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A parody video of the report on Mass Effect was released by Leading Ready Run, and I thought it would be nice of me to post it for you all.

Luckily, the scandal is over, FOX News have been called bigots and Cooper Lawrence has personally admitted she had had no prior research or knowledge of the game, and was very sorry for having agreed to go on air and crack at it. She had no idea what the sex scenes in the game were actually like when she was on the show, and for that I give a Tip of the Hat to her and a Wag of the finger to FOX News. I suddenly respect Cooper Lawrence infinitely more. It takes guts to admit your mistakes.

Note: Jack Thompson never admits his mistakes.

But he did defend Mass Effect, which was utterly mindblowing. He may simply be jealous because the spotlight’s not on him anymore. Just go to jail, Jack.

Source: http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/302/max_effect

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So, remember Cooper Lawrence on the Fox Newscast? EA sent a letter to Fox News noting the various inaccuracies of the report and suggesting the unfairness and bias behind it, and basically asking for, if not a recant, acknowledgment of the mistake.

Well, Fox News technically replied to that email–in form of a Blackberry text message that read one line something along the lines of “Please contact the Fox public relations department.”

EA Vice President John Brown is not about to let the matter slide, for which I’m thankful, but I think in this situation we may have to concede the fact that Fox News is really not important anyway, and probably we should all just stop watching it instead of expect it to give us proper news. We’ll turn to the BBC or something.

Still, let’s hope that EA really starts to crack down on the absurd and outlandish statements made about video games nowadays. From journalists looking to aggrandize themselves and political candidates spewing nonsense about video games in order to promote their campaign, video games are entering the spotlight stage–much like books and movies before them. Let’s put on our best defensive faces and fight back with all we’ve got. Eventually the media’s glaring look will turn back to petty scandals and gaudy celebrities, and we can have our video games in peace.

This is a diplomatic war, gentlemen and ladies. Here’s to the future victory.

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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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