I Deserve a Mute-tacular Medal

I’m pretty sure I set a gaming record the other night with how many people I managed to mute while playing Halo 3. More times than not I scored a mute-tacular with the majority of the games requiring a total mute-astrophe. I am convinced that I successfully silenced 99% of the Xbox Live population in a single night. I found myself thanking my lucky stars over and over again for the much-needed addition of the user friendly “asshole” button Halo 3 brought us. Muting has never been so easy.

The need to constantly mute all our opponents created a discussion within our party about how we wished there were blanket mute options. Someone suggested being able to mute everybody under the age of 18. While many people agreed, I found it inching too close to discrimination, not to mention that I know several young people who are quite mature and certainly nicer than the majority of foul-mouthed randoms trolling Live. Muting by gamer zone was also brought up but again, much too broad. So instead I made a survey that I think all gamers should have to fill out when signing up for Xbox Live. If anyone answers yes to two or more of these questions, I think my settings should allow for an automatic mute. I can’t even begin to imagine how much time and trouble this system would save me.

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