STFU STOOPID NOOB...or not. by Kyle W.

When it comes to video games, I'm like Bobby Brown to coke, a tenth grader to porn, or Paris Hilton to stupidity. Addicted. This Live Action trailer gave me wood, and it really gives me the hope that a Halo movie could be off the hook.

The new Halo 3: ODST game coming out Sept. 22nd is like a big rock of joy for me. But of course, it's going to be marred by fanboys who will forever contend that Xbox 360 sucks or that Halo is nothing compared to Call of Duty.

Well guess what. No one should care. EVER. About something so stupid. Video games are something so revolutionary that some older people can't even wrap their minds around it. We're playing simulations of life, games that aren't much more than thumb and index finger exercisers. Video games is a BILLION dollar industry that made more money last year than Hollywood. In 20 years, games have gone from two paddles and a ball to enormous immersing universes with enthralling stories, landscapes so defined that it puts Earth to shame, and characters so deep they create real life emotional attachments. It's undoubtedly an art form, albeit with a different fanbase than Van Gogh or Beethoven.

So when I get on Xbox Live (my gamertag is nightwing1191 by the way) to play Halo 3 or Call of Duty 5 (Holy shit, I play both), it chaps my ass to hear "NOOB HALO SUCKS CoD is BETTER GET A LIFE" or "FUCK CALL OF DUTY, I'D BEAT YOUR ASS IN HALO."

It. Doesn't. Matter. Why can't we be happy with what we have? If you don't like a game, don't play it. If you see a commercial for a game you hate, change the channel. Don't read news about it. Ignore it. It's possible. Bush did it when Katrina hit. America does it to the rest of the world. We have so many options, so many games, so many systems, that getting angry about what game is better should be grounds for immediate dismissal from the gene pool. Be thankful that video games are mainstream, that hundreds of companies want to make games for us, and that you are economically endowed enough to afford to play.

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Another poignant point. Stop insulting people for being bad at games. I suck at Call of Duty right now because I just bought it today. But I also don't go in talking like I'm MLG at it. I know I suck, and I am learning to get better. all the elitist pricks out there that must always talk shit in every single game lobby about how you got 50 kills in a match (especially when they're "high" which to me seems weird that 1 in 4 so called amazing players is high all the time) should also do the only sensible thing and put a bullet in their face.

I'll say this though. I know sometimes I gloat, sometimes I get angry, sometimes I make fun of bad players. But I never do it over the mic and especially not in person. All that comes from that is new players not having fun playing video games and quitting. Be mad on your own time.

If someone talks a big game but can't back it up though, by all rights, lay into them. Insult their mom if you want. They deserve it for not knowing when to shut the fuck up.

That's my time.

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Add-On

As I said, my gamertag is Nightwing1191. Add me! I play games such as...

Madden 2010
Call of Duty: World at War
Halo 3 (and ODST soon)
Left 4 Dead
Peggle
PGR 4
Gears of War 2

and plenty others.

Game on.