Timmy..

After reading a thread by MikeJames about Gamer Fuel, biggdogg40509 replied with a video featuring this kid on Xbox Live having a tantrum. Yelling at his mother because she's interrupting his clan match because she wants him to turn it down so she can go to bed. He lets loose on a screaming rant about not getting the drink that he demands (he wants chocolate milk when she brought him Mountain Dew). I went on a little YouTube search and found a load of videos featuring kids obviously too young to be playing the games that they are playing. Firstly is the video biggdogg40509 featured:

[google]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7153152098207965240[/google]

This next video is of a teen who lets loose a torrent of F-bombs and voice-cracking screams during a Halo 2 match. Seeing as Halo 2 was an M rated game, this guy might slip by the age limit, but his maturity level sure doesn't.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQ3b8EOMF0[/youtube]

there are plenty of these videos on youtube and google videos. Regardless of the legitimacy of these videos, we have all been in multiplayer games where we've dealt with real instances like this. It just makes me wonder why...

Why get so angry over something so trivial? Why curse and scream at people in a headset to prove you're superiority to a bunch of random anonymous people? Lastly, where are the parent's of said children as they scream? The first video is arguing with the mother and says "fuck" and "bullshit" seemingly within earshot of his mother. If my mother caught me saying any of those, she may not have done anything, or said anything.. but the minute my father came home, he would have beat my ass and grounded me for a month.