The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned.

That’s the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/television/26mass.html?_r=3&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

As written on Tim Absath (CTRL-ALT-DEL) blog.

"It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside."

ilovejonn

Canada2548 Posts

January 28 2008 02:21 GMT

Go gamers!!!

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

January 28 2008 02:36 GMT

I cant read it because nytimes is dumb

BottleAbuser

Korea (South)1888 Posts

January 28 2008 02:40 GMT

Cooper Lawrence: “Here’s how they’re seeing women: They’re seeing them as these objects of desire, as these, you know, hot bodies. They don’t show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.”

This is talking about the game Mass Effect. She answers "No, I haven't played it before."

So people go to Amazon.com and bombard her books with horrible reviews, sometimes noting "I haven't actually read it."

It's sad that people are childish enough to do this, and it's worse that broadcasting companies actually take that kind of stuff into account (spamming is what it takes to make someone listen? WTF?).

dronebabo

10866 Posts

January 28 2008 02:43 GMT

--- Nuked ---

micronesia

United States24775 Posts

January 28 2008 02:48 GMT

On January 28 2008 11:40 BottleAbuser wrote:
Cooper Lawrence: “Here’s how they’re seeing women: They’re seeing them as these objects of desire, as these, you know, hot bodies. They don’t show women as being valued for anything other than their sexuality. And it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with.”

This is talking about the game Mass Effect. She answers "No, I haven't played it before."

So people go to Amazon.com and bombard her books with horrible reviews, sometimes noting "I haven't actually read it."

It's sad that people are childish enough to do this, and it's worse that broadcasting companies actually take that kind of stuff into account (spamming is what it takes to make someone listen? WTF?).

Attention was needed. That's what did it. I don't think it could have gone any other way.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

January 28 2008 03:31 GMT

Even though it was stupid for her to make that comment specifically about Mass Effect, she's essentially right about the "internet crowd."

XCetron

5226 Posts

January 28 2008 03:59 GMT

hey, us TLnet exists on the internet, were within that "internet crowd" group

Krohm

Canada1857 Posts

January 28 2008 04:18 GMT

That is awesome. I really had no idea that gamers could pull so much weight over that. They made that author crumble. I'm pretty impressed to be honest.

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

January 28 2008 04:21 GMT

#10

On January 28 2008 13:18 Krohm wrote:
That is awesome. I really had no idea that gamers could pull so much weight over that. They made that author crumble. I'm pretty impressed to be honest.

I have to quote this for truth, us v1deogam0rz are a force to be reckoned with :p

BottleAbuser

Korea (South)1888 Posts

January 28 2008 04:24 GMT

#11

That's like being impressed that a worm was pressured by dirt.

This situation is pathetic on many levels.

Fox has long ago thrown away any sort of credibility a long time ago. Their stories are never researched. They always attach their own opinions and spin to stories. I don't know why they still call Fox News by that name; people watch it for entertainment, not news. Pathetic.

And yet people forget this, and spend their time insulting and spamming a fiction producer for producing fiction. Again pathetic.

Scorpion

United States1974 Posts

January 28 2008 04:43 GMT

#12

Adam Sessler did a bit on this Fox Story about how the author was a dumb bitch since she hadn't played the game yet commented on its sexual content. So, Adam Sessler did the same with her book, also saying that this was "Mass Stupidity":

Enjoy =D

Snet

United States3573 Posts

January 28 2008 05:09 GMT

#13

lol what a dumb bitch

fanatacist

10319 Posts

January 28 2008 05:12 GMT

#14

OWNED.

Physician

United States4146 Posts

January 28 2008 05:56 GMT

#15

It still amazes me that people still watch and pay attention to fox fiction; got to give it to you BottleAbuser, you nailed it.

BottleAbuser

Korea (South)1888 Posts

January 28 2008 06:08 GMT

#16

I can appreciate good satire. The nature of satire justifies its own existence.

Spam isn't.

micronesia

United States24775 Posts

January 28 2008 06:08 GMT

#17

Ah Scorpion thanks a lot. I wish I saw then when it aired.

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

January 28 2008 07:43 GMT

#18

WTF?

When I beat Mass Effect my guy got no sex

fuck

Energies

Australia3225 Posts

January 28 2008 08:35 GMT

#19

They destroyed Kane and Lynch when the gamespot reviewer got fired for giving the game a bad review, the game was rated 1.0 across the net, within days.