Quote Originally Posted by 0blivion View Post
There's always been RPGs that didn't have the trash talk, but I assume OP exclusively played Western RPGs... which tend to have obnoxious cesspits of dudebro culture as their communities, lol.
Someone doesn't know any actual Japanese people, or has ever been to the East lol

I know many people here feel Japan and the Japanese are some great people who value community and others above all else to the point they are held in a nearly sacred light like some divine other. But if you actually are friends with, talk with or play with people from Japan, they just like every other human being walking this planet, they are (now sit down cause this may shake you to your core) no different than any other human and in fact can and do trash talk. My Japanese roommate years ago would have some of the most colorful language I have ever heard while gaming. Her ability to trash talk was actually impressive and would and did put most westerners to shame. Listening to her game was usually more entertaining than any game I could have played myself.

I know this doesn't compute for a lot of people, but holding any national or racial group up to a higher standard and believing them to be superior, is in fact very racist and we all need to do better.