OrtizGames

Kevin McCullough, columnist behind the Mass Effect article I last posted about, somewhat recanted today by making himself look even more like an idiot.

I’m amazed someone can be so wrong about so many things and still manage to hold an aloof air of superiority when they’ve been beaten to the ground. I guess it doesn’t help that so many gamers replied to the article–we should have read it, been amused, laughed about it with friends and come to forget it instead of giving it the limelight.

Honestly, after reading what he said in retaliation against replies to his article, I’m not at all impressed. Especially since to a certain degree I could agree with some ideas he had–parents should be actively seeing what their kids play, like my parents did me, and I somewhat have done with my little brother. But the sheer ego demonstrated in the lines, “Many challenges stated that unless I played it myself then I had no business pointing out its objectionably content. Would they say the same of a strip club at the end of their block or hookers knocking at their door? (Well maybe sexually repressed gamer-nerds would…) Normal people would not.” I mean, he’s just full of himself. He’s trying to get a rise. And of course, he’ll probably get it from people who aren’t so eloquent as he is, and he’ll be able to use their comments to further bloat himself like a greasy pig. It’s disgusting. Trust me, he won’t be getting any more attention from my end of the field. I’d love to see him deflated.

He also proceeds to insist it wasn’t he who was misinformed–no, it was his “Gamer Nerd” friends who gave him faulty information. So, you’re trying to point out it’s the “Gamer Nerds“‘ fault? That’s rather rich of you, Kevin. Especially since you, as a journalist, are technically supposed to be responsible for what you write as well as your sources. It doesn’t reflect badly on your scapegoat when you’re wrong–it reflects badly on you.

Had he taken this more graciously and admitted that perhaps he had not gotten the details right, and maybe he needed to actually play the game before he decided what it was about (he watched a YouTube video, for Christ’s sake) I probably would have respected him a great deal more and would have loved the opportunity to interview him.

Now, if I ever get a reply from the site about an interview, I’m going to tell them to forget it–Kevin McCullough isn’t worth listening to.

Share on Facebook