Gamer physically attacked for online trash-talking

A student at Eric Hamber secondary school in British Columbia is recovering after allegedly being physically beaten up after playing an online game with a group of friends who after winning the game goaded their fallen opponents. Trash-talking ensued but the arguement carried over into the real world and the unknown but angry and humiliated loser exacted his revenge in the worst possible fashion. Physical violence.

[wat634]

Nobody has good sportsmanship these day, nobody.

[DigitalAnalog]

This is just sad.

-End statement

[pangitkqb]

but more real-world consequences would make various online communities much better. I sometimes hear such horribly racist, sexist, or homophobic remarks from online trashtalkers that I would be tempted to kick their ass if I knew where they lived.

Being online is not an excuse to be a freakin' jackass and people who act that bad shouldn't be surprised that it one day has real-life co sequences.

[outwar6010]

yh i totally agree with pogiboldy. These jackasses seem to be using the anonymity from online gaming to say some really nasty things. The article doesnt say who initiated the online slurring but yh thats the way the cookie crumbles

[bananlol]

I get where you are comming from but alas i have to disagree. The power of words is relative, a word is only worth what you decide its worth. Physical violence however is not, that is a power that can be quantified.

Say someone here called me something, i wouldnt know you and you wouldnt know me so i vouldnt be offended because the word in this context laced any mening to me. And supposing we knew each other the word still wouldnt have any meaning if i for instance didnt like you.

I guess what i wanted to say was, if you resort to violence youve already lost.

[Biggest]

I wouldn't say you lost. If you get your ass kicked you lost a little more. It all depends on what was said to be honest. If in your racist, homophobic verbal attacks you mention any form of violence (no matter how hard you wish to never see the person you're talking to) you are in the wrong. That isn't a green light for an ass kicking, but it saves the ass kicker some extra punishment in the court of law. I personally advocate for face bashing to ANYONE that feels that the internet is a safe haven for punk ass kids to act tougher than they are. A big idea for "gamers" is that they're just games. Don't get all mad about the talk. Since they're just games people should try to close their mouths and play the games.

[bananlol]

im not a violent person by nature, probably since im really lazy, and i dont think someone could make me resort to physical violence without them resorting to int first. If some online punk really pissed me off i suppose i would try to use their weakness, lack of self-assurance(the reason the go online and insult people), and try to scar them for life by telling tem som really weird shit.

[Anon1974]

I agree with some above. With no real world consequences people feel they can say whatever the hell they want. If they tried the same thing face to face - they'd get busted up constantly. I have to say, this brought a smile to my face. I've personally had a problem with someone who stalked me online, harassing me on multiple sites and I had to let him know this type of cyber bullying is not acceptable - the internet isn't anonymous for those who want to criminally harass and you CAN be held to account for your actions and have charges pressed against you if you continue those actions. He still breaks the "no contact" request every now and then, and each time he does I save the details so that when I've finally had enough - it'll all go to his local authorities. It doesn't matter if the harassment in face to face, over the phone or electronic - it's still harassment and even on forums like this, if you harass someone do you really not think that the owners of the site won't give up your IP rather then be investigated by the authorities as to why they were complacent when they had been contacted and made aware of the situation at hand? People need to remember that.

Online gaming is no different. Just because you're hundreds of km away from someone and have a mic in front of you doesn't mean that there's no consequences if you consistently act like a jackass.

[AndrewRyan]

I agree. All this violence over the internet, people swearing at each other, threatening each other, all these preteen kids acting tough and teenagers acting cool and swearing out other players. Adults too. Remember, every action has a consequence, maybe this kid will think twice before he calls some guy on call of duty a "fucking faggot" or "a douchebag"

[Game-ur]

How did he track him?

[Matthew94]

probably at the same school or something

[outwar6010]

or his online tag gave it away

[ape007]

with UAV Recon

[BLACKBOIJONES]

lol, i trash talk sometimes but never have i gone this far. this is a hole new level of hardcore gamin. i cnt lie i feel like throwin my pad on the T.V sometimes wen i lose.

[lastdual]

Are you saying I don't have good sportsmanship!?

