Mocking of Mass Effect Avenged by Clever Use of Internet
by Wade Larson on January 25, 2008 at 1:48 am
Head Computer, dial up the internet. I have an idea.
If there is one lesson the internet has taught us, it is that you should under no circumstance mess with geeks. It’s a lesson Cooper Lawrence is learning the hard way.
After going on an ill-informed diatribe on Faux, excuse me, Fox News about sex in Mass Effect, Lawrence felt the vicious sting of the internet savvy as her book, “The Cult of Perfection,” was digitally sodomized by hordes of vengeful nerds on Amazon.com.
The rating on Amazon has dropped to a single star, and the most popular tags for the book include “ignorant,” “hack,” “bigot” and “hypocrite.” As well as many more tags ranging from humorous to serious and down-right vulgar. My personal favorite has to be “We cut down a tree for this,” or maybe “Alien side cleavage is the death of America.” And the list goes on for four pages. On top of that, there are 59 pages of user comments, and you will be hard pressed to find a positive one. If you’re looking for a chuckle at the expensive of someone you really can’t feel bad laughing at, give them a read.
This little trick is a highly creative way of dealing with ignorant game-bashers, and hopefully will send a message to other “experts” that throwing about misinformation and spouting ignorant hate about our favorite pastime will not be taken sitting down! Well, it probably will be taken sitting down, at a computer. But in the age of the internet, that’s a powerful prospect.
Source: Amazon.com
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on January 25, 2008 5:27 am
There is a lesson to be learned there i feel. Its a little sad that gamers as a community are forced to react in this way, but with all the unfair and inaccurate critisism thrown at video gaming, a response to it was inevitable. Play fair with us, and we’ll play fair with you.
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on January 25, 2008 12:07 pm
All I have to say it AAAAHH HAHAHAHA! Serves ‘em right!
I would love for “news” people to actually research the things they report on before they puke their falsehoods all over the uninformed masses. In all honesty though, this will probably just help the sales of Mass Effect in the long run.
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on January 25, 2008 8:26 pm
this is crazy. that dipshit had it coming anyway. internetz ftw bc they pwn all
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on January 27, 2008 3:43 am
OMG it’s Revenge of the NERDs! This is terrible. I would never do that to these wonderful Fox News people. After all they can’t help it if their head is stuck up their a** ….I mean where their head is or if they’ve been drinking too much Guttorade.
It doesn’t mean we know where their mind is. Does it? It doesn’t mean they live in the Gutter. Right? (or does it) It’s pretty harsh to judge them by who or what they try to trash with their Tabloid News Style. But then again, Cest La Vie! What goes around comes around, doesn’t it ;)
Now where is this happening? I want to crash this party and leave my two cents worth! LOLz
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