Gamers Ship 400 Cupcakes to BioWare in Protest of Mass Effect 3

[anthony87]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

Well if we didn't love it so much we wouldn't get so disappointed when we're let down by it.

Simples.

 

[Marshall Honorof]

This coming week, we should send Bioware boxes upon boxes of a dozen cupcakes. We are taking ideas as to what sort of notes we should have attached on each box. Some possibilities include:

- "No matter what color you choose, they all taste the same";
- "No matter what color you choose, it's all vanilla ;-D"
- "We rage because we love"

I'm both shocked and disappointed that no one thought to include "This hurts you" as the message along with the cupcakes. I mean, in the long-term, it could. Diabetes and heart disease and all.

I think the only real question left is, what can I write here that would be controversial enough to get you people to mail me some cupcakes. I'm hungry over here.

Seconded. Please, please, please tell us what we need to write to get you angry enough to send us cupcakes. We'll do it.

 

[GasMasksAreForChumps]

anc[is]

400 cupcakes can not be divided evenly into 3 different colors.

I perused the original thread a bit yesterday, it's really something like 402, which divides into 134 of each. I was also greatly amused by someone with the idea of day 1 milk DLC and post release sprinkle DLC.

A professional bakery is making them, there will be no poison. There will however be a Marauder shields cake as well.

So they are going with the maruader shields cake? Most excellent! Marauder is a bloody hero, and deserves to be recognized for his valiant attempt at stopping Shepard.

 

[The Random One]

Huh, it only took them like two weeks to come up with an idea that isn't stupid.

OK. My plan is to send them a cake. And my card will read, 'This is my cake. I made it the way I wanted to make it. It may not be the best tasting cake ever, but it's the cake I made and I wouldn't change it even if people complain.'

...It probably wouldn't make a lot of sense if I ordered it from a bakery, though. But I'll think about that later, who wants to give me $10?

 

[laserwulf]

"Hmmm, how can we express our opinions in a measured and mature way that demonstrates we are thoughtful, reasonable adults? Ooh, I know!..."

At least she'll approve:

Spoiler

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

 

[dyre]

What a pleasant way to voice discontent. We should send cupcakes to Congress!

 

[kickyourass]

I'm confused, tell me again why the cupcakes are supposed to be a bad thing? I mean maybe it's just the way things work in my family, but if you are given a cupcake it's probably because you did something good and the giver wants you to keep doing it. I mean what the hell is the message here, "Make something we don't like and we'll send you pastry?" How is that supposed to discourage them? Are they hoping the Bioware staff will get diabetes?

 

[ms_sunlight]

It's not exactly original though, is it? Didn't they steal this tactic from the Pro Life Cupcake Day [http://cupcakesforlife.org/] nutjobs? I suppose if you must steal tactics from anti-abortion campaigners, there are far worse tactics to steal.

 

[kouriichi]

"Protest!?! They must LOVE us They sent us 400 cupcakes! We should make subpar endings more often!"

While this is far less amoral then using a Childs Charity Fund to raise money, its still alittle.... derp? Yeah, lets go with "derp". This is a pretty.... idiotic way to say "We hated the ending".

Shouldnt you be sending roses or something? To say "youve killed your own community"?

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

Yeah. I suppose sending death threats, throwing the worst abuse I've ever seen abuse and mailing creepy cryptic cake messages Godfather-style is totally harmless. The day someone does kidnap and torture their favourite developer we'll be all "OMG! That's just awful. We could have never seen that coming. The gaming community is a really friendly place and it's terrifying to think that one of your mates could just turn out to be a demented murderer all along. Scary."

Seriously, if I wrote Batman comics I would create my own supervillain. He would be called Fanboy and he would be scarier than Joker and Scarecrow combined.

I assumed by we rage because we love it was referring to the ridiculous fanboy pissing and moaning, not the absolutely downright psychotic minority. plus I doubt the people who sent the cupcakes were responsible for any of that, if they were though I agree with your point entirely.

 

[RWillers]

I admit this "protest" is just silly. But it doesn't make it any less awesome. Wish someone would send me a cupcake. *sobs*

 

[him over there]

we rage because we love

See. This is why I hate fanboys. That line seems like it was directly ripped out of the Hollywood book of cliche lines said by wife beaters. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a an obsessive lunatic would say and yet fanboys say things like this without the slightest ironic intent.

So everyone who EVER got upset about something they cared about is a wife beater?

Maybe you aren't familiar with that turn of phrase but that "I only hurt you because I love you" shit is scary. It's the typical Annie Wilkes thought pattern that you should only expect from psychotic killers. I don't know what it says about humanity that a Stephen King novel can actually come to life.

Nobody is hurting anybody though, just complaining really obnoxiously. Which makes it an apt phrase, Bioware created something people were truly invested in or we wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have complained.

Yeah. I suppose sending death threats, throwing the worst abuse I've ever seen abuse and mailing creepy cryptic cake messages Godfather-style is totally harmless. The day someone does kidnap and torture their favourite developer we'll be all "OMG! That's just awful. We could have never seen that coming. The gaming community is a really friendly place and it's terrifying to think that one of your mates could just turn out to be a demented murderer all along. Scary."

Seriously, if I wrote Batman comics I would create my own supervillain. He would be called Fanboy and he would be scarier than Joker and Scarecrow combined.

I assumed by we rage because we love it was referring to the ridiculous fanboy pissing and moaning, not the absolutely downright psychotic minority. plus I doubt the people who sent the cupcakes were responsible for any of that, if they were though I agree with your point entirely.

I'm just saying the day that someone does finally fly off the handle and go postal on devs, the question is going to come up "where did he get that idea from?" and then they'll look this way and say "Oh. Well I suppose that's case closed boys. Good job." And then we'll probably get studies and legislation aimed at banning gaming forever because gaming communities are like nutri-soil for insane murderers. Still, "we rage because we love" is fucking disturbing on it's own merits.

I see, I suppose the phrase itself though really just comes down to perspective since the logic I'm getting from it is "We wouldn't have a fit if we didn't care so good job making something we cared about". The shorthand they went with I could see appearing in like a psycho thriller or something though now that I think about it.