*gets out baseball bat*

[knifefight]

Good. If we beat the snot out of more people, maybe XBox Live will become a mroe tolerable place.

[capjacksparrow]

Nice, thats why I play on PSN, people are much older and can't afford to beat people up because they usually have families.

[Terarmzar]

No i wouldn't say people are more mature on either consoles, you just see less of it because less people have microphones for the ps3, that's all

[Matthew94]

yeah theres no trash talking on psn because noone owns mics yeah sony ftw! psn's da best!

[Defective Bot]

Just because people on PSN aren't desperate for attention like the monkeys over at XBL doesn't mean they don't have mics. I have two mics and I only used them when I'm playing with people in my friends list, I'm not going to waste my bt battery life on some mouth breather just because I have a mic.

[bananlol]

Thats strange, ive had far more strategy conversations with strangers on psn. I wonder why, i mean the only difference is the almighty party syst...oh.

[lowcarb]

Dude shut up seriously lol.

[King-Leonidas]

much better than giving free mics to 8 year olds.

[Defective Bot]

Another thing the Micromuppets don't want you to know is that the voice quality is garbage on XBL, voices sound distorted, staticky, and muffled.

[xino]

I won't be called a N*ger all the time, I won't have to endure annoying kids singing and I won't have to interact with morons.

[WLPowell]

Every match there's someone always playing their shit music and singing along.

[TekoIie]

I think that this is the case. Parents buying their kids console's go for the cheaper one or the one they ask for, and all i hear about from my Little brothers friends is "XBOX, XBOX".

I believe that kids are more interested in the name and believe it is cool and so they are attracted to it and their parants are happy to get them a xbox over a ps3 due to price

[Call_me_Ishmael]

these people are what making the gaming community
look bad

[TekoIie]

people buy games and beat someone up, its a big deal.

I go to a football match and get trashed by the opposing teams fans and yes i will now and then join the crowd simply to throw my coke can so i dont have to go find a bin and this gets classed as "normal"...

The world we live in is messed up...

[divideby0]

dont need to resort to violence.

but those who trash talk, would never had the nads to do it in real life..
you can tell right away the punks who talk trash could never back it up in real life.

those who talk trash deserve what they get.. to me they are just spinless pizza faced kidz... say it to my face...never happen

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

I'm of the belief a good deal of people deserve to have a foot planted up their butts, especially teenagers. I think if you are rude, racist, acting like a typical teenager...and someone beats you down, you have no right to feel like a victim.

[TekoIie]

tbh we have no idea what this guy said, so all we know is that someone got beat up and have no idea if there was racism or offensive comments made against the persons family or if he just took things more seriously than most of us.

[plb]

AVGN is awesome

[AllroundGamer]

yes he is :)

[bananlol]

Still, his new reviews havent really been as great as some of the old ones. I think hes making a movie or something. Still his review of the sega 32x/cd is one of the most hilarious videos ive seen on the internet, it was the one who made me watch all his other videos.

[AllroundGamer]

that's true, i still make AVGN marathons with all his older videos from time to time :)

[bananlol]

Some of his new ones are actually pretty good to, like the one on "plumbers don wear ties", they should release that one on psn/xbla.

[hadouken007]

Nobody should take it that far,but u can only get called a nigg@,a fag,so many time before u pop.

[atlys]

guess sh*t talkers do get dealt with.

[Pedobear Rocks]

this guy leave enough info around to be found in the first place...you're getting your ass kicked for being stupid...Darwin wins again.

BTW...this article doesn't give credit to original sources..here is one: http://www.vancouversun.com...

And it isn't an Xbox game....

Defence of the Ancients, a “custom scenario” for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

It is part of the Warcraft universe of games, which has 12 million online subscribers.

[atlys]

sh*t talking in a rpg based on a rts game? really? what a douche.

[EskiJoe]

If it is Dota, then its a custom game in WC:TFT "Warcraft The Frozen Throne" not regin of chaos... and you dont subscribe to it, you just play it...

