An EXCLUSIVE Interview With Someone I Met on Xbox Live

A near-universal complaint people seem to have with playing random games online with people around this god-forsaken world is that they don't seem to be very nice. They're yelling stupid inane shit over the speakers all the time, referencing tired-ass internet memes constantly, using extremely derogatory language, and asking complete strangers to performs acts most of us would rather not perform.

But, being the amazing award-winning intrepid journalist general that I am, I decided I was better than most people merely by asking myself if there was perhaps some way to rectify this. Perhaps it wasn't that these people were using anonymity to commit hate crimes that would otherwise land them in jail or prison without consequences. Perhaps we, the people they're so desperately -- ineffectively -- trying to communicate with are the problem. I decided to get to know some of the people that regularly are seen as the vile half-bred step-child of 4Chan and see if there was perhaps something to this. I entered an online shooter match and let the sparks fly, as they say. I don't say it because I'm too creative to do so.

(The following conversation contains some very strong language. So strong it could break your...heart.)

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An evening with Gex; Snarky no more, just pissed

I've managed to land an interview or two in the last year. Still, when I logged into my email inbox -- prepared to send out a few new requests for interviews -- I was shocked to find a request already sitting in wait for me. I didn't even have to ask this time, as one of the former stars of video games himself, Gex, was asking me to interview him.

Honestly, he came off a little desperate, so I felt bad for him. I agreed to meet him at a local coffee shop, as he said he didn't have room for me at his home. When I arrived he motioned me over from a table in one of the dark back corners. He had sunglasses despite being inside, and a coat with the collar popped up.

"Hey, uh... trying to stay low because of the... fame?" I asked.

"Not exactly." He responded, seemingly annoyed.

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