Halo 3 match. Send us an email if you use racist and/or sexist language on Live, and we'll put you on a team, then, we'll pit you against G4's group. You can call us any names you want.
If you're down, shoot an email, and we'll hook it up and settle the matter like geeks, eh?
