Wow, I've never felt the urge to bring my sexuality into my gaming tag.
But bein a dude who's kissed dudes, shit like this makes me sick. Not those who made jokes, but those who really spread hate.

Choppu, you're an asshole.

@ToasT

Yet if you look at Dtoid, tons of people have pictures of boobs or hot chicks as their avatars, a lot of people's blogs and profiles have ass shots and talk of having sex with significant others, and even a number of front page stories (For example, the Hot Men article that Faith put up) have to do with people "flaunting" their sexuality or bringing it into gaming. Hell, Dtoid even has a special forum tag for girls that says "I've seen her boobies." People go out of their way to talk about how much they like girls and boobs, why is it so offensive if a gay person happens to mention they're gay?

Someone should send that to the ACLU just for fun and to see what they say.

@ Aerox

It goes both ways. That is why I mentioned what I don't do as far as my gamer tag in my previous comment(I would not get the grief however due to the majority) It is also true that a lot of games appeal to a sexual orientation but Halo is not one of them and it is one of the reasons that I don't buy games like Katamari or DOA.

I find it odd if these people really hated homosexuals, why did they bother to continue playing Halo with one? Personally I don't care for people talkin about who or what they are when it has nothing to do with any of my interest, however this just goes to show that faceless communication will let anyone speak whatever nonsense they want. This is not a reflection of how things are in a social setting because guaranteed if those dorks were at any event or any situation that had more couth or standards than a game of Halo 3, they would never open their mouths to say any shit towards anyone because they would sorely be outnumbered by those who would just say Man shut the fuck up idiot.

However...I will say this, it didn't sound like GayBoy was being anonymous with anything to do with his sexual preferences...plus it sounded like he was egging some people on at times. But you have to expect a name like that will cause people(in a leisurely situation) to attack and poke fun at it because again it's a low brow, low level, low responsibility/accountability situation for any of these guys who are just gettin off on competitive video games.

If the person's nickname was "XXX I AM A GIRL WHO LIKES PENIS XXX" do you think it would be left alone?

Here's an idea... if you don't want to get shit slung at you, don't fucking put anything remotely personal in your nickname.

You knew this would happen...so smarten up. You're gay sure, but extremely naive? FUCK YES.

Oh and btw... take your social tests somewhere not polluted by the most mindless of demographics ==XBOX LIVE...and yes this was a fucking test, don't think this wasn't a huge prompt to make it look like the world is hunting gay people...I for one have never seen any homosexual jumped or being beaten at all, let alone in any socially populated area that isn't shifty or shady... and personally I would help stop that because someone being pummeled has nothing to do with anal sex...which essentially is all male homosexual activity is apart from any heterosexual activity. Fucking christ get over it... so a guy digs another guy... you don't have to fuck either of them, so get over it!

I really wish those names were not blurred out. I suffer a similar problem though, I go into games and people automatically start to harass me for being a general... so fucking what I am better then you. The best though is when someone has a guest over and they have to act as my friend so perfectly put it....online tough guys. With nothing better to do or prove then run around on a video game and harass someone for whatever reason just to impress their little friends back home.

Sadly I expect this thing when I play Halo games. When I first played Halo 3 online I was shit talked and tea bagged in the first game I played. It really felt like Halo. I will say that when people have names that stand out people often give them issues over it. My one friend used the name "AGoatOnAcid" in Halo 2. Nearly every single match, at least one person would say his name upon joining, many started talking shit immedately. I can only imagine how much worse it would be if you used the word gay in your name given the Madden-esque crowd's preference for Halo, because Halo is "cool" where as something like playing UT3/2004 or CS would be beneath them.

Huh.

Ok most of these guys sounded like assholes we can all agree on that. But some sounded kinda relaxed and just interested in it. Most guys will joke around with people. Me and my friends are straight and one of our friends was gay and we would always joke around like that with him, maybe not so crudely. I remember one time he was talking about cleaning and how it relaxes him like gardening, me and my friend just laughed and looked at him and said "Well yeah, your gay!" This is the attitude it seemed SOME of the guys in this video had, probably only a couple of them.

With the exception of a few guys that were simply making gay jokes, I love how the majority slandered GayBoy for the primary sake of provoking a reaction, and just ended up sounding retarded AND unfunny. Really, there isn't much humor to be found - and not at what they said, but how they said it. That kid who said gays are going to hell sounded really insecure, like he was thinking "Wow, I'm really going to get away with it!"

You sure did, Jimmy. You sure did.

I personally thought some of those comments were hilarious.

Sucks if the guy feels offended by what some random douchedags on Xbox Live have to say but with that gamertag he was pretty much inviting them to.

I don't know why people act so surprised.

kill them all!

So from what some of you are saying im seeing this:

Its ok to be gay as long as you dont act gay because if you act gay, then you deserve the shit you get.

/boggle

Meh, passable flames, they would have been better if GayBoy had retorts and started a trash talk triathlon to see the true extent of how entertaining the flamebots of Live truly are.

The world is full of douchebags. I'm not surprised in the least that a bunch of them are on Xbox Live.

Assholes on Xbox live, news at 11.

For a second there, I thought this was Kotaku, this isn't news, assholes litter XBL, be homophopic frat boys or true skill assholes, XBL is the worst of the worst.

Halo 3 moreso because its so popular, popular games always attract more assholes.

This is one the many reasons I stopped playing Halo. The community is like the World Series of assholes.

im gonna add him as a friend now

I thought that was fucking hilarious.

I'd like to start by saying that I'm disappointed in destructoid for posting this and expecting people to be sympathetic. I don't like gay people and I think everything about it is wrong. I don't think that this is the right place to bring this and expect everybody to be tolerant.

Second I think it's pretty shitty that this guy went out and recorded all of this. He asked for it by making that his gamertag and then acted like the victim.

Third, to all of you who said "this is why I don't play halo". Fuck off. Not everybody on live is like that and it not right to throw everybody in the same category. I stated before that I do not like gay people. Although this is true I would not have done what these guys did. I probably would have just left the game and kept my mouth shut. To make a comment that would make it seem that everybody who plays halo is an asshole is unfair.

100 get.

as much as i love teh halos, the community is definatly the worst part about it. but that happens to alot of popular games. thats why they created the quickmute feature. so you wouldnt have to listen to crap like this

Yeah, this is no surprise. Especially with Halo. Halo fans are fucking retarded majority of the time, this video is a perfectly good example. Of course, Live is filled with a bunch of tards that have never really played online outside of the 360, so you usually have to deal with a bunch of re-res.

Like Colette said, I'd honestly prefer to play with friends. Majority of the time when I play a random live game, it gets so annoying that I turn down the headset and take it off lol. Makes everything better.