In our first collaborative roundtable, we cover the background, breakdown, and suggested solutions to Gamer Toxicity.

Special thanks to Sami and Jett from the Color Me Geeked Podcast for joining us! Check them out via @ColorMeGeeked.

Table of Contents: 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - Meet Sami and Jett from Color Me Geeked! 4:14 - Background on Bryar and Devon 5:53 - Chapter One: Your Toxic Gamer Stories 6:30 - Chris Chris Chris writes in with a solution 6:47 - Angie shares her toxic experience 7:10 - Sami shares her toxic experience 8:02 - Rei shares her toxic experience 8:35 - Matt shares his Call of Duty toxic experience 9:08 - Dominic shares his toxic experience 9:35 - Issaic shares his Black Ops toxic experience 10:24 - Bryar shares his toxic experiences 11:01 - Jett shares his toxic experiences 13:04 - Devon shares his toxic experiences 15:03 - Chapter Two: Social Media Gamer Toxicity 15:36 - Jett’s research into toxicity online 21:20 - Gaming does not need to center around a white male protagonist 21:45 - Characters we identify and click with 28:28 - With Peter Parker’s redesigned face on PS5 affect our ability to enjoy Spider-Man’s upgrade 27:39 - Chapter Three: In Store Gamer Toxicity 28:48 - The forthcoming supply and demand issues on Black Friday 34:00 - Some of the best parts of working in retail 37:06 - The different types of Toxic Shoppers 37:52 - How some men just refuse to accept information from women 42:00 - Does the difficulty you play on dedicate your level of gaming? 42:18 - A listener requested to be left anonymous, but wrote in about toxicity 50:00 - What do you have to do to prove you’re a gamer? 51:44 - A story from a female former GameStop Employee 53:00 - When we’ll let our kids play online 54:25 - The parental responsibility of raising kids to game properly online 56:30 - Bryar shares his favorite toxic child stories 58:57 - Stop dropping your kids off in stores 1:00:07 - The importance of ESRB Ratings in video games 1:02:01 - The Console Wars 1:07:29 - What version of the PS5 is the most valuable? 1:16:00 - How spoiled are modern gamers? 1:24:00 - Chapter Four: The Toxic Online Gaming Community 1:25:00 - Bryar’s introduction to online gaming toxicity was on the Xbox 360 1:26:30 - The early days of Battlefield’s online community 1:27:50 - The early days of Halo 1:29:40 - The early days of Call of Duty 1:30:02 - There is an ESRB rating for a reason 1:30:59 - The role parents play in online toxicity 1:32:43 - Practicing swear words 1:39:30 - The escalation of violence in video games 1:42:32 - How is the online gaming community today? 1:46:20 - Devon’s Toxic Rocket League story 1:47:40 - Bryar’s experience with Final Fantasy Online 1:52:28 - Rei has considered starting her own female only gamer community 2:01:41 - Chapter Five: Fixing the Online Toxicity Problem 2:02:10 - Jett kicks off how he’d fix gamer toxicity 2:06:11 - How Sami would fix gamer toxicity 2:07:46 - How Bryar would fix gamer toxicity 2:17:37 - How Devon would fix gamer toxicity 2:39:29 - Closing 2:40:11 - How to find the Color Me Geeked Podcast