You all must remember this video [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107628-Fox-News-Says-Bulletstorm-Could-Make-You-a-Rapist] where they effectively call him out on it.
So, what do you think? Do you think these guys are right in criticizing the critic? Or do you think this is just an attack out of spite?
Some of the stuff they said I tend to agree with (to a fashion, that is), but I know what The Escapist stands for (or at least tries to) and that's having video games viewed as legitimately and fairly as any other medium. I can't speak for Andy since I don't know personally, but I'm pretty sure Andy has at least an idea of what this sites positions are on certain topics.
Sure, Andy may have dropped the ball on this one, but I think there was far too much spite in the Game Heroes rebuttal for me to take it seriously. It does sound a little too mean-spirited in places (especially near the end), like when they question a pretty tame joke about Bill O'Rielly's ignorance on simple astronomy. Maybe that joke should have been best left out, but I don't see what difference that would make overall.
So, what do you think? Do you agree with these guys or do you think they're just talking out of their sphincters?
MINOR EDIT: First off, there's a few grammatical errors in here that I'm trying to catch. Secondly, I'm trying to sound as unbiased as possible in this, I thought I better mention that now because I've been known for not being entirely clear. I think that my opinion here is meaningless but yours is not so I'm a lot more interested in hearing your feelings towards this than my gut-reaction.
But if you're interested: I think these guys are being way too mean on ol' Andy. Fox News has a bad reputation for a reason, and when the Game Heroes mentioned their position on gun laws it has lead me to believe that there is a strict bias here and maybe this is less about the article or the game and more about The Left VS The Right, but that's just me.
"....We've got this person Andy Chalk, who apparently has made a similarly racy title by saying that Fox News says that Bullet Storm could make you a rapist."
"Now, Andy, you just quoted exactly what the new rape scenario scene said video games could...",
"Videogames not Bullet Storm. Not Fox News, but an expert on Fox News, on the Fox News website could encourage people to rape. But now, apparently, Andy has said that Fox news, it says, that Fox News said that Bullet Storm makes you a rapist. Which makes Andy a hypocrite, ignorant reporter because all you're doing in here, is chopping up a news story so that you can make it even more racy because you're playing on the fact that everybody on the internet loves to take stabs at Fox News. So what we're not going to do, we're not going to attack The Escapist, because maybe they didn't see you publish this piece-of-shit article. You know what? Maybe they said this guy; "woooo, he is a god amongst columnists, he can publish whatever he wants and nobody has anything to say about it. So, of course, what he's done is not included the original article, in a way he's misquoted an original article so that he can serve his own point."
"Well sure, and, you know, that's what's popular because people are really defensive when it comes to wanting to play their violent video games, because the government keeps trying to ban it so it makes the article look like he's defending video games, but actually I think he's doing the opposite, it's making it out to be worse than it is, so that people are more aware of, maybe, more violent situations which I guess if that's what you want your kid to see it works."
"And what's the deal attacking Bill O'Rielly, isn't sure where the moon came from? What does that have to do with anything? That doesn't have anything to do with this so clearly you hate Fox News, you have a computer, you have a forum and you have a lot of people willing to read about that so congratulations for pandering you idiot. Hey Andy why don't you be a real man and write a real article? You know what? If you got a problem with it, you can e-mail me, but you know what I say? SMOKE YOU!"
"Now, Andy, you just quoted exactly what the new rape scenario scene said video games could...",
"Videogames not Bullet Storm. Not Fox News, but an expert on Fox News, on the Fox News website could encourage people to rape. But now, apparently, Andy has said that Fox news, it says, that Fox News said that Bullet Storm makes you a rapist. Which makes Andy a hypocrite, ignorant reporter because all you're doing in here, is chopping up a news story so that you can make it even more racy because you're playing on the fact that everybody on the internet loves to take stabs at Fox News. So what we're not going to do, we're not going to attack The Escapist, because maybe they didn't see you publish this piece-of-shit article. You know what? Maybe they said this guy; "woooo, he is a god amongst columnists, he can publish whatever he wants and nobody has anything to say about it. So, of course, what he's done is not included the original article, in a way he's misquoted an original article so that he can serve his own point."
"Well sure, and, you know, that's what's popular because people are really defensive when it comes to wanting to play their violent video games, because the government keeps trying to ban it so it makes the article look like he's defending video games, but actually I think he's doing the opposite, it's making it out to be worse than it is, so that people are more aware of, maybe, more violent situations which I guess if that's what you want your kid to see it works."
"And what's the deal attacking Bill O'Rielly, isn't sure where the moon came from? What does that have to do with anything? That doesn't have anything to do with this so clearly you hate Fox News, you have a computer, you have a forum and you have a lot of people willing to read about that so congratulations for pandering you idiot. Hey Andy why don't you be a real man and write a real article? You know what? If you got a problem with it, you can e-mail me, but you know what I say? SMOKE YOU!"
So, what do you think? Do you think these guys are right in criticizing the critic? Or do you think this is just an attack out of spite?
Some of the stuff they said I tend to agree with (to a fashion, that is), but I know what The Escapist stands for (or at least tries to) and that's having video games viewed as legitimately and fairly as any other medium. I can't speak for Andy since I don't know personally, but I'm pretty sure Andy has at least an idea of what this sites positions are on certain topics.
Sure, Andy may have dropped the ball on this one, but I think there was far too much spite in the Game Heroes rebuttal for me to take it seriously. It does sound a little too mean-spirited in places (especially near the end), like when they question a pretty tame joke about Bill O'Rielly's ignorance on simple astronomy. Maybe that joke should have been best left out, but I don't see what difference that would make overall.
So, what do you think? Do you agree with these guys or do you think they're just talking out of their sphincters?
MINOR EDIT: First off, there's a few grammatical errors in here that I'm trying to catch. Secondly, I'm trying to sound as unbiased as possible in this, I thought I better mention that now because I've been known for not being entirely clear. I think that my opinion here is meaningless but yours is not so I'm a lot more interested in hearing your feelings towards this than my gut-reaction.
But if you're interested: I think these guys are being way too mean on ol' Andy. Fox News has a bad reputation for a reason, and when the Game Heroes mentioned their position on gun laws it has lead me to believe that there is a strict bias here and maybe this is less about the article or the game and more about The Left VS The Right, but that's just me.