[maniac76]

then dont give out where you live etc,unless they uber hackers and finding a way to find you haha

[KiLLUMiNATi_89]

I hate them little racists kids that always say the most ignorant shit ever. For example the N word. I hate punk asses that act like they online gangsters and run there mouths only online. I'm just glad a mute button was created or party chat to avoid ignorant people.

[dionnysus]

online gaming and the internet have always enjoyed a great anonymousness, which leads to people saying the smack they wouldn't otherwise say right up to someone's face. perhaps people in the know are finding ways around that, maybe one will think twice about being a sore winner. i will never condone physical violence; i also think insulting someone will get my ass kicked

[Triggs]

You are quite correct. One bubble for an intelligent statement.

[The_Devil_Hunter]

Don't act so rashly my boy....if you shoot, I will die ya know...

[Ares84PS3]

" but there is a trend to teach teens in high school that while you can be insulting online, that behaviour is not acceptable in the real world."

What is this???? That behaviour isn't accaptable online either!!! The fuck are they talking about???

It's because of idiots like these that teens are the way they are. They spend a lot of time online and that behaviour becomes natural to them. If we teach tham that it's ok to trash talk online and belittle others in an online environment than we are just as bad as those teens are.

Trash talking, cursing etc. are never ok!!!!

[kaveti6616]

There's some people on this site who can use a little discipline.

[swishersweets20031]

theres a few times, u run into gamers who go out of there way to piss off others, and just do anything and everything to make other gamers angry. There are a ton of times i loose my cool and think how much i would love to baseball batt that guys skull in.. but you just put down the controller and just forget about it. I'm glad some of these people are getting there ass beaten by someone for there POS attitudes.

[TABSF]

Some of us are not quiet that stupid

I'm hoping most gamers can tell the difference between harming in games and harming in the real world

[kaveti6616]

quite*

[Biggest]

It's a good thing that words were never the reason for violence or death on our great planet. If they were, people might think a little before saying dumb crap to other people while playing games. Some of you aren't that stupid, right?

[Urahara]

Finally, little pricks need to learn a lesson. and as Penny Arcade would say,"Death is a cruel teacher."

[maxcer]

lol good, teaches you right for being a little cum stain.

[bobrea]

I lold. Don't talk shit if you can't back it up. Although I will also say that the kid who was mad enough to fight irl is a bit of a fag, too.

[Darkspade]

Internet Tough guy not so Tough

[Ripyealip]

wtf thats the angry video game nerd! that guy is cool style he makes funny videos on youtube and he makes good review on games for older game systems like NES,Genisis,atari ect... but if he was talkin shit online LOL he deserved it. who was talkin shit tho it doesnt say AVGN or some youth?

[zero_cool]

LMFAO@them using the angry video game nerds picture.

[The Milkman]

Gaming has very little difference between competitive sports psychologically. It has nothing to do what console you play on or what sport you watch; Your adrenaline raises either way. It's just natural for people to defend themselves in those situations. You could say it's poor sport for either side. Because if someone goes too far with taunting it becomes unnecessary, just provoking someones anger. I think the guy doing the taunting could possibly have got what he was asking for. All I'm saying either side could be the blame for this depending on who went too far overboard.

[palaeomerus]

Next one will "read dumb guy tries to beat up guy who talked smack to him online but gets shot in face instead. Ruled as a justifiable homocide in self defense. Funeral to be a week from monday."

If you think being smack talked online gives you a right to be violent to someone then you are probably already on a collision course with forces of Darwinian selection. You are too dumb to live and waiting around for your own personal extinction event to find you.

And if you do survive then then there is still "Angry gamer sent to jail for assault and battery. Probably going to get raped in the shower a lot. " to worry about.

[Biggest]

I would take my chances. N*gger guy on the internet isn't usually the toughest of people. Hell, the majority of people that say the dumb crap people say during online gaming haven't seen tough in person. What happened here is what usually happens. Dummy gets too mouthy. Dummy gets beat up. Life goes on.

[Lazyeye79]

"Sticks and stone may break my bones but words can never hurt me"

I feel sorry for the poor loser who did this, his life must be pretty bad to have to do something like that.

[kasasensei]

I will not blame the guy. I wished i could do the same sometimes. :p