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"Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back"

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Energies
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Australia3225 Posts
January 28 2008 02:06 GMT
#1
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."

*****
"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder but dont nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight" - Ronnie Coleman.
ilovejonn
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada2548 Posts
January 28 2008 02:21 GMT
#2
Go gamers!!!
Snowflakes in January, Heart warm like February, I wouldn't ordinarily..
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 28 2008 02:36 GMT
#3
I cant read it because nytimes is dumb
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
January 28 2008 02:40 GMT
#4
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?).
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
dronebabo
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
10866 Posts
January 28 2008 02:43 GMT
#5
--- Nuked ---
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24779 Posts
January 28 2008 02:48 GMT
#6
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.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
January 28 2008 03:31 GMT
#7
Even though it was stupid for her to make that comment specifically about Mass Effect, she's essentially right about the "internet crowd."
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
XCetron
Profile Joined November 2006
5226 Posts
January 28 2008 03:59 GMT
#8
hey, us TLnet exists on the internet, were within that "internet crowd" group
Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
January 28 2008 04:18 GMT
#9
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.
Not bad for a cat toy.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
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
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
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.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
Scorpion
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1974 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-01-28 04:43:45
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
Mango @ U.S.East!
Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
January 28 2008 05:09 GMT
#13
lol what a dumb bitch
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
January 28 2008 05:12 GMT
#14
OWNED.
Peace~
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-01-28 05:58:58
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.
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-01-28 06:08:24
January 28 2008 06:08 GMT
#16
I can appreciate good satire. The nature of satire justifies its own existence.

Spam isn't.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24779 Posts
January 28 2008 06:08 GMT
#17
Ah Scorpion thanks a lot. I wish I saw then when it aired.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
January 28 2008 07:43 GMT
#18
WTF?

When I beat Mass Effect my guy got no sex fuck
Energies
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
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.
"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder but dont nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight" - Ronnie Coleman.
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
January 28 2008 12:08 GMT
#20
On January 28 2008 16:43 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
WTF?

When I beat Mass Effect my guy got no sex fuck

Irony xD
Peace~
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