Your Chance to See Stupid People in Action
by andres on Jan.22, 2008, under Interesting Stuff
While I discourage any desires to give attention to stupid people who don’t deserve a second glance, I always appreciate the chance to laugh at ignorance when I have the chance. Hence, I present to you this video from Fox News on Mass Effect, which I have to say I enjoyed deliciously. Not only is it wrong, but it’s so self-absorbed and misinformed that I can’t help but feel some kind of malicious pleasure. I’m starting to feel bad about myself. I think I might be kind of cruel.
My favorite parts of the video:
“The player can decide exactly what’s going to happen between these two people–you know what I mean?”
No, I don’t know what you mean. Do you mean I can decide whether they can have sex or not? Yeah, I can decide that. I can’t really do anything else other than watch that, though.
Cooper Lawrence: “If you look at the s-statistics, who’s playing video games?”
Adult males between the ages of 18-35, last time I checked. Are you sure you studied enough to go on air, Cooper? What? Adults don’t play many games? I’m in college right now with 6,000 students, all of which play some form of video game, whether on Facebook, a console, their computer, an iPod or a Nintendo DS. I have not met a single student so far who has told me “Oh, I really don’t play video games.” And I’ve met a lot of students.
Cooper Lawrence, take your college degree and master’s degree. Hold them in both your hands. Now rip them apart. That’s how much you’re worth in the realm of video games. You know nothing. So don’t say anything.
Shut up and you might learn something.
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January 24th, 2008 on 2:06 pm
This is just one example of why I do not watch Fox News.
For starters… Who on that ‘Panel’ has a deep interest in video games? Looked to me like a 1 sided argument. Even when they had the psychologist and the fella from spike, they wouldn’t even let spike finish talking, but would let the psychologist.
I’ve done research on some of this. A few facts.
75% of American heads of households play video games.
35% of Game Players are UNDER 18 years old.
63% of parents believe games are a POSITIVE part of their children’s lives.
87% of the time children receive parents permission before purchasing or renting a game.
The bottom line is that it is the parents responsibility to monitor what their kids play. Just as it is their job to monitor the kind of people they hang out with, the television shows that they watch, the food that they eat, etc. Nobody said being a parent was easy.
Oh, god… Best line award goes too, “That rating board should have their head examined.”
M- 17+ may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
AO- 18+ may include ->/prolonged/<- scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
Fox news… “Fair…” and “Balanced…” Please.
January 24th, 2008 on 4:00 pm
@David: I agree. Who gets a panel who ALL AGREE on the issue at hand? Isn’t that somewhat detrimental to the idea of a panel?
I’ve been wishing more and more recently that I could be a “controversial consultant” for some journalism news broadcast. When they have a special report like this on Mass Effect or something, I wish they would come get me. I want to clean this up, so badly.
Luckily, though, our friend Cooper Lawrence (the psychologist) got her just desserts recently. Her critique made gamers far and wide outcry, and they’ve retaliated in a way that actually warrants immediate praise for ironic genius.
Their reasoning: if Lawrence wants to critique a game without ever having played it, then we should be able to CRITIQUE HER BOOK without ever having read it. Amazon now carries something over forty one-star reviews for her book “The Cult of Perfection.” I may join in.
http://gamersvue.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/gamers-strike-back-against-mass-effect-critic-on-amazon/
The amazing logic behnd this act astounds me, and I wish I had thought of it. It sends such a wonderfully clear message. Were Cooper Lawrence (being a psychologist) to sit back and think about what it means, I’m sure she would end up learning something.
Of course, she’s displayed nothing but flawed assumptions and logic so far, leading me to believe she’s simply a mediocre wannabe (I mean, her book is about overachieving perfectionists and she’s talking about video games–what is her expertise on the subject and why is she talking about it?) so I’m not expecting her to show any cognitive thinking about anything other than how “cruel and sick gamers are”.
Please, someone put me on the air with her. Please.
January 24th, 2008 on 4:04 pm
HA! Yeah, I JUST read about that! I didn’t even think about writing a review for her book(s) (yeah, they hit them all).
Get this. Amazon pulled the reviews. Go figure. ;|
January 24th, 2008 on 4:11 pm
Ah, it must had been the digg effect. It’s back:
452 Reviews
5 star: 1% (9)
4 star: (0)
3 star: 0% (2)
2 star: 9% (45)
1 star: 87% (396)
Ouch…
January 24th, 2008 on 4:21 pm
They keep zapping them off and on.
I’m thrilled. Let the numbers grow. Cooper Larence WILL be taught.
Anyone for putting me up on TV or radio? Anyone? XD God, I would love that.