Lol Fox news video game bashing (mass effect) has real world reprecussions!

[SlitheryDee]

Hopefully she learned a powerful lesson here. Of course people make assumptions like this about stuff they've never experienced all the time. I know people who "don't like" certain foods that they've never tried, for instance. The difference is that they don't try to ban said food, or think that their dislike of it somehow puts them on a higher moral plane.

The reason the food analogy fits particularly well in this case is because when some of these people finally work up the nerve to try these strange foods they become enthusiastic converts to it as often as not. The lesson here is "Try it, it's probably not as bad as your woefully incomplete knowledge of leads you to believe it is". Sadly, that'll never work for most of these people. They simply get too much pleasure in taking a "strong stand" against something that "just isn't right" to actually put their theory to the test and risk getting things muddled up by reality.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
could that video be any quieter, wtf?

Yeah my laptop speakers just got pwnt when I switched to watching the montel youtube

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Tiamat

Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
could that video be any quieter, wtf?

Yeah my laptop speakers just got pwnt when I switched to watching the montel youtube

haha yeah, i jumped out of my seat.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: preslove
"First off, have you ever played Mass Effect?"
*Incredulous laugh* "No"
:roll:

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
I like how all those dumb people in the panel just completely ignored the fact of parental controls available on console systems today. The kids coming home when parents are not home and saying "I'm gonna play daddy's video game", that preposterous. If PARENTS took responsibility and used the controls that companies put into place for these situations, it wouldn't be an issue in those households.

It serves that dumb b1tch right though, bashing something that she knows nothing about.

my thoughts, exactly

 

[Black88GTA]

I think it's still funny that if you click on the tag 'ignorant', all three of her books come up as the top 3 products with that tag. One of the other notable tags people gave her books: "cooch smells like rotting intestines".

:laugh::laugh:

 

[waggy]

at first i felt sorry for her. here people are getting on and pretty much dogging her and perhaps causing the sales of her book to plummet.

But then again she did go on a national show and talk crap about something she knows nothing about. She represented some things as fact when she didn't play the game or nothing.

The only reason she is going around apologizing is because she does not want her book to tank. she is going around and saying sorry and begging for forgiveness.


You would think as a writer she would be fact checking before she goes on TV and says something is fact when she has no idea.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea she's apologizing because she got caught. she thought she could kick gamers in the teeth with zero consequences and was fine with that and now she finds thats not so.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

is there a video of her apologizing?

 

[rhino56]

she can apologize by putting up the nude pics of herself

 

[SirStev0]

She is just lucky the wrath of ANON wasn't unleashed on her... /btards would have probably lynched her.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: SirStev0
She is just lucky the wrath of ANON wasn't unleashed on her... /btards would have probably lynched her.

Hey! You can't say tha...wait a sec. Nevermind. She's white.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back

By SETH SCHIESEL
In an interview on Friday, Ms. Lawrence said that since the controversy over her remarks erupted she had watched someone play the game for about two and a half hours. ?I recognize that I misspoke,? she said. ?I really regret saying that, and now that I?ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it?s kind of a joke.

?Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it?s like pornography,? she added. ?But it?s not like pornography. I?ve seen episodes of ?Lost? that are more sexually explicit.?

And she thought this would be a good idea how? "I am going on national tv to tell people I know about the game because a friend of a friend played the game and I watched them play for a little bit. That makes me an expert!"



I wonder how many things in her books are the same way

 

[kstu]

Originally posted by: Exterous

Originally posted by: Queasy

Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back

By SETH SCHIESEL
In an interview on Friday, Ms. Lawrence said that since the controversy over her remarks erupted she had watched someone play the game for about two and a half hours. ?I recognize that I misspoke,? she said. ?I really regret saying that, and now that I?ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it?s kind of a joke.

?Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it?s like pornography,? she added. ?But it?s not like pornography. I?ve seen episodes of ?Lost? that are more sexually explicit.?

And she thought this would be a good idea how? "I am going on national tv to tell people I know about the game because a friend of a friend played the game and I watched them play for a little bit. That makes me an expert!"



I wonder how many things in her books are the same way

It's worse than that actually. She said she watched someone play the game for a few hours AFTER her interview and that is when she recanted. Her knowledge of the game before the interview was merely hearsay.

 

[Nitemare]

It's just so much easier to blame video games then it is to say you are a shitty parent....