huked on foniks

i weep for the future.

i'm a gamer. i spend a lot of my time online with thousands, upon thousands of other gamers. people like myself who are in for the fun. problem is, and this is an accepted issue with gamers; you spend a lot of time with all ages of people. I'm 35, but i'd wager that my gaming time is spent with more 15 year olds as opposed to those closer to my age. this is acceptable. again, it's an understood and accepted issue with being a gamer. most of the time, it isn't an issue. occasionally, when surfing a board for information, i run across comments like this:

no u guys r'nt the worss clas k, u r like un totchable in pvp n dontt tel me otherwise, i ceen paldns wipe groops of hoard so dont tel me u suk cus rite now ur class is way 2 good at it al

this is verbatim, copied right off the boards. i'm a supporter of gaming and online activity as much as the next guy. more so, sometimes, but what has happened to our youth? i know that texting and gaming and online chats have their own languages, but how much longer would it have taken to spell this correctly? is this how someone actually thinks and spells, naturally? or does it actually take effort to spell this way? if so, why bother? this frightens me and makes me proud of my education. yes, i have issues, and yes, i misspell sometimes, but man alive, what the hell is wrong with these kids? the responses to this quote veered completely off topic and focused on the fact that this person had such atrocious spelling and typing. and what makes this worse is that they think this is cool. the fact that they really look like idiots isn't even a consideration. i'm dumbfounded.