When I saw this article and decided to post it I couldn't think of any kind of funny image or caption I could use in conjunction with the post as is de riguer at Destructoid. There is no way to spin this to make it lighthearted or amusing without also revealing yourself to be a completely amoral sociopath worthy of swift removal from this planet. The actions of this man are not only disgusting and reprehensible in and of themselves, but the effect they'll have on the gaming world, providing ammunition for pundits searching for a way to demonize games, only serves to compound the issue.
Youtube user, self professed pedophile, and worthless human being Myidisphat has freely, and gleefully, admitted to using Xbox Live as a hunting ground to find and befriend young boys. Seeming to think himself a champion of a noble cause, Myidisphat attempts to defend his deplorable peccadilloes with worthless platitudes making him out to be a caring person seeking to establish an innocuous connections with children, in the process revealing himself to be a monster of epic proportion.
“Most of the time I’m with boys there is no sexual involvement,” YouTube user Myidisphat wrote following posting video in which he spells out “I ‘heart’ little boys” on Halo 3. “They think I’m cool as hell because I do crazy [expletive deleted] all the time. Of course they love to ruff play. I’m not saying there is sexual involvement, but I’m not saying there isn’t.”
There simply aren't enough words for me to express my complete and total disgust. At the risk of sounding petty, in addition to the nearly irreparable damage this person has done to too many children, he is happily handing an expansive war chest of ammunition to anyone seeking to paint gaming as a negative force in the world. There is no way to defend against accusations of human excrement using your service to exploit children other than to say the majority of users don't do this. To the ears of a scared parent, this is hardly an argument in defense of gaming and could even be misconstrued (purposefully by some) as defense of this type of activity.
Still, the effects this will likely have on the gaming world pale in comparison to the horrific trauma inflicted on far, far too many children. With any luck this absolute monstrosity meets with a swift end, which would still be too light a consequence.
[Via GameRush -- Thanks, Justin]
Contest:
6:14 PM on 01.28.2008
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Still, I coulda found a funny image.
Maybe I'd be less angry and disgusted at these people if I weren't a parent, I dunno, I never really put any thought into it before hand, but as a parent, if any twisted psycho even approached made any sexual advances towards my little girl, I really would rip his balls off and force him to eat them...
Not only are the little boys with foul mouths on Xboxlive but the older men with disgusting mouths are on xboxlive trying to hunt down the little boys.
WTF is wrong with people.
Then again for this and young children parents should have better ideas on what their children are doing on the nets.
Like, really wrong.
The question on my mind is how these 'children' were allowed to go out and meet up with SOME RANDOM GUY they meet on Xbox Live...
It's bad parenting...but the media's going to jump on this like a fat kid on candy.
Brace yourselves, people.
still it is sick and makes us regular hardcore gamers look like horny gay/straight pedos.
Oh well played good sir.
Fucking dumbass. I hope he gets stabbed in jail.
Jack paid him money to say this shit.
But if it is true...let me have five minutes with him. I'll come equipped with a sword, barbwire, and alcohol.
This is just sick and wrong. I hope his account was banned, but I also wonder how parents let their kids meet up with this guy.
So, are we swiftly removing Jim Sterling from the planet then?
Remove me too then. Well, don't.
I just wish I could set a cap that would block anybody under the age of 18. Sure, there would be an easy work around, but it'd weed out a ton of kids.
How is this legal? Fuck freedom of speech, this is digusting! Websites dedicated to finding little boys others dedicated to "The Movement"! These guys think that nothing is wrong with them and that it's all ok. Wow.
grim is such jailbait
XBOX LIVE IS A FILTHY BREEDING GROUND FOR CHILD HUNTERS CREATED BY CORPORATE EVIL "MICROSOFT." IT AIDS GROWN MEN IN FINDING YOUNG, INNOCENT, AND DEFENSELESS LITTLE BOYS!
THEY PROVIDE TOOLS TO SEND EXPLICIT PICTURES AND WRITE SEXUAL AND PERVERTED NOTES TO THE FUTURE OF OUR SOCIETY, OUR CHILDREN. YOU CAN EVEN ENTER INTO A VIDEO CHAT WITH EASE AND SIMULATE SEX ACTS WITH THESE YOUNG BOYS.
THEN, YOU ADD THE BOYS TO YOUR "FRIEND'S LIST" WITH THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON SO YOU CAN WORK ON LURING HIM INTO YOUR HOME EACH AND EVERY DAY. YOU CAN MONITOR WHEN LITTLE JOHNNY SIGNS ON TO THIS "SERVICE" AND BEGIN STALKING IMMEDIATELY.
MICROSOFT MAKES XBOX LIVE! PEDOPHILES CAN USE XBOX LIVE! PEDOPHILES LIKE LITTLE BOYS!
MICROSOFT LIKES LITTLE BOYS AND PEDOHILES!!!!11!
-From the desk of Jack Thompson.
@Gott
please die, now!
@Boolean
I think something a lot worse than getting stabbed is going to happen to him in jail...daily...
Here, try this:
Blame it on the parents/guardians and the pedophiles.
god damn I hate pedos... they can just go ahead and die...
Let's take what you suggested about Jack Thompson one set further and consider possibly something even more sinister:
"Myidisphat" is a pedophile, a felonious criminal. Jack Thompson is a grandstanding d-bag of a lawyer (or former lawyer if he's been disbarred -- hopefully). Lawyers often have to represent the guilty in a court of law, sometimes willfully.
So what I'm saying is, what if Jack Thompson hired, or even bribed this guy, to do what he did in the now pulled YouTube video and past videos (since this sick fuck has posted several times in the past 5 months) as bait for the uninformed, a vicious way to swing support for Thompson's own views, fraudulently adding fuel to debate he has created, and to keep him and his legal cases in the public eye?
That's right, I went there!
paid off by nintendo to garner support for friend-codes.
So, is anything being done about the guy?