Adam makes a few great points about how irritating Xbox Live (XBL) is.

The focus of this rant is that the language on XBL is horrific.  It’s not just the normal trash talking that you might expect, but if you’ve been on XBL before, you know that it’s some of the most disrespectful racial and gay-bashing hate speech you’re likely to hear all year.

What’s strange about all of this is that it’s really just the culture of XBL, and most people likely don’t even think and behave this way with their friends.  Somehow the anonymity has conditioned people to one-up each other w/ their trash talking to this point, and now we’re stuck w/ this really vile crap-fest.

I honestly think it’s come down to gamers being left alone to play w/o someone else in the room to slap the taste out of their mouths at such utterances.

Personally, I just avoid online play, which is sad, really.